Daily meditation - to achieve harmony and peace

Meditation is possible in different ways: reciting mantras, using certain patterns or flame, using special breathing techniques. The most important aspect of each of these methods is the lack of desire. As long as you do not cease to desire, your mind does not acquire tranquility, Juliet Varma says in the book "Ayurveda and yoga for women."

Scientific studies have shown that the state of meditation has a positive effect on the physiological aspects of the functioning of the body: the heart rate slows down, calming breath. This contributes to prevention and treatment of various diseases. We can say that meditation has established itself as an important part of yoga that is especially useful for the solution of urgent problems of modern life. Yoga practice meditation for a complete and absolute self-knowledge, and we - in order to get positive results in our daily lives. Meditation brings us satisfaction with life and wisdom, and it makes us creators of his life and destiny, activity and calm.

Transcendental meditation - is the most effective technique to eliminate stress, improve the health and development of creative and mental abilities. The Transcendental Meditation technique is practiced more than five million people worldwide. It's simple, requires no effort and does not take much time. Educate everyone can, regardless of age or level of education. It only takes 15-20 minutes twice a day - once in the morning before breakfast to start the day with a clear mind and reserve forces, and the second time in the evening before dinner (or before going to bed) to get rid of the accumulated fatigue of the day.

During the lessons transcendental meditation a person experiences a unique state of restful alertness: the body is completely relaxed, and the mind goes beyond their activity and reaches an absolutely relaxing and at the same time fully awakened state. The result reveals creativity dormant in every human being, and at the same time dissolve the accumulated stress and fatigue.

It is noticed that regular meditators people more warm relationships with others, they are calm, confident, able to solve a variety of tasks more efficiently. Next to them, a sense of harmony, peace and joy. The biological age of the people involved in meditation, an average of 5-12 years less chronological.

Of great importance is the body position and breathing during meditation. Meditation is best in a well-ventilated room. If it is not cold, open the window or the window to provide a constant supply of fresh air. You can meditate in any room, but it must be "isolated" from the world. Close the door to the room, turn off the mobile and ordinary phones, ask the home to keep quiet and not under any circumstances does not bother you - and only then move on to meditation.

Choose for yourself a comfortable position. It is best to meditate sitting, back straight, to the spine in an upright position. If you regularly practice yoga, the most comfortable posture for meditation is, of course, the lotus posture. Pose of a lotus - the best position for meditation, because presses the sides of the knees to the floor, providing a stable body position. Of course, this position is not suitable for beginners as well as for the elderly. You can also sit in the half lotus posture, in the "comfortable position" or "Diamond pose." If it is difficult to just sit on a chair, straighten your back and place your feet so that the foot and the floor at right angles. Clothing should be loose, natural fabrics.

When you are just starting to practice meditation, you may experience a variety of uncomfortable physical sensations. Typically, numb legs, but if you suffer, it is quite an unpleasant feeling will soon pass. In order to balance the body was preserved without effort, it is necessary to fix the focus on the point about four fingers below the navel, and then drops the center of gravity and balance is achieved.

Relaxed hand brush is best to put one on the other on foot crossed in the lower abdomen. The head and neck are one with the back straight, eyes closed better. The mouth closed, tongue touches the palate. Breathing is arbitrary, free, through the nose.
Hereby disaster for the meditator is his mind, overloaded with thoughts, because he needs a mental vacuum. Refrain from thinking pretty hard. Simply closely "peer" in thought when it arises - it prevents it "stick", and she leaves. Gradually you will be able to free your mind from the hectic thoughts.

Do not expect to get a great result immediately at the first meditation. The result will come with time, if you are persistent and confident that everything will turn out. Meditation becomes a truly effective immediately. The longer you meditate, the greater the results. Starting best from 10-15 minutes in the morning and evening, but later you can bring meditation to forty minutes duration. The main meditation is always held in the morning. When meditation results will be noticeable, you will no longer interfere with the sounds around you, and events, and you can meditate while walking, standing, lying down, and so on.

