Meditation is a natural life-skill that can significantly improve the quality of your life-experience. Learning to meditate is like learning to swim or ride a bicycle. You have to practice before you get the hang of it. Once you learn to meditate, you never forget it. Meditation is a knack that you never forget if you get it.
In deep meditation, you relax the body, calm the mind, disappear psychologically and remain fully aware without self-consciousness. Fully aware and free from self-consciousness, you can reflect and detach from the known and unknown to become aware of being or self-aware without the Self.
In deep meditation, you relax in bliss of this natural processes of life as if hibernating in deep conscious sleep.
Focusing Attention On Breath.
In the beginning, a new meditator depends on some techniques of meditation in order to withdraw, dissociate from known and unknown to become calm by focusing attention on breath.
By staying focused on breath at nostrils, the body relaxes, mind calms down and awareness, the phenomenon of knowing becomes seamlessly clear.
Since the breathing become deep and slow, respiration improves, and you feel rejuvenated.
Regular practice of meditation as a beginner can reduce physiological impact of chronic stress and psychological burden resulting from the Self.
Intermediate Blissful Meditation: Self-Awareness Beyond Self
As intermediate meditator, you can spend more time meditating, easily getting relaxed, feeling energized and rejuvenated even after a short meditation practice.
As an intermediate meditator, without stress in the body and with calm mind, you will dissociate and detach from the known and unknown to reflect and remain aware of being aware or self-aware without the self or feeling of being inner self.
You will be free from self that is based on self-conception, self-delineation or self-identifications due to your association with labeling ideas like name, age, gender, relation, class, caste, religion, nationality, race, eternal self, immortal self, etc.
Free from self, you will also get rid of negativities like emotions, jealousies, covetousness, arrogance, hatred etc. arising due to the self. Without self and its negativities, you will become better physiologically, psychologically and spiritually.
At intermediate level of meditation practice, you may still depend on meditation technique or practice to regularly restore clarity of awareness and the natural bliss of meditation.
Advanced Effortless Meditation: Natural Liberating Bliss
As an advanced meditator you can become effortless in meditation due to spiritual enlightenment by recognizing the truth or your nature correctly through insight into seamless clarity of awareness and becoming self-aware without the self.
As an advanced meditator, you are not far from state of meditation. You can meditate effortlessly without any method or technique in a blink of an eye to become whole, free from defilements and be at equilibrium.
As an advanced meditator, you can effortlessly become fully aware and enjoy the natural bliss of meditations. As an advanced meditator you can become psychologically mature, independent and liberated.
As advanced meditator you can meditate in any circumstance and do any activity meditatively just like a swimmer can swim effortlessly in any style and in any water.
How To Go Deep in Meditation Practice
The whole point of meditation is to restore and recognize your undivided natural richness in which you are whole, undivided, at peace and fulfilled just like when you were as an infant without mind or self but blissful in communion with your mother.
Peaceful and Secure Ethical Lifestyle
A peaceful and secure ethical living can help you to relax and go deep in meditation.
If you are at conflict or feel insecure, your mind will not calm down easily, your body will remain tensed, your breathing will remain shallow or distressed and your energies necessary for deep meditation will remain blocked.
To be at peace and feel secure you need to live an empowering lifestyle without any guilt.
Maintain Physically Active Lifestyle
Maintain physically active lifestyle or practice meditation after any physical exercise. Practice of deep meditation needs healthy circulation of vital force in body. Maintaining active lifestyle or exercising regularly can create more space in body for circulation of vital force necessary to go deep in meditation.
Practice Should Be Relaxing
Practicing the methods of meditation should not give rise to any kind of physiological stress or psychological activities in the mind. Rather, any practice of meditation should naturally relax the body, balance the vital forces, calm the mind and bring dissociation of the practitioner from known and unknown.
Practice Should be Natural
Practice and methods of meditation has to be natural, for example awareness of breath at the entrance of nostrils, awareness in between two consecutive thoughts, awareness of body, awareness during physical activities, awareness in between eyebrows, awareness on single point like flower or nature, etc.
Awareness should be focused and effortless in such a way that there is no opportunity to think or imagine anything.
Practice Meditation in Right Posture
In right natural posture while keeping lower back straight and body naturally relaxed, meditation methods should be practiced persistently and regularly. You can easily keep lower back straight by folding the legs in knees and keeping level of knees lower than level of lap.
Sit on low bench with knees fully bent in knees or sit in cross legged position with your bottom resting on a slightly elevated platform or sit in Seiza position on a soft carpet.
Practice Regularly with Patience.
Meditation needs patience. The more patient you are the earlier you will master the knack of meditation. Slow is fast for learning meditation.
Meditation should be practiced regularly in order for it to deepen. Just like learning to swim, you have to practice meditation regularly until it becomes effortless.
Do Not Crave or Seek Exotic Experiences
Meditation is a natural practice of deep stress relief, but it can give you exotic experiences or unusual abilities. Acknowledge and ignore it in order to stay detached.
Do not crave for experiences or try to repeat experiences resulting from deep meditation. Craving will hinder your journey into deep meditation and psychological freedom.
Find Experienced Meditator For Guidance
Seek guidance from experienced meditator who has practiced and known meditation deeply. In deep meditation you become fully aware but lose the self, necessary for functioning in society.
As you start meditating, you start knowing differently than before which can disrupt your conjured world. It can be precarious for some to live the way they live without the Self.
Deep meditation can change you as a person and you may make drastic changes to the way you live. An experienced meditator can guide you how to integrate deep meditation with day-to-day life without affecting the practicality of life in the society.
Avoid Extreme Undisciplined Lifestyles
Avoid extreme lifestyles. Due to extreme lifestyles, you may not feel like practicing meditation regularly and your practice may not deepen to advanced level.
With restrained and balanced lifestyle through discipline, you will find the time and discipline necessary for becoming advanced meditator.
A disciplined lifestyle is necessary for any kind of mastery, and it equally applies to practice of meditation.
Lose Inner-Self By Letting Go
You cannot go deep in the practice of meditation without getting detached, letting go the self and disappearing psychologically.
Deep meditation can feel like psychological death. In deep meditation you can remain fearful of disappearing psychologically and fear losing the self.
Overcome the fear by letting yourself disappear psychologically in deep meditation frequently but surely over a period of time.
You will realize that the more you disappear psychologically, the more rejuvenated and aware you become.
Live With Awareness
Once you are able to remain detached and fully self-aware without the self, recognize awareness as the truth of your nature through insight into self-awareness. Live your day-to-day life with awareness not according to self.
No where to reach, nothing to achieve, just being natural in the present with the relevant is the essence of meditation.