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AN ADVANCED MEDITATION

  This guided meditation technique is focussed on anger management and self control. Here you will learn, step by step, a meditation technique that gives you control over the very nerve centers that govern emotion, so that anger management and self control become not only possible, but even easy.

  Indeed, wise souls strive for control over the negative emotions - over anger.. fear, over lust, perhaps. The guided meditation technique given here will help you control these negative emotions - you will not become incapable of feeling, but you will be able to control your feelings with your mind - you will be the master of your emotions, and not their slave.

THE NERVE CENTERS THAT CONTROL EMOTION

  There are two nerve centers in the body that help control emotion. One is located at the end of the sternum (this is called the feeling point), the other is located at a point two inches below the navel (this second nerve point is called the 'tai-ten').

HOW TO DO THE MEDITATION..

Preparations:

  Sit or lie down in a comfortable, quiet place. Now CONCENTRATE on the nerve point at the end of your sternum (the 'feeling point'). Concentrate your mind on calming (or even 'freezing') this point.

Procedure - A Guided Meditation Technique:

• Now BREATHE. Take in the air in two breaths, hold the air for the count of two, then release it in two breaths. When you breathe in this way, breathe by moving your stomach, NOT your chest. When you 'hold' the breath for a count of two, pull your breath down into the pit of your stomach, pull it down behind the complex of nerves two inches beneath your navel, behind the tai-ten.
• Calm those nerves. Concentrate on your breathing correctly, and concentrate on calming the nerves of your tai-ten, and on freezing the 'feeling point' located at the end of the sternum.
• That is the sequence. Breathe: two in, two held, two out, drawing the breath down into the stomach. Simultaneously freeze the 'feeling' point' and calm the nerves of the 'tai-ten'.
• Calm these two 'centers of emotion' and you will become a calm person and a calm person feels no anger and no fear.

THE CHANT..

  This is not at all a religious chant. The chant is part of the meditation, but you must not attempt to include it until you get the 'physical' part of the meditation (described above) perfect.

• Now, once the physical technique is perfected, the chant is simply said in one's mind, in tune with one's breathing.
• When you breath in, think 'I have an empty heart'.
• When you draw the breath down into your stomach, think 'Actions are ONLY actions'.
• When you breathe out again, think 'Words are ONLY words'.

  That is all. The chant (and the physical part of the meditation) must be done for at least 300 repetitions, at least once a day. If done once a day, you will greatly increase your emotional control. If done twice a day, your control will be virtually perfect.

"We trust this meditation will be of help to you in your daily life. Live well, friend, and prosper."