The position must be comfortable, and to focus the mind becomes more difficult if there is discomfort or pain.
one or more pillows on hard (not the soft serve, but a folded blanket and funky may serve temporarily) placed on a carpet, blanket or any surface sua-ve you sit in the lotus position of fourth (foot left calf right) so that your knees are resting firmly on the ground.
The straight spine, pelvis forward, head high with the nose slightly down. All this is very important because facilitating the circulation of chi or vital energy through the back, optimizing all vital functions. (This issue will be widely discussed in the section The Integral Yoga)
left hand on the right and thumbs touching, all resting on his lap.
The shoulders must be relaxed and "Fallen" (more elbows to the ribs in the drawing, is also good).
eyes closed and her tongue against the palate, his face relaxed.
We strongly feel sitting ... like a mountain, planted here and now, in eternity.
BREATHING
always breathe through your nose!.
The breathing technique is not spontaneous but voluntary, forcing us to control the respiratory rate and this "binding" the mind to the "pole" of breathing.
This gives us the control the mind, which is much more easy to see that this has decentralized do when we perceive the change in respiratory rate, (which will be shorter and speed up) because as they say Tibetans Mind is the rider and the horse breathing, and how will the anger one another.
The inspiration has to be a "normal speed" even deeper than the spontaneous, and then ex-piramos quietly in a somewhat slower in the end "spontaneous" ..
CONCENTRATING THE MIND
Meditation 4-8-8
deeply as we inspire to 4 (approx 4 seconds), we retain counting to 8, (approx. 8 seconds) and breathe out counting to 8, (approx. 8 seconds).
This technique can be improved gradually with 06.12.1912 as the evolution of practice and then we can do 4-8-8 8-16-16 (the latter only when we have mastered the previous and we advanced yogis dhyana).
There is also another very effective form of concentration which is to focus attention on the tan-tien, also called hara and that point is a point located three fingers below the navel and a half just behind the skin .
As we sit in the correct posture and breathing control we can we display a small point but very bright light, like a sun in the paragraph will, it visualize and feel focusing on the our attention.
The breathing techniques can or made as unique techniques combined with the concentration in the Hara, leaving this decision to the practitioner, who would do well to try different possibilities and decide for yourself.
But after stating what should be done (breathing and posture) and what you can do (to concentrate on the point will do), we say what can not be done:
As important as all this is not making judgments, which are discarded good and evil, desire and rejection, will that be? or is it not so?, that "nice Is this "and" this is not my pa-ra ", etc., always ignoring the preferences and without spirit of profit (this is very important and really the only correct attitude) abandoning any expectation of benefit and full acceptance.
The interior space of quiet contemplation in perfect agreement, is That.
First thoughts turn to the technique alone, without judging them or reject them. Strictly ha-soft can be satisfied and our meditation will be effective only So we get back to the technique ever surprised us thinking. This effort is not so great and its results will inevitably if you practice, but ever growing our meditation masters who have been bad because our minds have moved a lot.
Swami Sivananda says that if a bustling city at dusk, it will calm down as it approaches midnight and silence in the morning, and so does the mind during meditation.
When we first sat down that thoughts can be very powerful, but remain seated as practicing the technique, our minds as the city calming anger, and, once relative silence of thoughts and distractions in ben-efit from better concentration, experience a comfort and a quiet unlike anything known before, although the well-being during meditation is not the ultimate end of it and its benefits more important, though obvious unclassifiable, if I arrived we in due time.
However, as we said at the beginning, with the mind calm or agitated mind meditates-tion is always beneficial, and therefore if we are distracted we often avoid making judgments that gar going back as we deal with the technical tirelessly and never of "fighting" with thoughts, and not think that just is not true to the me-accreditation purposes.
HOW AND WHEN
Before explaining this point say that whoever wants to multiply by 100 the benefit of medi-tation (which is already almost infinite), and especially the speed with which such benefits become apparent, would do well to adopt the practice we call "morning session" and explained in the "Yoga Fitness yEnergético" in "The Integral Yoga." but meditation itself and without other practices (other than Sila and Prajna) is sufficient to transform the lives of either mo-do unimaginable.
can start with twenty minutes a day, but half an hour daily time is reasonable for a good practice, and forty minutes a day would be even more appropriate (if a second meditation in the evening or before bedtime, even shorter, the experience is multiplied.)
The longer the better meditate daily, as long as they also work simul-taneously the other aspects of sadhana and Prajna Sila covered, if not so, and if so, what is practiced meditation, half an hour daily is a prudent limit.
respect of when we say that although this depends on the person and their availability, the first thing in the morning is a great time.
But other times c omo the evening or before bedtime can also be good de-pending on the person, their schedules, preferences, etc., But meditation away meals so that digestion never coincides with meditation.
A Taoist trick
Those who meditate on rising benefit from a "trick" very effective to focus the mind and is the "catch" in yogic breathing (inspiration and expiration but something more profound slower than spontaneous) charge just waking consciousness.
So we got up and went through the bathroom without leaving the yogic breathing until you sit down to meditate, where we continue as part of our technique, which will make meditation easier because the start with the mind and focus. (The session morning de-scribed in "Yoga and Physical Energy" is an even better alternative)
us note finally that there is a period called Brahmamuhurta ranging between 4.00 and 6.00am ( solar time in winter would be 5.00 to 7.00 and 6.00 in summer to 8.00 English time) during which meditation is particularly effective, because the effort of concentration is significantly lower, which got better meditations lower - effort.
The reason for this difference is unknown to us but those who try will be amazed, therefore we recommend to anyone who can use this period.