Dark Room Meditation- Stress Reducing way

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Darkroom meditation is a unique way to reduce to stress of our daily life. I have done it and got good result. Some of my friends told me that the name is something confusing. I replied them that the name may be confusing, but result is very splendid.

How to practice this darkroom meditation? Before explain this type of meditation, I would like to that stress is common to our life and such stress is different of meaning for different of people.

Some pranayama is necessary before starting this darkroom meditation. Sab-asana is very common practice of pranayama. Firstly, sit on long mats and then slowly lay down on the mat. Put your hands at the both sides of the body. Take long breath 1,2,3..10. Then fold your rights leg by your two hands and try to bring your leg near up to your chest 1,2,3…10; this way left leg as vice versa.

Secondly, sit on the mat like Buddha-asana. Take breath 1,2,3…10 . Now fold your rights leg by your rights hand at right sides and try to turn your body towards opposite direction1,2,3…10 and this way your left leg vice versa.

Thirdly, stand on the mat. Hold your waist by your two hands strongly and slowly turn your upper portion of the body of the back 1,2,3…10 . This way up your hands like namaskar poses and thus  tried slowly to fold your upper body of the front and try to touch toes of your legs.

Fourthly, stand a straight. Hold your waist at right sides and try to turn your upper body at right side1,2,3…10 ; thus left side vice versa.

Fifthly, rotate your body of right to leave 1,2,3…10 and thus left to right vice versa .

Sixthly , rotate your solder from right to leave as circle rounded 1,2,3…10 and thus left to right vice versa; in such case, chin should touch the collar-bone.

Here I would like to say that, if anyone has physical disability, please does not practice these pranayama without the advice and guidance of the doctor and trained yoga practitioner. This is kind of pranayama poses is requiring to make body flexible before starting darkroom meditation.

Now the same question is arising, how to practice darkroom meditation ? This is very simple process of meditation. The time of practice of such meditation is starting night; after coming back from office, when body of us full of stress of the whole day.

The room may be medium size and preferably vacant or very few furniture. It means most of the place of the room will be free and airy. One little , soft blue colour light is allowable in the room which will create light and dark atmosphere of the room.

Some people like to take a bath before practicing yoga and meditation . Ok , no problem , you can do it . After starting meditation , above mentioned pranayama poses will be done to make the body flexible.

Thereafter, start practicing darkroom meditation . Sit like Buddha Sana. Put your hands on your knees facing palms open. Look straight at the soft light and take long breath 1,2,3…10 ; thus slowly try to collect your mind which is shattered into various pieces and make the same is one mind. Thus concentrate your mind up to your forehead with the "OM" mantra; stretches this two words, o…m…., this way. Try to forget your surroundings, try to forget your present , forget your past, future…..; only put your mind at the space where is having nothing but dark…dark and dark. Try to put yourself at this condition a long time and try slowly to increase the time of staying in such condition by day to day practice of such yoga and meditation ; but one thing remember, always take normal breath during such position.

This kind of yoga and meditation will help you to reduce stress of the daily life. 

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Why meditation? Often I face this question; reply is different.In ancient age, Indian saints, monks would keep them engaged in mediation only to achieve their worshiped God or Goddess.They would continue their meditation year after year until they would achieve their target.Thereafter, time has been changed, now God or Goddess seeing is almost impossible.One myth of the world is that nothing is easily available in this world.From the spiritual point of view, meditation is one kind of self-purification which would lead ancient saints and monks to rich very close to their worships.Sree Ramkrishna Paramhangsadev was the famous Bengali worshiper of Goddess Kali and World famous saint Swami Vivekananda was his direct disciple.One day, when Vivekananda was ordinary young young young, called by his nickname, Naren, asked one question to Paramhangsadev that he had seen Goddess Kali or not; Paramhangsadev replied him quickly that he had seen his worshiper Kali as he is seeing to Naren.

I suggest that regular mediation is necessary for all; it gives, two ways benefits, one is mind- control which may be called self-purification and second one is, regular meditation, it keeps our daily health fit and fine.

If you search for Google search engine, you will find huge different opinions and ways of meditation; but my style is something different. All of us have seen sitting-Buddha's statue; this is the world famous image of Lord Buddha. I prefer this kind of image is ideal examples of how to meditation.

In the case of meditation, sitting style is very essential.Most of the people of Asian countries are preferring to sit on the ground or floor instead of sitting on the chair in their normal life.It may be something difficult for western people to sit on the ground or on the floor as they are not habituated in their life.In such cases cushion or foam mat can be used.But foam-mat size will be bigger or sitting on carpet may be used. 

All this options are optional; because meditation is the process of practice of controlling of human-mind . According to our Indian epic Mahabharata, Yudhistir, the elder son of king Pandava and also the eldest brother of Arjun, once had been asked by the God Dhramraj in disguise of a bird that what the fastest thing in this world is, then Yudhistir replied within a moment, human's mind is the fastest thing. So that,control of such speedy mind is not a matter of a joke, even such a very negligible matter can break the mind- concentration practice.

I personally prefer to sit on plain and clean floor for meditation practice at the primary stage.It may be uneasiness for western people at the early stage; but in practice, they will be habituated.

In my next blog of this episode, I will discuss some relevant matters which have also value in meditation.