Guided Meditation – a Simple Technique

Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or an infrequent practitioner of meditation, you know how difficult it is to keep the mind steady on the object of your meditation. That is simply because that is the very nature of the mind. The mind only knows how to run around with different thoughts, emotions, feelings, perceptions etc. Swami Vivekananda likened the mind to a monkey – not an ordinary monkey but one who has had an alcoholic drink or two. Not only that, but the monkey has also been bitten by a scorpion. That is how the mind behaves all the time.

During meditation, we try to focus our mind on a single object and try to keep that focus without intrusion by other thoughts. One simple technique that I have found very helpful in my own meditation practice is to cycle the awareness through a sequence of body awareness, breath awareness, awareness on the third eye (spot between the two eyebrows) and then focus on the object of meditation. During the recent yoga intensive, I took the students through a guided meditation using this technique. I invite you to listen to this audio and use it as a guided meditation sequence for your own meditation practice.

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