Nothingness Meditation - De-stimulate & Find Spaciousness
by Gigi Ray
This meditation helps us to de-stimulate and come back to a place of spaciousness, by meditating upon NOTHINGNESS in various forms. The nervous system is always processing sensory information through the five senses – the gates to the mind. When we tune into the places where our nerves are not connected, such as our fingernails, our hair, the air around us, the black space in front of our closed eyelids, we can have a taste of SPACIOUSNESS and STILLNESS that expands our understanding of ourselves, as being beyond the impressions created by the senses and the mind. The process of detaching from the senses, can help us cultivate our practice of Pratyahara, which allows us to move to deeper levels of meditation. It can be very liberating to stop identifying with unhelpful perspectives, beliefs and understandings of Self and open up to new ways of being.
