Meditation is a natural life-skill that can significantly improve the quality of your life-experience, make you better and empower you to make life better.

Learning to meditate is like learning to swim in water 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 right.

In deep meditation, you breathe naturally by relaxing the body in right posture, calm the mind by detaching from known and unknown through single-pointed focus of attention, remain fully aware knowing no-mind, disappear psychologically and relax in deep conscious sleep without self.

In deep meditation, you relax in the bliss of this natural process of life as if hibernating in deep conscious sleep. Journey to the depth of meditation is through a spectrum of awareness, the phenomenon of knowing.

Focusing Attention On Breath.

In the beginning, a new meditator depends on some technique of meditation, for example breath. By staying focused on breath at nostrils, the body relaxes, mind calms, you dissociate and disidentify from the known and unknown to remain fully aware knowing no-mind.

As the breathing becomes deep and slow, respiration improves, and you feel rejuvenated. Regular practice of meditation, as a beginner, can reduce physiological impact of chronic stress and reduce psychological burden of mind and 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 practice of meditation.

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 while knowing no-mind or remain self-aware without the self.

You will be free from self that is based on self-conceptions and self-delineations 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 experience 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 of your nature correctly through insight into seamless clarity of detached awareness or no-mind and reflecting to become 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 natural 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.

Through effect of deep meditation, you become whole and feel complete by restoring your rich natural innocence just like when you were a carefree infant thus becoming more aware, sensitive, empathetic and compassionate. You become self-sufficient and independent in happiness and fulfilment.

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 and 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 or carry personal guilts or regrets, 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 or regrets.

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 distribution of vital force necessary to go deep in meditation.

Practice Should Be Relaxing and Rejuvinating

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 and rejuvinate 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 without trying and keep the body naturally relaxed, meditation 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.

With legs fully bent in knees, sit on low bench or sit in cross legged position with your bottom resting on a slightly elevated platform or sit in Seiza posture like an infant on a soft carpet. In right posture your body is not stressed externally, internally or physiologically.

Practice Regularly with Patience.

Meditation needs patience. Meditation is practice of 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 abilities that are unusual for you. Acknowledge and ignore them in order to stay detached in order to live life as usual. As classically said, “even a battle can be entered meditatively as if life as usual”.

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 the context of social life and relationships. By regular practice of meditation you get dehypnotized and become fully aware but begin to lose the self and your psychological world.

As you start meditating, you start knowing differently than before which can disrupt your conjured psychological world. It can be precarious for some to live knowing no-mind and living no 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 the skillful practice of meditation.

Lose the Self By Letting Go

You cannot go deep in the practice of meditation without getting detached, letting go the self or disappearing psychologically and giving up self-image. Your self-image is build through your association and self-identification with self-delineating labels like name, age, gender, class, caste, race, nationality, beliefs, religion etc. Finding yourself in knowing no-mind, you stop living according to self-image.

Deep meditation can feel like psychological death or death of ego. In deep meditation though you are fully aware, you can remain fearful of disappearing psychologically. Fully aware and detached, knowing no-mind, you will be master of your own but may fear losing the self-image.

You will realize that the more you disappear psychologically, the more rejuvenated and aware you become. The more you renounce self-image, the more fluid, adaptable and resourceful you become. You become selfless like formless water.

Live With Awareness

Once you are able to remain detached and fully aware without the self, recognize awareness as the truth of your nature through insight into knowing no-mind. Live your day-to-day life with awareness not according to self. Know no-mind, live no-self and remain untouched while being totally in the world just like water intimate with its surrounding.

No where to reach, nothing to achieve, just being natural in the present with the relevant is the essence of meditation. Practice of meditation is practice of non-seeking awareness or knowing no-mind. It will not only make you better but also improve the quality of your life experience and empower you to make life better.