LTF Weekly Newsletter – March 22nd 2009
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Meditation
“The meditative mind is the highest state of mind. Meditation is an activity higher than thought.” – Swami Bodhananda
Find a quiet place where you can spend 15-20 minutes without interruption. Turn off your cell phone and let anyone else know that you need some time to yourself and set your timer so that your mind knows that you have something to restore you to normal awareness.
You can sit outside under a tree or inside in the dark, wherever you feel safe and least likely to be disturbed.
After you settle into a comfortable sitting posture with your spine as straight as comfortable, close your eyes and take a deep breath.
Allow yourself to notice what you can hear. Listen for as many sounds both near and far, loud and faint as you can hear.
Then notice what you feel. Feel your clothes on your body, your legs and bottom on whatever you’re sitting on and the feel of air in your environment.
Slowly shift your focus to your breath. Follow the journey of your breath down inside your body. Notice if you focus on it, if it becomes deeper or more shallow. There’s no need to control it. The body knows how to breathe. Just let it breathe.
Notice the silence between the end of your exhale and before the start of your next inhale. Just focus on feeling the peacefulness of this gap in the breathing process.
Allow your awareness to focus on how your breath feels when you inhale…and how it feels when you exhale.
If your mind starts to drift, just allow the thoughts to come and then let them go. Allow your mind to return to the center of your breath between the end of your exhales and the start of the next inhale to silence your mind.
Before you know it, your timer will sound and you may find yourself resetting it for another 15 minutes!
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