How to do Moon Gazing Meditation (Trataka) | Best Meditation Techniques
Looking for a moon meditation or trataka meditation? What about a bonus candle meditation?
Hello, Jason Cain here and welcome to the Ancient wisdom modern mind podcast and today would like to share with you a moon meditation and the benefits of moon gazing.
The moon plays an important role in Earth’s tides, and its phases help people keep track of passing months and seasons, and there are also plenty of myths and legends about the moon’s power, though science has yet to find support for the more mystical among them.
Moon meditation or Trataka, also known as Tratak (pr. trah’-tahk), Trataka means fixed gazing. The object you gaze upon can be just about anything, and Trataka played a major role in Yoga before postures and breathing exercises began to dominate the system in the early 1800’s.
Yoga before the development of the first Yoga asanas or (poses) was a solitary meditation practice performed by hermits living in the forest. Their interests and aim was towards developing concentration (Dharaha) to sharpening their minds, and physical Yoga as it existed then was only focused on meditative postures.
You can practice this technique as a full moon meditation or nightly, whenever the moon is available. You can also snap a picture of the moon so that you have something to gaze upon when the moon is unavailable. When gazing at a photo of the moon, you can darken the room just enough so that your focus is entirely on the photo.
But the object you gaze upon can be just about anything, it can be a candle flame, a camp fire or a picture of a Saint or God or even your favorite Pet if it helps you to concentrate, but as a general rule when to moon is unavailable a simple candle flame or dot is more effective because of their trance effect.
The moon itself is a powerful meditation object because of its influence on the subtle psychic energy and dream functions, and Moon gazing meditation can promote feelings of a deeper connection to the universe and all things living within it.
To date, no scientific studies have explored the effects of moon gazing meditation, so there’s no conclusive support for these benefits. Some research does support benefits of Trataka meditation.
Those are:
Relief from insomnia
Remarkable concentration abilities
Traraka strengthens the eye muscles and improves vision
The most esoteric claim is that of third eye development
Deep relaxation and mindfulness
I have also included instructions for doing the candle gazing form of trataka follow the link of my blog if you would like to take your spiritual journey deeper learn about meditation or go even deeper with your meditation journey. If you have any question let me know at comment sections.
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