Improving your mental calm in meditation in 7 points
This hability greatly improves the meditation experience. The wandering and parasitic thoughts disappear, the 15-minutes sessions turn into one-hour sessions, we have a deeper look at ourselves and it makes it easier to why we practice this kind of exercise. For me, it facilitates and deepens my shadow work, my astral travels experiences, helps me to better manage my emotions, etc.
The preparations
After having cleaned the meditation room and having arranged the objects serving as visualization supports, let's take the posture in seven points:
Let us sit on a pillow with our back elevated from the front of the body in the lotus position. It is also convenient to just cross your legs. If you have physical disabilities, you can just sit on a chair. (No, a lying position doesn't work, you will only fall asleep)
Both hands rest, palms up, the right hand resting on the left hand. The tips of the thumbs meet upwards, representing the union of bliss and emptiness. This form produced by the hands symbolizes that this union is the source of the emergence of all phenomena. Both hands should be placed about four centimeters lower than the navel. This point is very important because it is here that the internal fire is generated.
The back should be as straight as an arrow. Indeed, if the body is upright, so too will the subtle energy channels and the winds flowing through it. In this way, the mind will become malleable.
The teeth and lips are in a natural position and the tip of the tongue touches the palate. This will prevent dryness in the mouth and prevent saliva from flowing out of it during deep meditative absorption.
The head is tilted slightly forward.
The eyes look down following the wings of the nose. This technique helps prevent mental agitation and relaxation. It is sometimes explained to meditate with your eyes completely closed or even looking ahead. Indeed, by meditating with closed eyes, one risks easily becoming prey to lethargy, mental relaxation, torpor, sleep, physical or mental fatigue, etc ... At the other extreme, the eyes completely open can lead to restlessness, scattering and distraction. This is why the holy masters of the past explain that one should meditate with one's eyes just half open to guard against these difficulties. However, some people find it easier to meditate with their eyes closed or their eyes open, and do not struggle with the difficulties mentioned above. The goal of meditation being to achieve concentration, if one technique suits us better than another, it is permit to adopt it. Having your eyes closed or open is only an external condition. Indeed, mental calm and concentration are achieved through mental awareness and not through visual awareness.
The shoulders are straight, neither too tight nor too relaxed, just a little raised, like a bird about to fly.
This is a method taught by Buddhist masters, and I am posting it here, primo, because Buddhist masters are renowned for their deep knowledge of meditation. Secondo, because these taught methods are also very useful and effective even for non-Buddhists and, finally, it works really well for myself.
Hope it will for you too.
