Seven-chakra workout for emotions🔗

The Ananda Spurana Program (ASP)

The Ananda Spurana Program (ASP) is a two-day intensive camp for chakra healing through meditation. At the camp, you learn about the na-ture and role of each chakra, and are given seven powerful and practical meditation techniques for cleansing and recharging the seven chakras.

The chakras deeply impact our physical and mental health. They are, in turn, affected by our thoughts and emotions. The chakras are direct channels to the boundless energy of the Cosmos. But immoderate lifestyles, stress and negative emotions can ‘lock’ the chakras, or cause them to malfunction. Without even being aware of it, we are continuously blocking off these important sources of energy. Energy is health. That’s why almost all phy-scial and mental ailments can be partly or wholly cured, simply by cleansing and energising the corresponding chakra.

All these meditations (except Nirbhaya Dhyana for Swadishthana Chakra) can be practised freely once a week. Or you could choose one tech-nique which best appeals to you and continue it for 21 days (Mahamantra, Dukkha Harana and Manipuraka Shuddhi Kriya are the most helpful for beginners). Then you could switch to a new technique. When practised sincerely, these techniques can work miracles on the physcial, mental and spiritual level. Instruction tapes are available for all seven techniques.

Dukkha Harana Dhyana (Destroyer of Misery)

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

Desire is a dynamic energy! Desire becomes a disease only when the energy flow is blocked by suppression. This is a dynamic mediation technique which will throw out all the suppressed emotions in you and cleanse and energize your mooladhara chakra. Practice this technique in the morning, preferably on an empty stom-ach. This technique is like taking a psychological bath! If you want to test the efficiency of this technique, go and have your picture taken today. After 21 days of practising this technique, have another picture taken and compare the two. I assure you, your face will look completely different! You will have blossomed. Your eyes will have become more pleasing. You will also see a deep silence expressing in your eyes.

INSTRUCTIONS

Step 1 (10 minutes):

For the first 10 minutes, you will work with your breath. Your mental system is made fully alive by deep breathing and the in-creased intake of oxygen. Your cells will get more energy and you will create more bio-electricity or bio-energy. This energy will melt all the repressed emotions like melting ice. The subconscious will be thrown open. It is like fanning the flame of the mooladhara chakra.

Stand with your eyes closed and legs slightly apart. Bend your knees and get into a semi-squatting position. Now start breathing deeply and chaotically from the depths of your body, always through your nose, with your mouth closed. In chaotic breathing, there is no definite rhythm. There is no need to control your breath. Just breathe as deeply as you can. During cha-otic breathing, when the body intelligence is allowed to take over, the body will take in however much oxygen is needed. As you breathe, repeatedly bend your knees and straighten them, moving your whole body up and down. This will create a power-ful pumping action which directly hits the mooladhara chakra and throws out the suppressed energies. Simultaneously, move your hands up and down like a bird in flight. Do the movements gently and synchronize your inhalation with up-ward movement and exhalation with downward movement. With every breath, tell your muscles very clearly to melt and be rid of all the recorded fantasies! Understand, physically. Don't just try to tell them – tell them! When you are doing this, be very clear, your muscles are melting and clearing the fantasies which are recorded inside you. If you have a cardiac problem, or are pregnant, or have had a recent ailment or surgery, do this technique only as much as you can with-out discomfort. Otherwise, put your whole energy into it!

Step2 (10 minutes):

Keep your eyes closed and tense each part of your body, part by part, limb by limb, and then let it relax. Tense and relax one limb, and then move on to the next. Relax each part fully before you move on to the next. Start with your feet, then move on to your legs, then your thighs and hips. Next, move to your stomach, then your lower back, then to the chest and upper back. Move to your arms, working from the fingertips to the shoulders. Next, work on the neck and shoulders, the facial muscles, and finally the top of the head. At the end of this exercise, you will find that you have become vacant inside; you will feel cool, calm and composed.

