Meditation

Life is a journey, a long way, to go more or less smoothly. In spite of us to end. 

At the end of the journey will inevitably ourselves. In fact, at this juncture, what will never have more value? The physical goods? Dust! Culture? Fog! Affections? Smoke, maybe sweet, but still smoke! 

The only "good" of course, moments before changing our dear and beloved old dress worn, will be the "true face", the original a few years ago that allowed us to be born human. 

Beyond the possible hypothetical forms of expression we do not know what is actually the "original face". In this case know to know not only would not serve anything concrete, but may even be harmful and misleading. 

What, then, is meditation? We could say, is the art of encounter with our true face, with ourselves. An appointment is no longer random and unwillingly, but aware. For this to happen, and to make current and almost immediate benefits of Yahweh conference, is necessary or essential to practice a technique almost meditative. 

Let me explain briefly, but more would not be beneficial, a method widely disseminated and known: the focus on breathing and awareness of your breath. The how and why it works is secondary and speculative. Knowing the mechanism could in some cases even affect its validity, since they affect the practice. Fact, the mind tends spontaneously to anticipate the outcomes. As the difficulties prefigure the incentive awkwardly. 
Preliminary and positions for meditation 

Choose a quiet place. He wears a suit large, comfortable. Sit following common sense, without any effort in anything, according to anatomical principles correct. Try a stool, without crossing the legs. Search, however, to stand with your back straight and without much support. 

Or sit on a cushion consisting alternatively a carpet or blanket folded. It would be preferable to a bench suitable. On an empty stomach. Legs crossed, in the classic lotus position (Padmasana) or simple (Sukhasana). Well balanced without hanging neither right nor left, neither forward nor backward. Keep your back very straight, upright and in a way which presents no more curves than the physiological ones, neck and head erect. Put your hands on your knees. Whether the side of the back or the palm. 

Stay in the position adopted as possible. Melt the position, walk a few minutes and repeat if necessary. 
Frame of mind for meditation 

The propensity, the state of mind with which to undertake the technique is open to the life and breath, moment by moment, receptivity and humility.

Awakening Meditation

The aim of all meditation techniques is to achieve a quality of inner relaxation that will be natural and not to cling to identify with any thought. You have the feeling that thoughts are absent. But even that is a thought. When you leave "fall" feeling and this latest remote grip, or the further identification with the thought that there are no more thoughts, only then can we define what the tradition awakening. 

Will occur the moment when the mirror of the mind will become so efficient that its reflected light will appear, in itself, illuminating. But as far as being cleaned will never shine the same glare of his, without recourse to imagination and chasing the most fatuous between the impossible dreams. Only those who understand the rhythm of existence as the natural state abandoning any mere reflection to address life as it is, will become the real masters of themselves. 

We were convinced that this and that. Or to be neither this nor that. Well, meditation is being aware of both circumstances. The opposite poles are reunited. Love and hate combine to turn into compassion. And this is the awakening. See things as they are no longer subjected to identification with their moods, and as reflections of a cosmic dream draw our current reality. 

So that the revival will consist in opening the eyes really. Impermanence and interdependence become concepts accessories, useful but not essential, to explain the ephemeral. 

Awakening is like rincondursi the center of the wheel to observe and participate in the unfolding of human affairs without being necessarily and emotionally involved. 

Awakening is to stop daydreaming passive suffering the illusions of an imagination that distorts reality according to the most absurd whims. 

A real revelation. The beauty and splendor of a morning made. The glow of a real sunset. Awakening is the twilight of all identifications to allow the rise and rise of eternal dawn. The splendor and brightness of an aurora accomplished that unfolds its wings with joy wherever he turns his keen eye and attentive. The eye of vision that opens to receive the mystery of absence. 
What is "beyond the mind, silence, no-mind", seems to be the manifestation of a transcendent principle. It may be better defined as "absence of mind." 

However never fight against your mind. It is part of the universal mind. And when you relax, accept it for what it is, with all its strengths and weaknesses. Not dispute, if anything shifts the focus from external objects, like clouds that obscure your vision perspective, the sharp inner sky. 
Reflections 

Awakening and no longer be identified with the ego unconsciously, to recognize its existential roots, able to provide the innumerable and wonderful resources that life offers us. Awareness is an ongoing event, still alive, which is not equivalent to a final achievement, but to a perpetual process. 

