Meditation Techniques

In this meditation method, you will be able to acquire not just the basic knowledge regarding walking meditation, but extreme power to uplift yourself and your inner experience and sensation beyond tradition and definition.

Walking meditation is usually understood as primarily intended to relieve stress in the legs. While it has this effect, this is not the only meaning of Kinhin.

During sitting, the legs may turn numb, or ‘go to sleep’. This does not mean that the circulation is bad, quite the opposite. There is an old saying in Zen, “A fire that begins in your toes and consumes your whole body”- this is the meaning of this numbness. The smallest thing- even the legs going to sleep- is a subject of investigation in our Zen training.

An ancient question asks, “can you make your body as limp as a baby’s?” When your legs and feet are numb, you will notice that your ankles are usually flexible.

Once when I was having private Dokusan with my Zen master, the late Reverend Dr. Soyu Matsuoka-roshi, Archbishop of Soto Zen North America, which consisted to two normal sitting periods of one hour with Kinhin and no talking both legs had gone completely to sleep by the ending gong. When I stoop up, both feet were absolutely buzzing in my socks.

As I stepped to the altar, the toes of my right foot dragged on the carpet and folded under to where I was partially standing on the top of my foot. I nearly fell down! Sensei caught me. It woke my foot up, but it didn’t hurt.

Kinhin is the extension of the stillness of zazen into the action of walking. In your mind, you should strive to eliminate any distinction between the two as they are more alike than different.

There is a famous Zen saying, “Stillness in Action – Action in Stillness”. We have this calligraphy by the late Reverend Dr. Soyu Matsuoka-roshi of this expression. It also connotes “Silence is Thunder- Mokurai.” This is the more essential meaning of walking meditation- it brings the strength of meditation into the everyday act of walking.

It is also symbolic of the Buddha’s walking round and round the bodhi-tree following his Enlightenment. So it likewise represents your ‘wandering about in the world of enlightenment’, in the words of Dogen-Zenji, the founder of Soto Zen Buddhism, for the first time.

Preparations For Walking Meditation

Finding a Suitable Place

The place where the Lord Buddha did walking meditation at Bodhgaya after his Enlightenment still exists to this day. His walking path was seventeen steps long. These days the Forest Monks tend to make their walking meditation paths much longer — up to thirty steps long. The beginner may find thirty paces too long because their mindfulness has not yet developed. By the time you come to the end of the path, your mind may have been “around the world and back.”

Remember, walking is a stimulating posture, and initially the mind tends to wander a great deal. It is usually better for beginners to start off on a shorter path; fifteen paces would be a good length.

If you do a walk meditation outside, find a secluded place where you won’t be distracted or disturbed. It is good to find a walking path that is slightly enclosed. It can be a distraction to walk in an open area where there is a view, as you may find that the mind is drawn out to the scenery. If the path is closed in, it tends to bring the mind inwards, into one’s self and towards peace. An enclosed area is especially suitable for speculative personalities who like to think a lot; it helps to calm their minds.

Preparing the Body and Mind

Once you have chosen a suitable path, stand at one end. Stand erect. Put the right hand over the left in front of you. Don’t walk with your hands behind your back. A meditation master who visited the monastery where I was staying once commented when he saw one of the guests walking up and down with his hands behind his back: “He’s not walking meditation; he’s going for a stroll.”

By placing the hands in front, it creates a clear determination to focus the mind on walking meditation, to differentiate from “just walking.” The practice is first to develop samādhi, a Pali word that means focusing the mind, developing the mind to one-pointedness by gradual degrees of mindfulness and concentration. To focus the mind, one has to be diligent and determined. This requires a degree of physical as well as mental composure. One begins by composing oneself by clasping the hands in front. Composing the body helps to compose the mind.

Having thus composed the body, one should then stand still and bring awareness and attention to the body. Then raise your hands together in Anjali, a gesture of respect, and with your eyes shut reflect for a few minutes on the qualities of the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Saṅgha.

Contemplate having taken refuge in the Buddha, the Wise One, He who Knows and Sees, the Awakened One, the Fully Enlightened One. Reflect in your heart on the qualities of the Buddha for a few minutes. Then recall the Dhamma”the Truth that you are striving to realize on the walking meditation path.” Finally, bring to mind the Saṅgha, especially those fully Enlightened Ones who have realized the Truth by cultivating meditation.

Then bring the hands down in front of you and make a mental determination on how long you are going to “walk meditation’,” be it half an hour, one hour, or more. However long you determine to walk for, adhere to it. In this manner, you are nurturing the mind at that initial stage of the meditation with zest, inspiration, and confidence.

Benefits And Advantages Of Walking Meditation

The Buddha spoke of five benefits of walking meditation. In the order that he listed them in this Sutta, they are as follows: walking meditation develops endurance for walking long distances; it is good for striving; it is healthy; it is good for the digestion after a meal, and the concentration won from walking meditation lasts a long time.

Developing Endurance for Walking Distances

The first benefit of walking meditation is that it leads to endurance in walking distances. This was particularly important at the time of the Buddha when most people traveled on foot. The Buddha himself would regularly go wandering from place to place, walking up to sixteen kilometers a day.

So he recommended that walking meditation be used as a way of developing physical fitness and endurance for walking long distances. Forest monks these days still go wandering; it is called Tudong in Thai. They take their bowls and robes and walk, seeking out secluded places to meditate.

In preparation for wandering, they progressively increase the amount of walking meditation so as to develop their physical fitness and endurance. They increase the number of hours of walking meditation a day to at least five or six hours.

Good for Striving

Striving, especially to overcome drowsiness, is the second benefit. While practicing sitting meditation, meditators may slip into tranquil states, but if they are “too tranquil”‖ they may start nodding off to sleep. Without mindfulness and awareness, meditation, even though it feels peaceful, can turn into dullness because it has been overcome by sloth and torpor. Doing walking meditation can counteract this tendency.

Ajahn Chah used to recommend us that once a week we stay up all night, sitting and doing walking meditation throughout the night. We tended to get very drowsy around one or two in the morning, so Ajahn Chah recommended we do the walking meditation backward to overcome drowsiness. You don’t fall asleep walking backward!

Once at Bodhinyana Monastery in Western Australia, I went out early one morning, around five o’clock, to do some walking meditation and saw a layman, who was staying for the Rains Retreat in the monastery, doing walking meditation up and down along the top of the six-foot-high wall in front of the monastery. By putting great effort into being mindful of each step, he was overcoming drowsiness by developing a heightened sense of alertness, effort, and zeal.

Good for Health

The Buddha said that walking meditation leads to good health. This is the third benefit. We are all aware that walking is considered a very good form of exercise. These days, we even hear of “power walking”. Well, we are talking here about “power meditation,” developing walking meditation as both a physical and mental exercise. But to get both benefits, we have to bring awareness to the process of walking, instead of just walking and letting the mind wander off thinking of other things.

Good for Digestion

The fourth benefit of walking meditation is that it is good for the digestion. This is particularly important for monks who eat one meal a day. After a meal, the blood goes to the stomach and away from the brain. Thus one can feel drowsy. Forest monks stress that after a meal one should do a few hours of walking meditation because walking up and down helps the digestion. For lay meditators too if you have had a heavy meal, instead of going to bed, go out and do an hour of walking meditation. It will help with physical wellbeing and provide an opportunity to cultivate the mind.

Good for Sustaining Concentration

The fifth important benefit of walking meditation is that the concentration arising out of walking meditation sustains itself for a long time. The walking posture is a relatively coarse or complex meditative posture compared to sitting. While sitting, it is easy to maintain one’s posture. We have our eyes closed so there are no visual sense stimuli, and we are not engaged in any bodily movement.

So sitting, in comparison to walking, is a simpler posture in terms of the activities involved. The same is true for standing and lying down because there is no movement taking place. If one has developed concentration only in the sitting posture, when one gets up from that position and begins with bodily movements like walking, it is harder to maintain that state of concentration. This is because one is moving from a refined state to a coarser state. While we are walking there is much more sensory input.

We are looking where we are going; thus there is visual input. There is also sensory input from the movement of the body. Therefore if we can concentrate the mind while walking and receiving all these sensory stimuli, then when we change from that posture to a simpler one, concentration becomes easier to maintain.

