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Doing Meditation 15 Minutes Vs Having A Meditative Mind 24 by 7! – Introduction
Welcome back to the 27th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “Doing Meditation 15 Minutes Vs Having A Meditative Mind 24 by 7!” will tell you about skeletal meditation emptying the mind and then keeping it empty for kundalini awakening.
“Breathing is the highest form of meditation.” That is not me talking but a quote often attributed to different eminent authors or philosophers.
In fact, meditation has been revered as a highly esteemed practice in human culture ever since human society took shape with sociocultural evolution.
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Doing Meditation 15 Minutes Vs Having A Meditative Mind 24 by 7! – Show Notes
In this thought-provoking episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure, titled “Doing Meditation 15 Minutes Vs Having A Meditative Mind 24 by 7!”, I explore the profound connection between mindfulness and daily activities.
Discover how to transform mundane tasks into opportunities for meditation by embracing the present moment with joy and awareness.
I dive deep into the essence of skeletal meditation, emphasizing the importance of emptying the mind to facilitate Kundalini awakening. I further highlight that true meditation transcends the conventional notion of sitting in silence; it can be integrated into every action we undertake.
Citing a survey from the National Institutes of Health, I reveal that many people meditate for wellness, energy, and improved concentration. Yet, I question the effectiveness of traditional meditation practices that often lead to mental lethargy rather than genuine relaxation.
Through engaging anecdotes and insightful reflections, this episode challenges you to rethink your approach to meditation. I illustrate how savoring each moment—whether eating, talking, or even experiencing discomfort—can lead to a deeper sense of awareness and fulfillment.
Join me as I guide you on a journey to make mindfulness a natural part of your life, encouraging you to embrace the joy of living in the present and transforming every action into a meditative experience.
You will learn…
00:00:00) – 76.2% of common people use meditation for general wellness or disease prevention
(00:10:58) – When we perform an action slowly enough to do it in its totality
Doing Meditation 15 Minutes Vs Having A Meditative Mind 24 by 7! – Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) – Skeletal Meditation
(00:10:58) – When the mind is in its totality
Doing Meditation 15 Minutes Vs Having A Meditative Mind 24 by 7! – Video
Doing Meditation 15 Minutes Vs Having A Meditative Mind 24 by 7! – Transcript with Timestamps
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How can we turn whatever we do into a meditation?
It is possible when we keep enjoying what we are
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doing every single moment of it.
My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome
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to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal
Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you about
skeletal meditation emptying the mind
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and then keeping it empty for kundalini awakening.
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“Breathing is the highest form of meditation.”
That is not me talking but a quote often
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attributed to different eminent authors or
philosophers. In fact, meditation has been
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revered as a highly esteemed practice in human
culture ever since human society took shape with
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sociocultural evolution. Lately, though, it
has almost become a fashionable trend among
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the elite for their wellness concerns. On the
other hand, people with a deep faith in religion
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follow it as a religious or spiritual practice.
Thirdly, people with different kinds of lifestyle
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diseases are also advised to sit in meditation by
none less than their own healthcare specialists.
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The modus operandi of such meditations
has mostly been to sit in an erect
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posture with eyes closed for a certain
duration of time. During this period,
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the meditators are supposed to do
something specific with their mind.
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What that something is widely varies depending
on what they want it to achieve for them.
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It looks like people have such great faith in
meditation that they feel it can provide them
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with all kinds of things they seek.
Why People Meditate
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A survey published by the National Institutes
of Health in America on their National Library
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of Medicine practicing revealed that 76.2% of
common people use meditation for general wellness
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or disease prevention, 60% to improve their energy
and 50% to improve their memory or concentration.
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Hence people’s priorities for what they
expect out of meditation the most seem to be:
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Health and wellness | 2. Energy
| 3. Memory or concentration
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How do we think meditation would be able to do
what we want it to do for us? And, that too, just
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by doing it for an hour a day? For the remaining
twenty-three hours, we are again going back to our
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unhealthy state of mind-body disposition.
Sitting for meditation for an hour or so
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has just become a fashion to satisfy
ourselves of doing something good.
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It rather strengthens our ego further.
How People Meditate
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Also, what exactly do we do when we sit in
meditation with our eyes closed? Here are a
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few things that people are guided
to do in the name of meditation:
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Chanting mantras or affirmations
| Counting beads | Counting
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breaths | Concentrating on a
thought | Imagining a sequence
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The above kinds of practices just numb
the mind, sending it to a kind of stupor.
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It makes one feel as if one has become
relaxed. But that is not what relaxation
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means. A lethargic mind is not a relaxed mind.
