21-Day Dhyana Sadhana - Day 21 - Dhyana Marga

Day 21 for the 21-Day Dhyana Sadhana, 21-Day Meditation Practice daily online retreat as we approach Divali 2024. 

Our last day of this 21 day sadhana. Thank you very much to everyone who participated. I hope that you have experienced more within your own being, learned some meditation skills and will continue your spiritual path through meditation. 

In this meditation we combined many of the skills you have learned in the past days to open up the inner space and experience deep inner connection. 

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Meditation Transcript

Let's come into our practice. Thank you very much. Please join me in the inner space.

Becoming skillful in your breathing and opening up your awareness. Expand the consciousness as much as you can to observe and experience all that is within you.

Observe the body, the vitality, the heart, the mind. Open up to the flow of energy and even open the consciousness into the group space. Feeling that group connection, the togetherness.

Balance your breathing, making the inhale and exhale equal. Steady, slow, conscious, and bring stability into your space.

Breathe into the root and strengthen yourself there on the inhale. Begin drawing the energy upwards, giving a little tension to the root and drawing the energy upwards, inviting the flow upwards within the central channel.

Some of you may feel the sacral chakra activate as you do this. If that happens, give a little tension to the sacral chakra. Invite that creative energy upwards as well.

Use some abdominal breathing to create an energy reserve, a buffer for the body and for the upper chakras. Use the abdominal breathing and build up the energy in the gut, storing more energy there. Keep the focus on the upward flow of energy.

Now join me at the heart breathing through the point of the heart and feel that root and heart connection.

Draw the energy from the root up towards the heart. Open up to feel the depth of the heart, the loving vibration of the heart. And in that heart space, I invite you to connect with me. Connect with me through the subtle space, through the energy space that I may support you from within.

Gently bring your attention into the throat. You can use Ujjayi breathing, creating a little constriction in the air passageway as you breathe, creating the sound, it's called ocean sounding breath.

Focus on the throat, listening to the inner silence.

Now taking a deep breath.

Draw the loving energy, the stillness and silence up towards the brow. Breathe through that point of the brow, opening up to the mental field, as you breathe out, clear the thoughts you do not need.

As you breathe in, go deep into that expansive space, the vastness of the mind deep within your being. You abide in a place of stillness and silence.

A boundless space, infinite, eternal and omnipotent.

Though that space seems like emptiness, nothingness, it vibrates with beingness. It vibrates with the power of the eye.

The power of I am.

It is pregnant with power. It's pervaded with power. Even though to the human mind it seems like nothing.

Gaze into the stillness. Listen to the silence. Open up the curiosity of your mind and heart to delve into it.

In that space, there is no thought, but there is a sense, a sense of I.

I am looking, observing. Pay closer attention to that sense of I.

Now take a deep breath, keeping your awareness, keeping this inner connection. As you breathe out, bring the feeling down to your heart.

Opening up your heart to the silent space.

Now going down into your abdomen. Take a few deep breaths, opening up the navel energy center to this silent inner space. You can feel how your mind is managing this process.

Mind is becoming the distributor of that inner power, of that inner connection.

And now focus at the base of the channel and try to take the feeling all the way down to the root.

And begin using whole body breathing, feeling the expansion of the body, feeling the joints floating open as you inhale, and then relaxing as you exhale it.

Now gently tune your mind to your life and the world around you.

Give attention to your senses, energizing the senses, holding them in a place of intelligence.

Thank you very much. Take a deep breath. Pull yourself fully back into your body, fully alert and ready.

And when the moment is right for you, you can gently open the eyes.

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Reflection

1. How has participating in this 21-day meditation practice impacted you? 
2. What are some realizations and learnings that you want to remember? 
3. What is the next step you need to take for your spiritual path?