That is when we sit down the strength of mind and power of that concentration carries over easily to this posture. So walking meditation can help to develop strength and clarity of mind, and a concentration that can carry over into other less active meditation postures.

Walking Meditation: Walkthrough

Infographic: How to Practice Walking Meditation

When you practice walking meditation, you place your entire awareness in the process of walking. Many of us walk to get from one place to the next. We feel pressured to move ahead, to arrive at the destination as soon as possible.

But in the practice of walking meditation, we go for a stroll. We have no destination in mind. The purpose of walking meditation is walking meditation itself. We enjoy the process of walking, not arriving at our destination. Follow the simple steps outlined in this infographic to learn walking meditation.

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Most people in the West associate meditation with sitting quietly. But traditional Buddhist teachings identify four meditation postures: sitting, walking, standing and lying down. All four are valid means of cultivating calm and clear mindfulness of the present moment. The most common meditation posture after sitting is walking. In meditation centers and monasteries, indoor halls and outdoor paths are often built for walking meditation.

On meditation retreats, regular walking meditation is an integral part of the schedule. In practice outside of retreats, some people will include walking as part of their daily meditation practice – for example, ten or twenty minutes of walking prior to sitting, or walking meditation instead of sitting. Walking meditation brings a number of benefits in addition to the cultivation of mindfulness.

It can be a helpful way of building concentration, perhaps in support of the sitting practice. When we are tired or sluggish, walking can be invigorating. The sensations of walking can be more compelling than the more subtle sensations of breathing while sitting. Walking can be quite helpful after a meal, upon waking from sleep, or after a long period of sitting meditation.

At times of strong emotions or stress, walking meditation may be more relaxing than sitting. An added benefit is that, when done for extended times, walking meditation can build strength and stamina. People have a variety of attitudes toward walking meditation. Some take to it easily and find it a delight. For many others, an appreciation of this form of meditation takes some time; it is an ― acquired taste. Yet others see its benefits and do walking meditation even though they don’t have much taste for it.

To do formal walking meditation, find a pathway about 30 to 40 feet long, and simply walk back and forth. When you come to the end of your path, come to a full stop, turn around, stop again, and then start again. Keep your eyes cast down without looking at anything in particular. Some people find it useful to keep the eyelids half-closed.

We stress walking back and forth on a single path instead of wandering about because otherwise, part of the mind would have to negotiate the path. A certain mental effort is required to, say, avoid a chair or step over a rock. When you walk back and forth, pretty soon you know the route and the problem-solving part of the mind can be put to rest.

Walking in a circle is a technique that is sometimes used, but the disadvantage is that the continuity of a circle can conceal a wandering mind. Walking back and forth, the little interruption when you stop at the end of your path can help to catch your attention if it has wandered. As you walk back and forth, find a pace that gives you a sense of ease.

I generally advise walking more slowly than normal, but the pace can vary. Fast walking may bring a greater sense of ease when you are agitated. Or fast walking might be appropriate when you are sleepy. When the mind is calm and alert, slow walking may feel more natural. Your speed might change during a period of walking meditation.

See if you can sense the pace that keeps you most intimate with and attentive to the physical experience of walking. After you’ve found a pace of ease, let your attention settle into the body. I sometimes find it restful to think of letting my body take me for a walk. Once you feel connected to the body, let your attention settle into your feet and lower legs.

In sitting meditation, it is common to use the alternating sensations of breathing in and out as an ―anchor‖ keeping us in the present. In walking meditation, the focus is on the alternating stepping of the feet.

With your attention in the legs and feet, feel the sensations of each step. Feel the legs and feet tense as you lift the leg. Feel the movement of the leg as it swings through the air. Feel the contact of the foot with the ground. There is no “right experience.” Just see how the experience feels to you. Whenever you notice that the mind has wandered, bring it back to the sensations of the feet walking. Getting a sense of the rhythm of the steps may help maintain a continuity of awareness.

As an aid to staying present, you can use a quiet mental label for your steps as you walk. The label might be ―stepping, stepping or left, right. Labeling occupies the thinking mind with a rudimentary form of thought, so the mind is less likely to wander off. The labeling also points the mind towards what you want to observe. Noting “stepping” helps you to notice the feet.

If after a while you notice that you are saying right for the left foot and left for the right foot, you know that your attention has wandered. When walking more slowly, you might try breaking each step into phases and using the traditional labels ― lifting, placing.‖ For very slow walking, you can use the labels ― lifting, moving, and placing.

Try to dedicate your attention to the sensations of walking and let go of everything else. If powerful emotions or thoughts arise and call your attention away from the sensations of walking, it is often helpful to stop walking and attend to them. When they are no longer compelling, you can return to the walking meditation. You also might find that something beautiful or interesting catches your eye while walking. If you can’t let go of it, stop walking and do a looking meditation. Continue walking when you have finished looking.

Some people find that their minds are more active or distractible during walking than during sitting meditation. This may be because walking is more active and the eyes are open. If so, don’t be discouraged and don’t think that walking is thus less useful.

It may, in fact, be more useful to learn to practice with your more everyday mind. You can train your mind to be present any time you walk. Some people choose specific activities in their daily routines to practice walking meditation, such as walking down a hallway at home or at work, or from their car to their place of work.

In our daily lives, we spend more time walking than sitting quietly with our eyes closed. Walking meditation can serve as a powerful bridge between meditation practice and daily life, helping us to be more present, mindful and concentrated in ordinary activities. It can reconnect us to the simplicity of being and the wakefulness that comes from it.

Meditation Objects for Walking Meditation

The Buddha taught forty different meditation objects, many of which can be used on the walking path. However, some are more suitable than others. I shall discuss a number of these meditation objects here, beginning with those most commonly used.

Awareness of the Walking Posture

The first method is awareness of the walking posture. While walking, place all your attention at the soles of the feet, on the sensations and feelings as they arise and pass away. As you walk, the feeling will change. As the foot is lifted and comes down again into contact with the path, a new feeling arises. Be aware of this sensation on the sole of the foot.

Again as the foot lifts, mentally note the new feeling as it arises. When you lift each foot and place it down, know the sensations felt. At each new step, certain new feelings are experienced and old feelings cease. These should be known with mindfulness. With each step there is a new feeling experienced — feeling arising, feeling passing away; feeling arising, feeling passing away.

With this method, we place mindfulness on the feeling of walking itself, on each step taken, on the Vedanā (pleasant, unpleasant or neutral sensations). We are aware of whatever type of vedanā arises at the soles of the feet. When we stand, there is a sensation, a feeling, of the contact with the ground. This contact can produce pain, heat or other sensations.

We place our mindful attention on those feelings, knowing them fully. When raising the foot to take a step, the feeling changes as soon as the foot loses contact with the ground. When we place that foot down, again a new feeling arises as the foot comes into contact with the ground.

As we walk, feelings are constantly changing and arising anew. We mindfully note this arising and passing away of feelings as the soles of the feet lift off or touch onto the ground. In this way, we are keeping our full attention just on the sensations that arise through walking.

Have you ever really noticed before the feelings in the feet as you walk? They happen every time we walk, but we tend not to notice these subtle things in life. When we walk, our minds tend to be somewhere else. Walking meditation is a way of simplifying what we are doing when we are doing it. We are bringing the mind to the here and now, being one with walking when walking. We are simplifying everything, quieting the mind by just knowing the feeling as it is arising and passing away.

It is important to remember when walking to keep the eyes cast down about a meter and a half in front. Don’t be looking around distracted by this or that. Keep awareness on the feeling at the soles of the feet, and in this way, develop focused attention, and clear knowingness of walking while walking.

How fast should you walk?

Ajahn Chah recommended walking naturally, not too slow or too fast. If you walk fast, you might find it very difficult to concentrate on the sensation of feeling arising and passing away. You may need to slow down. On the other hand, some people may need to speed up. You have to find your own pace, whatever works for you. You can begin slowly at first then gradually come to your normal walking pace.

If your mindfulness is weak (meaning your mind wanders a lot), then walk very slowly until you can stay in the present moment of each step. Start by establishing mindfulness at the beginning of the path. When you arrive in the middle of the path, and then mentally ask yourself, Where is my mind? Is it on the feeling at the soles of the feet? Do I know the contact here and now, at this present moment?

