Relaxation- Self Healing- Happiness

Relaxation-Self Healing-Happiness

In the modern world we all are caught up in an endless cycle of running. What are we trying to achieve?
Happiness? Finally we end up in a physical and mental stressful situation which can cause bad health and nervous break down.
There is a new concept that you can achieve Nirvana(internal Happiness) by emptying your mind. Nirvana cannot be attained just by meditation. It is actually, can be dangerous to empty your mind. People can end up becoming insane. You need to follow the Buddhist Principals. Start with Eight-Fold Nobel Path(Arya Ashtangika Margaya) which I cannot explain simply. If you google the above terms(English or Pali which is in brackets) you can learn it. Nirvana is attained only after a "Rahatha", Arahath" or a "Budhdha" passes away. While you live you have to be mindful. You clear your mind of all bad thoughts and attachments and be aware of the present moment. To be happy in this life and feel light hearted if you follow the following meditation techniques and live according to "Saleka Suththa", which I have show in page of "Mindfulness" ,, listing of 44 Effacement.

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Relaxing your body and mind can be achieved by your-self without much effort. This will naturally lead you to observe Sathi-Pattana meditation as taught in Buddhism. For a practicing Buddhist this can be the first step in the path to Nibbana, the internal happiness. For the others, this may help to realize some of your wishes provided that you don’t wish for too many things.

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1.First of all find a chair where you can keep your back straight and the legs strait, so that your feet are resting well on the ground.

2. Close your eyes , rest your hands on your lap and hold your thumb and first finger both hands) in Vitarka Mudra.

Vitarka Mudra- As in the blog photo.

3. Concentrate on top of your head, be aware of the scalp and relax the scalp and the top of your head. Feel how your head become relaxed.

4. Once you feel scalp and the top of the head is relaxed move your attention to your forehead.

Feel the pulses on either side of the forehead. Now relax your forehead.

5. Once you feel that forehead is relaxed, gradually move your attention to your eyes. Be aware of the tiny muscles around the eyes. Relax all the tiny muscles and feel how the relaxations run all over you. Now relax your eyes and move your attention to your cheeks.
Feel the warmth of blood flowing inside your cheeks. Now relax your cheeks and then your jaws.

6. Now move the attention to your neck. Be aware of the back of your neck front of your neck, left side of your neck and the right side of your neck. Relax all these neck muscles.

7. Once the neck is relaxed move your attention to the shoulders. With your mind, feel the shoulder muscles and shoulder blades. Now relax your solder muscles and solder blades. At the same time you can relax your hands.

8. Now move your attention to your chest. Be aware of the expansion and contraction of your lungs as you breathe in and out. Maintain this mind fullness for about one minute. Now tell your-self “I set my lungs to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner and “I relax my chest muscles.

9. Now move your attention to your stomach. Be aware of the heart beating above the stomach. Now tell your self “I set my hear to beat at a regular speed. Now slowly move your attention to your stomach area it-self.

10. If you have a knowledge of the organs inside your stomach, imagine each and every organ inside. Now tell your-self “ I set all the organs inside my stomach to function in a healthy manner. I relax my stomach muscles".

11. Now move your attention down to your thighs. Relax your thighs.

12 When the thighs are relaxed move your attention to your knees. Relax your knees.

13 Now move the attention further down the legs, to your calf muscles at the back of the leg below the knees.

13. Now relax your calves and move the attention to your ankles.

14 Relax your ankles and then the feet and your toes.

15. Tell your-self in your mind“ Now my body is fully relax.

16 Move your attention from your toes up to your head, following the same path of your anatomy as above in reverse order.

If the meditation is for the sole purpose of reaching a Jhana with the intention of working towards the Nirvana According to the opinion of Buddhist scholars this takes many life times), you can skip the next 3 steps.

