Vedic Meditation is an effortless, self-sufficient, take anywhere meditation technique. This is what makes the technique able to be integrated into daily life. Meaning busy people with busy lives can enjoy the benefits.
Let’s face it, if we’ve got to get to a class three times a week for an hour it just isn’t going to happen. Deadlines roll in, there’s traffic, it’s cold/hot/wet/we’re hungry – we’ve all been there. This is where Vedic Meditation is different. It’s a 4 session course designed to equip you to be an independent meditator.
And don’t worry, you won’t be visualising sending your worries down a stream on a leaf, or chanting.
This technique uses a mantra, a little sound without meaning that acts as a vehicle for the mind, naturally orienting the mind from the top layers which are busy, active and constantly thinking, planning and projecting, down to the bottom of the mind, which is the inner, quiet, still state of the mind. The mind then has the ability to refine the mantra beyond this point and in doing so refine the mantra completely beyond perception. At this point the mind lets go of the mantra, lets go of thought and comes to a complete state of rest within itself.
Meditation is an effortless experience when the correct mantra is passed on in the correct way, partnered with correct instruction. Many people who have tried other meditation practices find that this technique achieves results quickly and easily without effort, force or the need to concentrate.
It is a technique that is practiced for 20 minutes twice a day while sitting comfortably.
Once instructed correctly it is possible to meditate anywhere that you can sit and close your eyes – on a bus, plane, train or in the office – we just sit and close the eyes and bring the mantra to mind inside of our awareness. There is no need to go chanting the mantra out loud, have anything with you, to sit in any particular position or to attend any further classes of instruction. This is how meditation becomes actually do-able.
This isn’t a technique that takes long to learn or get good or to see results. With correct instruction, anyone can learn to meditate. And enjoy it.