MEDITATION FOR THE NEGATIVE MIND
from The Mind
When you need to balance the flashing negativity and protective fervor of the Negative Mind, use this meditation. It clears the subconscious of unwanted negative or fearful thoughts. Then the Negative Mind can give you clear signals to protect and to promote you. The posture is one of calmness and humility that lets the Creator, the Unknown, cover and shield you.
This used to be called Beggar’s Posture.Sit straight in an easy cross-legged pose. Make a cup of the two hands with both palms facing up, and the right hand resting on top of the left hand. The fingers will cross over each other. Put this open cup at the level of the heart center. Elbows rare elaxed at the sides. Your eyes are slightly open and look down toward the hands.
Inhale deeply in a long steady stroke through the nose. Exhale in afocused stream through rounded lips. You will feel the breath go over the hands. Let any thought or desire that is negative, or persistently distracting come into your mind as you breathe. Breathe the thought and feeling in, and exhale it out with the breath.
After 11 to 31 minutes, exhale completely and suspend the breath out as you lock in the navel point. Concentrate on each vertebra of the spine until you can feel it all the way to the base, as stiff as a rod. Then inhale powerfully, exhale completely, and repeat the concentration. Repeat this final breath 3-5 times.
Then relax completely.
The length of time is 11 to 31 minutes.