A simple daily meditation

So, at the beginning of the practice of meditation is reserved for 10 minutes in the morning and the same evening, by adding a minute a week. Do not rush to the achievements - if you do not hurry, they will find you.

It is best to take a shower after you wake up - it will save you from sleepiness, and then perform the pranayama. Shower gives you a burst of cheerfulness and calm pranayama hectic flow of thoughts. Now you're ready for meditation. Make sure that nobody and nothing you could not disturb for 10 minutes allocated for meditation. As long as you do not feel the time, put an electronic alarm clock with a nice melody or sound quiet calm, so you can understand when held for 10 minutes.

Sit comfortably, close your eyes, take a few cycles of the natural deep breathing and feel how your body relaxes and your mind comes to rest. Try to watch everything that happens around you. Observe the state of his mind. Watch it and you will see how restless he is always busy with something. He never remains free, always busy with something, and it does not matter, he is busy with something global, high, or small things - all the same, until you can not get out of a momentary bustle, you can not truly live consciously.

Immersed in his studies the mind and will always deal with the problems, but will never be able to solve them. No wonder Albert Einstein stated that "the problem can not be resolved, being at the same level of thinking at which it was created." Only the mind that is not otherwise engaged, and therefore has the freshness of perception, can truly tackle the problem and solve it. So do not let your thoughts ratings such as "good" or "bad", "right" or "wrong", but just follow the course of thought, as if you were watching the show on TV. When you watch a movie, you do not take part in the action, just watch. Similarly, to observe the work of his mind, and you will see that this series is much more interesting of all, you first viewed because your "thinking machine" includes the experience of all mankind. Getting to know yourself in meditation, you go beyond their normal capabilities and discover the universal nature of all human experience.

Realizing this, a person will never be able to withdraw into their own little individual little world, in his "ego". As long as we are focused on ourselves, we are closed. The real freedom - is a condition in which there is no fear or coercion, but only a great openness to comprehend the truth. Truth is not something that should be pursued. Truth appears when your thoughts and emotions are cleared of a sense of struggle, and you do not try to become someone, but try to know yourself and become a. Truth is revealed, when the mind is completely calm when he is outside time and listen to everything going on here and now as if from outside.

Effective meditation completely rearranges our relationship with the world. During meditation, we are aware of ourselves outside of time, and our true nature becomes unlimited freedom. We gain integrity, the lack of which leads to a distorted relationship with the environment and, consequently, to the loss of the meaning of these relationships. During meditation, we can see the grace - a spontaneous experience of a perfect being, in which there is neither time nor space.

So, watch for everything that happens around you. Keep an eye on the surrounding area, any sounds and movements that reach up to you. First you will hear only the loudest, noticeable sounds, which will inadvertently attract your attention, but eventually you learn to focus on individual sounds, and feel everything as a whole, at the same time, such as it is. When you come into harmony with the space, that is, sounds cease to disturb you, focus your attention on yourself, your feelings, sensations, thoughts and emotions on your breathing. Do not try to change anything, do not resist that feeling. Just take all the thoughts, emotions and feelings as they are, regardless of whether they bring you pleasure or not, do not tie their attention to a particular thought or feeling. If some thought fascinated you for yourself, return your attention to your breathing and keep the meditation, so you clear your mind of stress, the desires and evaluations.

Perhaps, when you start to meditate, you will feel that you are just sitting, eyes closed, and engage in this nonsense, because nothing happens. This is not true. You just did not know the state of mind of freedom, you are just learning this. Before practicing meditation you only knew the state of the active mental activity during wakefulness and lack of perceived your activity during sleep. Meditation teaches your mind remain empty and quiet, and at the same time active and sensitively perceived. Asanas train the body, giving it strength and energy, and meditation trains the mind, teaches concentration. Gradually, you will learn how to use all of these in their daily lives, and then others will feel that you can work wonders.

