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Meditation Is for You

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

This technique uses external movement for inner centering. Whenever you are in a moving vehicle, on an airline flight or in a car and when you are not driving, you can try this technique.

When we create a movement ourselves, it is easy to direct it. We are in control. Whether we are walking, running, dancing, the direction of movement is in our hands. We can handle it.

But when you are being carried by a current of movement that you cannot control, you will observe that your entire body resists the movement.

Actually, your body enjoys being in a state of inertia. Once a movement is set up in the body, it likes the same speed and direction to be maintained. In a moving vehicle, like a train or a car, your body continuously resists the natural swinging movement. We always try to hold onto something so that we don't get hurt.

You don't like uncertainty. That is why even a small jolt in a moving vehicle can upset you so much - because for that one moment, you are not in control!

Sit comfortably in the vehicle.

Mentally decide that for the duration of the journey, you will not resist any movement of the vehicle.

Don't be afraid! You are not going to get hurt. No big accident is going to happen in the next fifteen or twenty minutes. We always love to visualize the worst scenario, especially when we get into a vehicle!

Now, allow the movement of the vehicle to move your body. Flow with it. Initially, your body will try to resist. Even if you keep yourself physically loose, not holding anywhere, your mind will be trying to hold somewhere. Just drop this holding. Move with the natural movement of the vehicle. Allow your body to sway back and forth. Allow the small jolts to happen. Even if your body bumps slightly against the sides of the vehicle, don't bother.

Understand, it is not the contact that hurts, it is your resistance to the contact that brings pain.

If you are unresisting, even if you fall, you will fall like a flower. You cannot get hurt.

So drop your fear. Just flow and enjoy the rhythm of movement.

As you enter deeply into the movement, slowly, you will find that you are apart from the movement!

You are not your body, you are just witnessing the movements of your body.

Suddenly, you will see you are disengaged from the 'I'. You will realize that you are beyond the body, you are the pure witnessing Consciousness!

With this one understanding, the fear of losing control of your body will simply leave you. You will experience a deep relaxation in body and mind.