Brow Chakra Guitar Meditation For Inspiration

Insight and Inspiration are within our own inner guidance. Ajna, "to perceive" is our Brow Chakra, also known as the Third Eye; alignment with our inner guidance can keep us focused, centered, so clear, and therefore so free to feel joyous, confident, and present in our every enjoyable action and decision! Raul's crystal clear bell-like guitar voicings help us to relax into Self-Connection.

Transcript

Stressed This is an asana Brautakra meditation.

It is drawn from the Ishta Dikṣa,

The tradition in which I am trained,

Integrated science of Hatha,

Tantra and Ayurveda,

Is what Ishta stands for.

And it is the lineage I have inherited from Yogiraj Alan Finger,

Second generation Ishta,

Yogiraj.

And it has three steps to it.

So find yourself in a nice tall spine.

This is a seated meditation.

Feel free to sit upon a cushion or any other support.

And feel free to have your back supported if that serves you.

Perhaps a straight back chair,

A wall behind your seat,

Or a cushion bolster,

A vertical bolster behind your spine as you sit.

It begins with alternate nostril breathing.

You may choose to do it with your hand.

Or some of us who are more experienced with it may choose to do it hands free,

What we call mental alternate nostril breathing.

Using the hand,

You would leave your left hand palm up upon your body,

Thumb and index finger lightly connected.

And your right hand would be available to come to your nostrils,

Right thumb on your right nostril,

Right ring finger on your left nostril.

Let your right arm be relaxed and comfortable in front of the body.

And that position of thumb and ring finger on nostrils,

Do not let it cause your head to turn to the right.

Let it be quite centered.

The chin slightly dips down.

And you still have a very vertical alignment in the spine,

Shoulders relaxed.

To begin,

Let's inhale through both nostrils and exhale through both.

You may wish to have a tissue box beside you if you are using your hand.

Now close the thumb and inhale through your left nostril,

Right to the center of your forehead.

Close both for a moment.

Then release the thumb,

Exhale through your right nostril.

Good,

Keep the thumb open,

Inhale through your right nostril,

Close the thumb for a moment,

Then release the ring finger,

Exhale through your left.

That's one full cycle.

We repeat it just like that.

Inhale through the left nostril,

Right to the center of the forehead,

Close both and then exhale through the right nostril by releasing the thumb.

Re-inhale through the right nostril,

Right to the center of the forehead,

And exhale through the left.

That's the second round.

Continue like this.

Inhale through the left as though it were an upside-down V going to the forehead.

Exhale through the right.

Each time you are re-inhaling through the nostril,

You just exhale through and sending it up to the forehead like it's an upside-down V,

Sending it out the other side.

So as you continue to do this,

If you lose track at any time,

Just remember I'm going to re-inhale through the nostril I just exhaled from,

And I'm going to send it to the forehead and out the other side.

And as you continue doing this,

You might begin,

If it feels comfortable,

To slightly hold when it's in the middle and gently massage the nostrils with thumb and ring finger before you send it out the other side.

You may notice that you need to blow your nose from this,

And that's a good sign.

You've just dislodged mucus,

And it's a good thing to be able to clear that.

So you could pause,

Blow your nose,

And continue right where you left off.

You may find that you begin to feel very sort of zoned out,

Very in the center of your awareness.

That's exactly what this alternate nostril breathing technique does.

Because every 90 minutes we actually switch our brain hemisphere dominance,

Right brain for 90 minutes,

Left brain for 90,

And what this alternate nostril breath does is it balances us into the center by switching dominance through our inhale,

Back and forth.

As you continue to do this,

You'll notice that when you inhale through one nostril,

You're actually triggering the opposite side brain hemisphere to light up.

It's the inhale through each nostril that is activating,

Firing up the opposite brain hemisphere.

And that moment in the center,

In the forehead,

Is our meditation zone.

And you're letting that hold and linger longer and longer if it feels comfortable for you.

And you'll do one or two more cycles and end with a left nostril exhale,

Only because we began with a left inhale.

And let both hands rest comfortably down.

Take that same thumb to index finger,

OK sign loop symbol with both hands,

This joining of the thumb to index,

Making a circular loop of the energy wisdom sealed,

Nana mudra is what we call it.

Just be there for a moment,

Resting from the alternate nostril breathing.

Notice if it's calming,

Notice if it's centering.

You can use it as a reset whenever you need,

As a meditation technique or a pre-meditation technique.

Good.

And now we invite in a second pranayama breath control technique.

Imagine that your breath begins at the very base of the spine between your sit bones.

And as you inhale it's traveling up the spine,

Straight elevator line right to the center of the forehead.

And as you exhale,

Straight elevator,

Shoot back down to the base of your spine,

Just like that.

The inhale travels up the spine,

This has the added effect of helping our posture be tall and upright.

And the posture stays upright as the exhale travels back down,

So you're just letting the breath go up the spine as you inhale right to the center of the forehead and stay tall as the breath goes back down to the basement,

The base of your spine.

Continue this very simple up-down,

Slow,

Even breath.