If the mind has wandered off, then bring it back to the sensations at the feet again and continue walking. When you get to the end of the path, turn slowly around and re-establish your mindfulness. Where is the mind? Has it wandered off? Does it know the feeling at the soles of the feet? The mind tends to wander elsewhere chasing thoughts of anxiety, fear, happiness, sorrow, worries, doubts, pleasures, frustrations and all the other myriad thoughts that can possibly arise.

If mindfulness of the meditation object is not present, re-establish the mind on the simple act of walking, and then begin to walk back to the other end of the path.

When you get to the middle of the path, again note, I am now at the middle of the path and check to see if the mind is with the object. Then, once you arrive at the end of the path mentally note, Where is the mind? In this way, you walk back and forth mindfully aware of the feelings arising and passing away. While walking, constantly reestablish your mindfulness pulling the mind back, drawing the mind inward, becoming aware, knowing the feeling at each moment as it is arising and passing away.

As you sustain mindfulness on the sensations and feelings at the soles of the feet, you will notice that the mind gets less distracted. The mind becomes less inclined to go out to things that are happening around you. You become calmer. The mind becomes tranquil as it settles down. Once the mind is calm and tranquil, then you’ll find that walking becomes too coarse an activity for this quality of mind. You will just want to be still. So stop and stand to allow the mind to experience this calm and tranquility.

Walking involves the mental volition to move, and your mind may be too focused on the meditation object to move.

Continue the practice in a standing position. Meditation is about the work of the mind, not about any particular posture. The physical posture is just a convenient means to enhance the work of the mind. This calmness and tranquility are known as Passaddhi; it is one of the factors of Enlightenment.

Concentration and tranquility work together with mindfulness; combined with the factors of energy, investigation of Dhamma, joy, and equanimity, they make up the Seven Factors of enlightenment. When in meditation the mind is tranquil, then because of that tranquility there will arise a sense of joy, rapture, and bliss. The Buddha said that the bliss of peace is the highest happiness.

A concentrated mind experiences that peace and this peace can be experienced in our lives. Having developed the practice of walking meditation in a formal context, then when we are walking around in our daily lives going to the shops, walking from one room to the other, we can use this activity of walking as meditation. We can be aware just of walking, simply being with that process. Our minds can be still and peaceful. This is a way of developing concentration and tranquility in our daily lives.

From Sitting Meditation to the Walking Path

If while doing sitting meditation, the mind becomes tranquil with a certain meditation object, then you can use that same object in walking meditation. However, with some subtle meditation objects, such as the breath, the mind must have attained a certain degree of stability in that calmness first. If the mind is not yet calm and you begin walking meditation focusing attention on the breath, it will be difficult, as the breath is a very subtle object.

It is generally better, to begin with, a coarser object of meditation, such as the sensations of feelings arising at the feet. There are many meditation objects that do transfer well from the sitting to the walking posture: for example the Four Divine Abiding: Loving-kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy and Equanimity.

As you pace back and forth develop the expansive thoughts based on loving-kindness, “May all beings be happy, may all beings be at peace, may all beings be free from all suffering.” You can use the walking posture as a complement to sitting, developing meditation on the same object but in a different posture.

Choosing a Mantra

If while walking meditation you find that you are getting drowsy, then activate the mind, rather than calm it, with a mantra so that it becomes more focused and awake. Use a mantra-like Buddho, repeating the word quietly to yourself over and over again. If the mind still wanders, then start saying Buddho very quickly, and walk up and down very fast. As you walk, recite Buddho, Buddho, Buddho. In this way, your mind can become focused very quickly.

Let me tell you a story that illustrates the effectiveness of a mantra. When Tan Ajahn Mun, the famous forest meditation teacher, was dwelling in North Thailand, the hill tribes in the area knew nothing about meditation or meditation monks. However the hill tribe people are very inquisitive. When they saw him walking up and down on his path, they followed him in a line. When he turned around at the end of the path, the whole village was standing there.

They had noticed him walking back and forth with his eyes cast down and had assumed he was searching for something. They inquired, “What are you looking for, Venerable Sir? Can we help you find it?” He skillfully replied, “I’m looking for Buddho, the Buddha in the heart. You can help me to find it by walking up and down on your own paths looking for the Buddha.” With this simple and beautiful instruction, many of those villagers began meditating, and Tan Ajahn Mun said they obtained wonderful results.

Contemplation of the Way Things Are

Investigation of Dhamma is one of the Factors of Enlightenment. Contemplating the teachings and the laws of nature can be employed while walking up and down the meditation path. This does not mean that one thinks or speculates randomly. Rather, it is the constant reflection and contemplation of the Truth, the Dhamma.

Investigating Impermanence

For example, one can contemplate Impermanence by observing the process of change, and seeing how all things are subject to change. One develops a clear perception of the arising and passing away of all experience. Life is a continual process of arising and passing away, and all conditioned experience is subject to this law of nature. By contemplation of this Truth, one sees the characteristics of existence.

One sees that all things are subject to change. All things are not satisfactory. All things are not-self. One can investigate these fundamental characteristics of nature on the walking meditation path.

Recollecting Generosity and Virtue

Buddha continually stressed the importance of generosity and virtue. While on the walking path, one can reflect on one’s virtue or on acts of generosity. Walk up and down and ask yourself, “Today, what acts of goodness have I done?”

A meditation teacher I knew often used to comment that one reason meditators cannot get peaceful is that they have not done enough goodness during the day. Goodness is a cushion for tranquility, a base for peace. If we have done acts of kindness during the day—having said a kind word, do a good deed, been generous or compassionate—then the mind will experience joy and rapture. Those acts of goodness and the happiness that comes from them will become the conditional factors for concentration and peace. The powers of goodness and generosity lead to happiness and it is that wholesome happiness which forms the foundation for concentration and wisdom.

The recollection of one’s good deeds is a very appropriate meditation subject when the mind is restless, agitated, angry, or frustrated. If the mind lacks peace, then recollect your past kind actions. This is not to for the purpose of building up your ego, but recognition of the power of goodness and wholesomeness. Acts of kindness, virtue, and generosity bring joy into the mind, and joy is a Factor of Enlightenment.

Recollecting acts of generosity; reflecting on the benefits of giving; recalling one’s virtue; contemplating the purity of harmlessness, the purity of honesty, the purity of propriety in sexual relations, the purity of truthfulness, the purity of non-confusion of mind by avoiding intoxicants—all of these recollections can serve as meditation objects on the walking path.

Summary

Walking meditations have been done in every culture, in every part of the world, since the beginning of time. Pilgrimages and foot travel are a built-in aspect of who we are. Add walking meditation into your regular practice as one way to reconnect with who we are and where we are going.

You’ll find that its strengths and benefits are quite vast, and it provides another way of approaching meditation and mindfulness which heal the body and soothe the soul. Namaste.

By William T Batten

In the history of meditation, Buddhism is about 2,500 years old. It’s an oppressive amount of time.

A hundred generations (give or take) have lived, shaped the world and died during that span.

No empires and few cities have survived since then.

Looking back in time a fifth of the way there brings you to Leonardo da Vinci’s day. Going back halfway puts you in Charlemagne’s Holy Roman Empire.

It is an old style of meditation.

But it’s not the oldest.

There’s a school of meditation that’s still alive today. It stretches back much, much further.

Forget 2,500 years – we’re talking tens of thousands of years. It might be as old as the culture that created it, which goes back 40,000 years.

If not more.

It comes from the people native to the Daly River region in the Northern Territory of Australia. They call this practice Dadirri and it is breathtaking.

The Aboriginal people describe it as having a silent awareness. Meditators sit for hours among nature, listening to the wind and water.

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You might think this sounds like mindfulness. It is mindfulness, with a twist.

What Has Mindfulness Studies and Brain Research Shown Us?

Buddhism teaches you to be present with the experience. Whatever your senses detect is for you to process with your full attention. No distractions, no judgments, until you lose yourself in your awareness of now.

Dadirri teaches you to listen to nature. Experience the senses – again, without distraction or judgment – with silence and full appreciation.

It’s a subtle distinction, but an important one. Listening in this way is active and interactive. You don’t just observe nature. Instead, you learn everything you can from her.

