How To Do Ultra Deep Meditation
Meditation is an extremely powerful yet simple way to relax your mind and body and cultivate a peaceful state of being. However, as well as standard meditation, it is possible to achieve ultra deep meditation states.
The purpose of this article is to give you a method that you can use to help you go into an ultra deep meditation state. The main technique I am going to be discussing is mantra meditation. I will also talk about using binaural beats to attain deep meditative states.
Mantra meditation involves repeating a word or sound over and over again silently in your mind. This keeps the mind busy with an extremely simple and repetitive task, allowing the rest of the mind to fully relax. The mantra we are going to use is OM.
To begin, sit comfortably in a relatively upright manner in a peaceful room with subdued lighting. Breathe in deeply, and then as you take a long breath out say Ommmm in time with the out breath. Do this for a few minutes, keeping your breathing slow and deep.
After a while, as you begin to feel quite relaxed, allow your breathing to settle back down to its normal rate, and then slowly shut your eyes. In this relaxed state, allow the mind to carry on repeating the Ommmm mantra at whatever tempo or rhythm feels most natural.
The crucial part of this technique is not to force the mantra. There is no right or wrong way for you to repeat the mantra. It does not matter what tempo or rhythm the mantra is repeated at. If it is fast, then that is fine. If it is slow, then that is fine too. Just effortlessly allow the mantra to float around in your mind.
While meditating, if at any time you find your mind has drifted away from your mantra and is caught up in thoughts, do not let it worry you. All you do is gently guide your mind back towards your mantra in an effortless way. Also, if you find yourself feeling blissfully relaxed and peaceful, then feel free to let the mantra fade away, and just rest in that deeply relaxed state.
After about 10 to 20 minutes have gone past, let go of the mantra and then just relax with your eyes closed for a couple of minutes longer. Then gently open your eyes again.
In addition to the mantra meditation (or even instead of it), another way to do ultra deep meditation is to use binaural beats. This entails playing slightly different frequencies into each ear, and your brain hears the difference in frequency and then matches its own brainwave frequency to it. This can cause extremely deep states of mind.
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