Everything that happens around you during meditation, has to do with you. You are thousands of miles and thousands of years of it. Learn to just observe everything. Finished meditation, you will return to normal activities, but do not let them distract you during meditation.

Comes out of meditation should gradually. Take a few deep full breaths, then open your eyes and sit a little getting used to what is happening around, as if returned home after a long journey: everything as before, but it seems your unaccustomed eye quite different. In a few days or a few minutes - and everything will seem to you usual. Now you can stand up and not be afraid of vertigo.

Do not think that meditation affects only you. Because it creates positive vibrations, you begin to radiate calmness, confidence and optimism in the world, thereby changing it for the better. You become a more balanced person, and it changes your relationship with the people around you. Changing your perception of the world - and the world is changing around you. If people prepare for war, building up armaments, war will happen. It does not matter that they justify their actions by saying that arming for protection against attacks - they still attract the energy of violence and aggression. If you wake up with the mood of happiness and success, the world smiles at you, and good luck becomes your constant companion.

You can achieve your goals long and hard work, and it happens often. You can simply and very much wish to make small efforts to achieve the desired - and your goal is to be attracted to you like a magnet. This is called the ability to concentrate on the desire. Through meditation you simply wish to stop, but all you really need is brought to you by itself, as if by magic. We provide several types of meditation, as an example, to facilitate your entry into the world of meditation.

Meditation on fire

Fire calls for a respectful and attentive attitude: he saved humanity from the cold, protected from predators. Meditation on the fire - one of the most powerful and effective. Choose a dry, clean place, sheltered from the wind, spread the fire of thick logs and sit down at a distance of two meters from the fire. Take a "comfortable position" and look at the fire through closed eyelids. Hands stretch to the flame and mentally say the fire, thanking him for all that he gives to people. Fire purifies the soul, restores vision, balances the nervous system, relieves stress. After meditating on the fire, we feel purified. The duration of this meditation can be from an hour to several hours until the fire burns with a bright flame. Houses can also meditate on the fire - it is enough to light a wax candle and watch the flame through narrowed lids. In this case, meditation lasts from ten minutes to half an hour and also has a cleansing effect on the soul.

Meditation at sunrise

This meditation, like the previous one, is best done outdoors. Select pre-elevated place and sit in the lotus, half lotus, or "comfortable position" facing the sun. Put your hands on your thighs, palms up. Before sunrise just watch yourself and the world around us, and as soon as the sun starts to appear, read a prayer or mantra that you feel in tune with the time. Read it as many times as you want, imagining how your whole body is filled with healing golden light from the sun, cleansed and healed. Half-closed eyelids, look at the sun and fills as a sense of gratitude to the sun-zhiznepodatelyu. This meditation improves eyesight, restores the nervous system, promotes healing and scarring of ulcers and wounds, physical and mental.

Dynamic meditation is to awaken energy.

It is best to perform your meditation to awaken the vast potential of the evening. To begin this meditation is recommended standing. Relax and start to shake all over, feeling the energy flow begins to rise up the spine, from the coccyx to the crown. Turn into a vibration process, disconnect from themselves, their thoughts, from all that is happening around. Eyes better closed, but you can keep them open if you find it difficult to keep his balance. Now go smoothly from the vibration of the dance. Let the body move the way he wants. Eyes at this stage open better. You can sing the melody, mentally or aloud - it is better that it was born in the dance, and was not any of you have known and loved melodies. When you have the feeling that the body does not want to dance, calm down and stop moving. You can stand or sit on the floor or on a chair, it does not matter. It is important that you observe your feelings for about quarter of an hour, and then lie down in Shavasana and stay in it for another ten minutes.

Meditation on the "third eye»

Sit comfortably and come to a state of perfect peace. Focus your gaze on a blue light (this requires a blue light) and repeat the mantra "OM" as many times as you want. Then close your eyes and sways slowly and smoothly from side to side until you feel discomfort. Then open your eyes again, focus on the blue light and repeat the mantra - and then to swing back, and once again repeat this cycle of action. This meditation helps to incorporate a powerful intuition, makes it possible to read information from space to anticipate and predict. Meditation on the "third eye" is aimed at awakening of the Ajna chakra, which makes it possible to see the world, people and events without distortions and prejudices such as they are.

