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Yoga meditation - centering for strength and calm

October 10th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Centering is yoga meditation in action. Within you is a space that is always calm and at peace. This space is often referred to as your “calm center”. Being centered means remaining in your calm center amidst the busyness of everyday life. Being centered means not allowing your inner light to be overshadowed by stressful circumstances or negative thoughts and emotions.

When you are centered, you are in a state of clarity, focus, peace, and balance. When you are not centered, you are unclear, unfocussed, stressed, and off balance.

A good centering technique will require only minimal attention, allowing you to keep some of your attention on the activity at hand. Here are some very easy, effective centering techniques.

Simple Breath Awareness

While involved in whatever you are doing, bring some attention to your breathing for just a few moments… it needn’t be your full attention… just enough to bring you back to your calm center. Breathe naturally, or perhaps just a little more slowly and deeply.

Reclaiming Your Energy

When you are feeling stressed and scattered, take several slow, deep breaths. With each in-breath, imagine you are pulling all of your scattered energy and attention back to your inner self… your calm center.

Letting Go

This centering technique combines breath awareness with the phrase or mantra, “Let go.” It is especially helpful when you are tense and/or fixating on a stressful situation or a negative thought or emotion.
As you inhale, (silently or aloud) say, “Let”
As you exhale, say “go”… while letting go of all that is stressing you.

Inner Sun

Imagine a bright sun filling your heart chakra… the calm, subtle energy field that permeates your chest area. Imagine that sun gently emanating peace and joy throughout your entire being.

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Yoga meditation: eliminating thoughts - impossible

October 24th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you’re new to yoga meditation, you’ll be frustrated because it seems impossible for your mind to be still. It’s crowded with thoughts, and the more you try to eliminate those thoughts, the more tense you become. Meditation seems an impossible skill to learn.

However, the very fact that you even recognize the thoughts you’re having as THOUGHTS is an immense achievement. Most people identify with their thoughts completely: they just don’t recognize that their essential self is not their thoughts.

Just say “thinking”

Because it’s so difficult to recognize thoughts as thoughts, if you do recognize a thought, just say to yourself “thinking”. You’re labeling what’s going on in your mind.

“Thoughts on Thinking” says:

An old Chinese Zen Master once said, “Some of you are taking me literally when I say, ‘Don’t think,’ and you are making your minds like a rock. This is a cause of insentiency and an obstruction to the Way. When I say not to think, I mean that if you have a thought, think nothing of it.”

Read the complete article: it will help you to recognize that thinking is natural, impossible to eliminate, and is part of your meditation. You’ll stop taking your thoughts so seriously, and this is one of the rewards of yoga meditation.

Yoga meditation: meditate wherever you are - even while you commute

May 11th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you’ve got a boring daily commute on a train or bus, consider some gentle yoga meditation combined with visualization. Not only will your yoga meditation prepare you for the day, it will relax you, and that’s always good.

“A commute to inner peace” offers these meditation tips:

• Listen to light music or meditation commentary
• Take slow, deep breaths
• Imagine a relaxing place
• Accept noise and confines of your journey
• Write positive affirmations
• If standing, put bag down and relax body and mind
• On bus or overground train, take in the view
• In a traffic jam, shift mind into neutral and relax body

Visualize a great day

Visualize the best possible outcome for your day: see yourself relaxed, calm, in control and having fun.

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