Getting ahead by catching the Day at it's root - The special 4am meditation.

​Dear All,

​ The secret of success of some of the most influential people in society​, according to recent newspaper and magazine articles(see below),​is that they are up early, busy being productive, while the rest of us are still snoring in our beds.

One of these early risers is Helen Morrissey who is the CEO of a London investment company, and gets up before dawn to use the quiet and peaceful time to get some of her work done. That's before five of the nine children she has, start waking up at about 6:30am and her attention turns to them.

You don't have to be an aspiring CEO or be responsible for a large family to tap into the benefit of catching the day at it's root.

That pre-dawn time may be when we are at our most creative and have the maximum clarity. So what better time than that to use our meditative attention to shift a few things that we're finding it difficult to shift during the day when so much else is competing for our attention.

Whether it's a creative project you're engaged in or a personal or work-related matter that you'd like a happy resolution to,  4 o'clock in the morning may be the time to crack it.

In the long tradition of meditation, that special time when the night has passed but the new day has not yet shown itself, has been described as the 'ambrosial hour' when we are able to touch a depth of meditation difficult to get during the day.

The reason it's called the 'ambrosial hour'*, it has been said, is because 'heavens nectar', like dew-drops on grass, flows down to nourish and rejuvenate. And, indeed, you'll find, if you get up at 4 o'clock to meditate, that the flow of vibes in the sahasrara(crown chakra) is perhaps stronger than you've ever felt it. This makes it very easy to enter complete mental silence(thoughtless awareness).

The effectiveness of meditating at the time in order to get a change to something or some other desired result, is because that time is the 'root' of the day. The day has not yet taken shape and anything can happen. You can nudge things in the right direction by being in a state of deep peace as the day dawns.

Getting up at 4 o'clock may seem like too much trouble, especially if you're a night-owl and tend to go to bed late. But there's no need to change your daily schedule. All you want to do is to experience this at least once, so just pick one night, friday or saturday night is good, when you'll go to bed a little earlier than usual and set your alarm clock to wake up at 4am.

When you get up just sit for 10 - 20 minutes with your attention in sahasrara and let the vibes flow down into you. At the end of the meditation with the kundalini's connection at the top of the head still strong, if there's been any matter weighing on your mind then give it a bandhan: symbolically write down the matter in your left palm and give it vibes by moving the right hand clockwise over it until left palm goes cool.

Afterwards, you can go back to bed. Hey, it is the weekend :o).

The working of kundalini and bandhans to solve your problems is done by the movement of an all-pervading energy which may one day be discovered in Quantum Physics and which in sanskrit is called 'paramachaitanya' as described in this 8 minute video clip.

 

See you at group meditation on Tuesday.

Regards

*In Greek mythology, 'ambrosia' was the food of the gods which removed sickness and old age and conferred immortality.
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