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Building Your Meditation the Best Way!

Summary

, 30 min

Building a meditation practice from five minutes to twenty and beyond by skill and enjoyment rather than time: resonant breathing, sitting very still, noticing the Four Proofs, alternating doing and being, then the tranquil breath, freeze response and roll-up, with Cute Baby Meditation and Hakalau toward samadhi. Explains why forcing a set duration backfires.

In this video

Mentions
Parasympathetic nervous systemDiaphragmatic breathingRoll-Up of ConsciousnessLahiri MahasayaLeft and right brainAshok SinghFaithOM Japa in the ChakrasPratyaharaLow-Idle-State

Key moments

00:00Building a practice: skill matters more than time01:04Step one: five minutes with the resonant breathing app03:05Noticing the four proofs after five minutes04:36Moving up to ten minutes and noticing each proof06:48Ten minutes of doing, five minutes of being09:13Twenty minutes: alternating resonance and letting go10:35Into the freeze response and the tranquil breath12:55Tranquil breath, freeze response and roll-up make a master14:49Student story: forcing the last 15 minutes16:17Lahiri: when the tranquil breath shows up, forget the kriya17:21Getting excited or scared by deep states is normal19:03Sitting for time is left brain and a house divided21:26Meditating from love, not force23:20Twenty minutes is a hero's beginning23:59Adding bliss with the cute baby meditation24:37Hakalau and expansion into absorption and samadhi26:48Obsess about the little steps, not samadhi28:25Invitation to the Patreon satsang