3 Meditation Controls

There are 3 different levels of control that we need to master before meditation miracles can be achieved.

Breath Control:

Listening to the breath is the first level to begin meditation. Controlling the breath leads to the next level of control, energy control, as it can help calm and focus energy that is uncontrolled within the body.

Energy Control:

Through awareness in our breath, we can become calm enough to be aware of our energy. In order to meditate our energy must be at a certain level. If energy is too nervous and crazy you will not be able to comfortably concentrate. If it is at the point where you are relaxed enough to fall asleep you will not experience anything either. Energy must be balanced and controlled through awareness.

Consciousness Control:

This is the ability to control distracting things within us such as emotions and thoughts. Thoughts and feelings are constantly running through our minds. When we are reflecting inwards, without any external distractions, we can easily get lost to follow these temporary thoughts and feelings. There are two techniques for eliminating this problem:

– By realising that there is something observing these thoughts, we can realise that we are separate from them. If A is aware of B, A then can’t be B

– By observing the nature of the thoughts – not the thoughts themselves, but the way in which they come – ie. Like a waterfall. When you can observe what it is on a whole you are no longer lost by the actual thoughts within it.

Make sure your comfortable and not creating tension in your sitting position, can be lying sitting however as long as your backbone is straight.

There are a number of different ways to slip into meditation.

Focus on breathing
Wave meditation (listening to the sound of the waves, allowing them to penetrate into your body and wash away all your tension, timing your breathing with the waves so that you can become one with them)
Alter the chatter in your head to be about philosophy
Become an observer of the chatter in your head, distance yourself from it
Always meditate with a joyful feeling, some of the best are to focus on an experience or thought that raises the feeling within you (spiritual experience is better).

Stop the chatter in your head by becoming an observer of the chatter (this will help to develop your observation power). The chatter will slowly subside until it quietens, your breathing, heart rate and energy levels will change. The key is to keep the joyful feeling. Consciousness control.

Should you leave your body, think of Om Mani Padme Hum to return. Or think of any Buddha to guide you from any negative path.

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