Meditation for Virgo: Balance your Vata!
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Mercury natives can be benefitted through techniques which enhance their natural devotion and ability to perceive higher principles of life. For them, meditations that foster the unclutched state (the state of deep inner peace) are a must!
Here is a meditation for you:
Step 1-Duration: 10 minutes - Sit in vajrāsana (kneel down and sit with your bottom resting on your heels). Place your hands on your hips. By doing this, you are establishing a connection between the upper and lower parts of your body. Chant 'hoo' for as long as possible with each exhale. Begin again with each inhale, holding the chant as long as possible as you exhale.
Step 2-Duration: 21 minutes - Continue sitting in vajrāsana. With the hands on the hips, bend down at the hip to touch the forehead to the ground. Continue to chant the 'hoo' sound in this position.
This meditation will make your whole body to vibrate, contributing to lowering your inner chatter.
Nithya Dhyaan: the Universal Technique
Nithya Dhyaan is a formula and technique that works on all the components of your being. Whatever your birth sign may be, it awakens the cosmic powers within you and makes them available to your being to excel in all spheres of life.
This is a five-step technique. Allow seven minutes for each step. Keep your eyes closed throughout the meditation.
1- Chaotic breathing:
Sit in vajrāsana (kneel and sit
on your heels). Place your hands
on your hips and breathe
chaotically, without a repetitive
rhythm. Just focus on your
breathing; let your entire being
become the breathing.
2- Intense Humming:
Continue to sit in vajrāsana, form cin mudra with your fingers (with the thumb and forefinger forming a circle and other three fingers outstretched), and place your hands on your knees, palms facing upwards. In this posture, with your mouth closed, produce the sound ‘Mmmm...’ from inside your body, as loudly and lengthily as possible.
3- Cakra awareness:
You may continue to sit in
vajrāsana or sit crossed legged if you
wish. Keep your fingers in cin mudra
position. Now, bring your awareness
to each cakra one after the other,
from mūlādhāra cakra (root center)
to sahasrāra cakra (crown center).
Feel each cakra completely as if your whole being has become that energy center.
4- Silent Meditation: Be unclutched
In this step, carry the
understanding with you that your
thoughts are unconnected,
irrational and unclutched. Don't try
to create thoughts, don't try to
maintain thoughts, don't try to
destroy thoughts or react to them.
Just sit and watch them.
Understand,
by your very nature, you are pure
being and bliss.
5- Guru Pūja
Now, connect, relax and rest
into the universal energy. Just sit
in a very deep and passive way,
feeling one with the whole, God,
or your Master. Listen to the Guru Pūja mantras and feel their vibration in you. Express your gratitude with reverence.
You will find further details on the benefits of Nithya Dhyaan; along with the meditation instructions, in the comprehensive booklet and audio CD called Nithya Dhyaan- Experience bliss.