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With the hectic pace and demands of modern life, many people feel stressed and over-worked. It often feels like there is just not enough time in the day to get everything done. Our stress and tiredness make us unhappy, impatient and frustrated. It can even affect our health. We are often so busy we feel there is no time to stop and meditate! But meditation actually gives you more time by making your mind calmer and more focused. A simple ten or fifteen minute breathing meditation as explained below can help you to overcome your stress and find some inner peace and balance.
Meditation can also help us to understand our own mind. We can learn how to transform our mind from negative to positive, from disturbed to peaceful, from unhappy to happy. Overcoming negative minds and cultivating constructive thoughts is the purpose of the transforming meditations found in the Moksha Meditation traditions. This is a profound spiritual practice you can enjoy throughout the day, not just while seated in meditation.
On this blog you can learn the basics of Moksha meditation. A few blogs are mentioned that will help you to deepen your understanding if you wish to explore further. Anyone can benefit from the meditations given here, Spiritual or not. We hope that you find this blog useful and that you learn to enjoy the inner peace that comes from meditation.
Level 1 - Breathing Technique:
Generally, the purpose of breathing meditation is to calm the mind and develop inner peace. We can use breathing meditations alone or as a preliminary practice to reduce our distractions before engaging in Moksha MeditationA Simple Breathing Meditation Techniques - 1st stage to practise Meditation
The first stage of meditation is to stop distractions and make our mind clearer and more lucid. This can be accomplished by practising a simple breathing meditation. We choose a quiet place to meditate and sit in a comfortable position. We can sit in the traditional cross-legged posture or in any other position that is comfortable. If we wish, we can sit in a chair."The first stage of meditation is to stop distractions and make our mind clearer and more lucid."
If you are at home and have a choice of solitude:
- Sit with your eyes partially closed and turn your attention to your breathing.
- Breathe naturally, preferably through the nostrils, without attempting to control your breath
- Try to become aware of the sensation of the breath as it enters and leaves the nostrils. This sensation is our object of meditation.
- Try to concentrate and try to exclude everything else.
- Try concentrating on your breath while you are working.
- Concentrate only for 4 breaths and feel the inner peace.
- Do this every 2 hour or in other words, every other in regular intervals
- You may keep doing this in shorter intervals as you continue working.
At first, your mind will be very busy, and you might even feel that the meditation is making your mind busier; but in reality we are just becoming more aware of how busy our mind actually is. There will be a great temptation to follow the different thoughts as they arise, but one should resist this and remain focused single-pointedly on the sensation of the breath. Afterall, its just 4 breaths! If you discover that the mind has wandered and is following your thoughts, you should immediately return it to the breath. This should be repeated as often as you can so that your mind settles down.
Level 2 - Cleansing the Mind: (in only 1 step)
Now that your mind has trained to settle down or rather is training to settle down, this would be the right time to cleanse your mind.. Emotions do come from heart but negative emotions come from ones mind.. Think about it..! Its the mind that actively participates to help you think. You think the most when you are going through negative emotions..How to cleanse your mind in 1 step?
While you concentrate on those 4 breaths, breath out all the thoughts. While you do this, imagine your mind to be an empty box. Just say to your mind "Its empty! No positive, No negative...Its Empty"
Level 3 - Adding Positive Emotion:
With the hectic lifestyle we try to simplify things we do in our daily routine and adding positive thoughts and emotions to your empty mind helps recharge your overall energy reserve of your body. Everyone's interpretation of positive thought is different, like everyone's interpretation to Happiness (as discussed in previous blog .However, the end result is the same - 'Happiness'.Step 1:
Instead of making great effort of thinking positive, just add a pinch of happiness to the mind that you have you just cleared of all thoughts.
Step 2:
Smile - A subtle smile is capable of spreading a pinch of happiness across your body.Practise this over and over again until this emotion becomes a part you without making an effort.
Benefits of Moksha Meditation:
- Moksha Meditation can be practised even while you work.
- You dont need to be in a closed dark room to practise Moksha Meditation.
- It teaches you to face your life the way it is but experience inner peace at all times.
- One's distracting thoughts will subside and one will experience a sense of inner peace and relaxation.
- Mind learns to sense the reality in difficult situations.
- Difficult situations will become easier to deal with.
- Clarity in thoughts helps find answers to unresolved issues.
- One's mind will feel lucid and spacious thus feeling refreshed and recharged.
- You will naturally feel warm and well disposed to others and your relation ship with others will gradually improve.
"A Busy Life makes Meditation Harder, but Meditation makes a Busy Life Easier"
