| This is a guided meditation, meant for beginners, | | | | Watch the air coming in changing and going out. If |
| but it is also effective if you know how to | | | | other thoughts come to you, about anything else, |
| meditate. | | | | chase them away, all you are going to think |
| It is best to ask someone with a calm and | | | | about, and to see mentally is the incoming and |
| friendly voice to read to you the steps in | | | | outgoing air. |
| mediation and follow the directions precisely. | | | | Start now, as you are concentrating on the air to |
| Guided meditation can bring you to a peace you | | | | say mentally "so" with the incoming airflow and |
| may not have ever known in your life before, | | | | "hum" with the outgoing airflow. Sohum...means in |
| and being in that peace, all you do, all you wish, | | | | Sanskrit "I am He"...meaning you too are made of |
| and all you are is possible. | | | | God, you are His creation, you are made from |
| Starting | | | | Him, and you are Him. |
| You must do the pre-meditation preparation as | | | | Breathe in 'so' and breathe out 'hum'. If other |
| outlined in part 1 of this article. | | | | thoughts come to you, shoo them away, like a |
| When that is accomplished and you are in a quiet | | | | you would a bothersome fly. |
| place and very comfortable position (sitting, not | | | | Keep you thoughts on the incoming and outgoing |
| laying, as if you lay down, you will quickly fall to | | | | air, and with the incoming you say mentally, 'so' |
| sleep), you are ready to begin. | | | | and with the outgoing 'hum' So Hum, think of |
| Ask the person to begin reading now. | | | | nothing else. Watch the live incoming energized air, |
| When the reader/guider sees the symbol they | | | | and the spent air leaving your body. |
| should pause for a moment while you accomplish | | | | All the while saying 'so' as the air enters your |
| what you are asked to do. | | | | body, and 'hum' as the air leaves your body. |
| The symbol ∞indicates the meditation is over | | | | You will feel a deep sense of peace, and also a |
| and the reader may now stop. | | | | wonderful vitality that each cell, each molecule in |
| The Guided Meditation | | | | your body is energized with the power of the |
| With you eyes closed, begin now taking a few | | | | universe, and the spent and toxic laden air leaves |
| deep breaths, holding them for a moment, and | | | | you body and takes with it all negative forces |
| then slowly exhaling them. | | | | that were in you. |
| Now begin inhaling through your nose to a count | | | | Keep breathing in and saying 'so' and keep |
| of 5 (reader count to five), hold to a count of | | | | exhaling and saying 'hum'. |
| five (reader count to five), and exhale to a count | | | | Think "I am He...He am I" , for 'sohum' also |
| of five (reader count to five). This must be done | | | | becomes 'humso' |
| 5 times. | | | | Ten minutes have now passed. |
| Now start visualizing your breath. | | | | Take a very deep breathe and hold it, then |
| See the fresh energetic air coming in through | | | | exhale deeply. |
| your nose, and going deep into your lungs. | | | | Do this three times. Slowly open your eyes, and |
| Visualize the spent air, changing places with the | | | | without talking at all, feel the wonderful peace |
| new air, and see the spent air leaving your body | | | | that both surrounds you and is within you. Sit for |
| back into the atmosphere. | | | | a moment and enjoy the peace. |