Meditation - 3 Minutes
Do you accept yourself for who you are? When we feel conflict with ourselves, we can never truly reach inner peace and tranquility. In the modern world, many of us fall into the trap of making an enemy of ourselves. In doing so, we hold ourselves back from obtaining happiness and reaching our goals. In short, we are standing in our own way and preventing ourselves from moving forward in our life and our journey. If we are to override self-animosity, we have to surrender our ego.
Human life in itself is a gift. Self-animosity overlooks this fact entirely and ensures that we focus on the wrong things. It is a distracting feeling and one that can quickly take hold of us if we are not able to protect ourselves from its grasp. Luckily, there is one way in which we are able to combat this wealth of negativity and, instead, realign our minds and bodies with what truly matters.
Learning this Meditation to Conquer Self-Animosity is the secret. The spiritual practice centers on reconnecting with your core self and supporting it. It’s about being in a continual state of consciousness and fully accepting your being, free of any ego that you may once have harbored. Taking the time to practice this particular form of meditation will help you to regain your missing power. It will take time to perfect this art form, but the work is well worth it.
Benefits of this Meditation
Recenter yourself and your thoughts
Learn to accept yourself
Break away from your ego
Relaxation and calmness
Cultivate your consciousness
Rid yourself of self animosity
“The process of self-healing is the privilege of every being. Self-healing is not a miracle, nor is self-healing a dramatization of the personality as though you could do something superior. Self-healing is a genuine process of the relationship between the physical and the infinite power of the soul.”
How to do this Meditation
Directions
Should you find you’re having difficulty with self-animosity and want a solution, taking the time to master this sequence is a remedy. You should practice this short 3-minute meditation session once a day when you first start. As you become more confident, you may want to extend the session.
1. Start by sitting in Easy Pose with your legs crossed. Your neck should be in a light Jalandhar Bandh position.
2. Ensure that you are feeling alert and responsive.
3. Make two fists with your hands and point your thumbs upward. Bring your hands together so that they lightly touch at the center of your chest.
4. Keep your spine as straight as possible while maintaining a firm torso. Look down toward the tip of your nose and keep your gaze these.
5. Breathe in deeply through the nose and then exhale through the mouth. Next, switch this practice around. Breathe in through the mouth and out through the nose.
6. Ensure that your breaths are as deep and as long as you can manage.
7. Maintain this breathing technique for around three minutes, if possible.
8. To end your sequence, breathe in while lifting your arms upward. Take three more deep breaths and then release and relax.
Beginner’s Tip: Don’t worry about repeating a mantra! For this form of meditation, you need only to listen to the gentle sound of your breath. Inhale. Exhale.
