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This is a powerful meditation technique to experience gratitude as a prayer:

Sahasrara Dhyana (Gratitude as Prayer)

Heals the chakra (energy center): Sahasrara ('thousand petalled')

Location of chakra: On the crown of the head

Chakra locked by: Discontentment

Chakra unlocked by: Gratitude & Bliss

Duration: 30 minutes

Sahasrara Dhyana is the simplest possible meditation technique! It involves the effortless process of paying our gratitude to Existence for everything we have in life, and which we have taken for granted till now. Although the meditation is deceptively simple, it has profound effects on our conscious and subconscious minds.

When we recognize that we are part of the total scheme of Existence, and that we are lovingly being taken care of by Existence every minute, we are overcome with gratitude.

We become truly thankful for what we receive every moment, even if it is as basic as the use of our very limbs and senses.

Gratitude is your response to recognizing the abundance of Existence. It is a wonderful flowering energy within you.

Everyday, just sit by yourself for half an hour. Close your eyes and allow any thought, person or situation to come to your mind.

If it is a positive thought, a person you love or a situation that you cherish, feel deep gratitude for it and see it go away. If it is a negative thought, or a person you don't like, or an unpleasant situation, feel gratitude for that too and bless it. Anything that comes to your mind, bless it with deep gratitude.

You will see that in a few days, your whole attitude becomes soft and compassionate. You will start seeing things with great compassion and receptivity.

Gratitude is the Ultimate Prayer. Gratitude is the Greatest Attitude.

Gratitude is the Greatest Attitude that you can have towards God, towards human beings, towards life, towards people, and towards situations.

When you live with overwhelming gratitude in you, you have found a space wherein nothing else is needed. It means that you have fallen into meditation.

His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda is recognized today as a clear, legitimate, apo-litical voice of Sanatana Hindu Dharma, and revered as a living incarnation of super-consciousness by millions worldwide. He is a Mahamandaleshwar (spiritual head) of Mahanirvani Peeth, the world's most ancient apex body of Hinduism. He is the most watched spiritual teacher on YouTube.com with over 19 million views, and the author of more than 300 books published in over 20 languages. His lectures are watched live every day on http://www.nithyananda.tv, as well as on multiple international televi-sion channels and via video conferencing.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda conducts INNER AWAKENING, a 21-day transformational program that unlocks the FOUR POWERS in you, through practical teachings and 21 powerful initiations for kundalini awakening.

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