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Tips, Techniques & Context to Help Improve your Meditation
Tips, Techniques & Context to Help Improve your Meditation
Whether in daily life or meditation, cultivating an aspiration for truth is a most powerful way to build your life and meditation practice.
Trataka means to look or to gaze. Trataka is one of the Shatkarma, a block of yoga techniques focused on purifying the body. Other techniques in this set include neti, sutra neti, shankhaprakshalana, agnisar kriya, kunjal kriya, vastra dhauti and others.
Meditation is the vehicle which helps your consciousness seeking to return to its source.
There is an Indian philosophical concept called Gunas which is found in nearly all Hindu schools of philosophy. It consists of three Gunas that are present in all objects and all beings in the world.
People view meditation as a means to find relaxation, relief from anxiety, stress, depression or other ailments. This view is a form of spiritual materialism. It is simply not true. If anything, these rewards are the byproduct of maintaining a meditation practice. The riches of meditation lie elsewhere.