WHY Meditation?
- Achieve Great health – The Healing Effects of Meditation
- Enjoy Peace of mind – Meditation reduces Stress and Burnout
- Increase mind power – Meditation enhances Concentration, Memory and Ability to Learn
- Find fulfilment – Meditation helps you to create Harmonious & Loving Relationships
- Be inspired and innovative – Meditation improves your Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills
- Be emotionally stable – Meditation decreases Depression, Anxiety, and Insomnia
- Be Enlightened – Meditation connects you with something greater than you – the true self
What it is?
Meditation is a peaceful & silent state of mind, our natural state of BEING. In fact, meditation is a state of no mind. All the chit-chat of mind simply vanishes when we are in meditation.
LEARN MEDITATION: GUIDED MEDITATIONS BY VISHAL AVTAAR
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How to do?
At first you choose the primary benefit you desire.
Secondly, make a 100 % commitment to yourself that you will meditate daily for one week, then two more weeks and 3 more weeks. By the end of 6 weeks you will be the master of meditation.
Process
Meditation is EASY. Meditation is doing nothing but BEING, so, we do not do meditation. We simply BE in Meditation.
Meditation means closing the eyes and being with your breath. Patience is required. Whatever may be the turbulence in the mind, eyes shall always be closed. Attention of the mind should be constantly brought back on to the breath. The mind wanders… but it should be collected and brought back… to… the… breath.
The important steps are as follows:
- Take ANY COMFORTABLE POSTURE. (Sit relax, take back support if you want)
- Clasp your hands.
- Close your eyes.
- Observe your incoming and outgoing breath
We have to be aware of our natural & normal breath only and nothing else. When you observe your breath and simply witness your thoughts, your normal mind’s broadcasting and receptor functions totally ceases and you reach in a ‘thoughtless’ state – Meditation. With regular practice, reaching thoughtless state is possible.
When and where should we meditate?
Any time is right time for Meditation! Any place is the right place for Meditation!
How long should we meditate?
If your age is 20 years then meditate for 20 minutes, if your age is 60 years then meditate for 60 minutes in one sitting every day. It means meditation 1 minute for 1 year of your age. Simple… Science of Meditation.
Overcoming Difficulties
Sufficient scientific research made in the past 4 decades shows that an average human mind goes through 60,000 thoughts everyday in waking state. It means more than one thought per second. Are you aware of your thoughts? No, not at all. Generally, we are not aware of our thoughts but of our emotions and we consider our emotions as thoughts.
When we sit in meditation with our body and mind getting relaxed, for the first time we become aware of our thoughts that keep coming at a great speed, most of them negative or wasteful. This disturbs us a lot and that is why initially, most people complain that they cannot meditate.
This is just an initial phase. When you encounter such difficulty, do not get up; just bring your attention back to your breath; with practice the speed & number of your thoughts would reduce dramatically and you enter into a state of no thoughts…
Meditation experiences
When our mind enters into the gap between 2 thoughts and then into no thoughts zone, we receive a lot of cosmic energy due to which we may have following experiences. Just feel them, don’t judge them.
- Head Region may become Heavy.
- Below Head Region, Body becomes very light.
- You see colours around the middle of your eyebrows and forehead area (called third eye)
- Pain in Lower Back/Waist Region.
- Even though the physical body is still, you may feel like your body is swaying
- You feel like flying high or Levitate (this is of the Astral – subtle body not of physical body)
- You may see scenery like Mountains, forests oceans, water fall etc.