When You're Too Hectic To Meditate - 4 Things

Summary

September 20, 2024, 15 min

Four practices for times too hectic to sit and meditate: quick inbreaths with long outbreaths (AMOL), Hakalau peripheral vision, the Cute Baby Meditation, and OM Japa into a problem. The video opens with Brother Premamoy's advice to a troubled monk to walk and breathe long.

In this video

Teaches

AMOLHakalauCute Baby MeditationOM Japa in the Chakras

Discusses

Brother PremamoyLeft and right brain

Mentions

HRV ResonanceParasympathetic nervous systemSpiritual eyeLeft amygdala

Key moments

00:00A letter from a woman caring for her family through a crisis 01:12Brother Premamoy's advice: walk up and down and do very long breathing 03:14The monk's head clears on the walkway 04:00First: breathe in quickly, breathe out long (AMOL)06:32Second: Hakalau, taking in the whole field of vision 08:06Try it: hold a worry, then open up the peripheral vision 09:13Tasting the freedom of the right brain 10:12Third: the cute baby, and a student's cute Chihuahua meditation 11:11Holding the awe like a weight to reach the left amygdala 12:33Widening the gate to peace, the right brain and bliss 13:17Fourth: OM into the problem, a slower method 13:59Easy walking meditations for when life is too crazy to sit