29. Opening the Spiritual Heart
For this weeks meditation exercise, we shift our focus to the spiritual heart
- that place in each of us where powerful spiritual
energies are most focused. When we are beginning to learn meditation, we start by
developing the capacity to concentrate - to harness, focus and simplify our mental and
vital energies.
28. Chanting mantras to increase our divine qualities
Do you ever feel that
you need more of something 'good' in order to cope with everyday life? More peace, more
love, more positive energy, more patience...?
27. Appropriate times for mantra, japa and meditation
In this weeks meditation exercise, Sri Chinmoy offers some advice about the appropriate times for practicing mantra, japa and meditation. He also highlights the value of using a spiritual name as a mantra and defines the difference between mantra and japa.
26. Invoking life-energy with the mantra AUM
We all need life-energy, cosmic energy, in order to increase our purity and our hunger for spiritual fulfilment. In this weeks meditation exercise, Sri Chinmoy suggests a specific exercise using the mantra AUM to help bring life-energy into our system.
25. Purifying the mind using a mantra
Meditation is a skill that offers the practitioner many practical tools that can be used for the deepening of our inner self-awareness and also for the betterment of our day-to-day outer activities.
Awakening
Meditation Courses and Concerts in November and December 2009
Meditation helps us to find a calm and quiet space within ourselves from which to experience life. It is a time for us to focus our thoughts and awareness, quieten our mind and find our centre in peace. Meditation is not a religion. It is a practice which has developed over thousands of years.
24. Chanting the mantra AUM
A mantra is a word or phrase or sentence that, when repeated soulfully, focuses and purifies the mind, elevates the heart and brings to the fore that which is most divine within us.
Reading and Meditation
Posted November 4th, 2009 by ujjwalaReading is really beneficial to meditation especially if you sit down to meditate and your mind is reeling from the events of the day. By reading inspirational books, it settles the thoughts and puts you into more of a meditative space.
There is a wealth of inspirational literature available these days; from biographies of Spiritual Masters, positive affirmations and of course my own meditation teacher, Sri Chinmoy's writtings, who has written over 2000 books! Books on poetry, prose, stories, anecdotes and more.
23. Pranayama: the life-breath
This week Sri Chinmoy offers a breathing exercise for meditation using the traditional Indian system of controlled breathing known as pranayama. This is a very simple yet progressive exercise that can be expanded as the practitioner develops the capacity to breathe deeply and slowly.
22. Breathing and the mantra Supreme
In his weeks exercise, Sri Chinmoy offers an exercise in breathe control in conjunction with the use of mantra. In this meditation exercise Sri Chinmoy uses the mantra “Supreme” — a word that he often used as an intimate name for God or that which we perceive to be the highest spiritual reality within ourselves.