My first experience of Meditation

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Previously, I wrote about my experience about buying the singing bowl. While returning home, I was very excited and nervous as well because I was wondering about the proper usages of the singing bowl. My mind was full of questions like- Will I be able to take the real value out of it? What if I won't have time to practice? If I don't practice well then what about my desires and my objectives? I was confused but I was determined. I remembered what Wangchuck told me. He stressed, "At moments, while we are practicing meditation, we may get lost. We may start to daydream and enjoy the moment. This behavior is normal for all the practitioner passes through the same phase at the earlier times when they began. But the real struggle is to realize our day dreaming behavior and return back to the meditation as soon as we come to our consciousness." With these words, I returned home being more confident. I thought that even if I forget or be lazy to practice the meditation I will definitely practice as soon as I remember my behavior. As I reached home, I placed the singing bowl in the cupboard and then I took the dinner and went to sleep. I was very tired, so I had a relaxing night.

Practicing Meditation with Singing Bowl

Next morning, I wake up early and after my morning routines, I sat down trying to remember what Wangchuck shared with me. At first, I went blank. I felt that I completely forgot everything that he shared with me. I relaxed and I tried to remember the scenario. First, I recall his room and what I observed in that room. Then I tried to recall where I seat and then what he offered. I was very puzzled, somewhat irritated, but after a moment I got a click. I remembered that the meditation can be done through two ways. First one is to meditate oneself and the second one is to guide another person through meditation. This sentence helped me to recall all others one by one. I also realize that for balancing chakra, one must be aware of chakra so need to do chakra meditation. Hence, first chakra meditation and then only balancing the chakra.

With a deep breath, I then took courage to do chakra meditation. Since I recalled everything, I followed the steps that Wangchuck shared with me. First, I positioned myself in the posture mentioned by the Monk Wangchuck. It's basically to straighten the spinal column. I then relaxed my body and then focused on my breath. I concentrated on the oxygen that I inhaled and then imagined it traveled to the lungs and then into the bloodstream. I imagined fresh oxygen entered into the muscles, tissues, and cell and then took out the toxins and negativity towards bloodstream and then to lungs. I imagined that negativity and toxins exhaled out of my body. I imagined the process for quite sometimes. But this is where I got the problem. I all of sudden started to daydream. I don't know exactly when I got started but after coming towards the realization I couldn't continue the meditation. I slept over there.

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I wake up and ate breakfast and then went to the office. After office, I refreshed myself and then I again tried to do the meditation. I again positioned myself and then imagine the breathing process. I imagined the process for only five times then I shifted my focus towards my heart beating. I imagined beating of the heart and at that moment, I also feel the beating at the foot and hands as well. I then visualize all body organs working like a system. At that point, I feel very relaxed and feel optimistic that I can do the meditation.

So as the monk Wangchuck guided me, I work for the individual chakra. First, one to start with was the root chakra. It was located in the lower back. I really tried hard to focus on that point, but I could not. My mind was completely blank. I then dropped out. I thought that I overdo the meditation. So I took a leave from that position. I was feeling numbness in that period. I was not frustrated but just wanted to take a rest. So I went to take my dinner and then I went straight to my bed.

When I remember my first meditation experience, I still feel childish. What I now feel is that Chakra Meditation and balancing of the chakra is a slow learning process and we need time to master it properly.