A 30 DAY EXPERIMENT WITH MEDITATION

Before starting to know all about how I does the whole experiment and what are the outcomes of the experiment, I want to highlight the whole experiment in some figures and statistics.

Highlights- I does a tough session of meditation together with many technique to improve it’s power. I also does many types of meditation in order to check which one fits me the best.

So, in a period of 30 days I did-

Ø 37 hours and 10min of Meditation

Ø 543 minutes of Shirshasana

Ø 5 different types of Meditation

Ø And 5 concentration increasing exercises

So, keep your excitation level up for the rest of the part because your going to accompany me in the whole journey.

And the IDEA comes from- well, the idea of this experiment came in my during my journey back to home after an unsuccessful attempt at SSB. In the train I planned the whole experiment. I first started with a promising idea of doing the Meditation at least 1 hour daily. I had never did a meditation even more than 15 minutes at a single time before this, so the idea of doing 1 hour daily thrilled me; what else a yoga lover man wants.

Meditation as I experienced-

Let me explain you about meditation according to what I had experienced in detail-

The feedback loop- what are you doing Sagar? Are you angry? Why, you have not to be ? I am unable to control my anger? Why I am losing control over me? I am a loser. I have no command over my body.

Stop, stop, stop… So in that way I end up with more anger and stress. This is what feedback loop does and this a mere example out of several others which happens to us daily.

Feeling difficulty in understanding what I want to tell. That’s OK. Let look it on another way. Our brain is a type of system which not functions and commands but also gives feedback using it’s past experiences and the knowledge he get about that topic from it’s environment. Altough feedbacks are very important for proper functioning of our brain but sometimes when our brain carry on giving so many and unnecessary feedbacks as a result their functioning from a voice which talks fairly to us changed to a noise which disturbs everything. So what to do in that case.

    The noise cancellation feature-

I think most of you are aware of the noise cancellation feature of your smartphone which blocks all the noise around you to reach the receiver end. In the same way we can develop a noise cancellation feature in us  which will stop the feedback loop to override us so that our brain will work efficiently and the MEDITATION is the way to do it.

MY EXPERIMENTS

i. Experiment with meditation types- at all I experimented with 5 different types of meditation which are-

1. Breathe awareness Meditation

2. Body Scan Meditation

3. Mindfulness meditation

4. Zen or Zazen Meditation

5. Hawaiian technique Of Meditation

   Although expect mindfulness meditation all have worked well for me. And in terms of their power I want to rank Zen technique the first rank as it worked in the most powerful ways among all. At this time I am not going much deep into that topic because in case I does so then the blog length will increase to an undesired extend. So I will try to cover that part in a separate blog.

ii. Experiments with time- I does meditation in the morning , evening, night and even during daytime but instead of morning and evening routine I did not gave much space to other times. Even  meditating in the night borrowed my whole sleep. So, I will suggest you to either do it during morning or in the evening.

iii. Experiments with the place- actually place does not matter much if the place you are meditating at is quite and you can sit there in a comfortable position for long.

Concentration exercises- I think all of you have a question in your mind that if this is an experiment of meditation then why I did Shirshasana. Now, your wait is over because in this section I am going to reveal the reason behind it.

When we go for a meditation with a jerk out of our work we are involved in, the attention of our brain need to shift accordingly but this does not happen easily and because of which we feel our brain going up and down to work and to what else we are concentrating of during meditation. So, to overcome this problem I did various concentration exercises prior to meditation and shirshasana is a part of that exercise.

At all I does 5 concentration exercises-

1. Shirshasana- it’s all about being in an upside down state with head balancing all the weight of the body and to retain that position at least for 5 minutes.

2. Concentrating on the toes of our legs while sitting with our legs extended in front of us.

3. Concentrating again on the toes of our legs but this time during walking slowly. Concentrate first on your leg which is forward first then to other when it comes forward and count each step.

4. Place a clock in front of you which have hands on it and now begin to concentrate on the movement of the second hand of the clock.

5. This one is very effective so please read it very carefully. Place a glass full of water(a transparent one) or a bottle. Now begin to see the water in the glass , think that you are absorbing all the still , quietness and calmness of the water. Do deep in thinking like this. I will bet this particular exercise will really work for you to come in a state of calmness.

Conclusion -  I still have really really many things to tell you about that experiment but it is better now to short out this blog here as it already went too large. These 30 days are really the best days of me in terms of calmness and concentration and this happens so because of only one thing - MEDITATION. Although the immediate effect of the Meditation is not so many but in long term it will really benefits you more than what you think. Instead of the benefits the meditation gave to me the experiment too gave me many benefits; it allows me to test my willpower, my art of arranging things correctly and the best thing is that it told me about my limits and potential. Now, when I am thinking of all what I does in the previous 30 days I have a big proud smile on my face. This was really an easier one so in the future I will love to do a more complex one which may be gave me better results than this one.

Ok, so at last I want to conclude the definition of the meditation as-

This is the space in the sentence of our life without which the the sentence of life is difficult to read. So give a space of Meditation to the sentence of your life and enjoy the correct sense that come out from it.

Oooo…. you have really read a very long blog. I know that the way I write is a boring one and not much informative as it has to be. Because this is the very first experiment by me so that’s why it so happened but I promise you that in the future I will present you a better one.

And at very last THANKS FOR READING such a large blog and a BIG BIG THANKS FOR TRUSTING ME. Stay fit, stay concentrative and productive. Goodbye!