How to reach inner calmness

[Luis Weiland]

If you experienced the ''Monkey Mind'' before
this is something you need to know

The National Science Foundation published an article summarizing research on human thoughts per day. It was found that the average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those thousands of thoughts, 80% were negative, and 95% were exactly the same repetitive thoughts as the day before. We can see that one of the tendencies of the mind is to focus on the negative and ‘play the same songs’ over and over again. There was another interesting study, in which scientists found that firstly 85% of what we worry about never happens. Secondly, with the 15% of the worries that did happen, 79% of the subjects discovered that either they could handle the difficulty better than expected, or that the difficulty taught them a lesson worth learning.
The conclusion is that 97% of our worries are baseless and result from an unfounded pessimistic perception. These baseless worries are a major cause of stress, tension, and cause of exhaustion not only for the mind but also for the physical body.

So how do we quiet that constant chattering?

Mindful practices like meditation help a lot. Besides Meditation you can also do exercising, art, singing, dancing, music, going for a walk, writing and much more.
For me personally, I found that practicing meditation techniques is most helpful because I have a calmer mind in general, not only while doing the activity.
There are many meditation techniques and it can take some time to find one that fits you personally. There are techniques that work with different senses like seeing, hearing, or feeling.
So since you just have to try out different techniques yourself to find the perfect one, I want to share one with you, which you can use when you feel tired at work.

Intone a word ending in “ah”
Then in the hh, effortlessly, the spontaneity.
You can pick any word you like. For example “Allah”
At the “ahhhhhh” look inside, when the breath is gone completely. In this break, go deeply inside and become aware of the peace and silence inside of you. In this moment you are a Buddha.

Emphasis should be given to the ending ah.
Why? Because the moment this sound ah is intoned,
your breath goes out. You may not have observed it,
but now you can observe:
whenever your breath goes out you
are more silent, and whenever your
breath comes in you are more tense,
because the outgoing breath is death
and the incoming breath is life.
Tension is part of life, not of death.
Relaxation is part of death;
death means total relaxation.
Life cannot be totally relaxed; it is impossible.

Whenever a person becomes absolutely relaxed, he is both, alive outwardly and dead within. You can see it in the face of a Buddha both life and death simultaneously. Life is not relaxation. You relax when you are asleep. That is why old traditions say that death and sleep are similar. Sleep is a temporary death and death is permanent sleep. That is why night relaxes you, it is the outgoing breath.
The morning is the incoming breath. When you exhale, the whole system changes and accepts death. There is no fear, you are ready to die. And one who is ready to die can live. Really, only who is ready to die can live. He alone becomes capable of life, because he isn’t afraid.

Use this technique whenever you feel very tired, suffocated, breathless or if you got a heart disease.
Focus on breathing out. Breathe out longer than breathing in. The body will automatically breathe in and take as much as it needs.
Feel free to reach out to me if you got questions about this technique.

 

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