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    Deep Meditation - Pathway to Personal Freedom: AYP Enlightenment Series, #1
    Deep Meditation - Pathway to Personal Freedom: AYP Enlightenment Series, #1
    Deep Meditation - Pathway to Personal Freedom: AYP Enlightenment Series, #1
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    Deep Meditation - Pathway to Personal Freedom: AYP Enlightenment Series, #1

    By Yogani

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    "Deep Meditation" is a concise step-by-step instruction book for a simple yet powerful method of daily meditation that will systematically unfold inner peace, creativity and energy in daily life. Whether you are seeking an effective tool for reducing stress, improving your relationships, achieving more success in your career, or for revealing the ultimate truth of life within yourself, "Deep Meditation" can be a vital resource for cultivating your personal freedom and enlightenment. Yogani is the author of two landmark books on the world's most effective spiritual practices: "Advanced Yoga Practices - Easy Lessons for Ecstatic Living," a comprehensive user-friendly textbook, and "The Secrets of Wilder," a powerful spiritual novel. The AYP Enlightenment Series makes these profound practices available for the first time in a series of concise instruction books. "Deep Meditation" is the first in the series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAYP Publishing
    Release dateAug 9, 2012
    ISBN9798227294142
    Deep Meditation - Pathway to Personal Freedom: AYP Enlightenment Series, #1

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      Deep Meditation - Pathway to Personal Freedom - Yogani

      Introduction

      The Advanced Yoga Practices Enlightenment Series is an endeavor to present the most effective methods of yoga in a series of easy-to-read books that anyone can use to gain practical results immediately and over the long term. For centuries, these powerful practices have been taught in secret, mainly in an effort to preserve them. Now we find ourselves in the information age, and able to preserve knowledge for present and future generations like never before. The question remains: How far can we go in effectively transmitting spiritual methods in writing?

      Since its beginnings in 2003, the writings of Advanced Yoga Practices have been an experiment to see just how much can be conveyed, with much more detail included on practices than in the spiritual writings of the past. Can books provide us the specific means necessary to tread the path to enlightenment, or do we have to surrender at the feet of a guru to find our salvation? Well, clearly we must surrender to something, even if it is to our own innate potential to live a freer and happier life. If we are able to do that, and maintain a daily practice, then books like this one can come alive and instruct us in the ways of human spiritual transformation. If the reader is ready and the book is worthy, amazing things can happen.

      While one person’s name is given as the author of this book, it is actually a distillation of the efforts of thousands of practitioners over thousands of years. This is one person’s attempt to simplify and make practical the spiritual methods that many have demonstrated throughout history. All who have gone before have my deepest gratitude, as do the many I am privileged to be in touch with in the present who continue to practice with dedication and good results.

      The subject of this volume, Deep Meditation, has special significance in the overall list of yoga practices. No other practice can do more to bring us personal freedom in our daily life. The cultivation of our eternal and unshakable inner silence through daily deep meditation has such far-reaching effects that this practice alone is capable of expanding our experience of life to be unending happiness and creativity. That is why I call deep meditation the heart of yoga.

      I hope you will find this book to be a useful resource as you travel along your chosen path.

      Practice wisely, and enjoy!

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 – Who Am I?

      Chapter 2 – Deep Meditation

      How to Meditate

      When and Where to Meditate

      Questions On Your First Meditation

      The Possibilities

      Chapter 3 – Steps of Progress

      Navigating the Path of Inner Purification

      Visions and Energy Experiences

      The Rise of Inner Silence – The Witness

      Stillness in Action

      Chapter 4 – Freedom

      Unshakable Inner Silence and Ecstasy

      Refinement to Ecstatic Bliss

      Expansion of Divine Love in the World

      Further Reading and Support

      Chapter 1 – Who Am I?

      The most important question we can ask in this life is, Who am I? Right after that in importance is the question, What am I doing here? Human beings have been asking these two questions since the first thoughts arose in our ancient ancestors. And we are still asking them.

      Since the beginning, thousands of years ago, much effort has gone into understanding these basic questions about our humanity and to realizing their implications experientially. Practices have been the way by which the experiential component has been cultivated. Chief among practices has been something called meditation.

      Meditation has meant different things to different people. In English dictionaries only a few decades ago, meditation was defined simply as to think, or to ponder. Nowadays, there is a deeper understanding, and you can find meditation defined as, a specific way of thinking that leads to mental, emotional and physical balance. Those with a spiritual bent like to take it a step further, saying that meditation leads us to a direct realization of who we are and what we are doing here. How can this be?

      An effective method of meditation leads us to an experience of profound stillness, an inner silence that defies description. It is an emptiness that is full with peace, creativity and happiness. It is the natural condition of our mind beyond the processes of our thinking. We cannot help but get the feeling when we are in this state that this is who we really are. It feels so much like home. It feels so good. It is not only a mental experience. With effective meditation, every cell in our body is brought to a state of profound living stillness. Many of the symptoms of this stillness, this inner silence in our body, are measurable – the whole metabolism slows down along with the mind.

      The truly dramatic thing about meditation is not that we can sit down with a mental procedure and have a profound experience of stillness, peace and happiness while meditating. It is much more than that kind of transitory experience, which might be viewed as an escape. Meditation, practiced on a regular basis, cultivates our nervous system to sustain the inner silence experienced while meditating increasingly throughout our daily activity, while we are fully engaged in the world. Not only do we get a glimpse of our true self during meditation, but we are also cultivating it as a full time experience in our life. This has huge implications for the quality of our life, with practical benefits reaching into every aspect of our self-perception, relationships and career. While the procedure of meditation can be very pleasurable, the real reason we do it is for the long term benefits in our life. Meditation is a powerful path that leads to personal freedom. Ultimately, meditation answers the two perennial questions:

      Who am I? – I am the silent awareness standing behind all this.

      What am I doing here? – I am here to grow into full awareness of my true nature, which is peace, creativity and happiness.

      Since the beginning, human beings have wondered not only about the true nature of themselves, but also about the nature of the world and cosmos around them. So many mysteries! For thousands of years we have been slowly cracking the codes of Mother Nature. Modern applied science provides the most visible evidence of our progress in understanding the workings of our universe. Where we used to

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