Preksha Meditation

Benefits of Practicing Meditation

Read on to find out how meditation can be useful in everyday life.

• On physical level, it helps each body cells to revitalise itself. It makes respiration more efficient and improves circulation and quality of blood.
• On mental level, it proves to be an applied method to, train the mind to concentrate. It offers a way to treat serious psychosomatic illness without drugs. It is an efficient tool for ending addictions and other bad habits. It reveals the mysteries of mind by realisation and real experiences of the inner consciousness which includes the subconscious and the unconscious.
• On emotional level, the strengthening of conscious reasoning controls reaction to environmental conditions, situations, and behaviour of others; harmonisation of the functioning of the nervous and endocrine system result in control and eradication of psychological distortions. These may include stress, depression or anger management.
• On spiritual level, regulation of blood-chemistry through proper synthesization of neuro-endocrinal secretions, and dispassionate internal vibration lead one to attain the power to control the mind and become free from effects of external forces compelling one to lose equanimity.

The Technique

1. Relaxation or Kayotsarga, which includes the Perception of Breath
2. Perception of the Body
3. Perception of Psychic Centres or Chakras
4. Perception of Psychic Centres with Colors.

Perception of Psychic Centres or Leshya Dhyan

• Thymus Gland - Centre of Bliss
  When we are struggling with a problem we should do a ten minute golden yellow color meditation on the chest near the heart.
• Thyroid Gland
  Meditate on bright peacock blue color. Visualize the blue color on the thyroid glands, near the sound box in your throat. A deficiency in blue increases anger.
• Hypothalamus
  Meditate on bright orange color, like that of the rising sun. This improves the voltage of bioelectricity in the body, and overcome mental weakness. Visualize the orange color in the center of eye brows, inside the skull on your hypothalamus. This helps in intuitions.
• Pitutary Gland - Centre of Knowledge
  When our neurons get inactive, we need yellow. Focus on top of head (i.e. cerebral cortex) bright golden yellow color. Visualizing that you are in a store with glittering gold articles will help you in focusing on yellow color. This has direct relationship with intelligence.
• Pineal Gland - Centre of Enlightenment
  Concentrate on the center of your forehead, with bright white to conquer anger, arrogance, jealousy and attachment. Visualize clearly, project it on your mind screen with shining cool white light (like that of full moon). This is to cure disease and eliminate toxins from the body.
• Adrenal glands and Gonads gland are usually active therefore it is not necessary to meditate on these glands. Always concentrate on upper part of the body.
• At the end do mediation for a couple of minutes on the top of the head with white light. Experience the peace and joy. Take few deep breaths and open eyes with a big smile on your face.