Your shoulders are relaxed and your body is relaxed.

Yes,

Your posture may be more erect as a result of this vertical breathing.

And as you are breathing up,

You're hitting the same forehead spot as you did in the alternate nostril breathing.

So if the alternate nostril breath was making an upside down V pattern,

This vertical up-down pattern is sort of making an upward pointing arrow with that V.

Upward pointing arrow in the spine.

And those of you who like to add sound may choose to add a syllable to the inhale and the exhale.

On the way up,

Add the sound H-A-M,

Hum.

And on the way down,

The sound S-A-H,

Sa.

So your breath is singing hum on the way up,

Which means I am,

And sa on the way down,

Which means truth,

As in sat in Sanskrit.

Your breath has that inner song,

I am,

Truth.

I am,

Truth.

Hamsa also as a word means swan,

As though our soul,

Our spirit,

Were a graceful,

Beautiful,

White swan that can both glide upon the earthly waters of life and take flight through the airs,

The ethers of our spiritual being and existence.

Allowing yourself a few more rounds of this vertical balancing,

Which has the added symbolism of our physical nature at the base of our spine,

Rising up to meet our spiritual nature in the forehead,

And our spiritual nature equally diving down to meet our physical embodied animal nature.

So that this vertical hum sa breath is in fact a tantric practice,

As tantra is the merging of the divine within the material,

The physical.

The divine in everyday physical,

The physical drawing up to meet the divine hum.

The spiritual divine drawing down to meet the physical sa,

Truth.

And on your next hum up and sa down,

You may let that go.

And just let your breath be natural and quiet.

And notice whether your body and your spirit or mind feel a little more balanced or tranquil through the bridging of that breath,

Hum sa breath,

Kriya breath,

Meaning purification.

And know that you can use either of these two balancing breaths,

Either by themselves or together in that order,

Whenever you need some centering,

Some grounding,

Some calming.

Now the third step of this three step practice,

That third eye spot an inch above your eyebrows of the forehead,

That same spot that both those breaths hit,

It will bring your awareness to that spot.

For those of you who may wish a little physical targeting sensation to help you feel it,

You might wish to take one finger to your tongue and just lick that finger,

Moisten it,

And touch the spot in the center of the forehead an inch above your eyebrows,

And draw a circle,

Draw an eye shape,

And let your hand rest back down in that mudra loop.

And allow that coolness where you've touched it to send your consciousness,

Your awareness two to three inches inward from the surface of your forehead.

And this spot is our sixth chakra,

The sixth of seven along our spine,

Wheels of energy.

It has a purple,

Lavender,

Indigo light,

Like the early evening twilight sky,

That changes color mode at all times.

And it is indeed the spot in our brain where our optic nerves cross,

Where we actually see in our brain,

With our brain,

Everything that our physical eyes take in,

That's where your third eye resides.

You may see light there,

You may see velvety darkness,

You may see colors,

Patterns,

Pictures.

Allow yourself to calmly dwell and enjoy the cinema,

The panorama.

This is also the seat of your imaginative powers,

Your pineal gland and your hypothalamus gland share this seat.

Ajna is its name,

Ajna to perceive.

I have the right to see is its affirmation.

And as you softly bring your inward gaze there,

Allow yourself to rest and dwell in that quiet zone.

Whatever arises,

Let it come,

Have its moment,

Let it dissolve,

Witnessing,

Observing,

Lingering in this,

The timeless and spaceless meditation zone,

Where all meditators pray yours of all time and space join with you.

Whether it is for a second,

Or ten minutes,

Or forty-five minutes,

Or a thousand eons,

This is the space that refreshes soul and body.

You may use an inner sound when needed and as needed to quieten and calm your awareness,

And the default sound is the syllable OM,

Only as needed as though it were the softest muffled gong,

To quieten and soothe and pacify your senses.

You may use an inner sound when needed to quieten and pacify your senses.

You may use an inner sound when needed to quieten and pacify your senses.

You may use an inner sound when needed to quieten and pacify your senses.

You may use an inner sound when needed to quieten and pacify your senses.

Even when this particular meditation ceases,

The recording stops.

Feel free to dwell in your own eternal,

Timeless,

Spaceless meditation zone,

To let it refresh body and mind.

When I first learned this meditation,

I was taught that twenty minutes in this zone equals five hours of deep,

Restful sleep for refreshment of body and mind.

Let yourself dwell here,

Using your soft,

Muffled gong OM.

Trust and honor that any moments spent here have an effect upon your world,

Your life,

And the world in which you partake.

Om Shanti,

Shanti,

Shanti,

Namaste.

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Reviews

Nameste 🙏

That was beautiful. Thank you.

Amazing!
In the beginning, I wasn't sure how effective this meditation will be, but then towards the middle, I was enjoying it and at the end, I was hoping not to end!!
Namaste🙏

This meditation was amazing. My dog barked towards the end and I literally felt like my energy quickly got back into my body. Thank you so much.

I am so very thankful to you Mary. You have described the process of getting into the a meditative pose with such a ease and finesse. Thank you so much. 🙏🖖