A Basic Meditation For Beginners
Sit comfortably in a peaceful place which you have chosen for your meditation practice, at a fixed time or when you find the need or time to meditate...
Close your eyes and, for a minute or two, bring your body and mind from an active state to a dormant one, slow them down, by remaining still and quiet...
While keeping your eyes closed, take your attention to your feet... relax them consciously for a few moments...
Relax all your body parts consciously… do this for your legs, abdomen, etc... work slowly upwards till the entire body is relaxed…
Be aware that your whole body is now at peace in the chair and that all your attention is focused in the centre of the forehead, just above the eyebrows...
With your attention focused only on your thoughts and feelings, experience that your thoughts and feelings are like bubbles floating to the surface of your mind, now imagine that these bubbles are dissolving...
Allow quietness and peace to fill your mind – listen to the silence inside the temple of your mind...
If any thoughts come to distract you, simply let them pass through your mind...
Then return your attention to the quietness in your mind...
Create a quiet thought inside your mind "My mind is now relaxed, and I feel more peaceful", so that the subtle sensation or experience of inner pure peace sinks in…
After a few minutes, bring your awareness back to the room in the present moment.
Tomorrow we shall explain some of the precautions one can take while doing this meditation, to make it successful.
Sit comfortably in a peaceful place which you have chosen for your meditation practice, at a fixed time or when you find the need or time to meditate...
Close your eyes and, for a minute or two, bring your body and mind from an active state to a dormant one, slow them down, by remaining still and quiet...
While keeping your eyes closed, take your attention to your feet... relax them consciously for a few moments...
Relax all your body parts consciously… do this for your legs, abdomen, etc... work slowly upwards till the entire body is relaxed…
Be aware that your whole body is now at peace in the chair and that all your attention is focused in the centre of the forehead, just above the eyebrows...
With your attention focused only on your thoughts and feelings, experience that your thoughts and feelings are like bubbles floating to the surface of your mind, now imagine that these bubbles are dissolving...
Allow quietness and peace to fill your mind – listen to the silence inside the temple of your mind...
If any thoughts come to distract you, simply let them pass through your mind...
Then return your attention to the quietness in your mind...
Create a quiet thought inside your mind "My mind is now relaxed, and I feel more peaceful", so that the subtle sensation or experience of inner pure peace sinks in…
After a few minutes, bring your awareness back to the room in the present moment.
Tomorrow we shall explain some of the precautions one can take while doing this meditation, to make it successful.
Om Shanti Poonam Ji,
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for giving a beautiful and powerful tool for meditation.
With Regards,
Sanjay