Rewind and drop
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TECHNIQUE & INSTRUCTIONS
Duration: Not applicable
This meditation is done be done just before you go to sleep every night. Sit in bed with your eyes closed, and the lights switched off. Now go through the events of the whole day, starting from this mo-ment backwards till the moment you woke up in the morning. Just recall each incident, each situation, step by step. Witness all the incidents of the day. Don't try to relive any incident, don't get emotionally involved with anything. Just watch. Just see yourself going through all the actions as if you are watching another person. When you see yourself objectively like this, many memories will lose their 'charge'. For instance, if you had had an argument with someone, you can see both sides clearly now. If someone had spoken badly to you, it no longer feels like it happened to you; it just happened, that's all. Only the incident is remembered, minus the pain. As you go through the events, drop them from your mind one by one. Really drop them, with the deep understanding and conviction that none of this is worth carrying forward to the next day. Just unclutch from your whole day. Even if they are positive memories, unclutch from them. You don't to carry this load of memories to live your next day; what-ever is required will arise whenever needed from within. Trust your natural intelligence, not your stored memories! Trusting life and living spontaneously in the moment is what I call living enlightenment.
Mind and body mirror each other
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
Your body and mind mirror each other. Whenever a thought arises in your mind, you will see that your body is undergoing subtle changes to accommodate or express that thought. In the same way, when a chemical change takes place in the body, naturally the quality of your thoughts also change. Because we are not aware of this connection, we don't notice these changes. In this technique, we experientially understand how deeply the body and mind influence each other. With this simple understanding, tremendous physical and mental healing happen in you. This technique can directly bring you out of many chronic psychosomatic diseases.
DURATION: Not applicable
INSTRUCTIONS
Sit in a relaxed way with your eyes closed. Take a few deep breaths to calm your mind and slow down the thoughts. Usually, you always have a traffic jam in your mind! When your thoughts slow down, you will be able to focus on individual thoughts more easily. When you witness the mind, you will find a steady stream of thought bubbling up in your mind. For no reason, some thought will arise in you. Try to see from where the thought is rising, which part of the body is experiencing movement or feeling through that thought. At the point from which the thought arises, you will experience some physical sensation or feeling. Try to locate where this is happening. You will see, one by one, each thought creates some sensation in some internal organ in your body. Try to see which thought is connected to which sensation happening inside your body. Try to locate the internal organ feeling the sensa-tion, the organ that produced the thought coming into your mind. Do this with each thought. Continue this process whenever you can during the day. Within a few days, you will get a powerful clarity about how closely your body and mind are linked. Just by changing the quality of your thoughts, you can create many positive changes in your body.