Meditation IV - Pulse Listening Meditation

This is an easy meditation and many people love this. The benefits are mainly in your listening and observation powers.
You will learn to listen to small and little things, much more things, in detail.
When you acquire these abilities, your interpersonal and intra-personal abilities will develop.
Haven't you seen Sherlock Holmes (2009) film? Remember him telling each and everything about the girl at their first meeting? Note that you need to understand about body languages. In the same film, he goes to a suspect's lab containing many chemicals, he focuses on each one of them, smell them without going near them, get the smell distinctly and identify them. Then, with your keen observation, you will get much more details about people and things and yourself, in a way somewhere near Holmes. xD

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PROCEDURE

1. Do Nirmal Stiti Meditation if you please to cool you off.
2. Sit cross-legged, eyes closed, comfortable posture.
3. Rest your hands on the knees, as shown in the picture on the top. Don't tense them, just rest and relax.
4. Make 'OK Symbol'* with the fingers. This needs special attention. Touch the finger pads of the index finger and thumb with each other. See diagram on the right.
5. Now observe your pulse. You can feel the pulse in the finger. Give complete attention to the contacted points of the fingers, and nothing else.
You might need some time before you start to observe the pulse. But it's almost certain that you will get it in the first try itself.
This will get easy with some days of practice and you'll learn to feel the pulse the moment you keep fingers together.

That's it. Listen to your pulse for as long as you wish. This meditation can help you relax and relieve any tensions. You can do this even when the environment is not very calm, though this is desirable and recommended. This is the first meditation I learnt in my Yoga class, and I always have a liking for this one. This is very easy too.

*OK Symbol: This is not a symbol of Yoga or Meditation. This needn't be used to represent a Yogi either. This 'symbol' has its own meaning and importance and that is 'Pulse Listening' which we discussed here.

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