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About Meditation
Meditation is the process of controlling and transcending the waves of the mind, allowing the flow of radiance from the soul. Meditation is for everyone. It uses the inherent self-sensory system, the mind, and the body. Through the use of refined patterns, meditation creates a communication between you and your mind, and between your mind and your body. Meditations which use mantra work on the upper palate of the mouth, which controls the autonomic system and the impulsations of the old brain (hypothalamus) and limbic systems.

Meditation ...

    • Develops the Neutral (Meditative) Mind.
    • Takes us from a finite to an Infinite perception of reality, by connecting us to the clarity of the soul.
    • Promotes a sense of well-being, inner peace, stability, and calm.
    • Develops the intuition.
    • Releases reactions and unconscious habits, subconscious fears and blocks, and builds the spontaneous and intuitive link to awareness itself.
    • Encourages mastery over transforming emotion to devotion.
    • Promotes the ability to focus energy, enhancing effectiveness and efficiency.
    • Promotes clarity of mind, mental awareness, and the ability to be present.
    • Resolves core issues of stress-producing patterns.
    • Develops the frontal lobe of the forehead, which controls your personality.

Simran is the continuous experience of the meditative mind.
Simran is a continuous, meditative, longingly creative feeling, in which life is experienced as a spiritual flow.

Yogi Bhajan on tuning in with the Adi Mantra
Anytime you want to manifest a link with spirituality, Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo is the link.

You know how when you enter a parking lot, and you cross a line and pull the ticket out? That is this mantra. You manifest Infinity through the Grace of Guru Ram Das when you chant this mantra. When you have lack of faith or a similar thing, you can chant this mantra. With the grace of Guru Ram Das, Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo is a call. It is a call which can penetrate through any maya and manifest God and Guru, the Supreme Consciousness.
That is why the fifth Guru, Guru Arjan, the son of Guru Ram Das, chanted Ad Guray Nameh, Jugad Guray Nameh, Sat Quray Nameh, Siri Guru Devay Nameh. Siri Guru Devay Nameh is the manifestation of Shakti, of the presence of Guru Ram Das. This may be chanted after the Adi Mantra.

Meditation for Stress or Sudden Shock
Meditation for Strong Nerves
Meditation to Handle Grave Situations
Meditation to Tranquilize The Mind
Meditation to feel God in your heart
Other meditations using Ang Sang Wahe Guru
Meditation for Awareness and to Stimulate the Brain
Meditation for Grounding
Meditation for Fear
Exercise to Make You Stress-Free
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MEDITATION TO FEEL GOD IN YOUR HEART - 9/10/01
A Commentary by Gurucharan Singh, KRI Director of Training
Originally published in
The Inner Voice, February 1991
Revised October 2001


Ang is 'a part'. Sang is 'in every,' or 'with every'. Wahe is 'the indescribable living ecstasy of Infinite Being'. Guru is 'the knowledge that transforms your mind, emotion and essence.' The whole phrase means, "The Infinite Being, God, is with me, and vibrates in every molecule and cell of my being."

This mantra expresses a universal truth. Repeating it creates a thought, which gradually guides the psyche to adjust itself. It re-connects every fragmented projection of the psyche, each separated part of the body, and synchronizes the finite sense of self to the Infinite Oneness. This act of rejoining the separated parts is the quintessential act of healing. Under attack, under war, under the pressures of fear, this meditation keeps us together, conscious, and ready to act. It brings the inner peacefulness that comes only from the touch and scope of spirit.

This meditation was given by Yogi Bhajan in Espanola on September 10, 2001. He has specified that it is the best meditation for everyone to do now. He spoke about how important it was for us to feel God in our hearts.

Posture:
Easy Pose

Eyes:
Closed

Mudra:
hands are clasped and held at the level of the sternum, slightly in front of the chest. The fingers of the right hand are on top. The wrists are straight, so that there is a pyramid formed by the mudra and arms.

Mantra:
Ang Sang Wahe Guru, version by Nirinjan Kaur. If the tape is not available, chant at a rate of 2.5 seconds per repetition of the mantra, with a 1.5 second pause before the next repetition..

Part 1

Chant with the mantra, pumping the navel point forcefully on each of the 5 syllables.
Continue for 11 minutes
If the tape is not used, the navel is pumped twice per second for 2.5 seconds, followed by a 1.5 second pause before repeating.

Part 2

Continue to pump the navel hard on each of the 5 syllables of the mantra, but stop chanting and listen only for 8 minutes. If you are doing it without a tape, maintain the pace indicated above while you listen to the sound of your mental chanting.

To End the meditation

Inhale, exhale, inhale and stretch the arms up with the hands locked. Stretch the spine. Exhale and relax.


Yogi Bhajan gave this Mantra as a practice for peace and to deal with the mental imbalances caused by war. He first gave it during the war with Iraq and once again has given it for its healing power and strength. To meditate, chant the mantra in a steady pace. Enunciate each sound precisely. This will help heal the wounds of war that tear the psyche apart. There is a phobia that comes in wartime. It is the feeling that all that is familiar is actually unfamiliar. The fear is that those you love can turn against you or that those you love will be torn away. Then the psyche becomes depressed and defensive. The mind contracts and loses touch with its resources and with the larger flow of the Universe. This meditation acts like a healing balm to center the mind and focus your spirit.

