MEDITATION: Learning Video #5

Learn and practice #meditation breath by breath for peace and tranquility..

MEDITATION ASANAS

Demonstrated in this video are twelve asanas (poses) in which you may sit and meditate. Which one would you prefer and why?

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MEDITATION: Learning Video 4: Breathing with the Body

BREATHING WITH THE BODY
This is the fourth video in a series of videos - a step-by-step tutorial - to learn and practice meditation by yourself by listening to and following the instructions given in the video.
In this session, we are re-visiting and deepening what we have learned in the three earlier videos.

Instructions:
Please sit down - legs folded crosswise, back straight and eyes closed.
Focus your attention on the nostrils as you breathe in and as you breathe out.

In this session, we will re-visit and deepen what we have learned earlier.
Begin by simply bringing attention to the breathing.
Always mindful of your breath, breathe in; mindful, breathe out.
If you breathe in long, know: I am breathing in long. If you breathe out long, know: I breathe out long.
If you breathe in short, know: I am breathing in short. If you breathe out short, know: I breathe out short.
Don’t worry if your mind wanders away, bring it back gently. Observe your breath.

As the breathing becomes deeper, focus on the body.
Keeping a watch on your breath in the background, look inwards to the major parts of your body: head, shoulders, hands, palms, chest, stomach, upper back, lower back, legs and the feet.
Sensitive to the whole body, breathe in. Sensitive to the whole body, breathe out.
As you familiarize with your body, while keeping a watch on your breathing, relax your limbs one-by-one: forehead, eyes, cheeks, neck, shoulders, heart, stomach, upper back, lower back, thighs, calf muscles, ankles, and soles of your feet.
Calming the whole body, breathe in. Calming the whole body breathe out.

May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated!
Open your eyes gently and come out of meditation.

Continue your practice of meditation. When you feel, you have mastered this segment, you may proceed to the next video. Remember, meditation is a lifetime’s work.

We will be happy to have your feedback and would answer any questions that you may have. Questions may be sent to us at lifeskills.happiness@gmail.com.

Jagat Singh Bisht

Founder: LifeSkills

MEDITATION: Learning Video #2

AWARENESS OF BODY

This is the second video in a series of videos to
learn and practice meditation by yourself by listening to and following the
video.

It gives simple and straight instructions to meditate
in pure form. Just follow the instructions and meditate.

You may start your journey of meditation from here
but we would advise you to begin with the first video of the series on this
channel and then come here after some days of practice.

Practice meditation on a daily basis listening to the
video. When you feel confident that you are comfortable and ready, you may go
to the next video in the series.

We will be happy to have your feedback and would
answer any questions that you may have. Questions may be sent to us at lifeskills.happiness@gmail.com.

Instructions:

Please sit down for meditation: legs folded
crosswise, back straight and eyes closed.

Always be mindful of your breath as you breathe in
and as you breathe out. Focus your attention on the nostrils as you breathe in
and as you breathe out.

If you breathe in long, know: I am breathing in long.
If you breathe out long, know: I breathe out long.

If you breathe in short, know: I am breathing in
short. If you breathe out short, know: I breathe out short.

Keeping a watch on your breath in the background,
look inwards to the major parts of your body: head, shoulders, hands, palms,
chest, stomach, upper back, lower back, legs and the feet.

Sensitive to the whole body, breathe in. Sensitive to
the whole body, breathe out.

Open your eyes gently and come out of meditation.

MEDITATION: Learning Video #1

MINDFULNESS OF BREATHING

This is the first video in a series of videos to
learn and practice meditation by yourself by listening to and following the
video.

It gives simple and straight instructions to meditate
in pure form. Just follow the instructions and meditate.

Practice meditation on a daily basis listening to the
video. When you feel confident that you are comfortable and ready, you may go
to the next video in the series.

We will be happy to have your feedback and would
answer any questions that you may have. Questions may be sent to us at lifeskills.happiness@gmail.com.

MEDITATION:

Meditation
is a practice that makes it possible to cultivate and develop certain basic
positive human qualities in the same way as other forms of training make it
possible to play a musical instrument or acquire any other skill.

The
object of meditation is the mind. For the moment, it is simultaneously
confused, agitated, rebellious and subject to innumerable conditioned and
automatic patterns. The goal of meditation is not to shut down the mind or
anaesthetise it, but rather to make it free, lucid and balanced.

Experienced
meditators have demonstrated qualities of focused attention that are not found
among beginners. For example, they are able to maintain more or less perfect
concentration on a particular task for forty-five minutes, whereas most people
cannot go beyond five or ten minutes before they begin making an increasing
number of mistakes.

The primary
goal of meditation is to transform our experience of the world but it has also
been shown that meditation has beneficial effects on our health. Scientific
experiments have shown that twenty minutes of daily practice of meditation can
contribute significantly to the reduction of stress, whose harmful effects on
health are well established.

It also
reduces anxiety, the tendency towards anger and the risk of relapse for people
who have previously undergone depression. Eight weeks of meditation for thirty
minutes a day significantly strengthens the immune system, reinforces positive
emotions, and reduces arterial pressure in those suffering from high blood
pressure.

If we consider that the possible benefit of meditation is to
have a new experience of the world each moment in our lives, then it doesn’t
seem excessive to spend at least twenty minutes a day getting to know our mind
better and training it towards this kind of purpose.

The fruition of meditation could be described as an optimal
way of being, or again, as genuine happiness. This true and lasting happiness
is a profound sense of having realized to the utmost the potential we have
within us for wisdom and accomplishment. Working towards this kind of
fulfilment is an adventure worth embarking upon.

THE ART OF MEDITATION by MATTHIEU RICARD

LAUGHTER YOGA: HOW TO DO IT ALL ALONE FOR 10 MINUTES EVERYDAY

LEARNING VIDEO FOR LAUGHING ALONE



Laughter is the best medicine. To get all the health benefits of laughter, you need to laugh deep and continuously for 10-20 minutes. How to do that every day when you are all alone? This video is a tutorial for that.

Laughter Yoga is usually done in groups. People find it difficult to practise it on a daily basis by themselves.
Laughter Yoga is a unique concept where anyone can laugh for no reason without relying on humour, jokes or comedy. The concept is based on a scientific fact that the body cannot differentiate between real and fake laughter if done with willingness. One gets the same physiological and psychological benefits.
Dr Madan Kataria, a medical doctor, founded the first Laughter Club with just five members in Mumbai in the year 1995. Today there are thousands of laughter clubs all over the world where laughter is initiated as an exercise in a group but with eye contact and childlike playfulness, it soon turns into real and contagious laughter.
It is called Laughter Yoga because it combines laughter exercises with yoga breathing. This brings more oxygen to the body and the brain which makes one feel more energetic and healthy.
When we laugh, our body generates feel good hormones called endorphins which improve our mood and general outlook. During laughter exercises, all the stale air inside the lungs is expelled and our system gets more oxygen which enhances the immune system. In the long run, the inner spirit of laughter helps you build more caring and sharing social relationships, and laugh even when the going in not good.

Jagat Singh Bisht

coolbisht@hotmail.com