Knowledge of the origin of the divine essence as free from the trappings of crumbling cultural rhetoric, and the horrible social prejudices. But if the ego, that demon which affirms the superiority of one culture over another, one religious tradition over another, will not be seen and understood, there is good reason to regret that the thousand flowers of reciprocity and tolerance. 

As the fragrance that emanates from the natural rectitude of the many historical Buddha that even before they were to convert the world it conquered. 

As the strands of grass that while erika overwhelmed by the most furious winds bend with loving gentleness well aware that the impetus will nevertheless calm, and to calm the violence. 

Awakening is the courage of the emergency that becomes way of life. 
Conclusion 

What freedom? And 'increasingly living in the here and now, without the constant fear projected by the mind. 
This involves the acceptance of what is, the state of things exactly as they are. And even the acceptance of our non-acceptance. 
Embraced, non-judgmental, our awareness in wider and wider areas of silent consciousness, self-centered attachment may still appear, but only to dissolve spontaneously, like a wisp of smoke in the wind.

Awakening Meditation

The aim of all meditation techniques is to achieve a quality of inner relaxation that will be natural and not to cling to identify with any thought. You have the feeling that thoughts are absent. But even that is a thought. When you leave "fall" feeling and this latest remote grip, or the further identification with the thought that there are no more thoughts, only then can we define what the tradition awakening. 

Will occur the moment when the mirror of the mind will become so efficient that its reflected light will appear, in itself, illuminating. But as far as being cleaned will never shine the same glare of his, without recourse to imagination and chasing the most fatuous between the impossible dreams. Only those who understand the rhythm of existence as the natural state abandoning any mere reflection to address life as it is, will become the real masters of themselves. 

We were convinced that this and that. Or to be neither this nor that. Well, meditation is being aware of both circumstances. The opposite poles are reunited. Love and hate combine to turn into compassion. And this is the awakening. See things as they are no longer subjected to identification with their moods, and as reflections of a cosmic dream draw our current reality. 

So that the revival will consist in opening the eyes really. Impermanence and interdependence become concepts accessories, useful but not essential, to explain the ephemeral. 

Awakening is like rincondursi the center of the wheel to observe and participate in the unfolding of human affairs without being necessarily and emotionally involved. 

Awakening is to stop daydreaming passive suffering the illusions of an imagination that distorts reality according to the most absurd whims. 

A real revelation. The beauty and splendor of a morning made. The glow of a real sunset. Awakening is the twilight of all identifications to allow the rise and rise of eternal dawn. The splendor and brightness of an aurora accomplished that unfolds its wings with joy wherever he turns his keen eye and attentive. The eye of vision that opens to receive the mystery of absence. 
What is "beyond the mind, silence, no-mind", seems to be the manifestation of a transcendent principle. It may be better defined as "absence of mind." 

However never fight against your mind. It is part of the universal mind. And when you relax, accept it for what it is, with all its strengths and weaknesses. Not dispute, if anything shifts the focus from external objects, like clouds that obscure your vision perspective, the sharp inner sky. 
Reflections 

Awakening and no longer be identified with the ego unconsciously, to recognize its existential roots, able to provide the innumerable and wonderful resources that life offers us. Awareness is an ongoing event, still alive, which is not equivalent to a final achievement, but to a perpetual process. 

Knowledge of the origin of the divine essence as free from the trappings of crumbling cultural rhetoric, and the horrible social prejudices. But if the ego, that demon which affirms the superiority of one culture over another, one religious tradition over another, will not be seen and understood, there is good reason to regret that the thousand flowers of reciprocity and tolerance. 

As the fragrance that emanates from the natural rectitude of the many historical Buddha that even before they were to convert the world it conquered. 

As the strands of grass that while erika overwhelmed by the most furious winds bend with loving gentleness well aware that the impetus will nevertheless calm, and to calm the violence. 

Awakening is the courage of the emergency that becomes way of life. 
Conclusion 

What freedom? And 'increasingly living in the here and now, without the constant fear projected by the mind. 
This involves the acceptance of what is, the state of things exactly as they are. And even the acceptance of our non-acceptance. 
Embraced, non-judgmental, our awareness in wider and wider areas of silent consciousness, self-centered attachment may still appear, but only to dissolve spontaneously, like a wisp of smoke in the wind.