Meditation improves your problem-solving abilities, even more than simply thinking about the challenge. Why?

Because meditation opens your mind to new patterns of thought. If the solution doesn’t lie in your conscious mind, then it must lie in your unconscious.

I haven’t seen any studies on this, but my guess would be that Dadirri beats regular mindfulness.

When your mind is open and you pay attention, you realize that nature can teach you a lot about your solution. The wind, rain, rivers, and earth hold your answers.

Do I mean that literally? Or am I speaking metaphorically and that spending time in nature inspires you?

It doesn’t matter. Just know that if this idea sounds like fuzzy hippy nonsense, then you need to go deeper in your meditation trances. Your brain won’t speak to you in words but in metaphors. If you need determination like a river, flexibility like the wind, intensity like the sun or stability like the earth, then that’s how it’ll speak to you.

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And if you don’t get an answer, all you’ll have done is reconnected to nature deeper than you have in your life. That alone makes it worth learning.

In the history of meditation, different forms of meditation and hypnosis appear across time and space. The human race keeps rediscovering ways to explore the mysterious landscapes inside of us.

It allows the elders to heal without medicine, do therapy without psychology and lead without a business plan.

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Applied Neuroscience Secrets of Ancient Mystics

The power of meditation is the power of your mind. It trains useful mental skills that lie at the heart of everything you do.

For example, focus.

Learn to do that and nothing won’t become easier.

For example…

If you want techniques that improve your memory, the best place to turn to is the latest neuroscience research.

The second best place is a book by William Walker Atkinson.

Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It is over a hundred years old. It is remarkably timeless, though. Not everything that he wrote still holds true… but most of it does.

A hundred years ago, they knew a lot less about how the brain works. You’d be surprised by how much they knew about using it, though. Atkinson drew on the techniques and traditions of ancient cultures.

Many ancient cultures knew a lot about maximizing their memory

Before the printing press, books were written by hand. If you owned a library, it meant you were rich. If you were lucky enough to be literate, the best most people could hope for is to borrow books.

And if you have to give books back after a week or so…

Well, you’d better memorize as much as possible. Otherwise, you’re just wasting your time.

That’s not even mentioning cultures that memorize their holy texts. These people need to be word-perfect with long, complex writings.

You can’t do that without solid memory skills.

So the brain may have been a black box to them. But they sure knew how to wield it.

The arts of memory require dedicated training in a range of techniques. But there’s one principle that you need to master before you can even begin: You can’t make a good copy of a bad recording.

If you’re not paying attention, then it doesn’t matter how good your memory is. If you walk through life in a mental haze, then you won’t notice anything. And if you don’t notice something, you won’t remember it.

Focus is important. It’s the first step in all mental processes. If you don’t pay attention to something, you won’t remember it, learn it, appreciate it…

The list goes on.

Through meditation, you learn to still your mind and focus on what’s in front of you. Master this and nothing else, and your memory will naturally improve. Your thoughts will organize themselves better around good copies of clear records.

And if you decide to learn memorization techniques on top of that…

Well, who knows how far your memory will develop.

If you want to train both your focus and memory, there are dozens of self-hypnosis techniques you can apply. If you’re good at meditating, you’ll find these both easy and captivating. If you have struggled with meditation in the past, this might be the approach you’re looking for.

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The History of Meditation

Mediation is considered as one of the oldest forms of mental and spiritual practices all over. Although nobody can truly say what the exact history of meditation is, there are some speculations about this ancient practice.

Most scholars and documents say that the history of meditation can be traced some 5,000 years ago when the effects of the practice were discovered by ancient men by staring into the flames of fire that if flickering. From then on, several medication techniques were developed and began to spread across its continent of origin, Asia.

Only in the 60s and 70s when meditation became a hit in the United States. From them on, so many variations have spread across the globe.

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The ABCs of meditation

A state wherein a person is in deep concentration on a specific object of thought or awareness, meditation is considered as one of the oldest yet most effective means of relaxing the mind, the emotions, as well as the soul.

This practice usually involves a person’s attention, allowing it to turn into a single point of reference. Because of its effectivity in leading a person’s consciousness at a higher level than that of a common person, meditation is now being practiced by millions of people all over the world.

How To Meditate Like A Monk – 7 Easy Tips To Get Started Now

The history of meditation dates people back during the time when it is a very important constituent of various religions in the Eastern part of the world. Deriving its roots from the Latin word “meditatio,” which means “all types of mental or physical exercise,” the meaning of meditation has also evolved through the years. Today, the practice is commonly known as “inward reflection” or “contemplation.”

As the years went by, people who practice meditation were able to come up with various disciplines. These involve a very wide range of psychophysical and spiritual aspects—or a combination of both—that can lead to that total enhancement of a person’s higher level of mental concentration as well as spirituality.

People who are planning to get into meditation or just interested in its seemingly limitless possibilities must understand the basics of the ancient spiritual practice and familiarize themselves with the various forms of meditation today that include “Bodhidharma,” “Hinduism,” “Bahá’í Faith,” “Buddhism,” “Christian meditation,” “Islam Meditation,” “Jainism,” “Judaism,” “Sikhism,” and “Taoism.”

Because they are derived from different cultures, individual forms have their own understanding of meditation and also have different sets of practices that come with it. In meditation, it is also very significant to note that these include physical requirements through different physical postures so the practice can be carried out pretty well.

The most popular postures ever since the history of meditation started includes: sitting, supine, and standing. These postures will vary depending on the origin of meditation you wish to follow. It is also important to take note that elements involved in basic traditional meditation have been a large part of the history of meditation.

These four elements should include a quiet place, a comfortable posture, a visible object where the person can turn his or her attention to as well as a passive attitude to make the practice truly effective.

The Secrets Of Deep Meditation For Spiritual and Personal Growth

Ever since the history of meditation has inspired a lot of people to increase their level of spirituality as well as enhance the power of their minds. Although there is no definite proof that will trace the history of meditation, people of today as well as of those future generations will continue to practice it because of the benefits it brings.

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Most people take short, shallow breaths into their chest. This type of breathing can make you feel anxious and drain your energy. While we can’t and don’t want to eliminate all the stress from our lives, we can learn how to control our responses to it.

Deep breathing exercises to alleviate stress, is one of the best ways to lower stress in the body. When you learn how to breathe deeply and consciously, it sends a message to your brain to calm down and relax. The brain then sends this message to your body and your relaxation response kicks in.

There are several deep breathing exercises in this guide, some of which are commonly recommended, some of which are unique, and all these techniques offer help in managing stress. Stressful experiences often trigger a cascade of fears and anxieties. As a result, we get carried away by the internal thought processes in our mind that we’re unable to cope with what is happening at the moment.

Research shows that mindful breathing is one of the most effective tools in our toolbox to reduce stress and anxiety.

5-Minute Mindfulness Body Scan Meditation Script & Mp3

Do you believe in good and bad forces in life? Well, I’m sure you do, it’s obvious that it exists. But what I’m talking about is the concept of “yin and yang” where there’s light and dark – good and bad to everything.

In the same regard, I believe that there also exists good stress and bad stress. As famous wet oil painter Bob Ross once said “You can’t have the light without the dark. You need the light areas to make the dark areas show. Just like in life.”

Let’s go through the elements of stress briefly before we talk about deep breathing…

For starters, let’s discuss the good kind of stress, and then work our way to the other kind. When you’re thrust into a situation that challenges your potential and your capabilities, it brings on a certain element of stress.

Whether it’s trying something you’ve never done before, competing in a contest, starting a new business or venture, or anything else – what you’re having is an experience with the GOOD kind of stress.

These challenges are what bring your life a constant state of change, in terms of the up and down movement in emotion. Without these sort of happenings, your life would, arguably, become far less predictable and potentially less exciting.

While it may be comfortable to remain in a zone of “knowing”, you also deny yourself the opportunity to explore your full potential as a person. Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of encouragement or a fresh perspective to inspire you to step out of your comfort zone.

Guided Meditation For Reducing Anxiety and Stress In 12 Minutes…

Instead of approaching situations as “fearful”, approach them with a heightened sense of awareness as a neutral observer.

