BECOME WEIGHTLESS
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ABOUT THE MEDITATION
Our Consciousness is scattered in all directions. That is why we feel fragmented and lacking. If we increase our sensitivity and direct our Consciousness inwards, we can integrate and move into the higher planes of our Being. Sensitivity can play a major role in integrating our Consciousness. It can take us directly to our center deep inside.
This technique helps in creating a beautiful and graceful body. It creates self-confidence and helps you face life with a balanced mind.
When your body is in a state of perfect physical balance, automatically your awareness falls within. Not only will your body feel steady and comfortable, your mind will also be free from the body! You will experience the space in which you are totally balanced, where you are beyond intellect and emotion, where you are beyond the identity you are showing to the outer world and to yourself.
You will experience deep peace just by balancing the body, This state is called samatva, perfect balance in body and mind.
You may be thinking, ‘How can I experience peace just by balancing the body?’ Just do it, then you will see!
INSTRUCTIONS
DURATION: 10 minutes
Step 1:
Sit cross-legged on the floor. If this is uncomfortable, sit on a chair but without resting your back. Keep your spine erect. If you are sitting in a chair, do not rest the weight of your body on your feet. Do not let your feet touch the ground. Put your weight on your spine instead. If you are sitting on the floor, try consciously to lift the calf muscles a bit so that your weight is shifted to your spine. Initially it will be difficult because we never balance our body. Now bring your awareness to the two points of your body which are pressing down on the ground. Become aware of the mooladhara, the two points at the base of the spine which are taking the weight of your body. Because we hardly bring our awareness to such things, it may take a few minutes to become aware. Try to focus on these two points which are touching the ground, through which you are transferring your whole weight to planet earth. Once you are able to feel these points, you can start to move to the next step, which is balancing.

INSTRUCTIONS (continuation)
DURATION: 10 minutes
Step 2:
Balancing means finding the center in which you are weightless. Bend forward slowly as much as you can. Feel the weight of your body as you bend. Feel the heaviness. Then slowly, very slowly, come back inch by inch. Feel the weight of the body reduce as you move back to an erect position. Slowly, straighten the body. You will feel the body weight reducing as you straighten up. At one point, when your spine is erect but relaxed, you will feel that your body weight has become zero! You will feel completely weightless, completely light. Don't stop here. Start gently bending your body backwards. Go as far as you can. Again, you will start feeling the pressure on your back. You will start feeling the weight of your body. Now slowly, very slowly, bring your body back to the position where you don't feel your body weight at all. Repeat the same action, this time moving your body to the left and right instead of back and forth.

INSTRUCTIONS
DURATION: 10 minutes
Step 2: (continuation)
Sway back and forth, left and right a few times. Each time, put your awareness on the position where you feel weightless. After a few times, you will be able to correctly catch that point or center where you feel weightless. Now, at the point where you feel weightless, remain. Be in that same space. There is no need to remember anything or concentrate on anything. Just be completely balanced in the space, in the center in which you are feeling weightless. When the weight of your body is removed, you will feel an immense relief. Automatically, the mind also becomes silent and balanced. Try this technique just for ten days. Within 10 days, you will get the knack. Then even without practicing, you will start sitting in that same weightless state the whole day!
