Inner
Focus (Antar trataka/ Drishti Yoga) is the practice of gazing in the midpoint of the brain with
closed eyes to experience awareness by stopping the activity of the mind.
Safety Measures: Sometimes you feel loneliness in nature while
practicing Inner Focus (Antar trataka). There is a
change in the nature of many people. This change surprises you and others how
you are changing so much. Loneliness is not a problem. Many times you do not
understand its initial experiences correctly and you feel that there has been
some mistake in the practice. When your mind starts getting lonely, you should
first learn to balance yourself. Your mind will be restrained by the beauty of
nature around you.
Your eyes
and breathing patterns directly
influence your mental and emotional state. Next time you feel
anxious, angry, or stressed; observe how is the movement of your breath, and of
your eyes. Then consciously bring a sense of relaxation and stillness to them
both, and you will notice that the emotional state changes as well.
Method: Perform meditation on it as
follows:
Step 1: Sit in Lotus
pose (Padmasana) and relax your body.
Step 2: Enter into Pranayama by practicing
slow and deep breathing through nose. Simultaneously
do Pratyahara by the practice of turning the mind
to introspection by voluntarily shutting out distractions provided by the
senses.
Step 3: Keep your hands in your lap and
fingers in Interlock Position (Ling Mudra).
Step 4: Focus your vision at centre of the
head. Concentrate at Thalamus by relaxing central part of brain. Keep your eyes
shut, spine erect, body relaxed while breathing deeply.
Perform
at least one round of ten deep gentle breaths.
Benefits: Inner Focus is
the way of cleansing, contemplating and paying undivided attention on your
mind. It aligns the external and internal worlds within you and takes you on
the transcendent state of peace and bliss. It
stops the activity of the mind. When the eyes are completely fixed, the mind is
completely stilled.
In order to enter
into the subtle realms, one must take support of the subtle element. One
should, therefore, practice taking support of the subtle (non-material)
element. Subtle support is “the infinitesimal point”. The infinitesimal point
is also known as the subtlest of the subtle forms of God. Inner Focus is
concentration on this infinitesimal point. By uniting the beams of vision of
both eyes, and focusing on a single point in the centre and concentrating the
mind on that point, single pointedness is attained. In this practice, it is advised
neither to focus forcefully nor manipulate the eyeballs in any manner. By this
practice, the inner divine vision is opened.
This is beyond
the sensory dimension of seeing. You will see your energy in movement, all of
your colours will float before your eye of wisdom. If your concentration is
strong and pure, you will pass through the circle into the pure white light of
pure consciousness, and you will discover the void beyond the light. If your
only desire is for God, you must realize that you are pure consciousness. This
is all beyond what your mind can comprehend, beyond what you could think about
to understand.
While practicing this
Energy Centre‚ you also catch all the benefits of Lotus pose. It has
numerous health benefits for mentality, physicality and spiritual energy. In
addition to it, you are benefited from Pranayama, Pratyahara and Interlock Position.
Final Position: Inhale a deep breath
through nose and exhale it through mouth to come out of this stage. Take
another similar breath and release it coming out of practice. Take one more
similar breath before opening your eyes.
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