Meditation: It's Simple and Natural
How can we have a successful and enjoyable meditation experience? Yogacharya O'Brian shares what a successful practice is as well as easy and practical techniques to prepare our minds, our bodies and consciousness to create the conditions for meditation to occur.
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian is an acclaimed teacher, award-winning author, and minister who has served seekers of spiritual enlightenment from all walks of life for over thirty years. She has published several books and audio programs about meditation, mindfulness and spiritual living, offering a refreshing and authentic voice that makes timeless wisdom accessible to the modern mind. As a teacher in the tradition of Kriya Yoga, Yogacharya O’Brian serves people from all faith backgrounds who are seeking what is known as Self- or God-realization, or awakening. She is the spiritual director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment, a meditation center in San Jose, California as well as the founder of this podcast
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THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: As a person who has meditated for many years, I still learned some things that are useful for my meditation practice. For a beginning meditator, I felt that Yogacharya O’Brian’s teaching was very clear, simply put and very supportive. She says that the mind wanders, that is its nature. Our meditation tools for focus help to settle it down. New meditators can use this program to greatly support their new practice. I appreciated her explanation that we are taught to meditate superconsciously because superconsciousness is beyond the ordinary states of consciousness, beyond the identification with the body and mind. This is what brings us Self-realization. Yogacharya shared that the experience of meditation is a combination of our self-effort and then the shift into meditation occurs due to divine grace. Hearing this was very supportive for me. There is so much to learn about meditation, just in this one hour program.
DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: In this episode Yogacharya O’Brian and I discussed the benefits of meditation and the four essential steps of meditation: Foster, Focus, Flow, and Finish. We started with the question: how does this one practice of meditation help us with so many things? It calms our anxiety, decreases our stress, increases our clarity of thought, helps us feel happier, and makes us feel more peaceful. Meditation does all this because it increases our connection with our Self, our essence of being, which has peace, clarity, and joy as part of its nature. I found her description of the four steps of meditation to be helpful and clear, both for beginning meditators and those who are looking to reestablish their meditation practice.