Expand and experience🔗

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

You are infinite potential! Squeezed into the volume of a body, you always experience yourself as limited, insignificant. You always feel that you are the controlled, not the controller.

Understand, your body is not you!

Your body boundary is not your boundary. This is a powerful visualization technique to break free from your body-identification, and experience your natural limitless state.

DURATION: One hour

To enter into this technique, you should be well-rested. If you are sleep deprived, you will fall asleep during the meditation! Also, have someone beside you to ring a bell gently when the time for each step is over. You should not be woken up in the middle of this technique. Also don't practice the technique for longer than recommended here.

Step 1: 10 minutes

When you are just about to fall asleep, lie down on the bed, close your eyes, and feel where your feet are. Now, visualize that you legs have grown longer by a foot. Your legs are one foot longer! Initially, it may be difficult to visualize this. Never mind, just continue. Enter intensely into the visualization. You will be able to do it.

Step 2: 10 minutes

When you are able to experience your feet as longer, move to your head. Feel where your head is. Visualize that your head has also become six inches longer.

DURATION: One hour

Step 3: 10 minutes

Now, visualize that both your hands have become longer. Both your hands have grown by a foot.

Step 4: 10 minutes

Now, feel yourself expanding in all directions. Gradually, experience yourself filling the room, then moving beyond.

Step 5: 20 minutes

Continue this expansion as much as you can. If you are able to visualize it, expand your boundary up to the boundaries of the earth, then beyond. Feel that you are expanding into limitless space. Feel that the whole sky is absorbed by your head! The moment that you can feel this, the mind disappears. You experience yourself as the limitless space that you are.

This technique will be more effective if it is practiced after the previous technique. Once you awaken your shakti with the previous technique, it will be easier to direct it wherever required, in the outer and inner worlds.

A word of warning: this technique is only to make you aware of the tremendous power of your own visualization. As you progress on the spiritual path, you may find that many such minor powers will come to you, especially when your shakti has been awakened. The seeker who gets infatuated by these powers and forgets about enlightenment is comparable to the fool who throws away the fruit and relishes the peel!

In this technique, you will use shakti to direct the movements of a small object in the outer world. You will need: A small bowl half filled with water A small wooden stick (like a broomstick) of about 2” length which can float easily on the water

Sit in front of a water bowl and let there be a small wooden piece or something afloat, which can float. Float that on the water bowl. Gaze, first intensely; concentrate. Bring a connection between you and the object which is floating and tell that object, guide that object mentally without physically touching or without moving through your breath. I have seen a few people try to move through their breath (breathes heavily as an example) ‘Right, right. Left, left.’ (Laughs) No, without moving through your breath. Understand, not trying to guide through the breath. Just try intensely to guide through the mind. You will see. If you give four commands, all the four will be executed. Just do for two, three days til you are able to execute all four commands, til that float executes all four commands. It’s a very powerful technique.