Tag: Meditation

The eight-fold path of blissful living or Ananda Ashtanga!

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Living in bliss
– The eight-fold path of blissful living or Ananda Ashtanga

These are:

1.  Blissful Laughter
2.  Blissful Affirmation
3.  Blissful Cleansing
4.  Blissful Yoga
5.  Blissful Meditation
6.  Blissful Tools
7.  Blissful Energy
8.  Blissful Chant

Ananda Ashtanga or Blissful Living is a simple eight-fold pathway to Living Enlightenment. These are simple techniques that take you into the experience directly without the need to understand and absorb.

Blissful Laughter

Laughing meditation or Haasya Dhyana Meditation

As soon as you wake up in the morning, even before you get up from your bed, laugh for five minutes! Read More

Meditation technique to experience a shift in Consciousness

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While doing this technique, do not analyze, do not measure and do not calculate. Just allow the movements happening in you to take place.

If we look inside ourselves, we can see that there are slight movements always happening in us and these are happening in invisible circles. Just be with those movements and allow them to happen.

Whenever we allow these movements to happen and meditate on them, we will suddenly see and realize that we are not a solid body, we are a flowing energy. Read More

Meditation technique to liberate your self from your mental setup and be free

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Duration: 21 minutes

Visualize that all your inner thoughts and feelings about people, situations, experiences, anything and everything, are all burning!

Visualize continuously that whatever you think about the world, about anything, is burning… it no longer exists. Your attitudes, your interests, your passions, your greed, your desires and your fears are all being consumed in the fire.

This will drastically break your conditioning, and lead you to enlightenment.
source: Living Enlightenment

Technique to expand your consciousness and conquer your emotions

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Duration: 21 minutes

Visualize you are a huge body of light.

Visualize all your emotional relationships, loving as well as not so loving, as part of your light body (also called etheric body). If you have somebody who is emotionally connected to you, say in another country, visualize that you have a huge body that extends out to that country, and that person (or persons) is also inside your light body! Read More

Meditation technique to transcend the gross body and enter into subtle consciousness

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Duration: 10 minutes a day, for ten days

This is a wonderful technique even for beginning meditators. You don’t need any training, understanding or belief for this technique.

First, remove whatever accessories or jewelry you may be wearing on your body.

Either sit or lie down. Be as comfortable as possible. You can also lean against a wall if you feel comfortable that way. You can stretch your legs in whatever way you want, but you shouldn’t need to exert effort to hold your body. The idea is to feel very comfortable without supporting the weight of your body. Read More

This is a powerful technique that can straightaway transform you and put you in silence, in bliss.

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Duration: 21 days

This technique requires that you first cleanse your inner space.

Cleansing technique

Close your eyes. Sit and look into yourself. First, honestly examine all aspects of your life. Ask yourself exactly in how many areas of your life have you built your identity based on lies? When have you uttered words or made promises, knowing that you are not going to live up to them or not going to fulfill them?
No matter how painful it is, do this process honestly. Do not avoid facing yourself honestly. See this as a wonderful chance for self-analysis for introspection. At least be able to admit to yourself where you have constructed your identity based on lies. Read More

This is a powerful meditation technique for looking in and understanding that you are something more than the body

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Duration: 21 minutes

Whenever you look in, you see only the movie of the outer world on the inner screen. So, first we need to clean the inner screen.

Close your eyes.

Sit straight.

Inhale and exhale as slowly and as deeply as possible. Read More

Meditation technique to become empty and witness

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Duration: 21 minutes

Sit and be as relaxed as possible. Do not put your weight on the spinal cord. You can support yourself with your hands.

Visualize energy leaving your body through your eyes, nose, tongue, ears and other sense organs. You are becoming completely empty. Read More

Meditation technique to experience the intelligence, the energy, the enlightenment, awakening in you.

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Duration: 21 minutes

Mentally scan your spine so that you will be able to visualize it easily in this meditation. In the center, alongside the spine is a flow of energy like a slender thread, and that is what we call sushumna nadi. It runs from the base of the spine to the crown, passing through each of the seven vital energy centers in our body called the chakras.

The ida nadi, another slender thread, begins and ends on the left of the sushumna nadi, and the pingala nadi, a third slender thread, begins and ends on the right of the sushumna nadi. The ida and pingala spiral around the sushumna, crossing each other at every energy center, and all three meet midway between the eyebrows. Read More

This technique is so powerful it will give you the clear experience that you will never die!

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Duration: 24 hours a day, for 21 days

Visualize that you are light, that there is nothing else inside and outside. There is nobody, no world, there is only intense light. Visualize this from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep, whatever you may be doing. Read More

Feel bliss through sound

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Total Duration: 21 minutes

Close your eyes. Sit in a relaxed way.

Step 1: Duration: 10 minutes

First choose the sound with which you are going to work. It can be anything, so decide which sound gives you most excitement and joy. Read More

This meditation makes us aware of the silence in the center of this storm of sound!

.Reading time 3 minutes.

Duration: 21 minutes

We always live in a storm of sound. Sounds are constantly moving towards us, crashing in upon us, engulfing us. But at the center of this sound storm, there is a silence we haven’t heard. This meditation makes us aware of the silence in the center of this storm of sound.

Sit down somewhere, anywhere. The noisier the place, the better! Look for a place with continuous sound. It could be a natural sound, like the gushing of a river or a waterfall or the crashing of the waves on a beach or it could be a railway station, or a marketplace. Read More