Now, bear with me here. You want to view situations, people, and everything as an observational body. By this, I mean, rather than placing judgment or jumping to a “side”, you simply observe. Practicing this relaxed state of mind will allow your environment (and the people within it) will become more supportive and, of course, relaxed.

I believe that a lot of us are equipped with an instinct to form excuses and reasons as to why we shouldn’t tackle a challenge, or make a significant (or small) change. Meanwhile, the truth is that sometimes your rational mind does have a point.

At the same time, you should be consciously aware of your comfort zone and how rooted you become with it. The more you immerse yourself within it, the harder it can be to get out.

Think about it this way: sometimes you might be comfortable, and then all of a sudden an opportunity comes along. Your first instinct may push you to decline the opportunity, whatever it may be, and remain in a state of constant knowing and comfort. Taking an intelligent “risk” when the timing is right can end up transforming your life from ordinary to far more fulfilling.

Taking even a small step forward can be a positive movement towards growing as a person and also coping with the other kind of stress – the bad kind. Now, if you’re going through this course, then I’m sure that may be why you’re here. Dealing with the bad stress, the kind you could definitely do without in your life.

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With anxiety, stress, and sleep dysfunction skyrocketing around the globe, these debilitating challenges can be meaningfully impacted with ten to twenty minutes of breathing exercises per day. Max Strom, who has taught breath-work for 20 years, reveals his insights into the healing power of the breath.

I’m not going to bore you or waste your time by listing off reasons or situations that can generate bad stress. Mainly because I’m certain you KNOW what stresses you out and creates that feeling of overwhelm in your life. Just thinking about the topics and things that are weighing over you can cause your mind to escalate the situation. This, in turn, makes coming up with a solution AND dealing with the stress effectively far more difficult.

Now that I’ve given you this overview of good and bad stress, let’s learn how breathing can relieve stress in our lives.

The first thing I want you to do is to breathe. Yes, that’s all you need to do: breathe.

But hold on, you can completely stop your mind from wandering and focus only on one thing which is the process of breathing and the breaths themselves. Take notice of the breath coming in through your nose, filling your diaphragm and chest, and then release the breath slowly out of your mouth. When you exhale the air, try to release the unpleasant thoughts that are troubling you. You can’t continue to think about the issue between breaths. The idea here is to clear your mind.

When you breathe in again, (yes, you have to repeat the process several times), paint the picture of positive energy coming in through your nose. Imagine that pure positive energy, drifting out of you, upon exhale, and improving your environment. Diffusing the stress around everything that it comes in contact with.

Similar to just about every other aspect of life, in order to reap the benefits of really anything, you need to fully commit whole-heartedly.

As cliché as it may be to say, one of the strongest methods for manifesting success (which is subjective to every person, by the way), is to believe. Visualize the success and your goals. Block out the negativity and stress spawning thoughts from invading.

Using Meditation Music To Relieve Stress And Tension

Children are a prime example of how powerful the concepts of imagination and inspiration can be to self-righteousness. They often use their imagination in such ways that it creates life and the world around them where the stresses of the outside and the real world don’t affect them. They remain entertained by this powerful environment all build from imagination and freedom of the mind.

Alright, alright, I know you’re probably scoffing at this point and saying how as we get older, we seem to lose that imagination. Not to mention, we take on a multitude of different responsibilities and even burdens. As adults, we have to work, cook, clean, care for ourselves and often others, manage bills, and have a personal life too.

While this may be true, that doesn’t dismiss the fact that you, just like any child, you can use your imagination and inspiration to better impact your life. Not surprisingly, many self-help guides, books, and so on often refer to the term “visualize” when describing these situations and this process.

In reality, both visualizing and imagining, to me, are just one and the same. They don’t have to be boring, they can and SHOULD be fun. Visualizing the goals, your successes, and happiness, will, in turn, help you to RELEASE the bad kind of stress from your life.

Guided Breathing Meditation Course For Anxiety, Worry, and Stress

Without getting off track, let’s shift focus on to relieving BAD stress. Remember, we’re practicing breathing techniques.

Once you’re at the point where your body is being filled with pure positive energy (air), you want to visualize (or imagine) that this energy is transforming every cell throughout your body. Think of it like an “internal massage” of sorts, where your organs and everything will be touched and refreshed with a renewed energy.

I know that in a way it does sound crazy and farfetched, but just try to experience this sensation when you practice breathing in this way. Recognize this energy, your positive and creative energy, all full of color and life, and let it “wash” through your body internally and invigorate your mind.

I understand that this whole “imagining” or “visualizing” process may not be as easy for some as it is for others. This often comes from the inability to take life “less seriously” in a way. Sometimes it seems as though the more serious you take life, the more serious of occurrences and situations will be thrown your way.

You may even watch other people laughing, enjoying their life, and being just all around happy with the way thing are going. In this process, you may eventually become resentful and envious. This can only feed further into the negative energy and stress that exists in your life.

What needs to happen, is you need to come to a point where you breathe easy (literally) and realize that life doesn’t have to always be so serious. It’s fine to let loose, enjoy things, and be silly every now and again. Do things that make you smile, take opportunities and go out of your comfort zone.

Because the reality is that these very same people you see loving life, are doing this exact same thing. For all you know, they may be stressed beyond belief and stepping out of their comfort zone regularly because they know it inspires positivity and happiness in their life.

Since we’ve gone over how to think and focus your mind and thoughts while you breathe, in order to both relieve stress and center your mind, I think it’s important to also touch on how breathing impacts our body and health. Beyond just breathing techniques, there’s a lot that breathing plays into the mind, aside from the fact that we need it to survive.

To summarize, this is what happens when you have poor breathing habits (yes, that’s actually a thing, believe it or not).

 You lose out on your most important source of energy.
 You get hungrier, especially for junk food and sweets.
 Your body suffers from a lack of efficient oxygen, which negatively affects
your “free radicals” and can increase your chances of long-term illnesses.
 You feel more stressed, which reduces your body’s ability to fight off illness.
 Your body’s lymphatic system functions badly, so it can’t eliminate toxins as
efficiently as it should.
 Even your thinking is impaired.

So, now you’re probably scratching your head and saying “how should I breathe?”

Well, there’s plenty of breathing exercises that you can make use of. Some are designed to cleanse your body; some to reduce your stress; and so on. But before looking at exercises, let’s first just take a brief look at your breathing habits.

Check Your Breathing

The best way to check your breathing is honestly to stand in front of a mirror and take a deep breath in. Notice what happens. In particular, I want you to look at all of these things:

 What happened to your shoulders (did they rise or stay roughly still)?
 What happened to your chest (did it rise high or stay roughly still)?
 What happened to your stomach (did it go in, stay roughly still or expand)?

From there, here’s what you should do next…

 Stand in front of a mirror.
 First, breathe out — empty your lungs.
 Take in a deep breath, and notice what happens to your shoulders, chest, and stomach.
 Again, empty your lungs and again notice what happens to your shoulders, chest, and stomach.
 Repeat this as many times as you need to notice what’s happening.

Correct Your Breathing

If you’ve ever watched a baby sleeping on its back, you may have noticed the correct way to breathe. For instance, when breathing in, the baby’s stomach rises (expands). When breathing out (exhaling), its stomach goes in. Its shoulders and chest don’t move, or if they do move, it’s hardly at all.

This is exactly what your aim should be when practicing breathing and trying to correct your breathing overall. Here’s a short checklist for what you should notice in the mirror when you breathe in deeply.

Right vs Wrong

 Your shoulders stay level
 Your shoulders lift up
 Your chest rises only a little
 You use your chest to store all the air
 Your stomach expands
 Your stomach goes in
 Breathing relaxes you
 Breathing in tenses you

A Habit to Carry With You For Life

This may take a while at first, but I promise if you stick to it, it’s going to become a healthy and beneficial habit to practice. If you’ve already adopted this habit, then good! If not, for your own peace of mind, I strongly encourage you to adjust the way you’re breathing.

Remind yourself about the way you breathe, every time you…

 Walk through a doorway
 Lie down to go to sleep
 Wake up in the morning
 Get into a car, bus or train
 Get out of a car, bus or train

Finally, the part you’ve been really building up for. There’s no shortage of breathing exercises in existence today, especially with the internet. However, I want to share with you three very simple but highly beneficial breathing exercises that anybody can make use of in their life.

