INSTRUCTIONS
DURATION: 30 minutes
Step 1: Duration: 9 minutes
Sit in a relaxed way with your eyes closed.
As in the previous technique, watch your breath – the incoming breath becoming the outgoing breath or the outgoing breath taking the turn into the incoming breath.
Become aware of the neutral space, the space where the breath takes the turn.
Keep your attention between the two breaths. Relax in the neutral space.
Step 2: Duration: 3 minutes
While you are in the neutral space, in this consciousness, try to move either hand. While moving the hand, if you feel you have come out of that neutral space awareness, bring yourself back to the neutral space. Come back to the neutral space and move the hand again
Step 3: Duration: 3 minutes
Being in the same neutral space, without losing it, try to stand up. If you feel you are losing the neutral space, sit down. Come back to the neutral space again. Now, without losing the awareness of the gap, try to stand up. Let your eyes remain closed. Once you stand up, continue to be aware of the gap between the breaths. Let your attention be between the two breaths, in that neutral space. Be where there is no mind.
Step 4: Duration: 3 minutes
Keep your attention between the two breaths. Be aware of the neutral space. Without losing the awareness, try to move both hands very slowly. The important thing is to not lose the awareness of the gap.
Step 5: Duration: 3 minutes
Relax. Be centered between the two breaths. Be completely at ease in the neutral space. Be aware of the gap. Without losing the awareness, slowly move your head. The important thing is to not lose the awareness. If you feel you have lost the awareness, bring it back and then move the head.
Step 6: Duration: 3 minutes
Without losing the awareness, being totally centered between the two breaths, in the neutral space, try to move your feet. Be aware. Do not lose the neutral space. Be completely centered on the neutral space. If you feel you have lost the awareness, come back. Slow down. Center yourself in the neutral space. Let your attention be between the two breaths. Then, try to move your feet again.
Step 7: Duration: 3 minutes
Without losing the awareness, slowly, very slowly, try to open your eyes. If you feel what you are seeing takes away your awareness, close your eyes and again center yourself in that awareness. Very slowly, be in that same awareness, in that same neutral space, and again try to open your eyes. If you feel you are losing your awareness, close your eyes and bring back the awareness. Center yourself in the awareness. Keep your attention between the two breaths. Keep your attention on the neutral space.
Step 8: Duration: 3 minutes
Be in that same awareness and try to sit, wherever you are. If you feel you are losing the awareness, then wait, and center yourself in the awareness. Keep your attention between the two breaths and try again to sit without losing the awareness.
Carry this awareness with you the whole day. Let your awareness rest in this space. Remain in this experience of divine consciousness.
AWARENESS OF THE GAP WITH DEEP DEVOTION