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Please try this meditative and healing technique again….
It is very simple and easy to follow, yet it requires your cooperation and trust. All you need is privacy and fifteen to twenty minutes of your time.
Sit quietly in a private, quiet and undisturbed place. If it is possible, sit in a dimly lit room.
Sit on a pillow or a chair and make sure your posture allows you to be relaxed and loose. Close your eyes and relax for a minute. Let your arms and hands rest in your laps; let your shoulders and neck release their tension.
Firstly bring your attention to your head, then slowly scan your body part by part, delivering to each part and organ a clear simple message – ‘relax’. Feel how all your facial features relax, how your jaw loosens and your neck releases its tension, then how your shoulders, arms, chest, solar plexus, back and abdomen loosen up. Relax your arms, your palms, your fingers, your stomach, your pelvis, your buttocks, your legs and feet.
All you need to do in order to achieve such relaxation is to sit quietly and scan your body from head to toes for around five minutes, bringing every part a message of relaxation. You can repeat this several times and it is guaranteed to bring you soothing relaxation.
Once you have relaxed a little, go forward to the next stage of concentration. We will achieve this concentration by connecting with your lungs. Now here’s what you have to do. First of all, please be open to experimenting with this technique. Let’s run this experiment just between you and us, it is a private and intimate thing. If it works for you, great – if it doesn’t, well, you haven’t lost much. Give yourself a fair chance, open up to yourself and experiment sincerely.
Take ten or fifteen more minutes and sit quietly in a private environment where you will not be disturbed.
Now focus on your breath as it enters your nostrils. Follow the air as it becomes your breath, as it moves through the nasal passages to the windpipe and flows into your lungs.
Feel your lungs filling. These two air balloons are comprised of millions of tiny air capsules so thin and fine that they allow oxygen to permeate to the blood. Pay very close attention and feel them inflate. Feel your lungs expand and lift your chest, then feel how they deflate and drop down.
Follow the breath up the windpipe, through the nasal passages and out of the nostrils.
Engage yourself in this process with curiosity and fascination, and you will discover much about the process of breathing. You will get to know your lungs intimately and so befriend them.
If you could only view your lungs and see how precious, delicate and unbelievably sophisticated they are you’d be amazed and awestruck. Your lungs are so grateful to you for the brave action that you have taken. Your lungs are cleansing now and regenerating, just breathe in and out and feel your lungs expending and retreating.
This special technique will assist you with concentration, so let us explain how this simple meditation will enhance your ability to concentrate.
To gain focus you simply need a clear mind. The mind is never clear under normal circumstances because it is unceasingly occupied with thoughts. These thoughts fill up the mind: they swarm and swirl and swivel, they create turmoil and eddies.
As soon as you close your eyes you will immediately notice that your mind carries you to all sorts of destinations at its own will – it runs from one memory to another, from issue to issue, without a guiding hand.
That’s the nature of the untrained mind.
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