Category Archives: Meditation

Stress relief and detachment from known and unknown through focus of attention, awareness, relaxation, breathing and posture.

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Spiritual and Health Benefits of Meditation for Better Quality of Life Experience.

Meditation teaches you to let come let go while remaining as undivided whole in charge of your own. Regular practice of meditation can benefit you physically, psychologically and spiritually to make the long haul of your life better by improving the quality of your experience of life.

Meditation benefits your health by bringing order to the natural processes of your life through deep relaxation, right posture, right breathing and right awareness. On the other hand, meditation reduces impact of chronic or early life stress, and improves your sensitivity towards unwholesome way of living.

Psychologically, meditation calms the mind, heals early life impact of turbulent feelings, liberates you from the ossifying idea of self, dispels self-ignorance and relieves you from negativities associated with the Self.

By meditating you go beyond the reach of your problems and are not overwhelmed by problems. Meditation can fix you and you can fix your life, or meditation can upgrade you and you can upgrade your life. Meditation cannot end or solve your problems and suffering, but meditation can give you helpful insights into your problems and sufferings.

Meditation can make you better but only you can make your life better by living it through right values, principles, ethics, mindset, attitude, actions and impact of actions.

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Mindfulness Meditation for Positivity and Clarity Regarding Known and Unknown.

Mindfulness improves the quality of every experience.

Mindfulness is necessary is to know correctly as it is in the right context. Mindfulness is also necessary to remain vigilant of negativity arising in you so that you can shun negativity to cultivate positivity Positivity not only means optimism and benevolence but also ethics.

During mindfulness, you withdraw and disengage from all other experiences to remain aware of one experience. After remaining aware of that one experience for some time, you dissociate from that experience as well to reflect and remain self-aware without the Self.

When you experience mindfully, you outgrow the experiences, dissociate and detach from experiences without getting drawn or lost into experiences. Mindfully detached from experiences, you know correctly as it is in the right context and you are not controlled by effect of experiences.

Mindfulness meditation benefits you physically, psychologically and spiritually to make you better.

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Seiza: Best Posture for Meditation, Alertness and Gut Feeling

Seiza or Vajrasana is the best natural posture for meditation, alertness and a healthy gut feeling. In Seiza posture, the lower back is straight effortlessly, level of knees are below the level of lap, legs are bent in the knees and breathing is effortlessly diaphragmatic.

Children tend to instinctively sit and relax in the Japanese Seiza or Vajrasana posture on a soft carpet while focusing on something interesting.

Sitting instinctively in Seiza posture during infancy and childhood can also improves focus of attention and alertness in the later life. However, sitting in a W posture and lotus posture for a long time is not good, especially for children’s core muscles and hip development.

Seiza or Vajrasana on a soft surface is best posture for meditation, alertness and development of Hara or the seat of gut feeling or gut intelligence.

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Vipassana or Anapanasati: Practicing Constant Awareness of Breath at Entrance of Nostrils

bird flying in blue skyConstant awareness of breathing at the entrance of nostrils is an ancient Buddhist practice called Vipassana or Anapanasati, practiced for the cultivation of detached constant seamless clarity of awareness, the phenomenon of knowing correctly as it is in the right context.

At the time of birth, breathing starts due to different cause and conditions like physiological impulses and atmospheric air pressure. Breath is not instilled in you by so called “Supreme Creator and Controller” because no human can breathe outside the earth’s atmosphere in space regardless of the will or wish of “Mr. Supreme Creator and Controller”.

Breath is the means to inhale life energy that fuels processes of life, awakening the infant from hibernation in womb and giving rise to phenomenon of wakefulness, consciousness and awareness, the spectrum of knowing evolving with growth and maturity.

Practice of Vipassana or Anapansati

Select a well-ventilated space with fresh atmosphere, preferably in nature, for practicing awareness of breath. Do not burn incenses or do anything that will pollute the air.

Sit in a correct posture with an empty stomach on soft carpet, preferably in Seiza or Vajrasana posture. If you cannot sit in Seiza posture, then sit on a low bench with knees completely bent in the knees in such a way that level of knees is below the level of thighs. This allows lower back to remain straight effortlessly and facilitate diaphragmic breathing automatically.

Then remain aware of each and every breath at entrance of nostril in such a way that you do not get any opportunity to think or imagine anything.

Remain aware of each and every breath at the entrance of nostril until attention shifts and you remain aware of breath in between eyebrows.

Remain aware of each and every breath in between your eyebrows until you detach from breath psychologically and remain independently aware in between eyebrows in state of knowing no-mind without any mental activities like thoughts or imaginations.

Knowing no-mind is your state of psychological detachment from the know and unknown while remaining involuntarily self-regulated and in charge of your own. No-mind is absent mindedness whereas knowing no-mind is detached awareness and key to self-mastery. Fully aware knowing no mind, you breathe naturally not according to known and unknown.

By knowing no-mind you stop associating with the known and unknown to eventually become free from self-conception. Without self-conception, fully aware and detached, knowing no-mind, you are undivided whole psychologically and you feel complete.

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Running Meditation with Right Posture and Breathing

Running long distance with awareness of breath and right posture can become a natural meditation practice. Running long distance beyond your normal stamina is one of the open secrets of personal happiness and success.

Horse running on seashoreHowever, in modern society running is becoming extinct from day-to-day lives. By not running, we are killing our own natural potential. By not running we are ignoring a powerful tool given to us by nature for our physical and psychological empowerment.

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How to Dive Deep in Meditation: A Natural Knack

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.

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