Traveling Meditation

In this day and age, the common excuse given for not practicing meditation is that there is not enough time. This meditation is developed for those who are always on the go. This effective meditation can be practiced while travelling, be it travelling in a car, bus, train, or while on a flight. It is the most simplified method of coming into meditation; it has no specific sitting position. You have just to be completely relaxed, forget if your back is upright or not, forget about the hands' position. Just relax and be as comfortable as you can be.

Travelling meditation lasts 25 minutes and has two stages; each stage ends with a gong sound. Watching yourself is to be carried out in both stages, adjust your headphones and its volume so that you do not disturb your fellow traveler. Keep your eyes closed in all the stages. You can open your eyes when each stage ends and enter into the next stage possibly with your eyes closed. Watch yourself, keep witnessing remain in your consciousness.

First Stage

Just relax, sit in any comfortable position. You could be sitting in a car, bus, or a plane. Take a few slow deep breaths, watch your breathing, then slowly flow with the music. Just remain watchful of the thoughts that cross your mind, just witness them, and try to remain still. Once you come into a comfortable position, slowly move your shoulder, you can move your hands and head but be comfortable. Be sure that you do not disturb your fellow traveler. Let your upper body dance slowly, move slowly as if you are dancing from your shoulders. While doing so, take care that your hands do not move too swiftly. Just move your shoulders and your head, and get into a dancing mood. But if you lose this position, do not bother; simply remain in your watchfulness. Remember nothing is necessary in meditation. Meditation has no rules; watch yourself this is most important. If you have to adjust your headphones do it, it is completely ok.

Duration of the first stage is 10 minutes.

Second Stage

Sit silently in any position, be completely relaxed. Forget if your back is upright or not, just sit in complete silence. Place your one palm over another, fold your legs on your seat or place one leg over the other. Be comfortable, 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. Hold the very silence, hold the watchfulness, just be with it. If you have to adjust your headphones do it, it is completely ok – remain in watching.

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.