Night Meditation

In this day and age, where no one has time, a meditation technique was needed for those who are busy. However busy you may be but there is always little time before you hit the bed to sleep. In fact, this night meditation is designed to be done before you dose off to sleep.

It is simple but very effective because you are naturally relaxed before you lie in bed to sleep; this relaxed mind is because the mind is already overused in the day, the mind is already dead. Relaxed in this calmness Meditation can instantly take you into a trance.

This meditation technique is best for those who get less and disturbed sleep and since its timing is just before you go off to sleep, this brings you into instant consciousness and obviously into a sound sleep.

Night Meditation lasts 30 minutes and has two stages; each stage ends with a gong sound. Watching yourself is to be carried out in both stages. Keep your eyes closed in all stages. You can open your eyes when each stage ends and enter into the next stage with your eyes closed. Watch yourself, keep witnessing remain in your consciousness.

First Stage

Sit on your bed, back resting on the bedrest. Do not worry if your back is straight or not. Straighten your legs, remain completely relaxed, lay your legs over each other. Be comfortable as possible, take a few deep breaths, and place your palm over each other on your abdomen. Place a blanket on your body to feel cozy, keep the light low or you can switch off the lights. Flow with the light music, move your head gently, then move your hands upwards welcoming the beautiful night. Roll your hands over your head, over your face and neck - get the feel of relaxation - flow with the music, watch your thoughts, remain a witness.

Duration of the first stage is 15 minutes.

Second Stage

Sit silently in any position in your bed with your back resting on the bedrest. You can fold your legs or keep your legs straight, be completely relaxed. Place your palm over the other palm. Forget if your back is upright or not, just sit in complete silence. Place a blanket on your body to feel cozy, keep the light low or you can switch off the lights - remain in watching, remain in witnessing, watch each and every thought, be in your complete watchfulness and consciousness, go deeper and deeper into the silence of the within, just be with it. Go to sleep if you feel so, hit the bottom of your self.

If possible, do not do anything after Night Meditation. Simply go off to sleep.

Duration of the second stage is 15 minutes.

People may say that meditation techniques seem like nothing but a wild dance. Let them say – only from the wild you can come into being civilized. The wild dance technique is designed to make you let go – to make you accept all that is within you – acceptance is the key to meditation.

During meditation, you may have thought to scratch your body, to move your body, or adjust your sitting position, let all this happen. Do not stop any thought, just flow with it, watch it – during the last stage of sitting in silence, you may suddenly get reminded that today you may have missed an important meeting or you have missed an important due date – do not get up to make a phone call- you may feel some uneasiness because of all the dancing and jumping, simply watch your thoughts. You will realize those old thoughts go and new thoughts take their place – the very technique of meditation is to make you aware that thoughts come and go –you have been giving unnecessary importance to every thought – your realization will make way for the inner silence- it will slowly take you into acceptance.

Become a watcher and not the doer- experience that you and your body are separate.

Watching yourself during meditation practice cannot and should mean to refrain you from taking actions- actions are also part of your thought process- watch your actions too.

People with medical trouble should restrict their deliberate vigorous breathing, dancing, and jumping to a limit which your body permits – do not try to do what others are doing – do not copy anyone - there is no one to give you marks – simply be yourself - the very idea of meditation is not to force but to liberate yourself from the force itself.

Do not watch your pain to an extent that you stop the intake of medical help. Meditation should be added to your life it is not a substitute for any medical help. Meditation should not be done with a hungry stomach, the comfort of the body is equally important.

The music, the dancing, breathing, body movements, and body positions are devices designed and mixed together to bring you into meditativeness. Watchfulness and witnessing is the key to meditation. Without coming into watching yourself and witnessing - all the techniques will be just like a dance practice or body exercises. Watching yourself and your thoughts is meditation.