Is being stressless your primary goal for your practice of meditation? Are you still able to be competitive, productive and effective with your work? Are you able to successfully achieve all that you want to achieve in life? If the answer to these question is yes, you need not read the rest of this answer. Simply continue what you are doing, you are on the right track. If it is no or not sure, read on.
Stress is a natural phenomenon and it exists because it is very helpful in keeping us focussed and achieve whatever we set out to do with respect to our career or education or any life pursuit. Being totally stressless is equal to being totally lifeless. We all need stress to live and progress, but beyond a certain point this stress starts becoming too much and it becomes counterproductive and harmful. The aim therefore is not stressless or stress free but to be able to be balanced. We develop a practice of meditation to help us lead a balanced or harmonious life.
Meditation is a state of being in which the thinking-mind is resting without engaging, reacting or responding to thoughts, emotions, body sensations or sense perceptions that keep arising all the time. While the thinking-mind is resting, our Aware mind is fully alert, awake and aware during meditation. This means we would have a heightened perception of all that is happening in the present moment including our breathing process.
There are two possibilities where one could be unaware of their breathing and stressless. One is that one is falling asleep during meditation. The other is that one is forcing their mind to go completely blank. In both the cases the stresslessness is only seemingly so, whereas the stress has been deeply driven inside and suppressed.
I suggest to read the following article and practice meditation as suggested therein.
Humanity “THE BEST RELIGION” · December 20, 2022
Can someone who has never been able to meditate learn to practice meditation and benefit out of it?
Yes anyone can practice meditation. It is quiet simple actually. You only need to learn when you have to ‘do’ something. Meditation is a practice of ‘non-doing being’. You need to choose not to do anything and this entails a process of unlearning rather than learning. When I say activity, I am referring to mental activity not physical activity. Just do the following for one to three minutes and see what happens. Your first tool for an effective meditation practice – Focused Breathing and Conscious Breathing – FGCB This is FGCB or Fixed Gazing and Conscious Breathing. Simply take a few minutes to be with this practice several times during the day for a few days. It would be even more helpful if you can practice three minutes of gentle body movements called Deep crossing after the FGCB and continue with the FGCB while doing this. It is demonstrated in YouTube video linked below. Selvans Deep crossing: https://youtu.be/qq6iKZquuVI After several days of the above practice, listen to the following guided meditation audio and sit with a short practice of 5 minutes open eyes meditation. Sit for the meditation after doing deep crossing. Selvans Guided Meditation – Witnessing the four simultaneous activities: Selvans Short Meditation – Witnessing The 4 Simultaneous Activities If you want to go further, you may use the other longer closed eyes meditation audios in my SoundCloud profile to progressively practice with meditation. My recently published book is a good guide to take the reader through a handholding process of mentoring. You can read more about the book and find the link to buy it in my website below. Another option is to enrol for my online mentoring program called Awareness Journey. Read about it and find the links to my SoundCloud and YouTube profiles on my website homepage.
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