 Hi I'm Sifu David the mind and body mentor and we're going to talk about how to meditate, how do you meditate properly, how do you learn to meditate in this video. So stay tuned and let's get into that. So I have been meditating since I was 10 years old and back then I didn't even know that it was meditating. I was just doing it maybe because it was just a natural thing to do. You can call it similar to prayer, you can call it similar to imagination but then I learned I was doing meditation since I was 10 years old and it's only recently in the last few years that I've actually you know trained and studied how to meditate but I think meditation is a very natural thing because we feel naturally we can feel forces beyond our person we can feel forces beyond what we can see so meditation helps us to connect with those forces in a natural way. So I've studied different types of meditation, qigong meditation from martial arts, yogic meditation, murtava meditation, heart meditation, lots of different kinds of meditation that involves different things and I found things that really work well together from different disciplines and different religions or different kinds of practices. So I'm narrowed down meditation into three different aspects. So the first aspect is light. The second aspect is sound and the third aspect is motion. So first let's talk about light. What is light? Light is a frequency and without light we cannot see and without light we cannot see something as an object or something is some or such a color or something is bigger or something is smaller. We need light in order to give us the information in our brains in order to see and be aware of what's around us. So one of the milestones of meditation is to be able to see without using your eyes. So what I mean by that is to see with your mind's eye, to use your mind's eye to be able to view such a such a thing. In everyday living we have to use our eyes to see what's in front of us. We're looking at the computer screens, we're looking at our phones, we're looking at the road when we're driving, we open our eyes so that we can see. But then what happens is that we're using just the frontal lobe of our brains and all of our focus on the front part of our brains. What we want to do is we want to get that awareness away from the front of our brains and move it to the back, move it back to the middle so that we have it in where our pineal gland is. A pineal gland is actually the corgan or the gland that produces luminescent chemical in your mind, in your brain. And the more you train and more you activate your pineal gland, also known as your third eye or awakening your third eye, the more light you'll be able to see when you close your eyes. For example, when I'm sleeping or when I'm meditating, I have my eye mask on that turn all the lights off and I'm seeing all this bright light inside of my mind and I'm checking my eye mask and checking the lights and they're all, the lights are all off and my eye mask is nice and secure, there's no light leaking through, they're nice thick eye mask, it's at night time but I close my eyes I can see all this light, all these colors. So that's a good sign my teacher tells me is that you're starting to activate your pineal gland and you start to create this new luminescent chemical that is actually secreting from your pineal gland in your brain. These are real chemicals that come out of that gland in your brain. So that's one aspect of meditation is being able to be aware of light and not just the regular spectrum, rainbow spectrum of light that we see, but other spectrums of light and frequencies that we do not see. And the more you train it, for example, some people can see auras, for example, I'm not that good at it, but sometimes I can see auras in people, sometimes the darker auras or brighter auras or even different colors of auras in people or even objects and or in your food or in your or in plants or in animals, everything has an aura. Everything has an electromagnetic field and gives off an aura. And if you have some people can are able to see these auras. So the next aspect of meditation is sound. How do you use sound in order to increase your spiritual awareness? Well, in many different cultures and religions and practices, you see people chanting or you hear people chanting or singing or toning in order to combine with their meditation. And what that does is it actually helps you to help you to focus and concentrate and also helps you to get rid of all other thoughts. For example, if you just follow me right now, just go, oh, if you do that for a few minutes, you feel that if you just focus on your voice and focus on the sound of your voice, focus on the breath that you're taking and focus on the breath coming out, you begin to start to lose all those extraneous thoughts that are happening in your mind. And you begin to have more control over that monkey mind that keeps wanting to latch on to things. So that's one way of doing it is just doing a simple chant when you are meditating in order to get focused and to get rid of the distractions that you may have in your mind, the thoughts that are running rampant in your mind. So that's one way of using the chant. There's also ways of using sound to raise your energy level. For example, you can start and then start going higher and higher with your voice. And that itself will raise your body energy level, raise your electrical level just by doing ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Basically it's a vocal drill. Even singers use this. Actors use this when they really want to warm up. They would go from a low pitch and go ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, and then go up in tone like that. So that's one way of increasing your body energy. Why is body energy important? You need to have this electrical energy running through your body in order to activate those chakras in order to activate your organs and your glands and your brain and your premium glands. So all