Anointing your head with oil for a soothing meditation

​Dear All,

Although, this has been mentioned before, it's worth repeating because it really does help to improve the quality of your meditation, as well as helping you keep relaxed and balanced throughout the day.

Just before going to bed at night, try massaging a teaspoonful of almond oil into the centre of the top of your head. The oil can be placed in the centre of your right palm and put on the head and then massaged in a clock-wise direction.

The centre of the top of the head corresponds to the very important yogic point called the 'brahma-randra' which is the hole through which the kundalini emerges during sahaja yoga meditation - hence the cool breeze felt at the top of the head.

Once you have applied the almond oil, sit still for a moment in meditation and see whether you notice how especially soothing the meditation feels and how easier it is to achieve your state of thoughtless awareness, even for a few seconds if not minutes.

Also, using a dropper, put a few drops of ghee (clarified butter - see below) into both nostrils and then lean the head back so that the ghee can be absorbed and lubricate the inner lining of the nose. The inner lining of the nose is prone to dryness because of the amount of time we spend in places with dry air eg. air-conditioned work spaces.
 

This can be the cause of various problems, including sinusitis.

From a yoga and meditation point of view, the ghee helps a small chakra that sits at the bridge of the nose called the 'hamsa' chakra which is the chakra that gives us discriminative awareness. 'Hamsa' in sanskrit means swan. A famous question was once asked: "What is the difference between a Heron and Swan?"

The answer was that, when both aquatic birds are given some water to drink, mixed with milk, only the Swan is capable of sieving out and just drinking the milk from the mixture. This is what the discriminative awareness is. So a good hamsa chakra can guard you from making some bad choices or decisions by helping you to quickly suss out the Truth in a world of false appearances.

Since the hamsa chakra occurs at a point in your subtle body representing the merger of the left and right subtle channels, a good hamsa also keeps you in a good state of balance, which can be a big advantage to you at work.

This weeks 4-minute video clip is about how to overcome mental limitations.

See you at group meditation on Tuesday.

Regards

Here's how to make ghee at home. It becomes solid at room temperature, so to melt it to put into nose, place the dropper with solid ghee in it into a cup of hot water.