Step 3 (10 minutes):

Sit upright with your eyes closed. Gently chant the sound hooooo. This is known as the hoomkara. There is no need to chant it loudly and deeply. Just chant in a relaxed manner. As you chant, just witness whatever happens inside and outside your being. The first two parts of this technique are a actually a preparation for the third part, which is the actual meditation. When you come to the third part, you will see that the mind becomes silent effortlessly, by itself. Silence cannot be forced upon you; it can only happen by itself. Remain in this relaxed state with a smiling face and a blissful mood. During this time, there may be many experiences. Just watch them as you would watch the television; with a detached interest. Watch your mind thought by thought. Breathe normally. Don't concentrate on anything. Meditation is not concentration. Meditation is awareness. So just be aware of your thoughts, witness what happens inside your body and outside your body. (During the ASP, participants visualize and transcend the most terrible of all our fears – the fear of our own death. Since this process needs complete guidance at the physical and meta-physical levels, it can be practiced only in the presence of the Master himself. As an alternative, you may go through a variant of the Darkness meditation to activate and energize the swadishthana chakra. This technique may be practiced under the guidance of an ordained teacher of Life Bliss Foundation.)

Nirbhaya Dhyana (Path of Fearlessness)

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

We are afraid of darkness because darkness represents the unknown. All our fears are about the unknown! We are afraid of the unknown, both in the outer world and in the inner world (in our unconscious). The unconscious itself is nothing but that area of your being which has not been lit by your awareness. All your unconscious fears are nothing but pure unawareness. In this meditation, we contact darkness with thoughtless awareness. We welcome it with deep love. This is a very powerful technique for cleansing our mind of fear, especially unconscious fears. If you have noticed, you cannot think in total darkness! Deep and total darkness stops the mind from thinking of anything known. When the mind stops thinking of the known things, thoughts automatically dissolve. When you are able to be thoughtless and relaxed in darkness, fear loses it hold over you.

Duration: Not mentioned

INSTRUCTIONS

Now let us enter into the layer of darkness. Please sit with your eyes closed and tie your blindfolds. Throw out all the colors that are there in your mind. Keep only darkness in your mind.

Start chanting the ookara – the sound ooooo. Understand, it is not Om or Hooooom. It is just ooooo.... You will continually push the air out as much as possible. Don't both-er about breathing in. Just keep pushing the air out continuously by chanting as deeply as possible. By pushing the air out, the body will breathe by itself. Take a small breath in, and then start chanting oooooooooo. In the small gap that is there between the exhalation and the next short inhalation, the body will take in air by itself. So, put all the effort to just throw out the air with the oooo sound. Throw everything out totally. I will guide you through the meditation.

Step 1: Start chanting the ookara. Put your whole effort on only exhaling; just exhale. Throw out all your prana, your life-energy, everything... just throw them out.

(After 20 minutes) Stop. With all your effort, keep exhaling through the nose. Do not intone any sound. Just exhale.

(After 5 minutes) Stop.

Now visualize a deep and big forest, inside which there is a deep and dark cave. You are sitting inside the cave. Visualize all the walls of the cave. It is a cave within a single rock. The ceiling of the cave is also rock.

There is just a deep darkness - soothing, relaxing and joyful darkness; comfortable darkness. Totally comfortable and secure with the darkness, you are alone, sitting and meditating. Feel the darkness. It is covered by layers of darkness over darkness. Darkness is totally drowned in darkness.

You are just as if in your mother's womb, the same comfortable dark-ness of your mother's womb. Feel the utter relaxation, the utter rest, with no responsibilities, only total, comfortable, peaceful darkness. You are sitting inside the dark cave and meditating on the darkness. Feel the cave. Visualize yourself inside the cave. Visualize that you are comfortably sitting and meditating on the deep darkness. You only know one word: darkness… darkness… darkness.

Inside the cave you are connected to the darkness of the universe, the darkness from which the universe was born - the darkness of your mother's womb from which you were born. You are just filled with that live darkness. There is no other thought except darkness. Become the darkness. Feel that the whole thing is just darkness. Your body has disappeared in the darkness. Penetrate into the deeper and deeper layers of darkness. Just become pitch black darkness, nothing else. The whole space is filled with thick darkness. The darkness is much more intense and dense than the earth itself. Just taste the experience of the deep and peaceful darkness.

Please carry this darkness with you for the next half hour. Carry the darkness of your mother's womb, the darkness that is the deep comfort. Rest and relax in the darkness of no responsibility, only freedom. Carry this darkness of rest and relaxation with you. Avoid speaking to anyone. Keep your eyes on the ground. Carry this peaceful darkness within you.