The concept of "Here and Now" is fundamental in most spiritual teachings. The main obstacle to this natural state is our brain, which runs the same “recording” without stopping. After all, according to research, about 95% of our thoughts are habitual, repeating on a daily basis. For the most part, they have nothing to do with the present moment. Our "recording" is spinning either in the past or in the future. On average, 80% of these thoughts are negative, because our brain is built to imprint negativity much deeper than positivity.

 

Both spiritual teachings and the methods of modern psychology urge us to change these habits. We will not only become much happier but according to yoga and tantra, the thinking process takes away a colossal amount of energy, especially negative thoughts. We can put this energy in the right direction: spiritual growth, the materialization of thought, the strengthening of one's own energy, pleasure in sex, living here and now, not yesterday or tomorrow.

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SECONDARY ATTENTION MEDITATIONS

 

Meditation is known as one of the best ways of working with one’s own consciousness, being here and now. But the modern man has neither time nor desire to sit for two hours a day in a lotus pose. For this, tantric micro-meditations come to the aid. They are sometimes called meditations of secondary attention since they can be performed without detaching oneself from current, primary activities. There are two types of such meditations: working with your senses and your body (we will call them internal), working with external objects or other people (we will call them external). Most of them can be done with the eyes closed. In most meditations, we have to work with visualization. Don’t forget that during any visualization you are laying a neural pathway, which ultimately leads to actualization. A little more about neural connections you can learn in the article “Orgasmic Pathways”.

 

INTERNAL

CENTRAL CHANNEL

Imagine that inside of you in the center there is a wide tube, the so-called central channel. It connects you through the head with the sky and through the bottom with the earth. Inside it is filled with golden light. Mentally expand or narrow the channel, increase or decrease the intensity of its glow, observe the light that flows through the channel.

 

SHAKTI-SANKOSHA

This meditation is great when we want to concentrate, "put yourself together". Draw all the energy around you into the central channel. Feel how your scattered and uncertain energy is pulled into this channel, like the extremities of a torturous. Feel how the central channel has become the pillar of your strength.

 

BODY PARTS

Maintaining conscious awareness in various parts of the body is a common technique in many practices. For example, if you are sitting, then feel your buttocks: on what you are sitting, is it soft or hard, comfortable or not, how your skin and muscles feel, etc. If you stand, then feel the same for your feet. In the same way, concentrate on other parts of the body.

 

SHAWL OF LIGHT

Imagine that you are enveloped in a warm golden light. Wherever you go, whatever you do, the light always follows you; protects and guards you.

 

 

EXTERNAL

 

CIRCULATION OF ENERGY

Imagine a loop of energy circulating between you and another person. Experiment with this loop. For example, let it enter from above and exit from below and vice versa. Let it flow slowly or quickly, be wide or narrow, etc. Give it a shape, color, vibration, other qualities. From this and the following practices, you’ll eventually feel these qualities of the energy loop, not just imagining them.

 

CONNECTION

This meditation is good for establishing communication, sending compassion or love. Imagine a ray coming from your heart to the heart of another. Charge this beam with necessary emotions and add various qualities: shape, color, temperature, volume, pulsation, etc.

 

THE LAW OF RELATIVITY

This meditation is done with open eyes. Being in motion (in the car, walking, etc.), imagine yourself as a motionless center around which everything is moving. Bushes along the road pass you, a house flows by slowly, the pillars replace one another, and you seem to be standing still and watching this movement. The concept that each of us is the center of the universe around which everything happens is also inherent in many teachings.

 

Even such simple exercises, which do not require much attention and time, can promote your meditative practice, unambiguously distract you from annoying thoughts and allow you to feel here and now. If you are interested in how to get distracted from unnecessary thoughts and channel the liberated energy to pleasure during sex, read the article “The Wand of Light”.