Meditation

>Meditation is not just for achieving physical  mental and emotional well-being but a key to spiritual treasure. Today eminent doctors  specialists and general practitioners have agreed that meditation is a powerful complementary therapy. Meditation can help us in healing and sustenance of good health. It can cure and even protect us from several psychosomatic disorders that results from mental stress and tensions.

A technique of meditation that aims at bringing about positive attitudinal and behavioral changes through overall transformation in the personality. The main purpose of Meditation is to purify the mental state. Meditation means to perceive carefully and profoundly being free from attachment and aversion. In this method, we observe the internal phenomenon of body.

Acharya Siddhasen (6th century A.D.) wrote, Let us observe the state of our body  and perceive the form of our mind. Let us sit in meditation and observe the different states of our body. Thousands of different kinds of changes occur in our body and to witness all these changes with inner eye is called the perception of self through self.

  Basic Methods (technique) of Meditation -

(1) Relaxation                                                                              (7) Perception of Psychic colors                    

(2) Internal Path (trip)                                                           (8) Contemplation

(3) Perception of deep breathing                                          (9) Chanting of Mantras                                   

(4) Perception of alternative breathing                            (10) Asana (Yogic exercise)

(6) Perception of Psychic centers                                      (11)Pranayama (restraining the breath)

 (5) Perception of physical body                                          (12) Mudra (postures)(13) Dhvani (sound)