Work on the techniques of meditation

It seems that to many is still unclear what meditation is what you are, not what you do. So do not confondiamola with any technique devised to aid and that in the early stages seem, for the most relaxing ways. Since beginners are hardly able to reach that particular type of relaxation in a lucid and direct, this is replaced by un'escamotage, technique. 

The techniques of meditation are tricks to bring attention to themselves and to the present moment. Meditation is an experience of openness. When meditating must remain open to experience, possible. Not necessarily because that is expected to happen consciously or unconsciously prefigured dreamed, longed, pleaded, desirable. 

Techniques of meditation should be explained only by those who have experienced directly. The main purpose, as well as describe as faithfully as possible the various circumstances which must presumably encounter, is to illustrate with appropriate terms and relevant. Expressions which not only makes the idea of real prospects, but which correspond to the common understanding. To insist on this point is far from trivial. Distortions of interpretation which can occur are endless. 

Why meditate? Meditation as a search for truth, or truths about meditation? The Truth is in the present. Chasing the truth is to look for the present moment. However look for is an asset. As such it is outward-looking and involves vitality, dynamism and versatility. But when the search converges on a single goal, the moment you create a very specific situation. The energies of attention routinely used to interact with the outside world will be mobilized to explore the inner. All techniques of meditation are tricks to bring the mind from the past or the future to the present. 

Just when we committed or involved in seeking a spiritual dimension and truth, she escapes and becomes a mundane object. On the contrary, be here and now present for your presentation, is truth, freedom, nirvana. 
A question 

The techniques of meditation are ways to remove barriers and open doors in the light of Truth. But what are these barriers? The first is the thought, multiple levels of thoughts. Here's an example of a possible misunderstanding. 

Name: Salvia 
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 

Question 
I have read, the speech of the Buddha on the practice of teacher awareness of the breath. My question is simple, when I meditate and directs attention to the breath, I have to consciously make the concept: "now I'm breathing out," now I am breathing "? I am not sure if my attention must be devoid of linguistic concepts. I did not understand, you could help me on this? There would be very grateful. 


Answer 
First, pay attention to the physical location of a moment that you take to meditation. Sit properly and spine very straight. Giving consideration to the mechanical components of the breath. For example, the abdomen is lifted or tents, etc.. 

Do not describe in detail the process because you should find out for yourself. If you do not dwell I'd simply follow my curiosity losing that small illustrations that help you stay interested and awake. However note that there is nothing to grab, edit, address. This is just to understand what happens spontaneously. 

Later, with time, days, weeks, months, you should proceed by attention to the physical component of the flow of breath or dynamic factor, to the perception of breathing itself. So no more tangible sense of the flow of air, its freshness, vitality and rejuvenated you send helps to brighten, but a quality that you'll be able to identify themselves as soon as your meditation becomes pure serenity, calm , clarity, transparency, clarity. 

What is this? Again, if you do not say it would not help. On the other hand, in the books is already much more than you have set out so quickly. Only two recommendations. Perform these exercises exclusively if they Trai concrete benefits. Tralasciali Otherwise why not be generally necessary. 

Meditation is above life, presence of mind, awareness, not technical. Devotes at least the same amount of time spent on the exercise of meditation to carry out a suitable and adequate physical activity. 

Hello, Thank you for the question. Typically these responses re-use as articles or otherwise. 


Of course I have not reported the above description to illustrate a specific technique, how to clarify the difference between thinking in a particular circumstance and live it. A bill would, for example, imagine or foreshadow a promising new beautiful sunrise, a very different, however, ritrovarcisi inside. 

The techniques of meditation are real devices that are lived and not thought about. 
Accolades 

It is not good distinction between mind and body. In reality there is only the mind-body entity. An organic unity. With meditation you try to be more careful and therefore more aware, both to themselves and to others. The difference between a human being, an animal, a plant, a rock, it's just a question of more or less consciously. As for the practice itself can be chosen. Someone thinks it is unnecessary to take a particular stance or engage in a certain year, but so, in my opinion, everything becomes more difficult. And there is, however, who adopt a technique. 
Thought 

Indeed, those engaging in the practice of a technique never stops to think, is obvious. Even the feelings of inner peace, silence, which occur during meditation, are forms of thought. As the mirror of the mind can be cleansed of every speck of dust so that it is sharp and clear and reflects its objects without being scratched or affected, experiencing calm and serenity, it will still be a normal perceptual activity. 