17 Now let your mind wander off to a place you like place such as a botanical garden or near a river). Visualize the environment. Blend your-self with the nature.The birds, butterflies flowers. Listen to the birds singing and relax your mind. When your mind is relaxed, it is time to re-program your mind. Remove all the negatives put on you by others when you were very young. Think that you are great and you can achieve what ever you want. For example, if you like to travel, imagine that you are flying and going to see the places you like. Imagine your-self in that place as you have seen in pictures or travel guides).

Do not put a time frame.

18 At the end of the visualizations return to the environment and then to your-body. Now you can open your eyes and end the relaxation or continue your meditation on a selected topic.

The best meditation to continue after relaxation, is …Ana Pana sathi, awareness of the air going in and out of the nose as you breath in and out ( mindfulness of feelings ). As for beginners it is sufficient to practice this for about ten minutes a day.

Once you have managed to keep your mind and body together in one place be aware of your mind. Be aware of the thoughts that come to your mind. At the same time you have to be aware of your surroundings and what you are doing.

Meditation of Loving Kindness and Compassion(Maithri Bavana)

This is a good meditation as per Buddhist teaching to clear oneself of two of the obstacles to Nirvana KamachChanda and Vya pahdha).

Generally this is a good meditation to practice controlling your anger, jealousy, ill will cruelty and hatred, which are bad karma for this life as a layman, to have progress in work place and general day to day life. Meditation of "Meththa" is a good anger management tool and as I wish of all the people in this world practice this we will have a peaceful world for us to live.

The best time of the day to practice Maithri Bavana is early in the morning. This will help you to get through your day without bad incidents.

If you can practice it just before sleep, you will have less or no nightmares.

This meditation can be done seated in a comfortable position, not necessarily the lotus position and easier just after doing the Breathing breath out awareness meditation, Ana Pana Sathi, because by the time you will have your body and mind together.

I clear my mind of Lust, anger, jealousy, ill-will, cruelty and hatred

My mind is clean, my heart is pure

Now I fill my clean mind with peaceful and sublime thoughts of loving kindness, compassion and sympathetic joy

At this stage you have to be aware of your body and your thoughts.

Repeat for nine times

“May I be well and happy, may I be strong healthy and peaceful!”

After repeating the above thoughts for 9 times

While moving your attention from top of your head down to your toe think;

“Now I charge all the particles of my system with loving kindness and compassion”

“Now my body is fully saturated with loving kindness and compassion”

“Now I have elevated my-self, I have ennobled my-self”

“May I be well and happy, may I be strong healthy and peaceful!”

“Now I create an Aura of loving kindness and compassion around my body”

Imagine an aura around you.

“By means of this aura, I will cut off all the evil vibrations and I will protect my mind from anger jealousy, ill will cruelty and hatred”.

“Now , what I have achieved I give to others”.

Think of your family , neighbors, relatives, friends, associates, enemies , entire world, all the beings on the earth and then in the universe.

Now repeat the next step for nine times. Maintaining the awareness of your thoughts as it moves away from your body. As you move your attention out imagine that the rays from your body is being emitted and touch others .

“ May they be free from anger jealousy , ill-will cruelty and hatred!

“May they be free from suffering!”

“May they be well and happy!, May they be strong, healthy and peaceful!”
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Awareness of the environment

There has never been a time when the politicians and academies have been so much aware of the environment. The environment is polluted so much in the past , the rate of the increase of the danger to the life on this planet is accelerating. The environment pollution also contribute the global warming. There may be other factors such as the change in the pattern of solar emission of heat. But we can do lot to slow down the dooms day.

The main culprits of this problem are the human beings, our fathers and grandfathers. I mean the people who lived in luxury and over used the resources and pollute the environment.

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Few decades ago we rarely met or heard about people suffering from Diabetes, cancer or heart related ailments. Majority of the people naturally got their bodies to exercise, by walking to the bus stand , railway station or walking to the shops. Even the domestic chore provided the body some exercise to keep it healthy. We have come to stage that we don even walk to the TV to change the channels or turn the TV on and off.

Loving Kindness and Compassion Happiness