Make your stress go away in 2 minutes so it's easier to meditate.

​Dear All,

A number of you have said how fantastic you feel when you meditate but haven't yet managed to establish this as a daily routine because of being too busy or stressed even. Here are a couple of tips for helping you overcome that.

The first recommendation is from some good advice given in Ayurveda (Indian classical medicine) for maintaining health and well-being throughout life. There are a number of practices that we do every day without thinking about them eg. brushing our teeth or combing our hair.

This is part of most people's daily self-care. Two more things could be added to this which need not take more than 2 minutes each and preferably done in the evening: a foot and head self-massage with coconut butter/oil.
(The usefulness/importance of this is shown on the chart below that links points on the foot and head with your chakras. If the chakras are clear (free from catches), then the kundalini energy flows freely and you achieve a deeper meditation and are more likely to meditate because it's easier.)

Instructions for foot and head massage, which is also a very good way to get rid of your stress, is shown below.

The other tip is to raise your kundalini and put on a bandhan before you leave the house in the morning even if you think you don't have time to sit for a short meditation. Once you can establish this as a regular practice, it's a short step to pausing and actually sitting for 5 minutes.

See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards

​Foot Massage:

Sit down with one leg crossed over the knee of the other leg so that you can rub the sole of the foot with both hands. Take a large blob of coconut butter on your finger and rub it between your palms until completely melted. Now rub the toes between both palms; followed by rubbing the whole sole of the foot, applying pressure with the finger tips on any points where you experience any pain. The foot massage is ideal after a footspa.

Head Massage:

Again using coconut oil, rub with the tips of the fingers into the scalp, concentrating on the mid-line of the head from back to front.