Mindfulness meditation, at least at face value,
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seems to be a better alternative for relaxing
the mind. Mindfulness means focusing the mind
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on being an aware witness to whatever comes
to it from moment to moment. People sit down
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in a cross-legged posture and start
making all kinds of efforts to become
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aware of their minds’ dynamic content.
But mind, as such, is a fidgety child!
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It doesn’t pay much heed to our efforts. In fact,
it loves to keep jumping from one casual thought,
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thing or action to another, like a monkey.
We try to witness it in its movement with
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our total awareness. It doesn’t say no.
But then, it stealthily slips away from
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under our attentive control to some of its
other unaware, casual concerns. We always
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need to keep bringing our awareness back on track.
But the problem is it gets bored over there in its
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pursuit of awareness. The very nature of the mind
is to keep jumping from one concern to another,
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unaware. And the reason is that it is
full of concerns, not only consciously
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but unconsciously as well. It tends to keep
scanning everything within its consciousness
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and even underneath it, unconsciously.
It is this point alone that mindfulness,
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at its best, can take us to. We need to
continuously keep exerting the pressure
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of our determination on the mind to tame
it into being aware the way we want it to.
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But then, who is this ‘we’ who is making
all this Herculean effort to tame our
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mind? Isn’t it a part of our mind alone?
Anyway, even if we are able to relax the
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mind for an hour or so, it is not of much
use. We are again going to fall back into
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the same unhealthy disposition. How do
we expect it to do permanent good to us?
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On top of it, the very idea of relaxing
the mind is contradictory in itself.
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Mind in itself is the name of an entity full
of contradictions, thereby fragmenting itself,
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and hence, fragmenting our ‘self’. As we already
saw in Episode 20, those fragmented parts keep
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fighting with one another, making a noise. That is
what is called a chattering mind. The techniques
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listed above try to merely calm it down by
turning it numb or exerting pressure on it.
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But the only rational way to stop its chattering
is emptying its content. That is what we call
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emptying the mind. We have already discussed
it in its operative details in the Episode
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- And that is what meditation must
do if it is to do any real good to us.
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At the same time, any such ‘real good’ should
preferably not be limited to any specific duration
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of time. It should happen twenty-four hours a
day, three-hundred and sixty-five days a year.
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That simply means we should try to replace sitting
for meditation with being meditative all day long.
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And that can only be done by
making it our first nature.
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Meditating Vs Being Meditative
Once a truly meditative state is reached,
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we no more need to keep sitting for meditation
everyday. We simply need to live in a meditative
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state all day long. Once we have learnt
how to do this, we need to say goodbye
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to the idea of ‘sitting in meditation’.
We need to empty our mind with every single
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breath exhaled while our chakras are open. This
will mean that we can be meditative even while
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talking to someone, smoking a cigarette, sipping
our wine or while making love, for that matter.
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Turning Every Action into Meditation
How can we turn whatever we do into a meditation?
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It is possible when we keep enjoying what we are
doing every single moment of it. It makes us fully
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involved into the action with total awareness as
opposed to getting indulged into it habitually.
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Let us suppose that we are doing something
that we like doing a lot. There is every
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risk of getting indulged into its action by
emotionally getting attached to it. Let’s
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take an example of eating our most favorite dish.
Even before we start tasting it, we have already
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conditioned our taste glands to taste something
familiar that we like. And when we taste it,
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we don’t really taste it right now, we just taste
our past perception of it. We live our mental past
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while chronologically being in the present. That
is how the mind affects the brain’s perception by
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falsely limiting it to a perception of the past.
Now let us play a game. In the same scenario,
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let us pretend we have lost our memory. We no
more remember that it is our favorite dish nor
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its taste. It depends on how good an actor we
are, being our own audience at the same time.
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Let us start eating it now. We would effectively
be tasting it for the first time in our life.
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If we are unable to feign loss of memory,
let us take our first bite very slowly,
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tasting it in its totality. This, too, will
effectively result in the feeling that we
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are tasting it for the first time in our life.
Do you see a parallel between the two actions,
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i.e, pretending to have lost one’s memory and
performing an action slowly in its totality? The
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result is the same in both scenarios. When we do
something slow enough to do it in its totality, we
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have already kept our emotional mind aside which
is akin to keeping our emotional memory aside.
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And we taste the dish like we are tasting
it for the first time in our life. This
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amounts to tasting it in the present moment.
Liking or not liking it is no more relevant.
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What matters is tasting it afresh with all
its passion and joy or even pain (if so ever).
