The right Guru will find you when you become qualified for it. Meanwhile you can gently go about cultivating habits that would attract such a Guru towards you. They are present everywhere waiting for the right person all the time.
The following articles may help guide you in this path.
Selvan Srinivasan · 1y
Is it possible to combine different meditation techniques? For example a deep breathing technique along with a mantra? If the goal was to get into theta would the two different techniques trip each other up?
Your question makes it seem that meditation is something similar to mountain climbing. But instead please look at meditation as a pause during or after the mountain climbing, when you simply do nothing but completely rest. Mental non-doing being, complete cessation of mental activity is what will get you to the energy vibration frequency of theta. All the doings that you are talking about will only keep you firmly rooted in Beta frequency. Deep breathing is not meditation. It is a physical exercise. It is not even yoga or pranayama. Pranayama itself is a gentle practice (like Anulom Vilom) that can become intensive sometimes (like kapalabhati) but these are not meditation, these can be used as a stepping stone to prime the mind for the meditation practice. Or you could first shift your mind into a meditative state (alpha frequency) and then do pranayama while continuing to remain in the alpha frequency. That could make the activity of pranayama into a practice of meditation. You could do the same with walking or dish washing or any activity. Chanting a mantra is also similarly an activity. You can do mantra chanting as a primer for the mind before the meditation practice or you can sit with the mantra practice after the mind shifts into the quiet aware mode and you are able to be a witness to the mantra chanting happening in your body in sync with your breath automatically without any mental effort. This is used for practicing sitting with meditation for long durations, but it is recommended usually to drop the mantra and simply sit with awareness once the mind goes very still and quiet and these tools are no longer needed. Beware of the tendency to force your mind to be free of thoughts, you may be able to sit without any thought but still it would not be meditation unless it happens naturally after releasing all the restless energies into the earth. Read the second link pasted below to understand this more clearly if required. All the techniques and tools are needed only to settle the restless state of our minds which is habituated to keep doing and never stop doing.Once we regain our connection with earth energies we experience a mental shift into a vibrational frequency that corresponds with Alpha.The alpha state itself is a deeply healing and rejuvenating practice and it is enough to be here to heal and transform your life. When you continue to use tools such as mantras or focus on breath or tapping or any physical doing to help keep your mind quiet, you will be able to stay in alpha state and deeply heal. But if your goal is to go deeper into theta state, it is simply a question of sitting in non-doing being. All the concepts and techniques that apply in the normal world doesn’t apply here. Repeatedly choosing not to engage with arising phenomena and simply coming back and being an aware non-doing witness to all the arising phenomena helps with moving from alpha to theta. Remember that it is a slower vibrational frequency. You are moving towards zero here and any effort or wanting, to reach the destination, only tends to increase the vibrational frequency not decrease. “Raising higher to theta frequency” or “sinking deeper into theta frequency” are all words used as a figure of speech. You are not going anywhere literally. The source of the universe is not up there somewhere. The centre of cosmos is not out there in deep space. It is right within you. It is everywhere and nowhere. It is a different dimension than the dimension of space-time. Thinking, understanding, striving, etc do not work here. Please read the following articles to understand the difference between doing a mantra chanting and being with the mantra chanting.
Selvan Srinivasan · 1y
How can I meditate 24*7?
Yes it is possible to hold a background state of Awareness or be present in the here and now or be connected with your grounding or meditate 24×7 as you call it and yet be completely focussed on something else in the conscious part of your mind or logical / analytical mind (you call this without being aware). Before I tell you how to achieve it, I would like to explain what is happening here. Let me take the example of a juggler in a circus show. This person is able to juggle several things simultaneously but if he or she looks at one particular thing they will drop all the other things. So their conscious attention may be focussed on the audience and they may be making some funny face or saying some joke to entertain the audience but simultaneously they are probably juggling ten different balls of different sizes. Their conscious mind is mindful about the audience and talking with them and their unaware mind (as you call it) which is actually their background state of awareness is taking care of the hand movements to keep all the balls in the air in continuous motion. In other words, this juggler is being present and grounded or being mindful with all the balls he/she is juggling and and not aware of it because they are simultaneously entertaining the audience with their jokes and facial expressions. What happens normally when we work and are not being mindful is that we end up having very bad body posture which ruins our health and it turn reduces our efficiency and productivity at work. But if we stop working and start spending equal amount of time in meditation and exercise, we are not able to concentrate and complete our work on time. We would like to do both and this seems to be the aim of your question. The answer is to slowly cultivate a habit of returning back to your presence or grounding often during the day consistently. I suggest you begin with the following two practices for a few days and then see how you fare with your maths. 1) Selvans Deep crossing: https://youtu.be/qq6iKZquuVI 2) Selvans Short Meditation – Witnessing the Four Simultaneous Activities The first one takes three minutes and the second one takes five minutes so together it would be a ten minute practice. I suggest that you do this practice upon waking up in the morning and once again just before going to sleep at night. In addition please also repeat this ten minute practice once every two hours throughout your day. If you can do this consistently and cultivate a habit out of it you will be able to achieve what you aim for in a few months. I have answered a similar question before and you might be interested to read that answer here For more information and plenty of free resources to aid with the practice of meditation and deep healing, please visit my website.