However, you can suspend analysis, labeling or interpretation of every single detail. During exercise specific meditation thoughts with some thin out gradually. One who meditates regularly fails to receive a summary of the general circumstances and respond in real need and not so redundant. That sense of partnership that eventually detached comes not only understanding of what is, or passive acceptance, receptivity, as real efficiency. You leave the superfluity for the essentials. All. 
Effects 

The meditator expert from becoming involved is less than by others from their thoughts. Not identified as before. Do not submit passively. However, the failure to identify not mean that it will remain cold and insensitive, quite the contrary. Not find themselves victims of their own or another's fickleness. Resentment, hatred, all the so-called negative emotions did not nothing to him. Obviously get, but in the distance. As if you do not really concern them. Possessiveness, attachments, passions, love, are transformed into sharing, sense of interdependence, joy and kindness. On the other hand, the ego you duck, the unconscious fears vanish and with them the mere need of false certainties that can not certainties. Certainly, love is always there. And it will be a thousand times more vivid because the experienced meditator becomes finally able to share himself without any fear of being overwhelmed, both by friendly people that unforeseen circumstances. 
Conclusion 

I expatiated a bit 'techniques such as tricks that may or may not adapt to different types of people. Everyone will find the most suitable one that meets its current needs. It would be a grave mistake to believe that the techniques are absolute values of reference. 

How to end without a general advice that is valid for almost all the meditative approach, ie for most of the techniques? Right now I do not know what will happen in a moment, let alone beyond. Right now I live moment to moment. Enjoy, but not m'identifico. Now I do not need to plan, I just be careful ... 

I hope I have been clear enough. Sometimes I use metaphors, sometimes I try to use language to induce an understanding otherwise impossible. 

The article is not yet finished, read the rest as soon as possible and then describe some of the most interesting techniques of meditation. On the other hand this site is all yours.

Yoga for Women

God created man and woman that they are as equal partners shared the hardships and rewards of life, its joys and sorrows. If you compare life with a chariot, a man and a woman - two of its wheels. The material and spiritual duties equally borne by men and women. Both want to have good health, peace of mind and lead a balanced life. 

Yoga is favorable for both men and women. Women need yoga, even more than men, as nature left them with more responsibility, than men. The art of yoga is as old as the Vedas. When we read stories of those times, we have the impression that in many areas women are superior to men. None other than the goddess Parvati, the first suffered the science of yoga, catalysed the god Shiva to teach her. 

Maitreya, the wife of the great yogi and philosopher Yajnavalkya reached freedom of spirit through yoga. This art has taught her husband, whose teachings in the book Yogayadzhnyavalkya. In a well-known episode from the Ramayana describes Rama's parting with relatives when he was exiled for 14 years and sent to live in the woods. Kausala His mother, stricken with grief, she knew that no one blessing, uttered with tears in their eyes, will not bring good luck. In order to achieve self-control, she became involved in asanas and pranayama, and only then, when recovered from the shock, and gained peace of mind, was for Rama and blessed him. 

In the Vedic period to women treated with great respect. Manu Smriti says about them as goddesses. 

Where women are respected, there live the gods. 
Where they are neglected, all acts are futile. 

In the Vedic period there have been cases where women were subjected to initiation ceremonies, they study the Vedas in Gurukul (house master) and trained in various arts such as wrestling, archery, yoga, music and drama. Over time, the situation of women in society became more and more secondary and its freedom curtailed, even if it is respected as a mother and her pinned some public duties. It was seen as the weaker sex and thus deprived of social status, privileges that she enjoyed in the Vedic era. She was denied the Gurukul and the ceremony of initiation. She was denied access to the study of philosophy, science, arts and yoga, so that its position has deteriorated further. 

The later history of India is full of reports of the battles with the invaders who invaded from the north-west. Indian women were severely affected by their social insecurity. Despite this, some women Yogini yoga system successfully spreading across India: for example, Lall, holy to the XIV. from Kashmir, and the holy Bahinabay preached yoga and meditation, Sharada Devi, wife of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, was versed in yoga and pranayama, 

The path to yoga is open to all regardless of race, caste, creed and gender. Everyone can attain liberation through yoga! 

