Technique
Cute Baby Meditation
An exercise for growing bliss: look at a picture that is instantly cute, such as a baby, kitten or puppy, and hold that feeling in the heart as long as it stays real, then look again. He presents it as instant Metta, lifting weights for the left amygdala, and a way into Bhakti.
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Cute Baby Meditation = Instant Metta Practice
His video devoted to the practice: pick one instantly cute picture, grow the feeling each time it is seen, and learn why this strengthens the left amygdala.
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Cute Baby Meditation Into Bhakti Yoga
Walks through finding the picture and holding the feeling for five minutes, then carrying that same feeling over to a picture of an Ishta Devata.
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Stretch the Heart To Activate the Deep Brain - Yogi Explains
Clears up the most common snag: holding the feeling past one's limit makes it feel fake, so the heart is stretched only as far as it really goes.
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12:50“Oh my God, the gloriousness of the cute baby meditation.”06:03“That's what you're doing when you practice the cute baby.”03:16“First of all, when I pull up the cute babies, so first I search on the internet for five cute baby pictures, and maybe it's not cute babies for you.”10:12“And third, practice the cute baby because when there's not any joy in our lives, will we want to connect to a little love and joy?”10:57“Sit with them and teach them the cute baby meditation or the cute kitten meditation.”02:13“So the first thing is we have to find our cute picture, right?”11:03“A really wonderful practice is Bhakti yoga, and another way to do Bhakti yoga is the cute baby meditation.”05:45“And the whole point of that exercise was to take an image which is really cute to you, like a baby, like a newborn baby.”04:36“And so for this you need a picture of a very cute baby.”09:25“And I talk about the cute baby meditation that comes from the Buddhists.”02:45“Well, I don't include it in the kriya, but I teach it as a supplement, just like many many other teachers teach supplemental material.”03:01“That's a cute baby meditation, and you can do it all day.”18:02“The cute baby meditation.”14:13“Now people will say, don't take your phones into a retreat, but I say take your phone into the retreat and bring a bunch of cute babies.”24:16“Practice the cute baby meditation every single day because it's working with the exact part of the brain which creates bliss, and we want it.”10:06“Now let's magnify this, and let's do a little bit of the cute baby meditation.”13:12“Another beautiful way to practice leaning on the higher self is the cute baby meditation, and if you combine these two things, what will happen is you will pray, and you will feel bliss, and that bliss will support you and answer your prayer more powerfully than golden words in the sky.”06:39“Do the cute baby meditation.”13:09“Okay, I want you to do the cute baby meditation.”03:14“And I didn't realize what I was doing at this time, but today I teach the cute baby meditation, and that is us digging into the heart, finding that love.”05:39“I might choose cute baby.”09:07“Do a little bit of cute baby meditation.”12:09“I might switch to cute baby.”03:11“We can do that through the cute baby meditation.”12:37“When nobody's looking, do a little bit of cute baby with your phone.”07:24“Spend five minutes with a cute baby meditation.”09:38“Or maybe you're just sitting on your couch and you're practicing the cute baby meditation, and you feel pulled up into your heart.”05:46“You can do that through the cute baby exercise.”06:19“Maybe you love the Kriya program of bliss, and you're starting to notice the bliss in your spine, in your chakras, in your heart through the cute baby meditation, through the angel exercise.”09:25“So it's very much like the cute baby, but it's another really, really super powerful exercise, and so all you need to do is feel as if somebody holy, somebody the highest of the high, the holy of the holies in my life, my higher self is sneaking up over my left shoulder, and you want to feel that.”18:09“See what it does to you then, and then for the ever so adventurous, put the cute baby and the Hakalau at the end.”10:20“It becomes so big, which is why we want to do the cute baby meditation, right?”07:28“Engage with the deep brain, engage with the cute baby meditation, engage with Hakalau, sit in bliss and let it wipe out some of these negative tendencies from you.”09:38“But if you continuously did a therapy like Kriya Yoga, like Om Japa in the chakras, like entering into the low-idle-state of meditation, like doing the cute baby meditation day after day and Hakalau, and entering into expansion, and you did all these things and you cleaned out your heart.”16:52“You can also place your mind on bliss if you feel bliss or you generate bliss, or if you remember the cute baby meditation and you generate bliss, you create a connection with bliss.”17:58“We can also do more of the cute baby meditation, access the left amygdala directly, build up the strength in our access to the left amygdala, and that is right in line with the enlightenment pathway, making that bliss more and more available, especially at our deepest point when we become very, very tranquil.”06:26“Maybe we see a cute baby or a cute Chihuahua or a cute kitten, and we get this jolt of joy.”10:32“How can we draw on the bliss of the left amygdala through the cute baby meditation?”16:37“Practice the cute baby meditation.”09:25“Well, practice the cute baby meditation.”