This is in continuation to the previous articles: Different Kind of Meditations (Part-I) and Different Kind of Meditations (Part-II)
F. Thought Numbering Mediation: Here, as the various thoughts arise, give them numbers.
1. Sit in the Dhyana position, keep your eyes closed.
2. Visualize overcast blue sky, with beautiful white clouds. As the first thought arises, identify it as a cloud, give no.1., and so on.
3. Don't follow any thought. Just number it and leave each numbered thought to the clouds in the sky.
4. Gradually there may be no thoughts. Before thoughtlessness, if a thought arises like, "now I have no thought" give this thought too a no. And let this thought set free, as the moving cloud in the blue sky.
5. This Dhyana will reduce the number of thoughts and will gradually lead you to the thoughtless stage.
6. Continue practice without thinking of any result.
G. Thought Space Meditation:
H. Gratitude Meditation:
1. Sit in the Dhyana position, keep your eyes closed.
2. Observe yourself as your own clone. Think that your similar being, the clone being blind person.
3. Visualize your clone doing days work. Observe the difficulties your clone is facing being blind.
4. After days work, your clone disappears. Fill yourself with thankfulness and gratitude to God as HE has blessed you with eyes.
5. Next day visualize your clone as deaf. Observe your day's activities as a clone being a deaf, and the difficulties being faced.
6. This clone too disappears. Fill yourself with thankfulness and gratitude to God as HE has blessed you with ears.
7. Gratitude makes your mind sensitive and receptive towards realities of life, compassion, kindness, humbleness, humility and ego-less-ness etc.
8. Visualize your clone having one or other deficiencies. Daily contemplate (Manan) on various blessings in your life. Think about them. You will feel the God's grace on you. Without contemplation even diamonds are un evolved coals.
I. Concentration Meditation:
1. Sit in the Dhyana position, keep your eyes closed.
2. Try to speak in reverse, e.g., "SITA as ATIS". Try to speak the names of the ones you know, in the process you will concentrate your mon, the mind.
3. Listen to the sound of melodious flute, this is within you.
4. Listen to the sound of flute only and not any other instrument. Remove any other sound other than the flute.
5. Press Button Mudra during this Dhyana.
6. Open the eyes.
7. Sometimes you listen to the flute, then there is discontinuity, then again you may be able to listen to flute. This is normal. Increase the practice.
8. Likewise, listen to the other instruments, like Shehnai, Tabla, Guitar, Sitar etc.
9. Do mental maths (Tuning Dhyana).
10. Try to recollect in details, what food you ate the day earlier. Try to recollect some incident.
11. The more you try to recollect in details, you will feel benefits. Do it daily at bedtime.
J. Neutral Meditation: In this Dhyana, you are neutral, Tatasth, in eauilibrium, equiposed for every thought. In sorrow or happiness, you are neutral, unaffected, unattached.
1. Sit in the Dhyana position, keep your eyes closed.
2. If you are sad, don't say, "I am sad", instead say, "sad thoughts are passing away in front of me".
3. If you are happy, don't say, "I am happy", instead say, "happy thoughts are passing away in front of me".
4. So in both the situations you are neutral.
5. In case of thoughts on boredom, hatred, jealousy, malice, anger, disappointment, fatigue, disturbance, anger, negative, positive, fear, panic, phobias and other psychologically induced thoughts disturbing you, say that the respective thoughts are passing in front of you. Don't ever say, you are disturbed, disappointed.
6. You be neutral. You will be neutral.
K. Centre balancing Meditation: Here we have to position body as per gravitation of the earth. Everybody has a specific centre point.
1. Stand on your feet, keep space of 6" to 1' between them.
2. Bend forward, ask yourself, will I get tired. Ask 3 times. You will get the reply 'yes'.
3. Bend backwards, ask yourself, will I get tired. Ask 3 times. You will get the reply 'yes'. Find the comfortable balance.
4. Now you have to bend left, then centre and then right like pendulum. Find the balance point.
5. You have found the balance point of all 4 directions.
6. Remain in this position for some time.
7. Sit in the Dhyana position, keep your eyes closed. Repeat these 4 exercises mentally and find your mental balance point.
8. When yore in stress, some conflict, or some situation not like by you, and you cant move away from unpalatable situation, then, do these 4 mental balance positions in meditation. Also do the press button Mudra. Now say, "I am balancing myself in "this" situation.
9. The same can be done when you are yourself getting out of control.