Nowadays, the situation of women has improved significantly compared with the periods of smrti, Puranas, and even the later stories. Her intelligence, insight and creative force found room for a more complete expression. On stage performer, she lives many roles - daughter, sister, wife, mother and friend. In all these roles a woman must be at altitude. In Samkhya yoga woman compared with Prakriti (nature). As in nature, it must always be active. Only under this condition, it succeeds in life and her house is filled with joy. Wonder Kalidasa displays a woman in the role of life-giving spark in the family. This same engine is a spark of spiritual uplift of society.

Yoga - Pearl for Women

"Nature intended women to the top of his creation", - wrote John Ruskin. This is evidenced by her beauty and grace, and gentleness of nature. However, it has a strength of character and endurance. Woman affectionate, gentle and flexible, her movements are easy and graceful, in contrast to the movements of a man with his strong, rough and tough body. Yoga requires incredible flexibility, and it seems that the Creator gave preference to the woman, making her body fit and how to set up for yoga. 

The woman is very different from a man his height and the Constitution. The muscles of her soft and light in comparison with coarse, large and heavy muscles of men. Also, her bone system is not as large as a man. A woman able to endure physical stress and mental load in a much greater extent than men, but not through physical strength or endurance, but because of the inherent nature of its characteristics. 

In addition, the nature of her responsible for the reproduction of kind. The welfare of the nation and the health of future generations depend on the physical and mental health of women. A careful study of the peculiarities that distinguish women from men, or rather, her body and exposed to changes of physiological functions and emotional states, found that if she perceives asanas and pranayama as part of their lifestyle, they become more meaningful and helpful for us. Yoga helps woman in her responsibilities and in the preservation of face color, charm and femininity. After learning yoga, a woman no longer needs in cosmetics, as well as proper blood circulation makes her skin glow. It is no exaggeration to say that the practice of yoga can help with all conditions and circumstances of her life. 

Yoga - the ideal type of exercise for women. In the chapter on anatomy in the Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita Ayurveda describes the exercises, which may through action and movement lead to good results. In comments to him says that if properly performed, they attach to the body of lightness, efficiency, resistance to diseases and disorders caused by imbalance of three organic liquids. They stimulate the harmonious functioning of the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, nervous, glandular, urinary and excretory systems. The texts contained a warning that improper exercises cause lethargy, exhaustion, vomiting, dysfunction of internal organs, skin dryness, internal bleeding, cough, fever and other disorders. 

Asanas helps to relieve fatigue, pain and suffering. They help not only unhealthy to recover, but healthy and stay healthy. 

In yoga there is a special gift for the women engaged in athletic and sports. Asana can help to correct the irregular movement of muscles, causing congestion and stretching of ligaments. They eliminate the pressure and tension and give the whole system of speed, flexibility, strength, endurance and coordination. If athletes, men and women who have exhausted their strength, they can easily restore their energy through asanas. Thanks Asanas can also increase the amplitude of movements.

Yoga for Women: the role of women in society

In addition to these traditional roles of women in this age of global competition have to play some additional roles: doctor, lawyer, politician, teacher - and with them she copes well. However, when the daily struggle saps even the upper limits of its endurance, physical and mental fatigue lead to a weakening of its natural interest in family and children, and then to the indifference and disappointment. 

The organism is known, must pass through all four stages of its development: 
childhood, adolescence, middle age and old age. At all four stages of changes occur in the psyche, and each person is faced with internal problems and internal conflicts. This leads to dysfunction of physical and mental functions, and the woman (and men) have spent a lot of energy to achieve emotional balance during transition periods. 

Maternity - women's purpose. This is not a simple physical condition, and the state of the divine. Motherhood adorns its sacred attributes such as love, selflessness, loyalty, tolerance, kindness and hard work. For her, the highest religion - it Svadharma. These properties are deeply embedded in the nature of women. Sometimes, being suppressed by the difficulties of existence, it is because of their characteristics is somewhat servile, as it can not cope with lots of responsibilities entrusted to it by nature. Sometimes she wants freedom and intellectual take-off, but religious beliefs hinder her and return her sense of duty. Gita to teach women to perform all its duties without expecting a reward. The endless struggle of women and mothers associated with labor and responsibility, taught her sensibly perceived inconsistency of the world, without losing composure. 

All this - the role of mother, wife, sister and friend - a woman is given a heavy price, both in physical and mental terms. Stabilization of the physical and mental states achieved through the asanas and pranayama. In their performance - her salvation.