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Meditation in the morning

A guided meditation for relaxation and inner focus.

Settle comfortably and close your eyes to withdraw from the external world. Systematically relax the body from the toes to the head. Feel the energy flow and observe the natural breath without control. Concentrate on the navel as the body's center, coordinating breath with gentle head movements. Then bring awareness to the heart and the breath at the nostrils. Release all concentration, allowing the entire body and mind to be completely relaxed. Conclude by gently moving the body and returning to seated awareness.

"To close the eyes means also to withdraw thyself from the external world."

"Be thyself. Be relaxed, be concentrated, but relaxed."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Let us all settle into meditation. Make yourself comfortable. Shall we have some meditation music? For example, from Madhuram, just the melody—not too loud, just a little. How was this morning? Very good? Warm or cold? Just good, yes. In the hall, it’s not so cold; it’s very nice. Om Śānti, Om Śānti, Om Śānti. And until you bring your cassette, we will again sing something for meditation, and everybody will sing together. Yes, everybody, you know? This bhajan: O caraṇam me dāsa Gaṇapati deva, Deva gajaniva, Anubha ijo deva. Gośālā asūkā, āyada asūkā dijo. Sarva duḥkhāna sajā Darome pati deva. Thank you. So, make yourself comfortable so that you feel at ease. If you feel comfortable, you... If you want to see anything here, look at all that you wish to see. After that, you should not open your eyes until I tell you to finish. Also, we should not move from outside to inside or inside to outside. If you feel discomfort, you can sometimes change your position, but do not disturb others. So relax. Relax. Make a good, comfortable position. If you wish to see anything, comfortably look here and there, and then close your eyes. To close the eyes means also to withdraw thyself from the external world. Feel your legs from the toes up to the hip joints. Relax. Feel the trunk of your body. Feel your spinal column, very relaxed. Place your hands comfortably on your lap. In meditation, if you can, repeat your mantra, your personal mantra. But it should not disturb you. Shoulders, your neck, arms, elbows, the arms, wrists, palms, and fingers. Feel the energy flow through. Through the whole of both arms and hands. In the entire palms and hands. Take your time. Be thyself. Be relaxed, be concentrated, but relaxed. Do not control anything from thyself—your relaxation, your breath, your feelings. You become thyself, very comfortable, easy, happy. Feel your neck very relaxed, very comfortable. Between your head and your shoulders. Just your neck, and now feel inhalation and exhalation from both nostrils. You are inhaling, but relaxed, comfortable. And go through your lungs, the whole part of the body, and exhale all that you have, exhale all from your lungs and everything. Inhale; we are inhaling very calm, very pure, very good. Tensions. I am myself within myself, in and out. Now concentrate on the navel. This is the center of your whole body. Very comfortable, very nice. Try to relax the organs, the muscles, the holding, the tensions; everything relaxes at the center of the navel. Now inhale from the nostrils, and while inhaling, bring your head a little down and close your chin to your neck, down as long as your chin comes to your body for a while. Give your mantra, relax, don’t do your mantra. While exhaling, bring your breath to the navel. And slowly again, come up. We exhale. And inhale. Gently exhale, raise your shoulders up, and keep your elbows straight, with a little pressure from your hands to your knees. And look down to your navel point, but with closed eyes. Then, while inhaling slowly, raise your head up and look a little up with closed eyes. Again, exhale, then go down slowly to the navel, shoulders up, elbows straight, chin close to your chest, and then inhale again, relax your elbows, and raise up your head a little bit gently, and again exhale and go to the navel. This is a beautiful practice. A prāṇa technique. The whole body will become very relaxed. Be thyself. Go again down to the navel. Shoulders up. Elbows straight. The hands press on the knees, the chin is closed, the breath is stopped, and feel your navel, and inhale slowly. Slowly release your elbows, slightly look up. With closed eyes, you feel the breath in your lungs, and again exhale slowly. While exhaling, bring your head down, then close your breath. Feel comfortable, relaxed, without any pain in your navel. And come up. Feel your whole body. Elbows relaxed. Shoulders are relaxed. And exhaling slowly. Chin connect to the chest. Go ahead; this is what I told you, seven times slowly. With this, feel your whole body. Make your body comfortable. Now normal breath, your head is straight. And you may gently open your eyes and lie down on your back, head to myself. Just relax, comfortable on the back. And close your eyes and relax. Seven times, concentrate on your navel as you inhale and exhale, but with normal breath. After that, come to your heart. Feel your heart. But now, with the navel, relaxed breath, eyes are closed, your eyebrows relaxed, and feel. Your heart. You may feel the heartbeat or not, but just be with your heart, relaxed, comfortable, relaxed. Pohodlně, uvolněně. Be aware of your heart comfortably, and relax the feeling of your legs, your toes, your foot soles, ankle joints, thighs. Feel your palm. The palm is a little bit to the side. Do not keep the stretch in your fingers. They are gently relaxed. The whole trunk of the body is comfortable. Feel your breath. To the whole body, your breath is going in and coming out, and the heart is very relaxed, comfortable feelings. Just feel the heart. Always with thyself. Feel your body. Feel comfortable. Feel the breath. And now, concentrate. On your nostrils, breathing in and out. And concentrate on the eyebrow center in your forehead. Whatever you see—any light, anything, nothing—just your place. Relax, relax. Let your breath be very relaxed, and now let your whole body be completely relaxed. Without any different kinds of parts of the body. You know yourself. I am myself. I am relaxed in my body. I am within my body. Comfortable. Just relax, no concentration, no particular part. Just let it be relaxed, relaxed, relaxed. Relax the whole body, your thoughts, your feelings. Just be thyself. Now, take a deep, slow inhale and feel your stomach expanding and contracting. You are inhaling and exhaling. Slowly move your fingers. Make a fist, open the palms, close the fist, and slowly move your legs. Big toes, second toes. Stretch your ankle joints. And slowly bend your legs. And slightly turn to the left, and right. Just make yourself comfortable, and with your hands, support. Sit up. And rub your palms. And place them on your face. Hari Om. Now, at least 20 minutes walk in our park, then go for your lunch. Hari Om.

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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