BE TOTAL!🔗

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

When was the last time you sang with your eyes? Danced with your smile? Threw your whole body and being into anything, just anything? If you notice children, their whole body is one organic unity. Whatever they are doing, their whole body just flows into that action. They don't create separation in the body. It is not as if the head is important and the feet are unimportant. The truth is that there is no division in your body, no natural demarcations exist. But by and by demarcations start coming up. Then the head becomes the master, and the whole body is divided into parts. We stop experiencing our body as a whole. We create roles for each part of our body, and then limit them in these roles. We forget to be total in anything. In the martial arts tradition, students are told, Your whole body should become an eye! Just imagine! This is the kind of sensitivity that needs to be developed in the body! This is what is being total. Totality is the way to live. Your mind is always limiting you. Drop your mind and be total in whatever you do. Then there will be no hangover in anything. Everything will become a joyful meditation. You will experience fulfillment in whatever you do. When you miss the totality, you become fragmented. When you are total, you become integrated. Being integrated is your true nature. Remember that!

This is a 24X7 meditation! Whatever you are doing, it naturally becomes your meditation for that moment. When you are looking at something, look with your whole body. Understand, you don’t just see with the eyes. You can see with your whole body! When you are looking at something intensely, totally, your whole being flows towards that. But we rarely enter into anything totally. Now, be total and integrated in all your body movements. When you are listening, listen with your whole body. Let a deep silence be created in your center. Let your listening happen from that center. When you are laughing, feel the laughter rising from deep inside you. Let your whole body bubble with laughter! Even when you are working, using only your hands, feel the movement in your whole body. Experience your body as an integrated whole. Experience every pore of your skin looking, listening, laughing. Don’t think, how can I see with my skin? There are many interesting incidents where blind people have taught their fingers to ‘see’ colours! You don’t realize, your body is an integrated intelligence! You never use all the possibilities of your body. When you are total, a new sensitivity flowers in your body. Your body responds as a whole to life. You begin to live completely with your body. Not only that, you will find your body expressing abilities that you never imagined. Your body has a tremendous potential that you have never used. When you fulfill all the possibilities of your body, naturally you become ready to go beyond the body.

A TOUCH LIKE THE BREEZE

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

This technique is an excellent way to conserve and balance your energy flow. We don’t realize how much energy is continuously flowing out through each of our senses. Even when you simply look at an object, your energy automatically flows towards that object. Similarly with words. You can lose a lot of energy by speaking, or even listening to and trying to digest some information. That is why pratyahara, withdrawal of the senses, is considered essential for meditators. Actually, pratyahara does not mean withdrawal of the senses, it means withdrawal from the senses. Externally, you can allow your senses to function normally. But if you simply withdraw your mind from the process, if you don’t allow your mind to chase the object, your energy doesn’t flow towards it. Not only external objects, even internal objects are also constantly consuming our energy. If you close your eyes, the outer scenes may cease and the energy may stop flowing out. But even then, inside you, some scenes will be moving and so the energy will continue to be wasted. As I always say, attention is energy. So whatever your mind is preoccupied with, externally or internally, it can simply suck all your energy. Only if you can put a stop to both the inner and outer scenes can you experience enlightenment! In this technique, we bring our awareness to the energy flowing out from our eyes. When we become aware of this, we can close the energy circuit and generate a powerful cycle of energy within us. This techniques can help awaken the kundalinishakti, the tremendous potential energy which you carry within you. It is also a beautiful technique to develop sensitivity in the body.

DURATION: 30min

Close your eyes lightly. Gently touch your eyelids with your forefingers, as lightly as a feather would. You can use a real feather also, if you like. The feather should not bend when touching the eye. If it bends, it means you are applying too much pressure on the eyelids. Too much pressure will not work with this technique. You need to give just a feather-touch. It is as if you are touching, but not touching. Your fingers are on the eyelids, but not pressing them. Your hands may tremble at first and you may touch either too heavily or too lightly, or you may not be touching your eyelids at all. Balance your hands and create just the right pressure. When you touch your eyelids in this way, you will see a strong energy connection getting established between your fingers and eyes. Slowly, you will feel that your fingers and hands have become a part of your eyes. As of now, when you close your eyes, you feel that your boundary ends inside the eyelids. But with this feather touch, your eyes will feel like they have expanded! If the pressure you apply is just right, you will have this experience. You experience the same sensitivity outside your eyes that you normally feel inside. Once you start practicing this technique intensely, you will see that the energy starts circulating inside you, instead of leaving you through your eyes as it normally does. An internal current is set up in your system, which rejuvenate your whole body. It takes about half an hour at the first try to experience this internal energy circle. Within a month of daily practice, you will be able to effortlessly set up this cycle and balance your energies.