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MEDITATION

Attentive meditation

Contact your internal wisdom, but if you're just tired, it works too

This is about a simple technique of unleash a body and mind profound relaxation state. As the mind grows calm and remains awake you are going to benefit yourself of a more profound and peaceful state of consciousness.

1. Before start, find a silent location where you won’t be disturbed.

2. Sit down and close your eyes.

3. Concentrate on your breathing, inspiring and expiring normally. Don't try to control or to change the breathing deliberately. Just observe.

When observing breathing you will see that it changes. There may be variations in the speed, in the rhythm and in the depth, and maybe it will stop for a moment. Don't try to make any alteration. Again, just observe.

Maybe you wander once in a while, thinking about other things or paying attention to external noises. If that happens, simply turn attention back to breathing.

If during the meditation you notice that you are concentrating yourself in some feeling or expectation, simply move attention to breathing.

Practice this technique for fifteen minutes. At the end, keep eyes closed and remain relaxed for two or three minutes. Go out of the meditation state gradually, open the eyes and assume your routine.

I suggest the kind meditation practice twice a day, in the morning and at the end of the afternoon. If you are irritated or shaken, you can practice it for a few minutes in the middle of the day to recover the axis.

In the meditation practice you go through one of three experiences. But you must resist to temptation of evaluating the experience or your capacity of following the instructions, because the three reactions are "correct".

You can feel bored or restless, and the mind is going to be full of thoughts. That means profound emotions are being liberated. If you relax and continue to meditate, these influences will be eliminated of your body and mind.

You can fall into sleep. If that happens during the meditation, it is a sign that you need more hours of rest.

You can enter in the thoughts interval... beyond sound and breathing.

If you rest enough, keep the good health and devote yourself every day to meditation, you are going to get a significant contact with your Self. You will communicate with the cosmic mind, the voice that talks speechless and that is always present in the intervals between a thought and other. This is your limitless superior intelligence, your supreme and true genius, which, on its turn, reflects the universe wisdom. Everything will be at your reach if you trust in the interior wisdom.

Deepak Chopra

In Perfect Health - The Complete Mind Body Guide

Translated from Portuguese version Saúde Perfeita by V. V. Vilela

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