Yoga meditation for stress relief - total relaxation
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When you’re stressed, spending just ten minutes in yoga meditation can bring you back to yourself.
In “Yoga and Meditation (Dhyana)” meditation teacher George Feuerstein presents this quote:
The Mahabharata (13.294.16) characterizes the meditating yogin in the following pertinent way: “He does not hear; he does not smell. Neither does he taste or see, or experience touch. Likewise his mind ceases to imagine. He desires nothing, and like a log he does not think. Then the sages call him ‘yoked’ (yukta), ‘one who has reached Nature’ (prakritim apannam).”
If you’ve ever tried yoga meditation, achieving such a state can seem impossible. The more you “try” to meditate, the more your mind jitters with a thousand thoughts a minute, your legs hurt, your nose itches - you’re much too aware to even believe that the yoga meditation state is possible for you.
However, even trying to still your mind - just trying to let go - puts you well on the path to this state.
If you approach your yoga meditation sessions without any preconceptions at all, and just let yourself be exactly as you are, you will achieve this state.
Long before you reach this state, the ten minutes you spend with yourself each day relieve stress, and will make a wonderful difference in your life.
Try it - and try yoga exercises too.
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