10 Do’s & Don’t’s

1. Begin Your Meditation With A Positive Thought Before beginning your meditation, create a positive thought that you are a pure and peaceful soul and your spiritual father is God – the Supreme Soul, who is the Ocean of all qualities and powers and is always constant in them. This will make your meditation beautiful and keep your mind and intellect focused.

2. Think And Visualize At The Same Time A very important principle of meditation is that you create positive and powerful thoughts of spiritual wisdom of the soul and God in your mind and at the same time, you visualize those same thoughts in front of the eye of your intellect, making concentration an easy and natural process and leading to a beautiful experience.

3. Keep Your Eyes Half-Open And Not Closed One of the key things to keep in mind while meditating is that you don’t close your eyes completely, as this prevents you from visualizing clearly the soul and the Supreme Soul as a beautiful being of light and also you can feel sleepy while creating the peaceful thoughts and not experience the depths of meditation. 3 2 1 SPIRITUALITY Effective Meditation.

4. Sit Fresh In Meditation With A Feeling Of Goodness Meditation should not be done while feeling sleepy and without any powerful aim to connect with a Higher Source. So always sit for meditation with a determined thought to have good concentration and freshen up in whatever way you want, before meditating. Freshness of the mind and body will bring success.

5. Play Soft And Gentle Music In The Background A good way to give the mind a soothing feeling in meditation is to have soft and gentle meditation music playing in the background. Also, you can play a soft meditation commentary, to give the mind a direction and not let the mind waiver anywhere. If you prefer silence, do not play anything.

6. Experience Being A Soul And Seeing Other Souls In Action An important foundation of meditation is soul consciousness, which is feeling and experiencing yourself as a soul, its form – a spiritual being of light and original qualities and also seeing other souls and their form and remembering their original qualities. The more we do that in action, the more our meditation is accurate and powerful.

7. Imbibe Good Pure Habits Full Of Godliness To connect with God in meditation, it’s important to be a good soul with a pure and divine mind and intellect and radiate godliness in every thought, word and action to others. The more we fill ourselves with these vibrations the entire day, the more we get attracted to God when we practice meditation.

8. Eat Clean And Fresh Vegetarian Food Cooked In God’s Remembrance A very important principle of spirituality is – As the food, so the mind, which means depending on the vibrations of the food we eat, our mind becomes full of that spiritual energy. That is why cooking and eating vegetarian food in God’s remembrance helps in meditation immensely.

9. Have A Light And Early Dinner To Make Morning Meditation Beautiful To make meditation in the morning beautiful, it’s important to eat early, eat right and eat light the night before. This will keep your mind, brain and body light and you will be able to travel to the higher spiritual world of peace – the soul world easily with your mind, without any physical force pulling you down.

10. Sleep Well And For The Right Amount Of Time Sleeping well and peacefully is a very important aspect of a spiritual lifestyle. Sleeping too less can make your brain heavy and body tired and sleeping too much can make you lazy. So, pack up all your thoughts and give all your burdens to God before sleeping to have good and dreamless sleep and wake up fresh for good meditation.

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BK Bindu Patel Senior Raja Yoga Meditation Practitioner & Teacher Sister Bindu Patel (widely known as Bindu Ben) has been a senior Rajayoga Practitioner and Teacher for more than 30 years now. She is the Centre-In Charge of the Kowloon Centre of the Raja Yoga Centre Limited Hong Kong. She was initiated into the Brahma Kumaris path of knowledge at the early age of 10. Right from this early age, she showed a keen liking for meditation. Sister Bindu’s spiritual life entered a new phase when she was asked to move to Mumbai in 1991. She was given the responsibility of coordinating the management of multiple centres in this Financial and Entertainment capital of India. Based on her success in India, Sister Bindu was asked to take up an international assignment in 2011, as the Centre In Charge for the Kowloon Centre in Hong Kong. Starting from a small beginning, the Kowloon Centre today has expanded into a large centre, with the premises fully owned by the Brahma Kumaris and also the establishment of a sub-centre in Tung Chung, in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Sister Bindu has been involved in several key activities in the Brahma Kumaris organization, including: • Managing the creation of a several popular musical albums of the Brahma Kumaris • Creation of a documentary on the 60th anniversary of the Brahma Kumaris services in Mumbai, India • Key role in the Community-Reach-Out services for Prisons, Old Age Homes and Orphanages • Services to celebrities in the Indian film industry