Sat Nam as we say in the Kundalini tradition and welcome to Inside Timer.
My name is Wah.
Thank you for choosing to meditate with me.
Today we're going to work with a Kundalini meditation and I'd like to share a quote with you from a saintly man who walks this earth named Mujee and he said,
Step into the fire of self-discovery.
This fire will not burn you.
It will only burn what you are not.
And I love this quote because I think it pertains beautifully and relates beautifully to the meditation that we're going to practice.
Self-discovery is an endless process and often times if we're continuing our life through the filter of the past or muddling through the stories of our past,
It's hard to know who we are right here and right now.
And so as you use tools of meditation to enhance the understanding and the knowingness of who you are right here,
Right now,
Regardless of the yesterdays,
Then the tools that you use will help to burn up the stuff that is not you.
Those moments from the past which might have helped shape who you are now,
But they certainly do not own who you are now.
And our meditation that we're going to practice is for relieving stress and clearing emotions of the past.
How many of us have had moments where we feel like we are owned by our past,
Like we're limited by our past,
Like our past defines who we are.
And although it doesn't,
The emotions that get triggered from the past are those chains that we feel day in and day out.
And so as we create clearing in our consciousness,
As we create an emotional freedom from our past,
We no longer are defined by our past,
But rather our past was learning lessons or opportunities to rise higher,
To get more in touch with who we are today,
Right here,
Right now.
So this meditation is a pranayama,
So we focus mostly on the breath during it,
Although there will be some mantra playing in the background.
I want to start with just letting you know that as you go into part two,
Which is where the meditation is practiced,
We'll start with tuning in with the Adi mantra,
Which is the invocation that we use in Kundalini Yoga.
And this meditation,
All meditations in Kundalini Yoga are started with the invocation,
The tuning in.
So if you're new to the tuning in,
You can just listen the first time you practice,
And then maybe if you keep coming back to the meditation,
You'll start to tune in with me.
But the Adi mantra,
Om namo,
Gurudev namo,
Means I bow and I honor the wisdom that lies within.
So as you tune in,
When you choose to tune in,
Just know that you're starting off your practice with an intention to honor that wisdom that lies within yourselves and your breath and your body.
The mantra that we'll be playing in the background is waheguru,
And this mantra really calls upon the excellence of the universe that created us and is dancing within us.
So it's just calling upon the excellence of yourself,
Of your spirit,
Of your soul.
And so you can just allow the vibration of this mantra to be in you and around you as you practice this meditation.
The meditation is going to hold the posture with the hands.
In Kundalini we use a lot of mudras,
Which are hand postures,
In order to enhance the energy flow or very specifically generate energy flow to assist us in the process of what the meditation is trying to create.
And so in this meditation,
We're going to take our hands and we're going to bring all of our fingertips from the opposite hand together.
So it's as if you're creating a little tipi right in front of your heart.
So just the tips of the fingers are touching and then there's space between the palms as if you're holding a ball of light in between the palms.
Your eyes are focused down at the tip of your nose.
And so this can be really uncomfortable.
See if you can practice it and you can work your way through the discomfort because it does eventually subside.
But if it's too intense and you're newer to meditation and eye focuses,
Then you can always roll your eyes up to your third eye point,
That space between your brows.
So I'm going to let you choose a little bit where you focus your eyes.
If you're a regular meditation practitioner though and you want to go for that little extra challenge,
Then try to look down at the tip of the nose.
The reason we do this is because it kind of makes the mind go quieter.
It takes away the busyness of the mind quicker and allows us to go into that space of quiet,
Of shunya quicker and deeper.
The breath is the most important part of this meditation.
So the way the breath is going to work is you're going to inhale for five seconds,
You're going to hold for five seconds,
And you're going to exhale for four or five seconds.
So it's a three-part breath and it's really important that you try to make those three parts equal,
Going for about four breaths per minute.
So it sounds easy enough,
But when you really apply the focus and you keep your breath in these three segmented parts,
It might start to be a little bit more challenging.
So I'll guide you for the first minute or so with the breaths and then you'll start to just find your own pace.
As you practice more and more,
It will become more organic and you won't have to count so much in your head or keep track so much.
You'll have a feel for what five seconds of inhale,
Five seconds of hold and five seconds of exhale look like.
So a quick recap,
We're going into this fire of self-discovery together and we're trusting that this fire will not burn us,
It will only burn what we are not.
It will burn up those old emotions of the past,
Those things that are chaining us down,
That are defining who we are in this moment,
And we're going to give ourselves a little more freedom,
A little more air under our wings so that we can explore ourselves and that self-discovery right here,
Right now,
Starting from this very moment and not from the yesterdays.
Our meditation will start with the invocation,
Om namo,
Gududev namo,
And then we'll go right into our posture,
Bringing the fingertips all together,
Five fingertips touching,
Five fingertips,
Like a little tipi at the heart with a ball of light in between.
The spine is tall,
The eyes are closed,
Either focused down at the tip of the nose or up between the brow at the third eye point.
The breath is five seconds in,
Five seconds hold,
Five seconds out.
The mantra is igniting the ecstasy,
The greatness,
The bliss that exists within us at all times.
It just needs to be accessed.
So sit and be in this meditation and experience it,
Experience your breath,
One of your greatest teachers,
And enjoy the process.
Thank you and I will meditate with you on the next track.
Sat Naam.
