Meditation isn’t about becoming a different person, a new person, or even a better person. It’s about training in awareness and getting a healthy sense of perspective. You’re not trying to turn off your thoughts or feelings. You’re learning to observe them without judgment. And eventually, you may start to better understand them as well. LifeSkills will teach you learn meditation!
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Learn meditation step by step. Practice meditation breath by breath.
When mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated, it is of great fruit and great benefit.
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Instructions:
Sit down with legs folded crosswise, back straight and eyes closed.
Always mindful, breathe in; mindful, breathe out.
FIRST TETRAD (BODY GROUP):
Be aware of your breath around your nostrils as you breathe in and as you breathe out. Do not try to regulate your breath in any way. Observe your natural breath as it is.
Breathing in long, understand: I am breathing in long; breathing out long, understand: I am breathing out long.
Breathing in short, understand: I am breathing in short; breathing out short, understand: I am breathing out short.
Be aware of your body as you breathe in and as you breathe out.
Breathe in experiencing the whole body, breathe out experiencing the whole body.
Breathe in tranquilizing the whole body, breathe out tranquilizing the whole body.
Don’t worry if your mind wanders away, gently bring it back and observe your breath.
Ever mindful, breathe in; mindful, breathe out.
SECOND TETRAD (FEELINGS GROUP):
Be aware of your feelings you breathe in and as you breathe out.
Breathe in experiencing your feelings, breathe out experiencing your feelings.
Breathe in experiencing rapture, breathe out experiencing rapture.
Breathe in experiencing pleasure, breathe out experiencing pleasure.
Be aware of your mental processes as you breathe in and as you breathe out.
Breathe in experiencing mental formations, breathe out experiencing mental formations.
Breathe in tranquilizing mental formations, breathe out tranquilizing mental formations.
Ever mindful, breathe in; mindful, breathe out.
THIRD TETRAD (MIND GROUP):
Be aware of your mind as you breathe in and as you breathe out.
Breathe in experiencing the mind, breathe out experiencing the mind.Breathe in gladdening the mind, breathe out gladdening the mind.
Breathe in concentrating the mind, breathe out concentrating the mind.
Breathe in liberating the mind, breathe out liberating the mind.
Ever mindful, breathe in; mindful, breathe out.
May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated.
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This is the fourth video in a series of videos – a step-by-step tutorial – to learn and practice meditation by yourself by listening to and following the instructions given in the video.
In this session, we are re-visiting and deepening what we have learned in the three earlier videos.
Instructions:
Please sit down – legs folded crosswise, back straight and eyes closed.
Focus your attention on the nostrils as you breathe in and as you breathe out.
In this session, we will re-visit and deepen what we have learned earlier.
Begin by simply bringing attention to the breathing.
Always mindful of your breath, breathe in; mindful, breathe out.
If you breathe in long, know: I am breathing in long. If you breathe out long, know: I breathe out long.
If you breathe in short, know: I am breathing in short. If you breathe out short, know: I breathe out short.
Don’t worry if your mind wanders away, bring it back gently. Observe your breath.
As the breathing becomes deeper, focus on the body.
Keeping a watch on your breath in the background, look inwards to the major parts of your body: head, shoulders, hands, palms, chest, stomach, upper back, lower back, legs and the feet.
Sensitive to the whole body, breathe in. Sensitive to the whole body, breathe out.
As you familiarize with your body, while keeping a watch on your breathing, relax your limbs one-by-one: forehead, eyes, cheeks, neck, shoulders, heart, stomach, upper back, lower back, thighs, calf muscles, ankles, and soles of your feet.
Calming the whole body, breathe in. Calming the whole body breathe out.
May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated!
Open your eyes gently and come out of meditation.
Continue your practice of meditation. When you feel, you have mastered this segment, you may proceed to the next video. Remember, meditation is a lifetime’s work.
We will be happy to have your feedback and would answer any questions that you may have. Questions may be sent to us at [email protected].
This is the third video in a series of videos – astep-by-step tutorial – to learn and practice meditationby yourself by listening to and following the instructions given in the video.
It gives simple and straight instructions to meditate in pure form. Just follow the instructions and meditate.
You may start your journey of meditation right from here but we would advise you to begin with the first video of the series on this channel and then come here after some days of practice.
Practice meditation on a daily basis listening to the video.
We will be happy to have your feedback and would answer any questions that you may have. Questions may be sent to us at [email protected].
Instructions:
Please sit down – legs folded crosswise, back straight and eyes closed.
Always be mindful of your breath as you breathe in; mindful, as you breathe out. Focus your attention on the nostrils as you breathe in and as you breathe out.
If you breathe in long, know: I am breathing in long. If you breathe out long, know: I breathe out long.
If you breathe in short, know: I am breathing in short. If you breathe out short, know: I breathe out short.
Keeping a watch on your breath in the background, look inwards to the major parts of your body: head, shoulders, hands, palms, chest, stomach, upper back, lower back, legs and the feet.
Sensitive to the whole body, breathe in. Sensitive to the whole body, breathe out.
As you continue to explore your body, while keeping a watch on your breathing, relax your limbs one-by-one: head, shoulders, hands, palms, chest, stomach, upper back, lower back, legs and the feet.
Calming the whole body, breathe in. Calming the whole body breathe out.
This is the second 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.
You may start your journey of meditation from here but we would advise you to begin with the first video of the series on this channel and then come here after some days of practice.
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.
We will be happy to have your feedback and would answer any questions that you may have. Questions may be sent to us at [email protected].
Instructions:
Please sit down for meditation: legs folded crosswise, back straight and eyes closed.
Always be mindful of your breath as you breathe in and as you breathe out. Focus your attention on the nostrils as you breathe in and as you breathe out.
If you breathe in long, know: I am breathing in long. If you breathe out long, know: I breathe out long.
If you breathe in short, know: I am breathing in short. If you breathe out short, know: I breathe out short.
Keeping a watch on your breath in the background, look inwards to the major parts of your body: head, shoulders, hands, palms, chest, stomach, upper back, lower back, legs and the feet.
Sensitive to the whole body, breathe in. Sensitive to the whole body, breathe out.
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.
We will be happy to have your feedback and would answer any questions that you may have. Questions may be sent to us at [email protected].
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.
