Basic meditation of the DoJ

This meditation is based on breathing and visualization. You will breathe deeply and softly. Sit down cross-legged on a pillow (or on a chair if you can’t cross your legs). Do not rest your back on anything. Practice using your stomach muscles to hold your spine straight, without excessive effort. As you begin the deep breathing and maintain this position, you will also use the Prana Mudra (hand position), explained in the basic hand mudras section. Please become familiar with it before beginning the Prana Mudra practice.

Visualize drawing green energy up from the earth. Breathe as you visualize that emerald green energy rising from the earth, entering your base Chakra and legs, filling your body completely with green light, all the way up to your head. Visualize the green light surrounding you, flooding you from the inside of your body and extending to the area surrounding you. Visualize this for a few minutes.

Now, empty your mind. Forget about the green light; just leave the light to do its work. Begin to visualize drawing white light down from the Heavens, entering the top of your head until it fills your entire body. There is a place called the “door of Prana”, at the bridge of your nose, between your eyes. It is just inside your nasal area, where you initially feel air flowing in when you inhale. Concentrate on the door of Prana. Breathe, and feel the air slowly going back and forth in this area of your nose. See your body filled with white light, and concentrate continuously on the door of Prana. From this place in your nose the Prana enters. This is the Universal life force, a form of energy latent in the air around you. The Prana enters your body as you inhale, but it doesn’t leave your body when you exhale. Your body retains this life force and it circulates freely inside of you. When you exhale, only depleted air is evacuated. Visualize the white light shining brighter and brighter at the bridge of your nose while the white light/ Prana / life force is circulating throughout your body. Continue this technique for five minutes.

Empty your mind, relax, and be at peace.

Prana gives life.

In scientific terms we recognize that Prana is actually the sub-atomic particles of energy which are freely available in the air around us. As you fill yourself with this Life Force, you will be surprised at how much energy and vitality it will bring to you. With practice, as your body learns to remain calm and relaxed while you practice, you may extend the period of breathing in the white light to ten minutes, and then to twenty minutes.