When Yogi Bhajan gave this meditation during the Gulf war, he said,
"These are times of trials and tests. No one should take them lightly. At the same time, no one should be negatively serious and depressed. At this time you need your spiritual strength to go through this as individuals, as a family, as a community, as a Nation and as a Dharma. I urge you to come out with positivity and encouragement to help other people. One-half million military personnel in the Gulf have many millions of concerned relatives, and they are not all yogis who know the technology to balance their nerves and emotions under such great pressure. Offer consolation to families that may need your help. You can indirectly serve many people with your brightness of spirit, your service and your love of God and spirit.

Whether you are directly or indirectly involved, the nature of war and the psyche of war can lead normal people to war phobias. The instability of events, the constant news, the discussions and speculations create a prevailing atmosphere that tends to create phobia. This is a time to strengthen, consolidate, and pray for peace so it may come soon."


This is even truer now. The war of terrorism affects everyone. We are all interconnected on the planet, in our psyche and through our emotions. We feel the distress of souls dying. The rush of battle and the challenge to perform excites. All the emotions, positive and negative, form a global adrenaline rush in the psyche. This leads some people to act from the subconscious sensitivity to the energy. Some people pray. Others eat more, or sleep more, or fight more. There are many fears in the subconscious which awaken and which are projected on other people. The war phobia Yogi Bhajan refers to can progress very gradually through a whole community and lead to nervousness, depression, drug usage, prejudice against apparent enemies, and against people who are perceived to be in some way different than ourselves.

We need tolerance, positivity, and endurance under the pressure of this long war and its many atrocities. The best way is to exercise and change the nervous system first. Change the set points of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves that encode your state of arousal and anxiety. Then, when calmness is achieved, plant a seed for peace and higher thought. Chant a mantra that guides the mind into a pattern beyond the current strife.



Other meditations using Ang Sang Wahe Guru

To stop any reactive hysteria that comes from over-anxiety and to give you clarity of mind:

Inhale slowly with one mental repetition of the mantra. Hold for four repetitions of the mantra as you concentrate at the brow point. Then exhale deliberately and completely for one repetition of the mantra. Continue for 11 to 31 minutes.

To avoid the tendency toward depression or obsessive thoughts, use the
Ang Sang Wahe Guru mantra in this meditation:

Inhale strongly and fully as you mentally repeat 'Ang Sang'. Feel the kiss of the life force, prana, touch every part of the body. Then exhale in a strong slow whisper, 'Wahe Guru.' Feel "you" dissolve into the Infinite itself. You are calm and full of light.

Be careful with this meditative pranayam, it is very powerful for beginners. Start with 3 minutes and slowly increase to a maximum of 11 minutes.
Meditation for Awareness and to Stimulate the Brain (August 27, 2001)
Posture: Easy Pose

Mudra: Place the hands behind the neck, with fingers interlocked

Mantra: Har ( Tantric Har tape by Guru Prem Singh and Simran Kaur)

Movement: Chant Har from the navel point. Pull the navel point in and move the elbows forward on each repetition.

Time: 3-11 minutes

Meditation for Grounding (Anandpur Sahib, December, 2000)

Posture: Easy Pose

Mudra: Hands in position for Sat Kriya (arms extended straight up over head, fingers in Venus Lock except index fingers, which are together pointing up.)

Mantra: Chant Sat Nam as in Sat Kriya, pull and release the navel point. Do 3 repetitions, then move the hands, still in Sat Kriya mudra, in a sharp movement down to the heart center and chant Wahe Guru slowly.

Time: 2 minutes

Meditation for Fear (Anandpur Sahib, December 2000)

Posture: Easy Pose

Mudra: Grasp the Sun finger of the left hand with all the fingers of the right hand. The left thumb goes under the right hand, with the left fingers resting over the right fist.

Mantra: Ra Ma Da Sa Sa So Se Hung

Time: 3 minutes

Exercise to Make You Stress-Free (7/12/01)
Part 1
Posture: Easy Pose

Mudra: Both arms up at a 60-degree angle, elbows straight, hands open, palms down.

Mantra: None

Movement: Tighten the upper arms, stretch the chest, and tense the body so it shakes from the base of the spine to the neck. Arms and hands shake also.

Time: 3 minutes


Part 2

Posture: Easy Pose

Mudra: Stretch both arms straight out in front of you at shoulder level, parallel
to the floor, elbows straight. Bend the hands up at the wrists, with the Jupiter fingers up, and the other fingers held down with the thumbs.

Eyes:
Looking straight ahead at the tips of the Jupiter fingers.

Movement: Keeping the arms stiff and parallel to the ground, move the left hand in

small clockwise circles, and the right hand in small counter-clockwise circles.

Time: 3 minutes - during the last minute, move as fast as possible.


© Yogi Bhajan


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