The goal of classic meditation is to still your mind, that which perceives the moving images of the movie. And, with time, practice, and patience, to stop your thoughts.
For many years, after we begin meditating, we don’t really practice meditation. We practice concentration. The idea is this: if you learn to concentrate so one-pointedly that you can maintain absolute focus, you can then move beyond concentration. Into meditation. Absorption. Samadhi.
In our busy world, with its unending array of spiritual offerings on the Internet, we are often introduced to meditation as something we do while walking, lying down, or listening to music. These may be interesting forms of being present while in activity or slowing down to relax. But they are not meditation.
In this series, Lucia reviews the basics of classic meditation, adds a few 21st Century twists, and provides a robust understanding of how to set up, then vary, your meditation practice, in order to get the most out of your daily practice.
She covers 3 chakras/dantian centers and 2 mantras. The series includes 4 meditations:
- Navel Center & relationship to Mother Earth’s power
- Heart Center, the home of unconditional love
- Third-Eye & the art of merging with the Void
- “Building Meditation Muscle”, where you practice moving attention rapidly then melting into stillness
If you want to overhaul your ideas on meditation and establish a solid practice, this series is for you.