Deep Breathing Benefits

Diaphragmatic or belly breathing is what we should aim for, where every deep breath goes straight to the lungs and fills the body with oxygen.

Deep breathing benefits both physical and mental health. It alleviates stress, improves confidence, and helps create better blood circulation. Breathing is free and effortless.

Deep breaths are more efficient: they allow your body to fully exchange incoming oxygen with outgoing carbon dioxide. They have also been shown to slow the heartbeat, lower or stabilize blood pressure and lower stress. To experience deep breathing, find a comfortable place to sit or lie down.

Cleansing Breathing

Here’s something that will set you up for the day. It’s a great habit to get into first thing in the morning. A lot of people, after mastering it, even find it rather addictive – yes, more so than even coffee. If possible, do this in a clean area — away from traffic fumes, or anything else, and with plenty of ventilation.

To start, remember how you should breathe (from earlier). Breathe out.

 Breathe in slowly and as deep as you can, to a count of about four seconds.
 Hold your breath for 12–16 seconds (less, if it feels uncomfortable).
 Breathe out slowly, emptying your lungs as much as possible, for a count of about eight seconds.

Repeat these steps several times. You may feel slightly light-headed. As someone once told me, “That’s your brain saying, Thank you!” I find this such a lovely feeling, that sometimes I’ll start to wander around the garden, breathing away, realizing after about five minutes that I’m still doing this exercise!

Fire Breathing

Although this has a fiery and abrasive name, it’s actually a stimulating quick stress relief trick. Do this whenever you have to keep going, but feel, “It’s getting too much for me!”

 Inhale through the nose.
 Hold for a moment.
 Breathe out in short, sharp bursts: fuo-fuo-fuo-fuo…
 Do this six times or so.

Anxiety Breathing

Feeling overly anxious? Here’s an excellent breathing exercise you can practice.

 To start, sit comfortably in front of a table. Elbows on the table, palms over eyes, eyes closed.
 Imagine (visualize) your palms lighting up brightly.
 Imagine this light flowing down through your arms…
 Back up to your shoulders…
 To your chest…
 Down to your solar plexus. Light up your solar plexus strongly.
 Beam the light backward to light up your spine. Let the light flow down to strongly light up your coccyx (your tailbone).
 Take notice of your breathing.

Remain like that, noticing your breathing, for as long as you’d like.

Now, I know that this brief course was to cover breathing, but the mindset and approach behind it are just as important as the process of breathing itself.

Practicing the art of “breathing relief” is truly a blessing in a lot of ways. What I strongly encourage you to do is realize that bad things are going to happen in life and that you can’t avoid them, to an extent. Stressful situations are going to rear their ugly head and you’re going to have to deal with them face first.

With breathing in mind, always take a few deep breaths before you react to any situation, especially those that are stressful to you. The situation’s you may be faced with will definitely become infinitely more management if you allow your mind and imagination to take you to a positive place.

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When you go out in public, be conscious of how you look to others. Present a positive appearance and smile at others. I know it seems wild but the more you embrace the unexpectedness of life, the better your life will become. Less stress will bother you and impact your life in a negative way.

Just as if you were to approach an angry person out in public, maybe on the street and you looked them straight in the eyes with a genuine smile on your face. Look at the undesirable situation with the same positive energy that you’re working so diligently to submerge your life with. Nearly 9 times out of 10, that hostile person will be far less agitated, and the difficult situation will be, as a result, less daunting.

Wrapping things up, I want to thank you for taking the time to go through this short course and I truly hope you’ve taken a thing or two away from it.

I’d like to encourage you to take some time to practice breathing and visualizing positive scenarios in your life. Prepare yourself for the future, whether it’s stressful or comfortable, and you will find that you’re able to manage situations far better.

Merkaba meditation technique is a very powerful meditation tool for transition, healing, manifestation, and ascension. It utilizes an understanding of Divine Love and Sacred Geometry.

This meditation technique reactivates the fields of energy around the body that gives beginning to your personal Merkaba (time and dimensional vehicle).

What does “Merkaba” mean? The word Mer-Ka-Ba is made up of three smaller words: Mer, Ka, and Ba. The Merkaba is a counter-rotating field of light generated from the spinning of specific geometric forms that simultaneously affects one’s spirit and body.

In accordance with the teachings of Drunvalo Melchizedek, The Merkabah meditation techniques are one of the most powerful tools for mental, emotional and spiritual development. The purpose of creating a Merkabah is to expand the different energy fields of the subtle bodies by activating the Merkabah field.

Merkaba for healing and balance

The varieties of benefits of using the Merkaba are greatly varied. It is a powerful healing and protection tool. By utilizing the ancient Prana breathing technique, we are able to restore the Prana flow through the pineal gland at the center of our brain. This revived use of our gland, which has been virtually dormant for 13,000 years allows the heightened use of our telepathic and extrasensory perception abilities.

Merkaba balances and revives the activities between the two sides of our brain. Such training strengthens our sensitivities and mental abilities, (at this time we use only 5-10% of our brain). The Merkaba assists us in our spiritual and personal growth. It connects us with our higher self (i.e. ourselves on a higher level of consciousness).

The Secrets Of Deep Meditation For Spiritual and Personal Growth

Merkabah Mysticism

The word originally referred to the moving throne of God in the Bible, like the vision of Ezekiel, and spiritual practices based upon it historically. Merkaba Mysticism or Merkaba deed is a term referring to the Jewish mystic books such as the secret Torah, Pardes and some also include in it the book of creation  (Yetzirah).

The word Merkaba or Merkava means chariot and was based upon Ezekiel vision from chapter 1. In the vision, he saw the four Cherubim riding a chariot of fire.

The word Merkaba is actually composed of three separate words: Mer, which means light, Ka, which means spirit and Ba, which means Body. Put together, these three words connote the union of spirit with the body, surrounded by light.

The symbol, which takes the shape of a star, is believed to be a divine vehicle made entirely of light and designed to transport or connect the spirit and body to higher realms. Ancient Jewish texts reveal that the word is also the Hebrew for a chariot, and the Bible reveals that the word Merkaba itself is found in the Old Testament a total of 44 times.

To be acquainted with the general aspects of the Sacred Geometry that act as a starting point for activating the Merkabah field. The ascension process begins when you remember the Merkabah energy field. This is an energy field that extends 55 feet around the body and is of a geometric crystalline nature.

Merkabah means counter rotatory Light-Energy field

It is known that this energy field was an active part of human beings 13,000 years ago and due to the dimensions phase out, conscience decreased towards the third dimension and the Merkabah conscience was lost. The memory of this field is activated by drawing and meditating on the mandalas of Flower of Life, which include within themselves all.

Merkaba enables us to feel unconditional love thus healing ourselves as well as others. It gives us the possibility of creating any kind of harmonious reality we desire. The Merkaba can be “programmed” to do anything (the only drawback being our own belief and imagination).

As you raise your vibration your Higher Self is able to become embodied and guide your Golden Merkaba in the manifestation of your soul’s purpose for this lifetime.

It meets you at your current frequency and expands with you as your consciousness continues to awaken.

You align with the Higher Good and your life begins to unfold in balance and harmony with Universal Law.  Old wounds and past life traumas that are affecting your wellbeing begin to rapidly drop away as you become the embodiment of Divine Order ~ Peace | Harmony | Balance.

Your Merkaba system receives the solar light codes that are essential for the restoration of the planetary crystalline DNA.  As you raise your vibration, you contribute to the restoration of peace, balance, and harmony on Earth through the projection of the light codes in your energy field.

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As you learn how to meditate, the Merkaba is also a tool that can be used to transcend into other dimensions. Revived studies and practices of the Merkaba are emerging all over the world after so many years of being suppressed from different sources, including the Old Testament, Kabala, and even the traditional Tarot cards.

Universal knowledge that correlates with all knowledge co-integrated in the pineal gland, which is within the brain. This process impels the pineal glandís ulterior purpose, which is to retake the ancient ways of breathing. The interconnection between breathing and conscience is the key to a higher conscience and to access other dimensions. This will propel Christ Conscience evolution. Merkabah is a natural field of protection.

Merkaba is activated through an ancient way of breathing and meditation, through love and mudras (hand positions) that restart and spin the geometric energy fields surrounding the body.

