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RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

The Joys of Immersing Your Mind

Discover immersion — your ticket to enlightenment

Great artists are often completely absorbed in their music, sculpture or paintings. This skill of getting deeply immersed in something we love is our ticket to enlightenment. Explore the many yoga immersion techniques that can lead to spiritual experiences and transformations.

Essential Life Skills, Mind, Meditation

The Experience of Immersion

When you’re immersed, time, space and separateness dissolve. You feel oneness and unity with what you’re focused on. Even though it may have taken effort for you to gather your mind and center, now it seems to be effortless. There is no muscle tension, brain tension, or eye tension. You just abide. It’s a knack, like riding a bicycle.

  • Hear why immersion is so important to a yogi
  • Find out about samadhis and bhavas, great spiritual immersions
  • Learn the various techniques that yogis use to develop immersion
  • How to use past peak experiences to become immersed again
  • How a teenaged Ramakrishna Ananda used dots of luminous paint to develop concentration
  • Focus on a feeling such as peace, adoration or gratitude. Give it appreciative attention and abide in it. As you develop, immersion comes

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