Meditation comes in many shapes and sizes. Some people like to sit cross legged and try to think of nothing, some people like to be guided with journeys either to real places or those that are steeped deep in mysticism, the subtle body or connected to mother earth. I have been meditating now consistently for about 6 years (although I cannot really remember when started-my journey with meditation which started in 2010).
After many starts and stops and forgotten moments when I was supposed to meditate but that day would just go by and I would never find the time to fit it in, I started meditating in the morning. Every morning. I found that that was the perfect time for me to meditate. It was before Anthony woke up when he still needed me in the mornings and now I just love that quiet personal moment each morning.
I mostly practice for 11 minutes. Why 11 minutes? Well I discovered Kundalini yoga about 3 years ago and that is part of its lore. See box below. I sometimes do longer sets but the consistency I have set is 11-minutes every day. Also with kundalini, they have a different way of meditating that suits my personality. It is very distracting and often very active to keep me in a meditative state. With kundalini meditation, you sit (although I would say that the physical kriyas are just moving meditations), do something special with your hands either a moving or a still mudra, and then either you chant out-loud, in whisper, in your head, whistle or breathe in particular way for a designated amount of time and each kriya is set up to affect you in a certain way emotionally or energetically. It can be a personal focus or a global one. I find the distraction of all the moving parts a perfect way to fall into a meditative state immediately. It keeps at bay the feelings of mental distraction (called Chitta Vritti-mind chatter or the monkey mind) and also the feelings of failure-like I am not meditating well today, what d o I need to buy at the grocery store, damn I forgot to tell my husband something, I am a failure, I’m worried about the future…. etc.
Whatever your ilk is, there is meditation style right for you. Start small. Stay consistent. And there is no failure in meditating. No end goal but to do it. But if you do not meditate one day, there is always tomorrow (or that night!) See the chart below, even 3-minutes is a pot of gold! I do numerous 3-minutes throughout the day-just three deep breaths elongated!
Let me know how I can motivate you! AdamAnt_Eve@hotmail.com
| Why Designated Times? 3 minutes: At 3-minutes all messaging from the meditation can fully circulate through the blood and the nervous system. The myofascial sheath has a chance to fully communicate with all of its members and the message is heard. 3-minutes charges the electromagnetic field. 11 minutes: Now we are getting somewhere. The nerves and the glandular system align with the meditation. 22 minutes: ahhh…balance. The three minds, positive, negative, and neutral come into harmony. You might know them as left, right, and balanced, or higher, lower, and neutral. Different yogis have different languages. 31 minutes: This is GOLD. All the trillions of cells of the body and the DNA they hold start to shimmer with the meditation. The three Gunas (Sattva and Rajas, see images below)* or the way you perceive the world through your own personal lens come to balance. The 31 Tattvas or projections of your personality from the mind come to balance. 62 minutes: Science tells us the brain has plasticity and the ability to change. At 62 minutes, you change the grey matter of the brain and new grooves form. You regrow your brain. 2.5 hours: Master meditator! This changes how you relate to the universe. Your new pattern or subconscious are glued. |
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