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Meditation is for You - an introduction to the science and art of meditation

PRATYAAHARA DHYANA

ABOUT THE MEDITATION

This technique shuts out the signals that come to you from the outside world. Whatever you perceive of the world is through the information that comes to you from your five senses: through sight, sound, taste, smell and touch.

This meditation negates all the experiences that come through the senses. When you close yourself to the world, you also close yourself to your body. Your energy returns inward.

INSTRUCTIONS

This meditation can be done anywhere, anytime.

Wherever you are at the moment, note the signals that are coming to you through your senses. You can see the flowers in the garden. You can hear the birds sing. You can feel an ant creep up your leg.

What do you do?

Simply close your senses.

Just imagine that you have become blind. Imagine that you cannot hear the birds, cannot feel the creeping of the ant.

Imagine that you have turned into a statue, that you have frozen. Imagine that you can no longer move.

Go deeply into this feeling.

You can do it!