VIDEO: What is a MerKaBa

To prepare for Merkaba meditation, create a place in your home that you can perform the meditation, it should be a place where you can’t be disturbed and distracted. You can do a Guided Candle Meditation and using a cushion or pillow to sit on may be helpful to make you feel relaxed and focused. Then let go of all your worries and just feel complete love for everything around you and become one with love.

VIDEO: MERKABAH MEDITATION –
FULL VERSION BY MELCHIZEDEK

Dear Friends, please enjoy the English version of full Merkabah Meditation following Drunvalo Melchizedek’s instructions for activation of the Light Body.

To understand more watch also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGGvw…

Merkaba meditation aligns the energy fields of your body and enables easier energy movement. The meditation elevates you to higher consciousness and takes you beyond the limitations of daily life.

It is an advanced meditation technique and is recommended to be studied and practiced carefully under a certified guide.

Merkaba Meditation Benefits

A Merkaba Activation Meditation Script:

Sit or lie down, close your eyes and settle your mind.

First let us see the tetrahedrons surrounding your body: the male pyramid points upwards and begins at your knees, extending several feet above your head. The female pyramid extends downwards from your shoulders and reaches several feet below your own feet.

Are your pyramids spinning? Let us activate them now so that each pyramid spins in a different direction – the male pyramid spins from left to right around your body, and the female pyramid spins from right to left around your body.

Together, they energize your meridians more fully. As they spin, see them create a light field around your body, growing larger and larger in a saucer-like shape expanded by the centrifugal force of the Merkaba.

Breathe in, and out, in and out, a circular pattern that further fuels your Merkaba.

Now think about how you, personally, would like to pattern your Merkaba. How will you put your personal computer to work for you? Take some time to focus your attention on the matter, and set your intention with your Merkaba now.

Know that whatever you have intended, your Merkaba is now working on it completely, without deviation of failure.

As you have willed it, so shall it be.

Now slowly take your focus off your Merkaba, and return to your aura, see the healthy glow all around you, your chakras in tune, your cells turned on to their full potential. You are energized and you are well.

Return now, into your body, into this room, and be ready for LIFE!

Copyright 2012, Maya Cointreau & Eden

VIDEO: Unified Heart Merkaba Activation
and 08-08 Gateway of Light

~ The Sacred Cosmic Fire of Divine Love and Universal Peace ~

On July 29th, 2013, we experience a Unified Heart Merkaba activation through the configuration of the Star of David in a Grand Sextile formation. As this formation further expands into the star tetrahedronal shape, surrounding Mother Earth and all Life in the Divine Blueprints of Creation, it amplifies the Unity Grid of Divine Love in new encodings of Light.

In this holy trinity of configurations, two Grand Trines, one of water, one of earth, a Stargate Portal of Light activates through the Sun and Solar System, assisting all Life to complete old karmic lessons and to experience Divine Love and Universal Peace in this Golden Age of Light.

We are further offered an opportunity to truly surrender our individual will to the Divine Will of Mother/Father God. In doing so, we clear our lower triad, which is the three-fold personality of the physical, emotional and mental bodies, and begin to manifest our reality as a co-creator to the Company of Heaven on Earth through the upper triad of Intuition, Spiritual Will and Higher Mind.

Furthermore, the Patterns of Perfection through our original Divine Eight-Cell Blueprint are cleared of the earthly ego allurements and karmic patterns no longer necessary to be re-experienced as the star tetrahedron activates within our original Divine-Eight Cell Blueprint Overlighted by Lord Michael, Lord Metatron, and Lord Melchizedek.

In this Golden Age of Light, as the karmic and Christed Timelines merge, many Light Workers have experienced deeper levels of initiations and perceived challenges. For we have been clearing the karmic energies on Mother Earth for not only ourselves but for all Life, so together we may truly experience the Cosmic Heart of All Creation.

As we experience this Unified Heart Merkaba activation, we activate our Light Body/Merkaba fields, and as One Heart, One Unified of Light, we clear the karmic timelines by bringing a focus to those countries most needing to experience the Christed Timelines through the sacred Cosmic Fire of Divine Love and Universal Peace.

Our Light Body/Merkaba is a living, organic Divine Intelligence, powered by our Beloved I Am Presence working in alignment with Mother/Father God. As we receive the amplified Light frequencies through this Stargate activation, we convert this Light energy into electrons and spin the sub-atomic particles within our bodies in increased Light frequencies. Lord Melchizedek further gifts us with the Melchizedek Platinum Healing Flame, which spins off the density frequencies and can be used in the healing of ourselves and others.

As we enter into the month of August, surrounded in the Copper-Gold and Pink-Gold Flames of the sacred Cosmic Fire of Divine Love and Universal Peace, and Overlighted by Helios and Vesta, and the Sirian Archangel League of the Light, we experience the 08-08 Lion’s Gateway as Melchizedek Initiates of Light.

Through the Lion’s Gateway, the Divine Feminine energy amplifies in its full magnificence. We further bring a focus to the Golden Flower of Life and the Golden Solar Sun Disc of Light within our hearts. We receive and transmit the energy of Self Mastery through the streams of Christ Consciousness accessed through parallel realities as the timelines merge and take us ever deeper into the Christed Timelines with the knowledge that we are already these sacred transfiguring Flames of Divine Love.

The energy of the Unified Heart Merkaba activation further amplifies through the Full Moon on August 21st, culminating in a second Star of David configuration on August 25th. And in this Now moment, we are given the opportunity to integrate the new Solar Crystalline keycodes of Light and to balance the energies of the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine Principles of Light in Divine Love, Peace and Harmony.

Together we are co-creating our Heaven on Earth and over this next month, we are offered an opportunity to deepen our service work, to clear old discordant energies and karmic ties for ourselves, all countries and all Life. And we do so through our collective Light, as the Group I Am Avatar Race, and as these sacred transfiguring Flames of Divine Love. And so it is.

Full Invocation HERE…

Invocation by Anrita Melchizedek
Music by Michael Hammer
Artwork by Daniel Holeman, Brian Exton, M Art Dimensions and others

Merkaba Meditation Technique – First 14 Breaths

Merkaba Meditation Breath 1 – Inhale

Heart

Open your heart and feel love for all life. If you cannot do this completely you must at least open to this love as much as is possible for you. This is the most important instruction of all.

Mind

Become aware of the Sun (male) tetrahedron (the apex facing up to the sun, the point facing to the front for males, or the point facing to the back for females filled with brilliant white light surrounding your body. Visualize it the best you can. If you cannot visualize it, sense or feel it surrounding you.

Breath

At this same moment, with your empty lungs, begin to breathe in a complete yogic manner. Breathe through your nostrils only, except at certain places which will be described. Simply put, breathing from your stomach first, then your diaphragm, and finally your chest. Do this in one movement, not three parts.

The exhale is completed either by holding the chest firm and relaxing the stomach, slowly releasing your air or by holding the stomach firm and relaxing the chest. The most important aspect is, that this breathing becomes rhythmic. Begin by using seven seconds in and seven seconds out. As you become familiar with this meditation, find your own rhythm.

Merkaba Meditation Breath 1 – Exhale

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Mind

Become aware of the Earth (female) tetrahedron (apex pointing to the earth, with the point facing to the back for males, and the point facing to the front for females), also filled with brilliant white light.

Body

Keep the same Mundra.

Breath

Do not hesitate at the top of the inhalation to begin the exhalation. Exhale quite slowly for approximately seven seconds, in a yogic manner. When the air is out of the lungs, without forcing, relax the chest and abdomen and hold the breath. When you feel pressure to breathe again, after five seconds or so, then do the following:

This combined exercise will clean out the negative thoughts and feelings that have entered into your electrical system. Specifically, it will clean out the part of your electrical system that is associated with this particular mudra you are using. Immediately upon pulsing the energy down your spine, change mudras to the next one and begin the entire cycle over again.

Mind

Be aware of the flat equilateral triangle at the top of the Earth tetrahedron located in the horizontal plane that passes through your chest at approximately three inches below the sternum. In a flash, and with pulse-like energy, send that triangular plane down through the Earth tetrahedron. It gets smaller as it goes down and pushes all the negative energy of the mudra or electrical circuit out the tip or apex of the tetrahedron. A light will shoot out of the apex toward the center of the earth. The mental exercise is performed simultaneously with the following body movements.

