Guided Meditation: De-clutter Your Mind with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Preparing for Meditation

• 🧘‍♀️ Begin with palms open on your lap and eyes open, then take a deep breath in, exhale, and close your eyes.
• 🌬️ Synchronize your breath: as you breathe in, bring fingers together and open eyes; as you breathe out, open fingers and close eyes, repeating this five times.
• 😌 Relax your shoulders and sense every cell of your body emitting energy, perceiving yourself as a pillar of light and energy.

Engaging Breath and Body

• 🎶 Initiate the Om chanting with a deep breath, allowing the sound to resonate and release energy from every particle of your body.
• 🔥 Visualize your body as the wick of a candle and your mind as the flame, directing your attention to a point 12 inches above your head.
• ✨ Allow any discomfort or pain in your body or mind to burn away in the light of consciousness, transforming into pure light.

Focusing Consciousness

• 🌟 Shift your attention to a distant star, imagining a ray of light from it falling directly onto the top of your head.
• ⚡ Let your energy reach out to this distant star, releasing all effort and allowing yourself to rest completely.
• 🧘‍♂️ Observe as all tension and stiffness in your body gradually dissolves and disappears, promoting deep relaxation.

Deep Relaxation and Expansion

• 🌌 Maintain your attention on the point 12 inches above your head (Dvadashanta) and become aware of the vast, expansive sky.
• 🌬️ Allow your mind to spread far and wide like a fragrance or vapor, dissolving into the vastness, with nothing to do or know for a few moments.
• 🎈 Feel all heaviness loosening up and transforming into a sensation of lightness, as your mind expands into the space around you.

Concluding the Practice

• 🧘‍♀️ Continue to relax deeply, embracing the feeling of nothing to do and nothing to know, letting your mind spread in all directions.
• 🌬️ Introduce a gentle breath and conclude with the Om mantra and a peace chant (Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu, Om Shanti Shanti Shanti).
• 👁️ Slowly and gradually, become aware of your body and your surroundings before gently opening your eyes.