Meditation Yurt
  • Travel meditation for a train, bus, or in traffic gridlock: Let the whole of your body go loose, relaxing any area of tension, and take some deep breaths. Accept that there is nothing you can do to get to your destination faster. Focus on your breathing and visualize any anxiety or worry simply floating away with each exhalation. Just let it go. Each time anxiety or worry tries to come back, bring your focus back to the breath and let go. You might even want to repeat the mantra PEACE with each exhalation.
  • If it is false, harmful, and pleasant, do not say it.
  • Here's how to stop getting lost in your own movie: Go to a movie theater and watch a movie. Settle in as the movie begins. Ten minutes into the movie, close your eyes and gently pull your conscious awareness away from the story you have been watching. Take a moment to remember whatever events have just happened in the past hour or so - arriving at the theater, interactions with people, etc. Now open your eyes and let your awareness go back to the movie. The idea behind this is to reaffirm who you are be using the power of your will to become conscious and aware of who and where you really are. Become absorbed in the movie for 15-30 minutes. Then pull your attention away from the movie again but, this time, look around the theater. Go back to watching the movie but consciously remember that you are sitting in a theater watching a movie. When you leave the movie, remember the feeling of having two coexisting viewpoints. Apply that sensation to events around you. You are in a
  • Whenever you sit down or stand up, stop and appreciate a moment of change, of freedom.
  • Try Reiki bodywork. Visit a practitioner and see if this is something you benefit from. Other healing therapies using the concept of life-force energy are acupuncture, biofeedback, and therapeutic touch.
  • Ask for nothing and give everything.
  • When driving in the car, turn off the radio or CD and concentrate on living in the experience of driving. Feel the steering wheel, the pedals under your feet, the seat beneath you. Watch the world passing. Listen. Just drive.
  • Draw upon indigo or violet in your meditation to renew your dedication to a spiritual path or when you feel able to shed your personal needs and wants in favor of universal peace.
  • With a loving heart as the background, all that you attempt and all that you encounter will open and flow more easily. Lovingkindness can be cultivated.
  • Express yourself freely.
  • Metta meditation to the ten directions: You can send metta to the ten directions - east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest, north, northeast, above, and below. You can start in any direction and either perform the metta in your mind or aloud. You may direct the metta to all beings in each direction.
  • Mantra for blessing a bell: Om Pemo Ushnisha Bimalay Hum Pey.
  • Be aware of all the heat your body generates. Think of your essence as a flame and rest in that flame.
  • Monitor your stress levels throughout each day. By consciously recognizing and reducing the "noise" in your life, an underlying harmony naturally begins to emerge.

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