Self-inquiry Meditation with Swami Shankarananda

Self-inquiry Meditation with Swami Shankarananda

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  • Track 5. Becoming Present Contemplation

    Close your eyes, think about the past; everything that’s happened leading to this moment has gone. Think about the future; the future has not yet come. What’s real, what’s actual, is the present moment. In the present moment, listen to the sounds. Now feel the sensations in your body—the sensation of sitting, your neck, your back. Now be aware of your breath coming in, going out. You’ve breathed a lot in the past, you will breathe in the future; the only breath that gives you air is the present breath. Breathe that breath.


    Now turning to the inner world, become aware of your mind, of thoughts in your mind. The mind is thinking. We’re not concerned with the content of the thoughts, but just that thoughts are occurring. Be aware of thoughts. At the same time, there’s a feeling aspect of your inner experience. Be aware of your feeling or your mood in present time. It doesn’t matter what the mood is, just be aware that there is some feeling, some mood.


    Going deeper, go to the sense of ‘I’. Say ‘I am’ and feel the feeling of being you in this moment. The feeling sense of ‘I’—it’s the most intimate, most personal, closest to the centre feeling: ‘I am.’

    Click here to purchase Swamiji's book 'Self-Inquiry: Using Your Awareness to Unblock Your Life'.

    4 min
  • Track 4. 'Who Am I?' Inquiry

    Ask inwardly, ‘Who am I?’ and become directly in touch with the context of all experience, which is your own Self.


    Say:

    • I am awareness.
  • I am the screen.
  • I am the space.
  • I am the feeling of Self.


    • Make these statements and reflect on each. These are in the spirit of Ramana Maharshi’s inquiry. Alternatively, you can ask yourself, ‘What is my awareness?’ and get in touch with the place towards which that
    question points.

    Click here to purchase Swamiji's book 'Self-Inquiry: Using Your Awareness to Unblock Your Life'.

    3 min
  • Track 3. Reviewing Your Day Inquiry

    Close your eyes. Review the day in sections. Think about the morning, the afternoon, the evening.

    • Did your emotions shift and change during the day?
  • Did you have an emotional reaction to any event or encounter?
  • Particularly regarding negative experiences, did you handle the emotion immediately or not?
  • Did the emotion affect later events during the day?
  • Is the feeling still with you?
  • What did you need to do at the time to shift your experience?
  • What do you need to do now to shift your experience?

    • Click here to purchase Swamiji's book 'Self-Inquiry: Using Your Awareness to Unblock Your Life'.

    3 min
  • Track 2. Healing Meditation

    I suggest that you try and listen to this meditation and the previous chakra meditation every day during the time you read this book. Set aside at least 20 minutes daily. This will assist your practice and help develop Self-inquiry naturally.

    Click here to purchase Swamiji's book 'Self-Inquiry: Using Your Awareness to Unblock Your Life'.

    17 min
  • Track 1. Self-Inquiry Guided Chakra Meditation

    I suggest that you try and listen to this meditation and the following healing meditation every day during the time you read this book. Set aside at least 20 minutes daily. This will assist your practice and help develop Self-inquiry naturally.

    Click here to purchase Swamiji's book 'Self-Inquiry: Using Your Awareness to Unblock Your Life'.

    7 min
  • Track 2 - Learn Self-inquiry - Healing Meditation
    Deepen your self-inquiry practice by doing the healing meditation. You return to the four chakras with a view towards acceptance, love and peace.  At the end you can find the best feeling and focus on it for the rest of the meditation. Purchase Swami Shankarananda's guide to meditation, Happy for No Good Reason at www.theashram.com.au. Or purchase it in person and visit the Ashram in Mount Eliza, VIC, Australia.
    17 min
  • Track 1 - Learn Self Inquiry - Guided Meditation
    On this track you investigate the thoughts and feelings in four of the seven chakras: the navel, the heart, the throat and the brow. This gives you an awareness of any tension and blocks you may be carrying and also puts you in touch with expanded and uplifting feelings. To buy Swami Shankarananda's guide to meditation visit www.theashram.com or visit the Ashram in Mount Eliza, VIC, Australia.
    7 min

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Practice the Shiva Process method of Self-inquiry with guided meditation's from Swami Shankarananda's best selling book 'Self-Inquiry'.