4 Ways to Meditate During Integral Yoga

1. Meditation to Clear the Mind

Some use integral yoga meditation for a religious experience. Others use the meditation to raise consciousness. Many beginners of the practice of integral yoga simply want to clear the mind so that relaxation takes place. Meditation in Integral yoga allows you to accomplish and all of these goals. The goal decides the level of commitment to the practice of Integral yoga. Many that participate in Integral yoga do not necessarily embrace all the philosophies that come with the practice, but use it as a healthful method to relaxation and stress relief.

2. Use Meditation to Heal the Charkas

Clear the mind of all the accumulated incidentals. Calm the spirit and meditate. Use the quiet time to picture healing to the various charka points in the body. During meditation, focus on the charka and feel the effect of mentally sending universal healing to the area. The charka points equate with body parts and healing energies create change in the charka and clearing. This change and clearing heals the body.

3. Release the Soul and Use Meditation from Integral Yoga

Integral yoga, also called Purna yoga, trains for three different goals. The first is aspiration to attain the divine. The second goal is the surrender of the self to the Universal one and the third goal is the rejection of obstacles that block the self. Meditation accomplishes the release of the soul and aids in reaching the state of divine awareness. Meditation is necessary to achieve any of the steps since divine awareness is the first rung on the latter to liberation of the consciousness.

4. Meditate for Depression

Meditation is a treatment for depression. The cross-legged position with one hand on the left knee and the eyes staring at the tip of the nose is a starting position when you meditate for depression. Breathing used is nostril breathing where the hand is to the nose with the first finger and thumb alternately closing opposite nostrils after a complete inhalation and exhalation series. In this instance the entire sequence of the mantra continues with one nostril closed and then repeats with the other nostril closed. The mantra used to meditate for depression is "wha he guru" and the mantra and nostril breathing continues for no less than 15 repetitions. Each syllable of the mantra accompanies a pull inward of the naval. Build the amount of time as you continue the meditation daily.

Last updated on: Nov 18, 2009

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