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Let’s repeat the same experiment, this time
with a dish that we dislike the most. As we
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slowly taste it afresh in its totality,
disliking it is not relevant anymore.
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What matters is tasting it afresh with all
its passion and pain or even joy (if so ever).
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When we perform an action slowly enough to be
able to do it in its totality, we are no more
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governed by our mind. It is our nervous system
that takes over. And our nervous system is way
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more intelligent than our mind. It does things
with passion and joy or even pain. All emotional
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strings attached to the past experiences of liking
or disliking simply vanish into thin air. And
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the nervous system then performs actions without
ever emotionally liking or disliking them at all.
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I don’t mean to say that slowness of an action
is the only thing that leads to its totality.
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At times, it is just the opposite that works.
For example, running to save a child from
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being overrun by a speeding car works in its
totality only when done miraculously fast.
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However, these same types of slow or fast
actions, when non-meditative, are either
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lethargic or impulsive, performing those actions
either extra-slow or extra-fast. That is when we
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call them mental lethargy or mental hurry.
The key difference is that when the brain
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is in charge in an independent capacity, which
is what I’m calling the truly meditative state,
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the speed of the action turns optimum; it is
neither extra-slow nor extra-fast. The same
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happens to the quality of the action as well.
Mental lethargy and mental hurry as
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anti-meditative symptoms were never
as serious as they have become today.
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The two are solely responsible for
human actions being non-meditative.
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It doesn’t have to be that way because, as we just
saw above, being meditative all through the day,
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in whatever we do, is no rocket science.
And when we enter that meditative state, we no
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longer need to ‘sit’ in time-limited meditation.
The very things we do become meditative. The mind
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no longer controls the brain and is restricted
to play the role that it has been designed to
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perform. When the brain performs an action in its
totality, it does register it in its memory cells.
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But that memory is not accessible to the mind.
That is how the mind gets trained to remain
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empty and keep doing its job of
comprehending reality quietly.
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A meditative action full of joy performed in
its totality with passion leaves no desire
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for recreating it in the future. Similarly, a
meditative action, even if loaded with pain,
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performed in its totality with passion leaves
no anxiety of avoiding it in the future,
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regardless of whether that need to avoid pain
is based on the brain’s objective memory rather
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than the mind’s emotional memory. When similar
situations ever arise in the future, they become
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entirely new actions performed afresh right then.
In both cases, no conditioning of the mind occurs,
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thus always keeping it empty. We are only left
with an objective memory of the joy or the pain
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which our brain remembers along with all the
other details of the said actions spontaneously.
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But old habits die hard.
Our already conditioned minds
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pose a tough challenge to being emptied out in
the beginning. For example, when we go out in
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the scorching sun in a hot climate, our mind
contracts our facial muscles. That is how it
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may turn into an attack of tension headache for
a certain duration of time. The same happens
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in a snowy blizzard in a cold climate. All these
are conditioned reactions of a conditioned mind.
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Let’s take another example to address this
problem. Suppose we got an attack of tension
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headache. When it occurs, we generally tend to
avoid it. But it keeps forcing its pain not only
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in our head but also on our psyche.
That is how trying to avoid it doubles
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its uneasiness on our system.
The meditative way to deal with
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it is to stop trying to avoid it. Let us rather
accept it by sensing it in its totality. That is
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what people never do in general.
What happens next?
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As soon as the mind is sidelined by such
emotional acceptance, the brain takes
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the charge. We are left with sensing the said
action in its totality with passion and pain.
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The nervous system swiftly assesses something
wrong in the system. It also recognizes the
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source of the pain in the muscles of the head
being pulled down and tucked in. As soon as the
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neural signals direct the contracted muscles
to relax, pain vanishes leaving our senses
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with passion and joy instead of passion and pain.
The mind remains empty until it gets afflicted by
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another habitual pattern of its conditionings.
This way, through being meditative all along,
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we can go on emptying our mind
of its conditionings one by one.
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Emptying Mind And Then Keeping It Empty
But as we have seen earlier, there is a
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much better way out. That way is through opening
all the chakras via skeletal re-posturing and then
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addressing the extended exhalation of breath.
The said impeccable procedure infuses every
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single moment with passion and joy, with action
or without it. That is because breathing becomes
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an effortless action turning all other actions
meditative as well, as and when they take place.
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The procedure of Skeletal Leap
rewards us with a surge of
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inexplicable joy with every single breath.
Every single extended exhalation rejuvenates
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the entire nervous system by keeping
the mind emptied for its duration.
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Skeletal Leap has the power to enable us, the
Homo sapiens, for our next evolutionary leap.
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