I have a technique to relax and to "get away" from the world for a moment.
This is something that I learned from an old lady 12 years ago when I had some problems with my self and needed help to find my so called "happy place".
The life I lived back then was 100% work and no play, the hunt for money and material things made me forget who I was and where I came from.. something happend when I moved from the rural country side to the big city,, and like many others with me I got caught and swept away by the big city life.. from beeing a happy go lucky carpenter and artist who didn't care less about money nor expensive gadgets, to a materialistik, money chasing robot.. offcourse this was a road to disaster considering that this wasn't the original me.. I notised that I just got more and more unhappy, and the result was that I started to plan for the future,, all the time, never living in the moment, always thinking that the grass was greener on the otherts side.. things like " if just this or that happened everything would get better, or if I move here or there everything would be allright".
then I met the old lady, and from then on forward with a lot of training and comitment my life has slowly but steadily gotten better,, and now 12 years later I finally feel that my old self is 100% back.. It took a couple of years to get lost on the wrong path, and 12 years to get back! It's been a struggle and very hard at times, because we as human beings have trouble to change our ways.
So, to the technique then.. we all have some stress built in our brains with all the musts in life,, rent, bills, work, relationships and so on, we worry about other people with problems, starving children, wars well you name it,, thats a whole lot to carry around in our heads.
Thats why we need to empty our heads from time to time and realise that all those problems maybe dont have to be all that bad that we make it up to be, it doens´t help walking around thinking about them anyway.
The trick is as I've told you before, is like allways, to learn the trick of livin in the moment,, my gospel is that that´s the key to happiness.
You don't have to start up too serious with how you'r sitting, where you do this, or nothing like that, the important thing is that you feel comfortable.. sitt in your favorite armchair, couch, bed or where ever your favorite place is to relax.. be shure to be alone, no distractions and a serene and quit envirement, then choose som relaxing music, my personal favorite is hindu chanting music. then close your eyes, start breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth,, it's crusual to ceep this breathing the whole session.
feel the oxygen fill your lungs and then slow and steady you breath out through the mouth.
after a couple of minutes when you breath like this you start feeling an euforic feeling and the music feels like it's moore inside your body than coming from a speaker.
After a while when you feel that you'r inside your own body and mind, start picturing yourself from above, slowly you let the "film camera" move upwards, slowly, slowly the camera moves upp, you see yourself sitting there above the roof tops, the three tops, from inside the clouds and finally from space.. through this moving process you have seen everything on earth just getting smaller, smaller and smaller, untill the only thing you see is the earth, the globe. with you hovering free up in space,, when you have trained yourself to feel this and manage to picture yourself in that moment, that's when you are in Nirvana! and the feeling you get is that the problems you have in life down there on earth is actually pretty small considering, the earth is a small dot down there, your hovering in space and everything is actually pretty good after all :-)
peace and serenity my brothers and sisters..
