Make Your Own Yantra
Ever notice that after your practices you feel clean, light and frictionless? That moment when you open your eyes, everything looks brighter and more beautiful… this is because during any meditative process, your focused intention makes you leak less energy into compulsive mental and emotional itches. So with all this accumulated energy, the rest of the day should be a breeze…. right?
A common pitfall for many meditators is maintaining the states they reach during their meditation throughout the day… in fact this is the real practice. What we do with eyes closed is the warm up!
This simple drawing exercise is a powerful way to bridge your consciousness from deep meditation to waking life, social interactions and work.
This doodling process works in two ways. Firstly, it focuses your gathered energies into a conscious creative action, engaging your eyes, intention and hands, whilst maintaining the awareness of meditation. This acts like a stepping stone to the external world of interactions and problems. This exercise is also creating your own Yantra - you are recording the signature of the vibrational state just after your meditation. Whenever you look at it afterwards, it acts like a portal to bring you back to that state!
Here’s how to do it:
Step 1 : Before beginning your practice, keep a pen and paper ready to use
Step 2: Do your meditative practices
Step 3: Once you are finished and have opened your eyes, sit at your desk with your sheet of paper. Place the tip of the pen on the page - no other part of your hand or arm should be touching the dest. Now move the pen in a SLOW free flow, doing curves and loops, improvise whatever pattern comes to you in one continuous movement - do not lift the pen off the paper.
Keep your gaze fixed at the tip of the pen. Watch your mind trying to control or judge the line you are drawing, and ignore it. You are letting the movement arise naturally from your depths. Don’t think that you are drawing the line, you are just taking the line for a walk, the line is drawing itself.
Eventually work your way back to the starting point, and close the loop. Here is a demonstration:
Step 4: You can now keep this drawing and hang it up on your wall. Look at it regularly, and you will see that it stirs something in you. It’s your personal portal back to Self.
Hari Aum 🙏🏽❤️
