ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
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 gets more 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.
As long as you are alive, there will always be fear - but your fear of your fear will be gone!
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. At the time when you are caught in fear, it is impossible to sit down calmly and start meditating!
Please ensure that you are medically fit before entering into this technique.
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.
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. Just be completely aware throughout the process. Face the fear with deep awareness.
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.
In its place, you will find a deep calm and centeredness happening in you.
EXPEL THE FEAR
DARKNESS MEDITATION
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.
We are born out of darkness, the darkness that exists in the mother's womb. Darkness is not negative as we usually think. It is intense healing energy. It is a motherly, positive energy.
The darkness that exists in your mother's womb is an intense energy. It is not the empty darkness of the graveyard. It is the Whole, the energy from which you came. The darkness existing in your mother's womb is the energy from which your body was created. It is called the causal body, the karana sharira. Before entering into this meditation, you need to understand about darkness with more clarity and more positive understanding. If you are afraid of darkness, you can't enter into this meditation.
Darkness is the root cause for your body. Even space is not intense light, but intense darkness. The Vedic scriptures say that at the beginning of creation, darkness was covered by darkness. Darkness is the source, the infinite base. Darkness is the only thing that is. Anything else that is added only comes and goes.
We are taught that darkness is death, the emptiness that happens after your death. You never realize that the emptiness that existed before your birth is also darkness! Now change the understanding. Darkness is the state of fulfillment, the creative energy from which you took birth. This clarity can make you feel connected to darkness.
This technique can heal chronic fatigue, insomnia, oversleeping and depression.
Duration: 25 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS
Close your eyes and sit still.
We all know how to close our eyelids but not our eyes. Closing the eyes means to completely stop seeing inside, behind the eyelids also.
Usually when you close your eyes, you start seeing many things inside you. The inner television will never be switched off, it constantly goes on! Now close your eyes and completely stop seeing inside. Turn off the inner television!
Then you will see the intense darkness from which you were born, the darkness in your mother's womb, the same darkness that you still carry in your inner space.
Out of the same space energy in your mother's womb, the whole world has emerged.
You came out of one bit of space energy from your mother's womb.
When you came out from your mother's womb, you had already imbibed that darkness, that space energy, into your own inner space.
If you close your eyes and stop seeing things inside, you will see intense darkness.
Just be with the intense darkness for at least twenty minutes.
If your mind wanders, just come back and get centered. Be with the darkness.
After twenty minutes, open your eyes and bring the same darkness outside for five minutes. With your eyes open, see the same scenes that you saw in the darkness. See the same thing with intensity.
This may take up to a month of practice. But if you can see the same darkness inside and outside, you will see you are able to switch off your mind whenever you wish!
Understand, the ability to switch off your mind whenever you wish, liberates you from all problems, all disorders related to the mind, whether it is insomnia, oversleeping, chronic fatigue or depression.
All these things are related to the causal body or the fifth energy body in us. All diseases related to the causal body will be completely healed once you enter into the deep darkness inside and outside. Physiologically and psychologically, this meditation will transform your life.
This technique is not only for healing, but it can also directly open you to deeper and deeper levels of consciousness, to enlightenment.