Meditation... Towards a Stress Free Life

 

Meditation: What it is !!!

An ordinary person may consider meditation as a worship or prayer. But it is not so. Meditation means awareness. Whatever you do with awareness is meditation. "Watching your breath" is meditation; listening to the birds is meditation. As long as these activities are free from any other distraction to the mind, it is effective meditation.

 

Meditation is not a technique but a way of life. Meditation means 'a cessation of the thought process' . It describes a state of consciousness, when the mind is free of scattered thoughts and various patterns . The observer (one who is doing meditation) realizes that all the activity of the mind is reduced to one.

 

A Tibetan Lama was being monitored on a brain scan machine by a scientist wishing to test physiological functions during deep meditation. The scientist said - "Very good Sir. The machine shows that you are able to go very deep in brain relaxation, and that validates your meditation". "No", said the Lama, "This (pointing to his brain) validates the machine!".

These days it is commonly understood to mean some form of spiritual practice where one sits down with eyes closed and empties the mind to attain inner peace, relaxation or even an experience of God. Some people use the term as "my gardening is my meditation" or for jogging or art or music, hence creating confusion or misunderstanding.

The word meditation, is derived from two Latin words : meditari(to think, to dwell upon, to exercise the mind) and mederi (to heal). Its Sanskrit derivation 'medha' means wisdom.

Many years ago meditation was considered something just not meant for modern people, but now it has become very popular with all types of people. Published scientific and medical evidence has proved its benefits, but it still needs to be much understood.

Traditionally, the classical yoga texts, describe that to attain true states of meditation one must go through several stages. After the necessary preparation of personal and social code, physical position, breath control, and relaxation come the more advanced stages of concentration, contemplation, and then ultimately absorption. But that does not mean that one must perfect any one stage before moving onto the next. The Integral yoga approach is simultaneous application of a little of all stages together.

Commonly today, people can mean any one of these stages when they refer to the term meditation. Some schools only teach concentration techniques, some relaxation, and others teach free form contemplative activities like just sitting and awaiting absorption. Some call it meditation without giving credence to yoga for fear of being branded 'eastern'. But yoga is not something eastern or western as it is universal in its approach and application.

With regular practice of a balanced series of techniques, the energy of the body and mind can be liberated and the quality of consciousness can be expanded. This is not a subjective claim but is now being investigated by the scientists and being shown by an empirical fact.

 

Mind & Meditation

Business management, personal management, social management, financial management and so on… all are fake without mind management. mind management is the essence of life management. According to Maherishi Patanjali "Yogashchitta vritti nirodhah" i.e. Yog is all about controlling the mental modifications. mind management provides a sight to the practitioner regarding how to interpret the circumstances to life and how to go far beyond the worries, anxieties, tensions, stress, painful past, insecure future, failed relationships, mental unease, dissatisfaction, financial crisis and so on.

"If we care for our mind, if we nurture it and if we cultivate it just like a fertile rich garden, it'll blossom far beyond our expectation. But if we let the weeds take root, lasting peace of mind and deep inner harmony will always elude us" said by an Indian master.Mind is the atma shakti, the inner power. The thoughts, sentiments, moods & emotions produce their strong impression on face, the outer world reflects the state of the inner world. It's a wonderful servant but the worst master but unfortunately 90% of human beings are slaves of their minds. Even the perfectly noticed thinkers use only 25% of their mental abilities. Mind should not be the master but one should be master of his mind, one who has mastered his mind can easily master the world and the only way to mater the mind is through meditation, the seventh stage of the eight fold path of yog.Mind control is the one and only way to live a more purposeful and rewarding life, to love his own self, to feel alive, to have wisdom as it's the most potent force and above all to be 'the best' in all spheres of life. We definitely need to open the windows of our mind but not so much that all dust particles enter in fact only this much that fresh air should enter and provide oxygen to it. Meditation is the only way to avoid the dust let the fresh air enters i.e only the very best information enters.

"I've visited almost the entire world for my dance performances and yog discourses but the most beautiful place I've ever been is My Inner World where I cant reach through any conveyance but only through meditation" says Yogacharyaa Pratishtha

 

 

Types of Meditation

 

Story Meditation (School Dhyanam)

Story meditation is the easiest meditation technique recommended for those who have never done meditation before and in fact who have done meditation before as well they too enjoy doing story meditation. As there are 70,000 thoughts running in an individual mind out of which 95% are all same each day, this meditation replaces those 95% of same thoughts with some new and creative thoughts… Its all about going out of the body and enjoying the world of joy, world of bliss, world of aanand.

 

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Sun Meditation (Surya Dhyanam)
Sun meditation or the surya dhyanam is to be done after Surya Namaskar, Sun salutation. Sun meditation provides energy, glow, charge, activeness, attraction and the self control as well the self mastery to the practitioner.
 

