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Breathing Exercises for Meditation |
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In meditation we are trying to quieten the mind and to stop our thoughts completely. If we can stop the usual thoughts of the mind we can feel a new consciousness developing within ourselves. Breathing can have a significant impact on our state of mind. If we are flustered or stressed we may be given the advice of “taking a few deep breaths” This is not an attempt at meditation just a realisation that be slowing down our breathing there will be a calming influence upon our mind. However by practising certain breathing exercises we can help our meditation practise, enabling a quiet ming. In the yoga systems of ancient India much has been written on the art of pranayama, pranayama is the... |
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Ease Your Way Into Yoga And Meditation |
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Many people buy books on yoga and meditation, but never get into the regular practice of these methods. It is not only true for yoga, there must be millions of self-help and self-instruction manuals of all types gathering dust on shelves around the world. So if you are in this position, don’t feel bad, you are not alone! But it is not enough to feel content knowing that others, like you, are also hesitating in doing things that will improve their lives. It is possible to break out of the procrastination phase and actually start doing something. It is all a question of attitude and approach. What should be our attitude? We should remember the words of a Chinese sage who said that “the... |
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One Meditation Mistake People Make |
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The point is to achieve a sense of being centered and letting go of every day
concerns. How do I DO that? This can be done in many ways: reciting words or mantras, controlling breathing
patterns or engaging in physically active meditations such as yoga or trance dance. Don’t have time for any of that? Take what you do have time for and what WORKS for you. Meditating is simply
taking a moment to BE. A big mistake that a lot of people make is making
meditation a big deal and then not doing anything at all. Let’s break it down: Reciting words or mantras: feeling stressed, anxious, upset? Take note of that and
then use a phrase that works for you. One of my favorites,... |
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Effects and Benefits of Meditation
Author:
Jogyata Dallas
Our health is founded upon a relationship between body, mind and spirit – and the wellness of each part – and the physical body itself is only one component in the overall equation of well-being. This principle of holistics recognises that a stress free and happy mind and a blossoming spiritual life are major factors in our physical health. Just as stress and negative emotions silently erode our life force, so too the practice of meditation releases a new and positive life force – borne of inspiration, happiness, peace – into every part of our existence, creating the optimum conditions for vitality and health. With meditation even our sleep pattern can change – an improvement in quality, a likely reduction in quantity. More time and energy to live our lives! Everything Starts Within The way we feel and function in our outer life is determined to a very great extent by our inner life – our happiness, our confidence, our moods, our consciousness. We often have little power to change events in the outer world, but we can change the way we react to them. When we are happy and calm, difficulties and problems are easily coped with – when we are anxious or unhappy, the same difficulties can become nightmares. Our whole experience of life is coloured by our own consciousness – our life is the creation of our minds! Meditation balances the inner and outer worlds and brings out the bright colours of our nature – joyfulness, serenity, loving kindness, strength. These emerging positive qualities reshape our very experience of life, for everything starts within. The writings of all the great sages and pathfinders over the centuries share many recurring ideas and truths – one of these is a belief in the wisdom and beauty of the human soul. Sri Chinmoy describes the soul as our 'inner pilot' – it is our highest Self, our truest Self, our in-house life guide. The more we listen to our soul, the more our outer life will flourish and prosper – and it is in the silence and stillness of meditation that the wisdom of the soul can most easily be felt and experienced. In everything of life – decision-making, problem solving, the search for fulfillment and purpose – the inner pilot is there to show us the way and we can learn to access it through our deepening practice. The Soul's Special Promise The great sages also tell us that each soul is unique and has something very special to accomplish on earth. It is by listening to our 'inner pilot' that we begin to feel and understand what our life's deeper purpose is and then our outer life becomes increasingly in harmony with this knowledge. The discovery and fulfillment of the soul's special promise brings us great happiness. Power of mind The many techniques employed in learning meditation share a common theme – harnessing and concentrating the power of the mind. By-products and benefits of this effort are numerous – an ability to focus and concentrate quickly, enhanced memory, a stillness in the meditating mind which enables us to access deeper, intuitive, creative and inspirational parts of our being.
Power of Heart Sri Chinmoy places great emphasis on the spiritual heart in our quest for happiness, for it houses many of our most powerful spiritual qualities. A widening, deepening capacity for love; compassion for others; a oneness with all of life; inner wisdom; a desireless happiness, like the fragrance of an inner flower, spreading out into our life – a treasure trove waiting to be discovered! Sunset over the oceanThe heart is an egoless, unhorizoned consciousness and living 'in the heart' is one of the secrets of real happiness. One of the principle forms of yoga – bhakti yoga – is centered in the spiritual heart as well. Here, the power of devotional love is directed out to God and sees divinity in all things. A Peaceful Life Meditation will make you a very peaceful person. This peace comes about through a growing self-acceptance and self-confidence, and through an inner poise that comes from a deeper part of our being. This peace is not something passive and fragile – it is very powerful and dynamic. This kind of inner peace will lift you above success, failure, the positives and negatives of life – it leaves in us an adamantine poise and a sense of calm detachment in the face of life's changing fortunes and tribulations. People who have developed inner peace are very powerful. Awakening Meditation is the awakening to our true nature, a spiritual path to enlightenment, self-realisation, oneness with God. This is why one should always feel gratitude for the impulse to meditate – we have consciously begun the great journey of awakening that lies at the very heart of all human life. By Jogyata Dallas. Jogyata is a member of the Auckland Sri Chinmoy Centre and has been giving meditation classes in New Zealand for over 20 years. He has also written extensively on Meditation subjects
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Hypnosis, Meditation and Imagery |
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In the western world people are comparatively comfortable with ‘hypnosis’. In the east the word ‘meditation’ does not raise any eyebrows. Hypnosis has been used mainly for ‘directed healing’. Meditation has been used mainly for ‘general’ well-being. In the West, visualisation and imagery have developed from hypnosis. This is a commonly known fact among practitioners of hypnosis. But visualization is also integral parts of meditation- is not commonly known. Hypnosis and meditation have both been described as ‘altered states’. They are considered to be ‘altered’ because they transcend the conscious, reasoning mind. The conscious mind is mainly dependent on reason and logic for its activities. Unlike the ‘Unconscious’, it has to make effort to think. On the other hand the ‘unconscious’ is the ‘feeling’ part of the nervous system, is spontaneous and regulates all the internal organs of the body. This is the ‘effortless’ part of the mind. In order to change our internal body physiology, we have to have access to the ‘unconscious’ that controls our heart rate, blood pressure and the secretion of various hormones and juices in the body. Hypnosis is a method by which access to the ‘unconscious’ is made by letting a person go into a relaxed state. Usually hypnosis is done by a hypnotherapist, though self-hypnosis can also be done by an individual in certain conditions. Meditation is usually done by oneself without any instructions from another person. So once you have learnt self-hypnosis, you can go into a meditative state spontaneously. In deeper meditative states, visualization is an active process. It is theorized by the practitioners, that the human spirit then has access to dimensions that are beyond the reach of human senses in wakeful state. Hypnosis is usually... |
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