Body

Move your eyes slightly toward each other, or in other words, slightly cross your eyes. Now bring them up to the top of their sockets, or, in other words, look up. This motion of looking up should not be extreme. You will feel a tingling sensation between your eyes in the area of your “third” eye. Now, look down to the lowest point you can, as fast as you can. You may feel an electrical sensation move down your spine. The mind and body must coordinate the above mental exercise with the eye movements. The eyes look down from their uppermost position at the same time the mind sees the triangular horizontal plane of the Earth tetrahedron move down to the apex of the Earth tetrahedron.

The next five breaths of the Merkaba meditation technique are a repetition of the first breath with a change on the mudra as follows:

Merkaba Meditation- Breath 2

Mudra change: thumb and second finger together

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Mudra change: thumb and third finger together

Merkaba Meditation – Breath 4

Mudra change: thumb and little finger together

Merkaba Meditation – Breath 5

Mudra change: thumb and first finger together (as breath 1)

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Mudra change: thumb and second finger together (as breath 2)

These first six breaths of the Merkaba meditation are for balancing the polarities and cleansing the body’s electrical system.

Merkaba Meditation Breath 7 – Inhale

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Visualize or sense the tube running through your body. The instant you begin the seventh inhale, see the brilliant white light of prana moving up and down the tube at the same time. This movement is almost instantaneous. The point where these two light beams meet within your body is controlled by the mind and is a vast science known throughout the universe.

In this teaching, however, you will only be shown what is necessary to take you from 3rd to 4th-dimensional awareness. In this case, you will direct the two beams of prana to meet at your navel, or more correctly, within your body at the navel level, inside the tube.

The movement of the two beams of prana meet, which is just as the inhale begins, a sphere of white light or prana about the size of a grapefruit is formed at the meeting point centered on the tube. It all happens in an instant. As you continue to take the inhale of the seventh breath, the sphere of prana begins to concentrate and grow slowly.

Body

For the next seven breaths, use the same mudra for both inhale and exhale; the thumb, first and second fingers touching together, palms up.

Breath

Deep rhythmic yogic breathing, seven seconds in and seven seconds out. There is no holding of the breath from now on. The flow of prana from the two poles will not stop or change in any way when you go from inhale to exhale. It will be a continuous flow that will not stop for as long as you breathe in this manner, even after death, resurrection or ascension.

Merkaba Meditation Breath 7 – Exhale

Mind

The prana sphere centered at the navel continues to grow. By the time of the full exhale, the prana sphere will be approximately eight or nine inches in diameter.

Breath

Do not force the air out of your lungs. When your lungs empty naturally, immediately begin the next breath.

Merkaba Meditation Breath 8 – Inhale

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The prana sphere continues to concentrate life force energy and grow in size.

Merkaba Meditation Breath 8 –Exhale

Mind

The prana sphere continues to grow in size and will reach maximum size at the end of this breath. The maximum size is different for each person If you put your longest finger in the center of your navel, the line on your wrist defining your hand will show you the radius of the maximum size of this sphere for you. This sphere of prana cannot grow larger.

Merkaba Meditation Breath 9 – Inhale

Mind

The prana sphere cannot grow larger, so the prana begins to concentrate within the sphere. The visual appearance is that the sphere grows brighter.

Breath

The sphere grows brighter and brighter as you inhale.

Merkaba Meditation Breath 9 –Exhale

Breath

As you exhale, the sphere continues to grow brighter and brighter.

Merkaba Meditation Breath 10 –Inhale

Mind

As you breathe in the tenth breath, the sphere of light in your stomach area will reach maximum concentration. Approximately halfway into the inhalation of the tenth breath, at the moment of maximum possible concentration, the sphere will “ignite” and change color and quality. The blue electric color of prana will turn into the golden color of the sun. The sphere will become a golden sun of “brilliant light”.

As you complete the tenth breath inhale, this new golden sphere of light will rapidly reach a new and higher concentration. At the moment you reach full inhalation of the tenth breath, the golden sphere of light in your body is ready for a transformation.

Merkaba Meditation Breath 10 – Exhale

Mind

At the moment of exhaling, the small sphere of golden light, 2 hand lengths in diameter, bulges to expand. In 1 second, combined with the breath talked about below, the sphere expands quickly to the sphere of Leonardo, to the fingertips of your extended arms. Your body is now completely enclosed within a huge sphere of brilliant golden light. You have returned to the ancient form of spherical breathing. However, at this point, the sphere is not stable. You must breathe 3 more times to stabilize the sphere.

Breath

At the moment of exhaling, make a small hole with your lips and blow out your air with pressure. As you feel the sphere begin to bulge, all within the 1st second of this exhale, let all your air out rapidly. The sphere will expand at that moment.

Merkaba Meditation Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Breaths – Inhale & Exhale

Mind

Relax and just feel the flow of the prana flowing from the two poles, meeting at the navel and expanding out to the large sphere.

Breath

Deep rhythmic yogic breathing. At the end of the thirteenth breath, you have stabilized the large sphere and are ready for the important fourteenth breath.

Merkaba Meditation – The 14^th breath – Inhale

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On the inhale of the 14th breath, at the very beginning of the breath, move the point where the two beams of prana meet from the navel to about 1 inch above the sternum, the 4th-dimensional chakra. The entire large sphere, along with the original small sphere, which is still contained within the large sphere, moves up to the new meeting point within the tube.

Though this is very easy to do, it is an extremely powerful movement. Breathing from this new point within the tube will inevitably change your awareness from 3rd to 4th-dimensional consciousness, or from Earth consciousness to Christ Consciousness. It will take a while, but as I have said, it is inevitable.

Body

This mudra will be used for the rest of the meditation. Males will place the left palm on top of the right palm, and females will place the right palm on top of the left palm. Let the thumbs lightly touch each other. It is a mudra that relaxes.

Breath

Deep rhythmic yogic breathing. However, if you continue to breathe from your Christ center without moving on to the MerKaBa (which is recommended until you have made contact with your higher self), then shift to a shallow breath.

In other words, breathe rhythmically but in a comfortable manner where your attention is more on the flow of energy moving up and down the tube meeting at the sternum and expanding out to the large sphere. Just feel the flow. Use your feminine side to just be. At this point don’t think. Just breathe, feel and be. Feel your connection to all life through the Christ Breath. Remember your intimate connection with God.

The Merkaba Meditation – Last three breaths

The last three breaths of Merkaba meditation are intended for those who are ready to take the higher level, and should not be attempted until one has made contact with his or her higher self and the higher self permits to proceed. This part is to be taken seriously and is recommended that these breaths be thought in class.

By carefully practicing these specific Merkaba meditation breathing techniques, the meditator is able to create a heightened sense of awareness and focus all of their attention on the energy field surrounding their body. This allows the individual to achieve a spiritual balance, which in turn allows them to connect with their higher being.

When people start to practice Merkaba meditation, they often feel a stronger connection with the living world around them, as well as experiencing an increased feeling of energy. As they practice their Merkaba meditation exercises over the following months they may become used to these feelings, and actually, stop noticing them.

At this stage many people stop practicing, believing that their energy field is repaired. However, stopping the technique will only lead to the individual falling back into a state of unbalance.

It’s important to realize that Merkaba meditation requires a lot of dedication and self-discipline in order to gain benefits. It can be extremely hard to find the time to meditate, especially as it is so easy to become distracted with family and work commitments.

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However, by taking the time to practice Merkaba meditation each morning before you start your day, you will find that you gain full control over your energies, enabling you to continue your spiritual and emotional journey through life in a much more positive way.

Related Questions

Can I learn Merkaba Meditation on my own? It is not recommended to learn Merkaba on your own. You can study and become aware of the process by reading and watching, but it is best to learn it from a trained teacher.

Is Merkaba a religious practice? No, Merkaba is a purely spiritual process.

What is Lightbody? Your Lightbody is a gridwork of light and sacred geometry that brings together your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual being. This body radiates light energy and electromagnetically links your multidimensional self with the infinite universe. The sacred geometry of the Lightbody is also called the “Merkaba.”