A bubble bath for your mind
Slow your mental roll and destress yourself with this simple tool that's like a bubble bath for your mind.
CL Zúñiga
11/14/20262 min read
I remember telling a friend in my 20s, "I can't meditate. I can't sit still or quiet my mind." Since then, I can't tell you how many times I've heard that same thing from others. But that changed for me the first time I tried kundalini meditation and today I'm into my 26th year of practicing it. This is a miracle since I've never stuck with most things in my life for more than about 10 years. I like trying new things, learning, growing, expanding in general, and I like being creative, thinking out of the box...So I've dabbled in many things but only dove into a few. I dove into the tradition of kundalini yoga and meditation on New Year's Day 2000 and never looked back. It's a game-changer.
By its nature the kundalini tradition addresses all the usual distractions and excuses that challenge our capacity to meditate, making them easy to manage. In fact with any regularity, we soon forget all about them and find ourselves meditating blissfully. It's not long before we look forward to our meditation time because we quickly begin to feel the joy and ease it generates inside. We begin to notice ourselves acting differently in the world, feeling less stressed, less angry, more kind, friendly and happy. These are things we all want to feel and once we truly do, we want others to feel them too. It just happens naturally and we notice because it's different...we're different.
It's not magic. It's the art, science, simplicity and power of the kundalini tradition as taught for thousands of years. It doesn't change who we are. It opens us to who we've always been. The wisdom continues to spread today because it is authentic and it works, meaning that with practice it helps awaken us to our true nature.
What is our true nature? As suggested by the kundalini tradition and multiple others across the globe, our true essential nature is one of unadulterated love, compassion, joy and equanimity. Yet kundalini meditation gives us even more than awakening to this fact. It gives us a pathway to feeling the truth of it inside ourselves.
But this inner well is generally obscured by our ego drives and desires, buried beneath the distortions of our social and cultural obligations and conditioning. These alluring ego defaults keep us distracted and diminished. Overcoming them requires learning how to redirect our pranic power.
This is what Kundalini meditations teach us. They are thorough yet specific, each one designed to flow smoothly, deeply and powerfully, and to calm every distraction the mind comes up with. Not through gimmicks but through proven techniques over thousands of years of devotion. It can transport and transform us, not in hours but in minutes. No studio membership required. You can do it in the comfort of home with nothing more than a towel on the floor or a comfy chair to sit in and this book, Kundalini Meditation. This is why I wrote it. It's really that simple.