the organs need to be working and all the chi needs to be flowing. And that's the base of starting to really be able to go and meditate deeply and to use those meditating organs and meditating devices in your body in order to achieve higher levels of spirituality. So the next aspect of meditation is movement and by movement there's more than one kind of movement. So most people would think movement would be just the movement of the hands. You can see this in tai chi. You can see this in chi gong. You can see this in chi gong. You can see the movement. But then that's just external movement. What other kinds of movement are there? There's also the movement of breath because when you're breathing in you have the movement of air into your body and then you also have the movement of air out of your body. So that's also movement. And there's also another kind of movement that's very hard to see and you probably won't even see is the movement of your consciousness throughout your body and the movement of your electrical magnetic pulses through your body. So if you study chi gong and you practice for a long time you start to feel sensations through your body. For example you can feel a heat in your hands. You can feel tingling in your hands. You can feel heat through your body. You can feel tingling sensations through your body similar to kundalini energy in the kundalini yoga. You can feel the energy is going up your spine, up your dire spine, up the back of your head and such. So that you can train over time and that's movement that you can feel inside of your body and that's movement that's not even visible. So those are different kinds of movement and those are all very important in meditation to learn about movement. So what we do in chi gong for example is we make the movement outside so we can feel the movement. Okay we make the movements outside of our body. We can see the movements. And now when we feel to see the movements we want to combine it with the intention and awareness. So for example this is the grand tai chi movement. I'm just making this big circle in tolerate shape of my hands and as I'm bringing it down I'm using my fingers to guide the energy and then change the awareness aware of my energy as wherever my hands move. So when I move my hands up I have my awareness up. I'm looking up at my hands when it reaches my head I feel it on my head and it reaches my nose. It goes down to my nose and to my neck and to my chest then to my solar plexus and my stomach and my hips and my legs my knees my toes so by doing that you are changing the awareness and then using your hands to guide that energy and guide that awareness. So once you do that a lot for many many days many many months even then you can do it without even moving. You can just use your mind and experience the same awareness changing your awareness with just your mind without using your body and you can just move that energy through your body without having to move your body. So now we go from the external movement into the internal movement and the more you do that now you can start to control the movement of that energy through your body. Eventually you don't even need to be moving you can just be closing your MIs and be able to move the energy from different parts of your body from one part of your body to another. So if you want to learn more about that about the chakras and how that works you can watch my video about what are chakras and one way of using that technique is to be able to move the energy from chakra to chakra. So in that video that I did I talked about the different purposes of the chakra and the locations of the chakras so the next level of that is eventually you want to be able to move energy from one chakra to another in different different directions too. So that's one major aspect of meditation is movement being able to feel the energies and be able to manipulate those energies throughout your body and throughout your mind inside of your body. So here's a summary of what I just talked about so from my experience there are three main aspects of learning how to meditate light being able to control what you see and vibrations frequencies like frequencies sound which is also a frequency by the way right sound waves are frequencies how to control how to manipulate sound in order to vibrate another thing I didn't mention was that sound when you're humming actually vibrates your nerves vibrates whole body right when you're you talk whenever you sing the whole body vibrates what that does is it activates a lot of the nerves activates a lot of the chakras simply because you're vibrating them okay so that's one way you can use sound too and the third aspect as I said was movement and I also explained that movement is not just movement outside the body but also movement of your breath in and out of your body and also movement of your intention and movement of your awareness and the electrical electrical field around your body and later in higher level practices you'll be able to move the electrical field outside of your body too which I haven't been able to do yet but one day I will be able to so I hope you enjoyed this video you probably have a lot of different questions about how to meditate this is just an overview and if you want to learn more about how to meditate please like this video make a comment tell me what you want to learn about tell me what you think what are your thoughts about this and share this with your friends and subscribe to this channel to get more lessons on science and technology and meditation and spirituality all combined into one so we'll see you soon in the next lesson and yes we're giving away these free dvds ancient qigong secrets for mind and body all you need to do to enter the contest is to subscribe to this channel click the notification bell to get notifications of all the new lessons and comment in the comment section and like this video and you'll be entered into the draw every week we're giving away a free dvd so good luck