1. Keep Eye focused on any one point with Single-Minded Focus.
2.Raja Yoga, Shunya - Zen is Shen and corruption of Shunya Meditation - my technique
(a) Hold your breath (Raja Yoga, Shunya - Zen is Shen and corruption of Shunya Meditation.
(b) Watch your inhale-exhale breath over tip of your nose (Vipassana and useful in countering Jet Lag in international flights),
(c) With third eye draw pattern over AUM, silently say AUM (inhale over 3, exhale over tail, hold over dot - (my technique at 24), or,
(d) Draw infinite or eight over two eyes and do normal breathing (my technique at 50). There is grosser (with movements of lung, chest, collar, throat and nose muscles) and subtle breath (no air is moving without nostril's closed and muscles locked). One is enjoying the subtle breath which is Prana and can't do without it but most people are blind to it. Then there is an external breath, suspended through Yogic Locks at Diaphragm, Costal, Clavicle, Throat and Nasal levels lile a Submarine, and an internal breath, which is the Neural Breath, and as it slows down, one goes towards Hibernation and Temporary Death, which Sadguru likes to call. One needs to learn and train to hold the urge to breathe internally. The brain is trained to suppress the urges triggered at Medulla Oblongata. The brain has suppressed the gross breath. This is easier than closing your nostrils or submerging oneself in water.
(b) Watch your inhale-exhale breath over tip of your nose (Vipassana and useful in countering Jet Lag in international flights),
(c) With third eye draw pattern over AUM, silently say AUM (inhale over 3, exhale over tail, hold over dot - (my technique at 24), or,
(d) Draw infinite or eight over two eyes and do normal breathing (my technique at 50). There is grosser (with movements of lung, chest, collar, throat and nose muscles) and subtle breath (no air is moving without nostril's closed and muscles locked). One is enjoying the subtle breath which is Prana and can't do without it but most people are blind to it. Then there is an external breath, suspended through Yogic Locks at Diaphragm, Costal, Clavicle, Throat and Nasal levels lile a Submarine, and an internal breath, which is the Neural Breath, and as it slows down, one goes towards Hibernation and Temporary Death, which Sadguru likes to call. One needs to learn and train to hold the urge to breathe internally. The brain is trained to suppress the urges triggered at Medulla Oblongata. The brain has suppressed the gross breath. This is easier than closing your nostrils or submerging oneself in water.
3. Listen to Music and sing with Music. One can even dance.
4. Silently (better) or not silently repeat the name of a Divine, like AUM, Ram, Krishna.
5. Silently (better) or not silently repeat a Mantra like Gaytri Mantra, Hare Rama Hare Krishna, etc.
There 7 Stages of Self Development; (1) Servant of God, Duty towards to Others, Service to Community or Larger Cause, (2) Mad Devotion to something, (3) Control over Senses and Desire, (4) Self Knowledge. Who I am?, Aham Brahma Asmi, Tat Tvam Asi, Transient Nature of Time, Pain and Gain, Happiness and Sorrow, Existentialism and Materialism, (5) Self-delight, witness stage to outside world, (6) Desire to be part of Brahman or Universal Consciousness, and (7) Liberation and Merge with Brahman, Marriage with Universal Consciousness, Merger of Lover with Loved.
