Learn To Meditate

How to Meditate: Steps in the Twin Hearts Meditation

1. Cleansing Exercise. Cleanse the etheric body by doing simple physical exercises for about five to ten minutes. Light greyish matter, or used-up Prana, is expelled from the etheric body during the exercise. Physical exercises also minimize possible pranic congestion because meditation generates a lot of subtle energies in the body. Exercise is not optional.

2. Sit in a comfortable position. You may now sit comfortably on the floor (in a position such as the Padmasana semi-lotus position) or on a chair. If you are sitting on a chair, sit erect without leaning on its back. Assume a receptive pose – erected spine and palms turned upwards, resting on your lap.

3. Invoke for Divine Blessings. The invocation is essential for one’s protection, help, and guidance. Without the invocation, the practice of any advanced meditational technique can be dangerous. Depending on your faith or religion, you may choose your own words and language.

4. Connect the tongue to the palate. Keep your tongue touching the palate throughout the meditation. Remember to do this to facilitate and complete the circulation of energy in the body.

5. Activating the Heart Chakra. Press the center of your chest (heart area) with your finger for a few seconds. Recall a happy event you have experienced. Smile at your Heart Chakra. (If you are unfamiliar with chakras, you may read about it in more detail in an article published in our online magazine).

6. Activating the Crown Chakra. Press the top of your head for a few seconds. Recall a happy event you have experienced. Smile at your Crown Chakra.

7. Bless the Earth with the Heart Chakra: Raise your hands with your hands facing outward. Imagine the earth in front of you as the size of a small ball. Concentrate on the front Heart Chakra and bless the world with loving-kindness through your hands. The blessing should not be done mechanically. When blessing the entire earth, visualize it as a small ball in front of you, filled with dazzling bluish-pink light. During the blessing, visualize people smiling and filled with joy, faith, hope, and peace. Visualize enemies reconciling, embracing, and forgiving each other. You should also feel joy, happiness, and peace filling your entire being while blessing the earth. Do not direct these blessings to infants, children, or individuals because they might be overwhelmed by the intense energy generated by this meditation. You may use the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi while blessing the earth.

8. Bless the Earth with the Crown Chakra: Then bless the Earth with loving-kindness from the Crown Chakra through your hands. Feel the same positive energies you evoked in the previous step. Visualize brilliant white light from your Crown Chakra flowing through your hands, blessing the entire Earth.

9. Blessing with both Crown and Heart Chakras. Bless the earth simultaneously from both the Crown and Heart Chakras with golden light. This will align the two chakras and make the blessing more potent. Feel the same positive energies you evoked in the previous steps.

10. Achieving Illumination. For illumination (expansion of consciousness), visualize a point of dazzling white light on top of your head and simultaneously chant the mantra OM mentally (you may also use the mantra Amen or Amin if you choose to). Concentrate on the intervals or gaps (moments of silence) between the OMs while maintaining your concentration on the point of light. Do this for about 10 to 15 minutes. When you can fully concentrate simultaneously on the point of light and on the intervals between the OMs, you will experience an inner explosion of light. Continue with your meditation. Relax and let go.

11. Releasing Excess Energy. After meditation, it is important to release all excess energy by blessing the Earth through your hands with light, loving-kindness, peace, and prosperity for several minutes until you feel your body has normalized. Do not direct these blessings to infants, children, or individuals because they might be overwhelmed by the intense energy generated by this meditation. Blessings may be directed to organizations and nations. Continue blessing if you still feel congested; otherwise, the excess energy may cause headaches and chest pains. The physical body may also deteriorate in the long run if there is too much energy in the etheric body.

12. Grounding or Rooting. Grounding is another technique to release excess energy from your body by blessing the Earth. Gently be aware of the base of the spine. Project your consciousness down into the Earth and imagine light descending into the Earth three meters or 10 feet deep. Bless Mother Earth with divine love, divine light, and divine power.

13. Giving thanks to the higher beings for the divine blessings. This is very important. Master Choa always invoked divine blessings before and after the meditation. Depending on your faith or religion, you may choose your own words and language.

14. Massaging and Physical Exercises: This step facilitates the assimilation of the pranic and spiritual energies, thereby enhancing the practitioner’s health. Although the etheric body will become very bright and strong, the visible physical body will become weak because it cannot withstand the leftover energy generated by meditation in the long run. It is very important to massage and exercise your body after the meditation; otherwise, the visible body will inevitably be weakened. Massaging would minimize congestion and facilitate the smoother energy flow in your body.  To release additional excess energy, please do the same set of physical exercises that you did before the meditation. This step is not optional.

In some cases, practitioners might feel “spaced out” even after thorough massaging and a set of physical exercises. This tends to happen because the practitioners’ energy body might be congested and hence cannot assimilate the energy generated by the meditation. The situation can be easily remedied by doing another set of prescribed physical exercises.

Can Anyone Practice the Meditation of Twin Hearts?

In general, yes, but there are a few exceptions. People with the following conditions and qualifications should avoid meditating on the Twin Hearts:

• Anyone below 16 years of age
• Those with heart trouble, hypertension, glaucoma, and severe kidney and liver ailments (hypertensive people who are on medication can do the meditation provided they skip the OM chanting part)
• Heavy smokers (They should have their lungs, back heart, and front heart chakras cleaned thoroughly before doing the meditation)
• Pregnant women should avoid the excessive practice of The Meditation for Peace since the excess energy may cause congestion in the fetus
• Persons with regular alcohol consumption or use of addictive and hallucinogenic drugs
• This meditation should not be practiced while driving or doing critical functions.

Doing this meditation can have adverse effects on people with the preceding conditions. People with the above qualifications who insist on practicing meditation do so at their own risk. It is also suggested that you abstain from eating pork, eel, and catfish if you want to regularly practice the Meditation on Twin Hearts.

The guided Meditation on Twin Hearts for Peace and Illumination is available in audio cassette and CD form in the voice of Master Choa Kok Sui, and they are available on our Online Pranic Healing Shop.