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Moon Meditation (Chandra Dhyanam)
Moon Meditation or the Chandra Dhyanam is to be done in the evening after returning back from the work or just before going to bed. After a hectic day, busy schedule and tiring hours Chandra Meditation works as the relieving tool.
Chandra Meditation provides calmness, serenity, relaxation, rejuvenation, beauty, glow and peace to the practitioner.
 

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Number Meditation (Sankhya Dhyanam)
You must have experienced in the morning sometimes even after the sleep of eight hours you don't feel fresh this is because your body is relaxed while sleeping but mind is not, it goes on thinking. Number Meditation or the Sankhya dhyanam deal with numbers. Its all about getting involved with numbers and finally going beyond them as well as beyond the thoughts. Number meditation takes the practitioner to the state of no thought which in turn provides the real relaxation to the mind and brain.
 

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Power Meditation (Urja Dhyanam)
According to Maharishi Patanjali, one can charge different parts of the body and can heal others through his charged touch. Power Meditation activates the energies of the palms of the practitioner.Thousands of years back Maharishi Patanjali gave this technique of Urja Dhyanam to activate the energies of the palms and medicate others through the activated palms… which in today's context is called reiki.
 

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Introspection Meditation (Atma Darshan Dhyanam)
We generally very easily judge others, very easily we are able to find the goods and bads in different souls but we never look inside our own self. Yogacharyaa Pratishtha says "I've visited almost the entire world for my yog camps and you know which is the most beautiful place?... My inner world"

Introspection meditation is all about knowing, judging and improving one's own self. Introspection meditation helps the practitioner to find the cause of his / her sorrow and the remedy as well. This meditation provide a better view even towards the worst incidents, better understanding of life, perfection in all aspects and above all make the practitioner work perfectly in all spheres of life and transform him into a wonderful and loving human being.
 

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Confidence Meditation (Atma Vishwas Dhyanam)
We generally very easily judge others, very easily we are able to find the goods and bads in different souls but we never look inside our own self. Yogacharyaa Pratishtha says "I've visited almost the entire world for my yog camps and you know which is the most beautiful place?... My inner world"This meditation is for those who have seen a lot of failure in their lives due to the lack of confidence along with the other weaknesses. Confidence meditation provides confidence to the practitioner which helps him to be the best in whatever he does. Confidence meditation is highly beneficial for school children who know the answer but due to the lack of confidence are not able to raise their hands, for the artists who are awesome in their art but loose their confidence at stage in front of so many audience, for office goers who really feel scared of their bosses and for all those who loose their confidence at any moment of their life.
 

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Insight Meditation (Sukshama Dhyanam)
Insight meditation is not for the beginners, its for those who have mastered any one of the meditative pose in which they can sit and then meditate. Sukshma Dhyanam is a journey from concrete to abstract.
 

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Tratak Dhyanam
Tratak meditation can only be done when practitioner has practiced the tratak kriya. Tratak meditation provides power to the eyes of the practitioner through which he can dominate anyone and provides unbelievable concentration, confidence and memory.
 

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Mooladhara Chakra Dhyanam
All the chakra meditations are for the regular practitioners and not for the beginners. This meditation results in riddance from tensions, true happiness, beauty, perfect health, physical strength and magnetic persona of the practitioner.
 

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Swadhishthaan Chakra Dhyanam
Swadhisthaan Chakra Dhyanam is associated with the pleasure through tongue and genital organs i.e. food and drink and sexual interaction. This meditation helps in the rectification of the disorders of the excretion and reproduction organs of the practitioner.
 

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Manipur Chakra Dhyanam
Manipur Chakra meditation speed up all the physiological processes, makes the mind sharp and alert, heart beat faster, respiration rate more rapid, remove sluggishness and depression or malfunctions of the digestive system such as diabetes and indigestion, helps in proper functioning of gastric glands, sdernal glands above the kidneys, pancreas, gall bladder and above all provides ambition, will and the ability to rule and provides self assertion, dynamism and dominance to the practitioner.
 

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Anahat Chakra Dhyanam
Anahat Chakra meditation develops the unconditional love develops the feelings of universal brotherhood and tolerance, on the physical level cures the diseases related to heart and lungs, and circulatory and respiratory systems and is highly beneficial for the patients of anemia, hypertension, asthma, bronchitis, tuberculosis and palpitations.
 

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Vishuddha Chakra Dhyanam
Vishuddha Chakra meditation provides the right understanding and discrimination where the dualities of life are accepted, allowing one to flow with life with joy and let things happen as they are. On physical level, it governs the local cords and then thyroid and parathyroid glands.
 

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Agya Chakra Dhyanam
With continuous practice of Agya Chakra meditation mind becomes steady and strong, wisdom, intuition, telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience and full control over praan are gained. Practitioner can even send and receive thought transmission through continuous practice of Aagya Chakra meditation.
 

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Kundalini Dhyanam
Kundalini meditation is to be done only when the practitioner is in regular practice of other meditations and yog sadhna. This meditation helps in the activation of kundalini and provides the benefits of all the charkas. This must be done under the expert guidance of the Guru.
 

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