Transcendental meditation

The easiest way to learn this meditation using holotropic breathing by the method of Stanislav and Christina Grof.

Holotropic breathing helps us to go beyond the boundaries of ordinary consciousness, and then we get a spiritual experience in which we feel that we are inspired, we have guides and protects us some power, which is beyond our limited individual capabilities. The same experience, but very limited in time, and we can feel at the birth of a child or an act of love, at the moment of stress or to enjoy a work of art, in the process of creation - we just find out how we throw in some transcendental state of consciousness.

Такие подключения к «глубинному Я», выходящему за пределы нашего личного «эго», случаются во время аварий и операций, тяжелой болезни, а также во время уединенных прогулок на природе. Необычные состояния сознания приводят в действие целительный потенциал. Во время трансцендентной медитации человек может вернуться вthe time of its birth, or relive the experience of one of his previous incarnations. We begin to meditate in the hope to improve their lives and to solve some pressing problems - and indeed, these problems are solved with time, but we go beyond these issues and go into a spiritual search for his identity, we are looking for an answer to the question: "Who am I?" because without this knowledge we can not respond to any of the issues before us, not to make a mistake.

Transcendental meditation can lead to instant insights, when a person attains enlightenment, but only during meditation. The best is to use different meditation techniques, especially normal daily as they give us the opportunity to go with slow steps to the top, the radiating light, but our achievements are still with us. If a parachute jump and land on top of a huge mountain, we first captured inexpressible delight of inaccessible to us down there, the spectacle, but very soon we begin to think about how to go down home - it's terrible on top, we do not belong to this place, it is strange to us. Similarly, in the spiritual ascent premature getting to the top gives us a brief enlightenment, and then the light begins to blind us, and we are happy to return to their twilight consciousness. Just climbing efficiently, which begins with the foot of the mountain and ends with its apex, and every step from the beginning to the end of the path traversed by us.

Tantric meditation

Tantric meditation offers the contemplation of life as such. Sit in a comfortable meditation posture (lotus, half lotus, "Easy Pose", "diamond posture" or just sitting on a chair). Make sure that the spine is kept to a vertical position, but not strictly linear, with no voltage. As relaxing all the muscles of the body, arms and legs, including facial muscles. Slightly parted eyelids, eyes fix on the tip of the nose. By focusing on your breathing. Listen to your body, all the smallest, even fleeting thoughts and feelings. We start to listen on the feet, then the legs go up to the torso, neck, back of the neck and head, and then to the palms, arms and shoulders - and then to the head. Thoughts calm, anxiety goes away. Now we focus on the breath, on the feeling of rise and fall of the chest, and rejoice that we breathe, that we live. Mentally send a warm wave of love generations and generations of their ancestors, without whom there would be our lives today, so we are happy.

Introducing himself all forms of life on Earth, from the simplest single-celled in the ancient ocean. We are connected with all existing life forms on this planet, animals, fish, birds, insects, plants and crystals. Cactus and baobab tree, a butterfly and a scarab - my brothers and sisters, and I - part of the Great Stream of Life. All the power of the mind and life are present in us, and the whole experience of generations. Against this background, separately taken the life of an individual is both exceptional and unique, and negligible. And it will continue for as long as it is necessary for the Great Stream of Life. Well to make this meditation in the evening, before going to bed, imagining that we fall asleep at the breast of Mother cozy progenitor - the Earth, the Universe All concerns forgotten, all the anxiety went away, and envelops us deep and restful sleep

Mantra

During meditation, practitioners often use the mantra. Mantra - is the magic spells, sound vibrations, plunges us into a sense of happiness and peace. Mantras are the magic words, like a prayer. Sound can be treated. Any sound causes a response in our body, but a conscious mantra is sound. The most famous mantra is the mantra "OM", action which soothes, balances and stimulates. The sound vibrates in the upper part of the chest, throat and in the bottom half of the head, with the vibration easily noticeable gross in the skull. Stimulated all the subcortical centers, that is, the brain centers that control the operation of unconscious bodies. There is healing circulation flows.

