Meditation Planner Week – 1

I have asked a couple of my friends to volunteer and help me in this endeavor of making a meditation planner for them, which they have agreed to work on with me. The first week is supposed to be quite simple and easy. After all, meditation is basically the natural condition of our bodies, where our bodies are let loose in their own selves, without any conscious thought, stress or tension. So here is the planner for week 1:

Get up in the morning (any time is fine, but if you are able to wake up early then it would be more beneficial as early morning time is supposed to be the most peaceful time, when our subconscious mind is at its highest receptivity). The moment you open your eyes, don’t just get up and start going for your morning ablutions or jogging. Lay still on your bed, open and close your eyes five times, orient your body to lay down in normal way (without any twists or tension at any body part) . If you feel comfortable, you can choose to get up and sit on your bed in half-lotus or full-lotus position, your hands clasped comfortably and lying on the joint of your thighs.(see the picture above)


Now, start taking deep breaths. Keep your mind clear of any thoughts. If you begin to see your night’s dream or some other random scenes, don’t analyze anything. Let them come and go in your mind. If the images and visions become too distractive, try to focus on your breath. See how your breath goes in, and comes out of your body. See the air filling your lungs and stomach, as it goes in. The moment you breath out, see the air gushing out of your nose and mouth. Do the whole process slowly and consciously. I’d recommend you to always place an alarm to wake you up after 10 minutes of this process, as people may have a tendency to fall asleep doing this activity, and I don’t want you to get late for your work. The whole process of meditation is to dissolve the chaos in our lives, and not to create more.


You need to take around 20 deep breaths, as mentioned above in order to complete the process. The trick is that you should not get any thought during these 20 breaths. Whenever you get any thought in between, you have to go to the beginning and restart the process again. You may find it difficult in the beginning, but again our mind is usually calmer in the morning and more receptive, so it should not be difficult to do this activity early morning. In any case, don’t try too hard. Just try it thrice, if you are not able to relax or if you feel you are straining too much then simply take deep breaths, without worrying about your thoughts. Let them come and go. Gradually, you will find it ok to do this exercise without letting any thought disturb you.


I have done this exercise plenty of times, whenever I am too stressed or don’t get a good night sleep and wake up looking like a zombie. The exercise helps a great deal in relaxing your mind and all the tense muscles, thereby helping you to prepare for your whole day.
I recommend you to initiate your meditation planning with this simple and easy breathing exercise, to be done every morning after waking up and at night – before you go to sleep.


Continue with this exercise for the first week, and you will notice the difference in your attitude and way of looking at the things around you. You will feel more poised and calm. You will have more control on your anger and the way you react to other situations. If you are following this blog, I want to know about your experiences with this exercise. Feel free to drop your comments below. I will try to reply back to each one of you.
Next post will be on the meditation planning of the second week.


Blessings!

What is Meditation Planning?

Well, This is my first post here, and I simply want to describe about my motive behind this blog. I started this blog in an attempt to guide myself and others through various steps in meditation and self-hypnosis in a step by step format. 

We usually plan everything in our day to day lives. We plan our next day's activities - who to meet, what to do, when to do, where to go, when to go, who to dine with, what to dine, etc. Have we ever thought what our bodies and minds are going through all the time we are busy planning things from our conscious mind, which we feel are essential? Meditation Planner aims at helping myself and others in squeezing some time into our day-to-day activities, where we can plan to give our minds some peace, and get some answers from our sub-conscious. I have done this many times before, but it was usually time constrained or dependent on the need of the situation. I always got positive results. The only thing I regret is not being able to do it at a regular basis. With this blog, my aim is to make myself and others also follow a "meditation chart", which can help everyone plan their dose of daily meditation according to their demands and comfort level.


I hope to succeed in this endeavor.