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Meditation Book: Leading You To Bliss

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

When we are stressed, we experience a sense of tightness inside. We feel as if we are physically shrinking, as if our body has become somehow tight and drawn.

Actually, this is true.

When you are stressed, it means your energy level is low. Your pranic layer shrinks and withdraws. This is what you experience as a physical contraction. When you are in bliss, you experience a sense of expansion and lightness. This is your energy expanding and spreading out from you.

This technique uses energy to influence emotion.

When your energy level is increased, naturally you are relieved from stress.

Duration: 21 minutes

FREEDOM FROM FEAR

DURATION: 11 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS

If possible, do this meditation in a large airy room, where you can be alone.

If this is not possible, just make yourself as comfortable as you can. Stand in a relaxed way and close your eyes.

Make sure that no person or object is touching your body.

Now, visualize yourself continuously inhaling and exhaling bliss and light.

As you inhale, feel the soft, blissful light entering your body. Feel it entering and washing every part of your body. It is filling your body, making you feel light and spongy. Breathe slowly and deeply.

Every time you inhale, feel each pore of your skin blissfully breathing in this light.

As you exhale, the light is radiating from you.

With your eyes closed, hold out your arms and spread your fingers.

Feel the bliss pouring out of you in rays of soft light.

Feel your feet resting softly on a cloud of light.

Experience the blissful light energy entering you, filling you, radiating from you.

Feel that your whole body is nothing but a bag of bliss!

Within a few minutes, you will see that the stress and tightness inside you begin to dissolve.

Be Afraid!

Fear is a powerful energy in you! It is a survival intelligence built into you. If you have fear, it means that you are alive!

You cannot wipe out fear from your life. You can only learn how to handle it, how to transform the emotion.

Whenever we experience fear, we usually try to suppress the fear, or escape from it. When you suppress it, the fear only more gets deeply lodged in you. When you try to escape from it, it leaves for a while and then returns in some other form.

When you go through the fear unconsciously, without suppressing or escaping from it, it results in a fear stroke. Fear strokes directly attack and damage your nervous system.

The only way to overcome fear is to face it consciously.

A very effective way of overcoming fear is to visualize going through that fear as clearly as you can.

The beauty of this technique is that it can be used when you are not in the situation which causes fear, when you are calm and able to handle yourself. At the time when you are caught in fear, it is impossible to sit down calmly and start meditating!

Just be completely aware throughout the process. Face the fear with deep awareness.

When you experience something completely, you stop the process. As long as you are alive, there will always be fear - but your fear of your fear will be gone!

INSTRUCTIONS

Sit upright with your eyes closed.

Visualize the situation which brings up the maximum fear in you.

As you relive the situation, feel clearly the waves of fear coming up in you.

Don't try to suppress the fear. Don't allow your mind to escape from it.

Just let the fear happen in you.

Feel clearly the fear coming up in you, face the fear with deep awareness.

If you suffer, if your body feels uncomfortable, it is fine.

Don't suppress the fear, just allow it to happen.

Even if you are suffering, don't resist the process.

Go into it fully once, so that you never have to go through it again.

If your body begins to express the fear, let it.

Let the fear rise to it peak in you. Let it fill you, overwhelm you. Just let it happen.

Live through the fear completely.

After a while, slowly, you will find that the fear begins to subside.

Enter the darkness

Darkness can be a direct way to merge with the all pervading Existence. Darkness is the natural way of life; only light is a distinction. But we associate darkness with fear, we associate it with death and therefore miss the easy way to merge. If we can embrace darkness as that which we experienced in our mother's womb, the darkness that gave birth to us, we will simply drop the fear and start experiencing darkness as the all pervading Existence. Then, wherever we are, we will simply dissolve into it and become one with it.