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THE DYNAMICS OF MEDITATION
Do you know how much tension you have? Even as you prepare to meet a person, you are building tension in your body and mind. How to greet? How to meet? How to speak? What to say? In this way, in school, in colleges, in our studies, in our society, in our contacts with people, everywhere there is tension. This tension is built in now. Even if you sit for meditation, your body is not quiet. It is jerking. Even though people may sit quietly, they go on biting their nails. They make many gestures because there is no calmness. The first step is to drop your body-allow it to live in its own state. When you have done kayotsarga, then you can turn to the mind and the breath.
When you are under tension, you take shallow breaths. But when you allow the body to flow, the breath goes deep, and you take in proper oxygen. Your body is animated when it is filled deeply with fresh oxygen. The cells are not dead or stagnant, there is no inertia. You need fresh breath. That is why meditation generally was observed on mountaintops, in forests, near rivers, on shores, in the natural environment. As you take in fresh air, your mind is also blossoming. You are opening, and you feel the freshness of your mind.
You become attentive to your breath and begin a mental count to four to bring yourself in tune with your breathing. You use the mantram brim to raise your energy for meditation.
Then, after attending to the breath, you may use the mantram veerum to engage your mind. For a long time your mind has been rushing among so many activities, it does not know what to do. The five senses are sending demands to the mind and it is off in many directions.
