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Meditation Articles

Meditation Basics

  • 5 Simple Ways to Relax
  • How to Sit Comfortably in Meditation
  • How Long Should I Meditate?
  • How to Pray
  • 9 Meditation Tips
  • A Sample Meditation
  • Meditation Tips from Paramhansa Yogananda
  • Should My Mind Be Blank?

Hong-Sau Meditation Technique

  • Hong-Sau Technique of Meditation
  • 11 Reasons to Practice Hong-Sau
  • 3 Tips for Staying Focused During Hong-Sau
  • Why Hong-Sau Works
  • Focusing on the Spiritual Eye
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Hong-Sau
  • A Sample Hong-Sau Meditation

Concentration

  • 10 Ways to Increase Your Concentration
  • 10 Tips to Improve Your Concentration in Meditation
  • Concentration Is the Key to Success
  • 5 Ways to Develop Concentration in Meditation
  • Visualization for Concentration
  • What to Do with Wandering Thoughts
  • How to Develop Concentration
  • What to Concentrate on in Meditation

Awakening the Kundalini

  • 12 Things You Can Do to Awaken Kundalini
  • How to Awaken the Kundalini Safely

The Spiritual Eye

  • The Spiritual Eye: What Is It; What It Looks Like; and How to See It
  • Spiritual Eye Meditation

The Benefits of Meditation

  • Meditation and Relationships
  • Meditation and Work
  • Meditation and the 4 Aspects of Health
  • Intensity is Everything—How Works Helps Our Meditation
  • Work vs. Meditation
  • The Brain: Engineered for Divinity

Overcoming Stress

  • Dealing with Change and Stress: Meditation Therapy
  • Visualization and Meditation on Overcoming Stress
  • A Technique for Dealing with Tense Situations
  • Yogananda’s Healing Drink for the Nerves

The AUM (Om) Technique of Meditation

  • Aum Technique
  • Meditation on AUM

Energization Exercises: Increase the Flow of Life-Force

  • The Importance of Energy
  • We Are Energy
  • About the Energization Exercises
  • Energization: The Wishing Tree

Kriya Yoga

  • Yogananda on Kriya Yoga
  • Kriya Yoga: The Supreme Science
  • From God Is for Everyone: “The Science of Religion”

Solutions to Obstacles in Meditation

  • One Step at a Time: Yogananda’s Vision of the Path
  • 3 Stages Meditators Experience on the Path
  • Take a Long-Term View of Your Meditation Practice
  • Simple Techniques to Stop Falling Asleep While Meditating
  • 8 Tips for Becoming Less Absent-Minded
  • Light-Headedness During Breathing Exercises
  • Feeling Cold in Meditation

The Role of the Guru

  • Why a Guru?
  • How Do I Find a True Guru?
  • The Spiritual Power of Yogananda
  • Paramhansa Yogananda: Seeing God in Everyone
  • God Protects His Devotees
  • The Guru: How God Guides the Devotee

How to Develop Intuition

  • Meditation and Superconsciousness
  • The Three Levels of Consciousness
  • 8 Steps to Higher Guidance
  • The Art of Intuition

How to Develop Devotion

  • 8 Ways to Develop Devotion
  • How to Pray Effectively
  • Making Your Spiritual Life Dynamic

Chanting as Spiritual Practice

  • Devotional Chanting
  • How to Chant
  • Chanting Quiets the Mind
  • The Power of Chanting
  • Sing These Chants!

Yoga Postures

  • What Is Yoga?
  • Exploring the Essence of Ananda Yoga®
  • Basic Rules for Yoga Practice
  • An Exercise in Complete Relaxation

Right Attitude

  • Right Attitude Is Everything
  • The Right Attitude Toward Spiritual Experiences
  • Signs of Spiritual Progress
  • The Right Attitude toward Visions
  • How to Avoid Spiritual Overconfidence
  • Paramhansa Yogananda Quotes on Meditation
  • How to Measure Your Spiritual Progress
  • 16 Techniques for Ego-Transcendence
  • What Is True Humility?
  • How Should We Meet Our Tests?

The Art of Living

  • Power of the Mind
  • Living from Your Center
  • Flow with Life
  • Meditation: The Art of Being Centered
  • Material Success through Yoga Principles

Affirmations

  • The Science and Power of Affirmations

Nature Meditations

  • The Sky and Earth Touched Me Meditation
  • I Am the Mountain Meditation
  • Expanding Circles
  • Walking Meditation with Divine Mother
  • Nature and Me Meditation

Experiences from Meditators

  • The Mysterious Devotee: A True Story
  • Withdraw the Energy
  • Contentment Is the Supreme Virtue

Visualizations

  • Visualization to Experience Soul Freedom
  • Visualization and Meditation on Overcoming Stress
  • God Is the Doer Meditation
  • Mindfulness Meditation

Strengthen Your Spiritual Life

  • 8 Ways to Experience God
  • 10 Ways to Strengthen and Protect Your Spiritual Magnetism
  • How to Transcend Your Karma
  • How to Take a Spiritual Retreat
  • Making Your Spiritual Life Dynamic
  • 5 Secrets to Sustain a Daily Meditation Practice

Departed Loved Ones

  • How to Connect With Departed Loved Ones in Meditation

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