Relaxation - Mindfulness Practice

You can do the practice in shavasana or sitting or standing. There are four steps of relaxation and regular practice maximizes the results. Every practice is fresh, choose the one that helps you the most.

Transcript

Welcome to the relaxation practice from the Eastern wisdom. Eastern wisdom is 6, 000 years old, 3, 000 texts, More than 3, 000 teachers. The principle of the Eastern wisdom aims at the discovery of inner peace and happiness, Love and the wisdom. Today we are going to practice four-step relaxation based on the principle of the Eastern wisdom. It says withdraw the mind from outside to inside, Allow the mind to rest within. What happens? Relaxation dawns from deep within because peace is our essential nature. Get ready for the relaxation practice. Sit or lie down. If you lie down and cross your legs and the arms, Hands are facing the ceiling near the thighs or if you are sitting you can sit with your cross leg or whatever is the most comfortable position. Close your eyes gently. We are preparing for the relaxation practice and now look at the neck joint mentally, Feel the sensation, Experience being comfortable, Look at the shoulder joints, Feel the sensation, Experience being comfortable and if you don't feel any, If you don't feel comfortable you can just adjust and align these joints, Hip joints, Feeling sensation, Comfortable. Knee joints, Feeling sensation, Being comfortable. Ankle joints, The entire body is comfortable. The great master says withdraw the mind from outside to inside. So what happens to the mind outside? It is scattered in millions of directions. So let us start with the first step is the awareness of the body. Look at the head in the neck, Mind mentally, Feel the sensation and become aware of the head in the neck. That's all. Remember in this practice we do nothing. Doing nothing means we don't ask the mind to do anything. In the field of awareness look at the right arm, Feel the sensation and become aware. Look at the left arm, Feel the sensation and become aware. So the body is already comfortable, It is not moving. In that state of awareness the mind moves now to the chest and the belly, Feel the sensation, Be comfortable. Sensation and awareness. Move the mind on the right leg, Feel the sensation and become aware. The first step is only awareness of the body. In the state of doing nothing move the mind on the left leg, Feel the sensation and become aware. The entire body, Feel the sensation and become aware. The first step is done. Now in the second step we discover not only the sensation but also the stillness in the body. The body is made up of matter, That's what we say, Carb, Fat, Protein, Etc. So now see the second step, Look at the head in the neck, Feel the sensation and experience the stillness. You see we have to experience the stillness, We have not to enforce the stillness. The moment your mind consciously or subconsciously enforce the stillness what will happen? Your mind will start making an effort and after the practice the mind will say no I was not able to focus. So you are not doing anything. Look at the right arm, The mind is there on the right arm. First sensation, Second experience stillness, That's all. Look at the left arm, First experience is the sensation, Second is the stillness. Look at the chest and the belly or I can rephrase it move the mind on the chest and the belly, Feel the sensation and experience the stillness. Move the mind on the right leg, Feel the sensation and experience the stillness. Move the mind on the left leg, Feel the sensation and experience the stillness. We feel the sensation because of the life force, We are alive. In the state of relaxation coming from the Eastern wisdom you become more and more alive and that too in the state of the stillness. Move the mind on the entire body, Feel the sensation and experience the stillness. Second step is also done. Moving to the third step. Third step is helping the mind to live within. After all the mind comes from within so no effort is required. So look inside the head and the neck, Outside experience of sensation and stillness continues and when you look inside the head and the neck there is an emptiness, There is a space, You may experience the darkness and the moment you experience the dark space just say to yourself, I'm in peace. Look inside the heart, The space and you are aware of the sensation and the stillness outside. I'm in peace. Look inside both the arms, So you are aware outside there is a sensation and stillness in both the arms and inside there is a space. In that experience of the space just say I'm in peace mentally. Look inside both the legs, Be there alive with the sensation and the stillness outside and I'm in peace. The entire body, Look anywhere inside. The sense organ do not go inside. If you are alive you experience the sensation and stillness in the body. At that moment the mind is living within and we become aware at that moment I'm in peace. And third step is done. How simple it is and the fourth step is the awareness of the breath. I would say mindfulness of the breath means we expand the mind. How? Let us see without doing anything. In the state of the sensation and stillness in the body, Mind living and looking within, From within you're looking at the breath. The first point of awareness the breath is going in and out. You are experiencing it at the same time when the breath goes in you feel the sensation, The breath returns, You feel the sensation. So you see I'm explaining your experience in the state of sensation and stillness in the body. The mind is looking within and from within it is looking at the breath with a two-pointed awareness. First point breath going in and out. Second point feeling the sensation of the breath going in of the breath coming out. And now do nothing. Yes my friends do nothing. Remain in the state of doing nothing. What happens when you do nothing you become nobody and in that state the relaxation and the inner peace manifest in our life in every cell of the body. In that state of doing nothing just listen to it. There is citation it deepens your experience. Aum, Shanti, Shanti, Shanti. It means let there be peace, Peace and peace. We return in a specific way to maintain that state for a longer period. Bring your mind to the right hand feel the sensation in the palm move the mind on the left hand lift your both the palms place it on your eyes open the eyes inside. Now ask your mind what is your experience bring the hands down. A repetition of this practice deepens your experience of relaxation and changes the entire mindset. Thank you my friends for attending this session.

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Love this, very gentle and wonderful relaxation 🙏😊