One Easy Technique Helped Me Meditate Deeply (When Nothing Else Worked)

‘Sahaj’ can calm even the most anxious and restless of beginners

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An infinite silent sea of dazzlingly bright darkness.

That’s the closest I can get to describing deep meditation in words.

Not the sham “Sit with your eyes closed for 2 minutes” meditation trumpeted by success “gurus.” We’re talking deep meditation with a capital ‘D.’

Deep meditation is a tunnel into Turiya or pure consciousness itself! A state 99% of us never (bother to) unlock. We pass our lives in the 3 lower states:

1. Jagrath (Wakefulness) — the state of walking, talking, complaining, and comparing.
2. Svapna (Dreaming) — be it nostalgic reflection, daily reveries, or dreamy fantasies.
3. Sushupti (Deep sleep) — the default of deep sleepers that anxious light sleepers envy.

Turiya is the amalgam of Jagrath and Sushupti on steroids. As my spiritual teacher remarks, it’s…

“Deeper than the deepest sleep but more alert than the widest wakefulness”

In one study, the meditator subjects slept only 5.2 hours on average— 2.6 hours lesser than the 7.8-hour…