Swami Veda Bharati
Three Minute Relaxation for the Very Busy
Bring your attention only to the place where you are sitting.
Be aware of only the space that your body is occupying from head to toe.
Be aware of only this moment in time.
Diaphragmatic Breathing
Sequential Steps in Learning to Breathe Diaphragmatically
(1) Diaphragmatic Breathing in Crocodile Position
To learn to breathe correctly and to learn to relax by using the correct way of breathing, lie on your stomach, cross your arms, or put one hand on the other, and rest your forehead on the arms, or on the hand; not bending your neck.
Your toes touching, your heels apart, and ankles practically flat on the ground. Your shoulders flat. Your armpits practically touching the ground.
Bring your attention away from all other places and be aware of only the place where you are lying down.
Be aware of only the space that your body is occupying from head to toe.
Beginning Meditation
First Step to Meditation
Common to the practices of many schools, the first step to meditation is essentially awareness of breathing.
In this presentation, I would like to offer the first level of instruction in the method of meditation that anyone can start and practice any time and anywhere. It is seldom found in books and when suggested in books, it is less frequently properly understood. Yet it is so simple that I have found that even a three-year-old child can take to it.
Silence - Save Your Breath and Live Long
At some point in one's spiritual progress an urge to silence arises uninvited; a wave that carries the mind self-wards, atman-wards.
In all spiritual traditions the aspirant is assigned periods of silence, not to speak of the masters who have maintained total silence for their entire life-spans.