meditation

Here are three links for meditation guidance that will benefit you, even if you do not meditate. Sit on a beach watching the waves roll in. Relax on a reclining chair and notice your breath. Go to any quiet outdoor spot and stretch out on a blanket to watch the clouds. As you focus your attention on the waves, your breath or passing clouds, this is meditation. You release all that stuff of the day. Perhaps Deepak's guidance will further your enjoyment of those relaxing moments!

• Deepak Chopra's Secrets of Meditation, Mindfulness Meditation
• Deepak Chopra explains The Mechanics of Meditation
• Sit with back erect, be comfortable and relaxed, feet on the floor, hands resting in your lap.
• Think, remember or listen to a mantra without too much focus. Force nothing. Or, watch the breath and remember 'I am'. You have to let it happen.
• For 20-30 minutes, mantra and thoughts cancel each other and you reach pure potentiality, the gap where you experience nothing (you are non-local).
• It is a wakefulness that you will experience in waking, dreaming -- it will never leave you.
• Deepak Chopra's Top 8 Meditation Tips
• Morning meditation energizes you.
• Before evening meal is good.
• Find your best time. (Deepak meditates from 4-6 AM)
• Preferably sitting than lying down.
• 'So' in breath and 'hum' on the out breath (mental sounds).
• Sounds of nature or soft music.
• Observe the breath.
• The awareness of a thought is not a thought.
• Visualize your dream before meditation.

 

your true self

Deepak Chopra recently offered a free 14-day online meditation series, Secrets of Meditation (purchase here), that takes about 15 minutes each day. You may keep a daily journal that you can copy paste to a computer file for later reference (highly recommended for those who want to follow their own changes). This series is great for beginning to advanced students!

This series of meditations demonstrates the importance of slowing down the pace of our lives to breathe, pause, listen and become our true selves once more. All we need is within us. Dr. Chopra reminds us how easy and natural it is to access our true selves and experience our interconnection to All That Is.

The 14 day series is as follows:

• Stress reduction (deep breathing with attention on the breath)
• Your inner universe (build a better life and understand your place in the universe)
• Being present (slow down and pay attention)
• A matter of practice (live everyday as if you are whole)
• Introducing mantras (expand non-local consciousness)
• The monkey mind (release external distractions)
• Find your true self (awareness)
• Letting go of your ego (release conditioning)
• Living in Your NOW  (mindfulness)
• I AM (an instrument of thought)
• The Real You (arises from your heart)
• Fight or flight (releasing stress)
• Subtle Action (feel the feelings as if the desired outcome has manifested)
• Shadow Energies (find the switch to turn off negative programming)

The key is to look within for the fulfillment you seek. You are the expert on you! Find a way to make time for you - perhaps a few minutes a day or a hour on the weekend, one lunch break during the week. Walk where nature caresses your senses. Ask your self important questions and allow your feelings to bring forth the answers.