Singing songs can also heal. Vibration voice is very important for good health, it improves health. Sing when you feel sad, sing with joy - vibration vowels affects the tonsils and glands, and include a mechanism to cleanse the body of toxins.

Mantras are based on certain combinations of vowels, which are sung in a special way, which causes oscillations and vibrations in the whole human body.

Mantras are chanted easily and safely, but endowed with a total energy of deep breathing, and fill us with energy. Singing vowels, as well as vowels combined with consonants, it has an impact on various organs. Singing should be on the same note, without strengthening and relaxing sound.

To help the novice meditating

It is difficult to protect the consciousness from external impressions. To do this, you can practice the following exercises to help us learn how to control yourself and your body.

To achieve control of voluntary movements useful to do the following exercise: Connect the hands so that the fingers of one hand entered the intervals other fingers. Slowly rotate your thumbs around one another, focusing all the attention on this action. Then place your right hand on the table and squeeze it into a fist. Slowly bend your thumb, directing all attention to this action, and then make the same thing with the index, middle, ring finger and little finger. Then slowly bend the little finger first, then the ring finger, then middle do the same for the left hand. This exercise strengthens the will.

In order to achieve control over the involuntary movements of the arms and legs sit, extending his hands to the sides at shoulder level, palms down. Turn your head to the right and look closely on the middle finger of his right hand. The hand must remain perfectly still. This exercise is performed for a minute, then execute it with the left hand. Exactly the same exercise is done for the legs, pulling them in front of him and observing their immobility. A week later, do the exercises for two minutes in a week - three and so adding one minute, until the duration of the exercise will bring up to five minutes.

In order to achieve control over the involuntary movements of the whole body muscles sit down, relax your muscles without straining his eyes fixed on one point, breathe deep, loose, slowly and quietly through the nose. The whole body should stand in a relaxed state. Begin the exercise with five minutes each week adding one minute, until the duration of the exercise would bring up to twenty minutes. With the same purpose can perform another exercise: sit up straight at attention, arms extended in front of him - and froze in that position. The breath is the same as in the previous exercise. Do this exercise for five minutes, gradually bringing the duration of execution of up to ten minutes.

In order to achieve control over the sight sit comfortably, take a pencil and concentrate on it all your attention. Pay attention to the color, shape, and so on. Within five minutes, turn off all the senses except sight, and continue to contemplate a pencil. Change the objects, gradually changing them to a dull and colorless.

In order to achieve control over the hearing lie on your sofa or carpet, relax your muscles and close your eyes. Put or place themselves near the watch and listen to them tick, not perceiving nothing but the sound, and not distracting to any thoughts. Count to a hundred "ticks".

Having mastered these simple exercises, boldly go to the meditation practice. Meditation - is a complete stay in the present moment and harmony with this, with what is happening here and now. The practice of meditation allows you to fully relax, because even during sleep, our thinking and memory continue to operate at the subconscious level, as a result, we do not rest, and doing watching dreams. Meditation itself is not a concentration or thinking about something. This ability to let go of everything and stay in the role of observer. Our emotions and thoughts are flowing and changing, we heard sounds around, there is a movement, and we are in meditation just observe all this from somewhere, as an outsider viewer.

Through the practice of meditation, you forget about depression, fear of the unknown future, and feelings about the past. You will shine with an inner light, reflected in your smile. Meditation leads to a broader understanding of the order of things occurring situations, vision of life and the development of intuition. With regular practice of meditation the mind becomes stable, and nothing can bring you out of balance. At the same time you do not turn into cold and unfeeling man, quite the contrary - you will feel the joy and happiness, and radiate them into the world.