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Meditation Techniques for Self and God-Realization
The following techniques can be used to elicit physical, mental and emotional peace, enabling you to experience the stillness of superconscious meditation. Commit to practicing meditation once or twice a day at the same time for at least 20 minutes for best results. Longer meditation sessions can be scheduled once proficiency is attained. Proficiency is attained through practice.
Meditation Technique #1 Chanting Through the Chakras
1) Sit with your spine and neck erect in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed for the duration of practice.
2) Take a moment to take 2-3 deeper than normal breaths and exhale with sigh after each breath, letting your body relax, while
maintaining a straight, up-right position.
3) Bring your attention to the base of your spine, down to the center of the area on which you are sitting. Focus your attention here.
Imagine a ball of life force in the area. Imagine what it would feel like to be aware of your life force in this way. Mentally hear the word OM resounding in that ball of life force at your first chakra. Repeat the chanting of OM 10-12 times. There is no need to count the repetitions. Estimate the number and move on when you are ready.
4) Bring your attention to area of your sacrum to slightly above the pubic bone. Focus your attention here. Imagine a ball of life force
in the area. Imagine what it would feel like to be aware of your life force in this way. Mentally hear the word OM resounding in that ball of life force at your second chakra. Repeat the chanting of OM 10-12 times.
5) Bring your attention to area opposite your navel, around the small of your back. Focus your attention here. Imagine a ball of life force in the area. Imagine what it would feel like to be aware of your life force in this way. Mentally hear the word OM resounding in that ball of life force at your third chakra. Repeat the chanting of OM 10-12 times.
6) Continue in this way at the fourth chakra, the area between your heart and your shoulder blades; the fifth chakra, the area between
your head and torso in the center of your throat; the sixth chakra, the space between your eyebrows; and the seventh chakra, the crown of
your head.
7) Then descend back down through the chakras chanting OM in the same manner.
8) Finally, chant OM back up through the seven chakras, finishing at the crown of the head.
9) Once you have chanted the last OM at the seventh chakra, keep your awareness in the crown of your head and sit in the silence generated from the practice of this technique. Feel your awareness expanding without boundary in the wholeness of God until your schedule time to conclude is reached.
Meditation Technique #2 - Sushumna Breathing
1) Sit with your spine and neck erect in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed for the duration of practice.
2) Take 2-3 deeper than normal breaths and exhale with sigh after each breath, letting your body relax, while maintaining a straight,
up-right position.
3) Bring your awareness to your spine, from the base to the top of your head. Imagine a subtle channel filled with life force running from the top of your head to the base of your spine.
4) Give attention to your breathing while simultaneously aware of the subtle channel within your spine. Feel the air filling and exiting
your lungs. Feel the sensation of the air moving in and out of your nostrils. Continue with your awareness on the breathe and the spine for a minute or two.
5) Once your attention is fully concentrated on your breathing and the subtle channel within your spine, as you breathe, imagine a
deeply peaceful current flowing up your spine on the inhalation and down your spine on the exhalation. Your breathing should be only
slightly deeper and more relaxed than usual. Do not force your breathing any deeper than is comfortable.
6) Maintain your attention on the relaxing current moving up your spine with the inhalation and down your spine on the exhalation until
you are internally still and calm. Let each breath carry you deeper inward on the currents flowing within the subtle channel in your spine. Once internally still and calm, disregard the technique and simply sit quietly in the superconscious stillness of meditation until your scheduled time to conclude.
Dedicated practice of these techniques on a regular daily schedule, along with healthy constructive living, will quickly purify your
awareness and deepen your Self and God-realization. These techniques are excellent preparation for those interested in initiation in Kriya Yoga practices. For those already initiated, these can be used as supplemental techniques during extended meditation sessions.
