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Free Guided Meditation
Welcome to our online guided meditation room. Visit here daily to enjoy 10
minutes of relaxation and healing reflection. Use these meditation techniques
for inner happiness and healing. You may select your own meditative image
below and pause/start guided meditation script or sound. Om Shanti.
Guided Meditation Script
Sit comfortably erect, without leaning forward or backward, left or right. Close
your eyes and think thoughts of good will. Thoughts of good will go first to yourself,
because if you can`t think good will for yourself — if you can`t feel a sincere
desire for your own happiness — there`s no way you can truly wish for the happiness
of others. So just tell yourself, "May I find true happiness." Remind yourself that
true happiness is something that comes from within, so this is not a selfish desire.
In fact, if you find and develop the resources for happiness within you, you`re
able to radiate it out to other people. It`s a happiness that doesn`t depend on
taking anything away from anyone else.
So now spread good will to other people. First, people who are close to your
heart — your family, your parents, your very close friends: May they find true happiness,
as well. Then spread those thoughts out in ever widening circles: people you know
well, people you don`t know so well, people you like, people you know and are neutral
about, and even people you don`t like. Don`t let there be any limitations on your
good will, for if there are, there will be limitations on your mind. Now spread
thoughts of good will to people you don`t even know — and not just people; all living
beings of all kinds in all directions: east, west, north, south, above, and below,
out to infinity. May they find true happiness, too.
Then bring your thoughts back to the present. If you want true happiness, you
have to find it in the present, for the past is gone and the future is an uncertainty.
So you have to dig down into the present. What do you have right here? You`ve got
the body, sitting here and breathing. And you`ve got the mind, thinking and aware.
So bring all these things together. Think about the breath and then be aware of
the breath as it comes in and goes out. Keeping your thoughts directed to the breath:
that`s mindfulness. Being aware of the breath as it comes in and out: that`s alertness.
Keep those two aspects of the mind together. If you want, you can use a meditation
word to strengthen your mindfulness. Try "Buddho," which means "awake." Think "bud-"
with the in-breath, "dho" with the out.
Try to breathe as comfortably as possible. A very concrete way of learning how
to provide for your own happiness in the immediate present — and at the same time,
strengthening your alertness — is to let yourself breathe in a way that`s comfortable.
Experiment to see what kind of breathing feels best for the body right now. It might
be long breathing, short breathing; in long, out short; or in short, out long. Heavy
or light, fast or slow, shallow or deep. Once you find a rhythm that feels comfortable,
stay with it for a while. Learn to savor the sensation of the breathing. Generally
speaking, the smoother the texture of the breath, the better. Think of the breath,
not simply as the air coming in and out of the lungs, but as the entire energy flow
that courses through the body with each in-and-out breath. Be sensitive to the texture
of that energy flow. You may find that the body changes after a while. One rhythm
or texture may feel right for a while, and then something else will feel more comfo
rtable. Learn how to listen and respond to what the body is telling you right now.
What kind of breath energy does it need? How can you best provide for that need?
If you feel tired, try to breathe in a way that energizes the body. If you feel
tense, try to breathe in a way that`s relaxing.
If your mind wanders off, gently bring it right back. If it wanders off ten times,
a hundred times, bring it back ten times, a hundred times. Don`t give in. This quality
is called ardency. In other words, as soon as you realize that the mind has slipped
away, you bring it right back. You don`t spend time aimlessly sniffing at the flowers,
looking at the sky, or listening to the birds. You`ve got work to do: work in learning
how to breathe comfortably, how to let the mind settle down in a good space here
in the present moment.
When the breath starts feeling comfortable, you can start exploring it in other
areas of the body. If you simply stay with the comfortable breath in a narrow range,
you`ll tend to doze off. So consciously expand your awareness. A good place to focus
first is right around the navel. Locate that part of the body in your awareness:
where is it right now? Then notice: how does it feel there as you breathe in? How
does it feel when you breathe out? Watch it for a couple of breaths, and notice
if there`s any sense of tension or tightness in that part of the body, either with
the in-breath or with the out-breath. Is it tensing up as you breathe in? Are you
holding onto the tension as you breathe out? Are you putting too much force on the
out-breath? If you catch yourself doing any of these things, just relax. Think of
that tension dissolving away in the sensation of the in-breath, the sensation of
the out-breath. If you want, you can think of the breath energy coming into the
body right there at the navel, workin g through any tension or tightness that you
might feel there ...
Then move your awareness to the right — to the lower right-hand corner of your
abdomen — and follow the same three steps there: 1) locate that general part of
the body in your awareness; 2) notice how it feels as you breathe in, how it feels
as you breathe out; and 3) if you sense any tension or tightness in the breath,
just let it relax ... Now move your awareness to the left, to the lower left-hand
corner of your abdomen, and follow the same three steps there.
Now move your awareness up to the solar plexus ... and then to the right, to
the right flank ... to the left flank ... to the middle of the chest ... After a
while move up to the base of the throat ... and then to the middle of the head.
Be very careful with the breath energy in the head. Think of it very gently coming
in, not only through the nose but also through the eyes, the ears, down from the
top of the head, in from the back of the neck, very gently working through and loosening
up any tension you may feel, say, around your jaws, the back of your neck, around
your eyes, or around your face ...
From there you can move your attention gradually down the back, out the legs,
to the tips of the toes, the spaces between the toes. As before, focus on a particular
part of the body, notice how it feels with the in-breath and out-breath, relax any
sensation of tension or tightness you might feel there, so that the breath energy
can flow more freely, and then move on until you`ve reached the tips of the toes.
Then repeat the process, beginning at the back of the neck and going down the shoulders,
through the arms, past your wrists, and out through your fingers.
You can repeat this survey of the body as many times as you like until the mind
feels ready to settle down.
Then let your attention return to any spot in the body where it feels most naturally
settled and centered. Simply let your attention rest there, at one with the breath.
At the same time let the range of your awareness spread out so that it fills the
entire body, like the light of a candle in the middle of a room: the candle flame
is in one spot, but its light fills the entire room. Or like a spider on a web:
the spider`s in one spot, but it knows the whole web. Be keen on maintaining that
broadened sense of awareness. You`ll find that it tends to shrink, like a balloon
with a small hole in it, so keep broadening its range, thinking "whole body, whole
body, breath in the whole body, from the top of the head down into the tips of the
toes." Think of the breath energy coming in and out of the body through every pore.
Make a point of staying with this centered, broadened awareness as long as you can.
There`s nothing else you have to think about right now, nowhere else to go, nothing
else to do. Just stay with this centered, broadened awareness of the present ...
When the time comes to leave meditation, remind yourself that there`s a skill
to leaving. In other words, you don`t just jump right out. My teacher, Ajaan Fuang,
once said that when most people meditate, it`s as if they`re climbing a ladder up
to the second story of a building: step-by-step-by-step, rung-by-rung, slowly up
the ladder. But as soon as they get to the second story, they jump out the window.
Don`t let yourself be that way. Think of how much effort went into getting yourself
centered. Don`t throw it away.
The first step in leaving is to spread thoughts of good will once more to all
the people around you. Then, before you open your eyes, remind yourself that even
though you`re going to have your eyes open, you want your attention to stay centered
in the body, at the breath. Try to maintain that center as long as you can, as you
get up, walk around, talk, listen, whatever. In other words, the skill of leaving
meditation lies in learning how not to leave it, regardless of whatever else you
may be doing. Act from that sense of being centered. If you can keep the mind centered
in this way, you`ll have a standard against which you can measure its movements,
its reactions to the events around it and within it. Only when you have a solid
center like this can you gain insight into the movements of the mind.
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