योग-साधना LifeSkills/जीवन कौशल–Meditation: Mindfulness of Breathing-Learning Video#1-Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

MEDITATION: MINDFULNESS OF BREATHING

LEARNING VIDEO #1

This is the first video in a series of videos to learn and practice meditation by yourself by listening to and following the video.

It gives simple and straight instructions to meditate in pure form. Just follow the instructions and meditate.

Practice meditation on a daily basis listening to the video. When you feel confident that you are comfortable and ready, you may go to the next video in the series.

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Voice in the video:

Jagat Singh Bisht, Founder: LifeSkills

MEDITATION:

Meditation is a practice that makes it possible to cultivate and develop certain basic positive human qualities in the same way as other forms of training make it possible to play a musical instrument or acquire any other skill.

The object of meditation is the mind. For the moment, it is simultaneously confused, agitated, rebellious and subject to innumerable conditioned and automatic patterns. The goal of meditation is not to shut down the mind or anaesthetise it, but rather to make it free, lucid and balanced.

Experienced meditators have demonstrated qualities of focused attention that are not found among beginners. For example, they are able to maintain more or less perfect concentration on a particular task for forty-five minutes, whereas most people cannot go beyond five or ten minutes before they begin making an increasing number of mistakes.

The primary goal of meditation is to transform our experience of the world but it has also been shown that meditation has beneficial effects on our health. Scientific experiments have shown that twenty minutes of daily practice of meditation can contribute significantly to the reduction of stress, whose harmful effects on health are well established.

It also reduces anxiety, the tendency towards anger and the risk of relapse for people who have previously undergone depression. Eight weeks of meditation for thirty minutes a day significantly strengthens the immune system, reinforces positive emotions, and reduces arterial pressure in those suffering from high blood pressure.

If we consider that the possible benefit of meditation is to have a new experience of the world each moment in our lives, then it doesn’t seem excessive to spend at least twenty minutes a day getting to know our mind better and training it towards this kind of purpose.

The fruition of meditation could be described as an optimal way of being, or again, as genuine happiness. This true and lasting happiness is a profound sense of having realized to the utmost the potential we have within us for wisdom and accomplishment. Working towards this kind of fulfilment is an adventure worth embarking upon.

THE ART OF MEDITATION by MATTHIEU RICARD

Jagat Singh Bisht, Founder: LifeSkills