Living That’s Stress-Free

 There are three golden rules to follow in meditation. First, be relaxed and comfortable. For the next 10 to 15 minutes, sit with the thought that ‘I want nothing’. Got it? If you say, ‘I want to drink water’, you are not meditating. The second step is, for the next 10 minutes, ‘I do nothing. I want nothing and I do nothing.’ The third step is, ‘I am nothing’. If you think you are intelligent, forget it. Yet, if you think you are stupid, you are in the same boat. If you think you are too poor or too rich or very holy, forget about it. If you think you are a sinner, forget about it. So, you are nothing! You want nothing, you do nothing and you are nothing. Meditation keeps the energy high in the whole surroundings. Meditation and breathing techniques give more inner clarity, and then we feel that others can understand us better, and also we can express our views better. Concentration is not meditation. Meditation is deconcentration. It is letting go. Meditation calms the mind. But in our daily life, we have to handle paying bills, parking tickets and other mundane things. How can we do this with the same calm mind without getting irritated or perturbed? You take a shower and after that you do all the daily activities. Like that, you meditate and calm your mind, then go on with other activities. It is not easy to keep yourself undisturbed but it will happen if you keep doing the practices regularly. Then keeping yourself calm will become easy.

Source: The Economic Times, 13/02/2020