Concentration-The Guiding Light

The practice of concentration helps us release inner pressures and thus experience freedom and wellbeing. It strengthens our will power and awareness.

  • Relax.
  • Sit in cross-legged position.
  • Take five deep breaths. To start, breathe in through the nose and breathe out through the mouth.
  • Oxygenate your entire body with each breath you take
  • Relax your muscles and most importantly your mind when you breathe out.
  • Continue to breathe deeply, now breathing in and out through the nose.
  • Try to remain as still as possible – physically and mentally.
  • Bring your attention to all the different parts of your body, one by one.
  • Relax all your muscles. With the help of your breath, remove all tensions from your body.
  • Make sure that your whole body is relaxed.
  • Now your forces can circulate freely and you will be able to concentrate them where you wish.
  • Bring your attention to your head.
  • Relax it completely and visualize that your brain is full of light.
  • Follow your breathing slowly and deeply.
  • Gradually, visualize a zone in the centre of your brain, around the size of a small orange. Visualize this zone as being especially bright with light, like the sun.
  • Stay concentrated on this zone for about fifteen breaths.
  • From the brain, follow the rays of this light and descend slowly towards the heart, lighting up the path.
  • Once you reach the heart, visualize it being full of this light which links it to the brain.
  • Stay concentrated for a few minutes on this line of light between the brain and the heart.
  • Keep the calm and the balance you got in this exercise for as long as possible.