how to quiet the mind

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Glad to see you using the online lessons at

http://kundaliniyoga.org/classes.html

In your practice (not exactly clear what you're doing) are you paying

attention to your breathing? Is it uneven and shallow? Shallow breathing

occurs because of shallow thinking, shallow habits such as eating too

much, and a lack of rich activity, as well as a pattern of not being

accurate, exact, or direct in life. Because of these habits, people

lose the natural capacity to breathe diaphragmatically, and this results

in self-created suffering. The good news is it is easy to practice

diaphragmatic breathing ( http://sahej.com/diaphragmatic_breath.htm ).

To perform it, one should lie down on his back, feet and arms slightly

apart, in the corpse posture, and put a small sandbag, or bag of rice,

on the abdomen. Normally twelve to fifteen pounds is the recommended

weight necessary to strengthen the diaphragm for adults. Once the habit

is formed, it is no longer necessary to use the sandbag. Keeping the

head, neck, and trunk aligned and the lips closed, one should exhale,

allowing the abdomen to contract. Let the upper abdomen and base of the

rib cage expand naturally with the inhalation. Do not create muscle

blocks. In this meditation awareness is focused inwardly. This focusing

of attention follows a systematic path from the most external parts of

one's personality, the body and senses, to the innermost, the mind

itself. By treading the path regularly, the way becomes familiar and the

mind is calmed and purified.

If this is practiced three times a day, one will be a totally

transformed person in a month's time, thinking differently and feeling

very energetic.

You will cultivate a groundedness and connectedness to things that

matter and you better your ability to sift through the "hundred things"

that are happening all "at once".

Another powerful technique is to find the pulse on your wrist and tune

into it for 11 minutes or more. Let the frequency of your mind match the

frequency of your heart, the frequency of your depth and not the hall of

mirrors that is our egocentric self.

And lastly, many will say the very purpose of yoga is to quiet the mind

so that meditation can be performed. First, we take care of the problems

of the body, and then we take care of the problems of the mind, which is

often much more difficult.

Sat Nam,

Dharam

Millis, MA <<<-->>> Eugene, OR

 

"Brains, like hearts, go where they're appreciated."

---Anonymous

 

catlady496 wrote:

 

>I am fairly new to all this and while going over lesson 2meditation

>practices I do most of this my problem is though I am add self

>diagnosed and I have a hard time keeping my mind quite or keeping on

>one topic in meditation my question is there anyway without

>medication I can do this to quite my mind without thinking about a

>hundred things at once? I have also noticed if I don't have some kind

>of noise this inevidably happens to be the quiter it is the more my

>mind wanders.

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