Hi
Namaskar

Meditation and Yoga is very comprehensive.  But lets continue with the relaxation aspect first.  Why?  Because like all things in meditation, this is a nice way of showing how meditation offers something for everybody irrespective of health, age, size, flexibility, or beliefs.

Meditation looks at the world and universe from a broad, holistic perspective.  This perspective appreciates the enormous influence of the mind and your psychological attitudes in relation to all actions, thoughts and spiritual well being.  The expansive nature and cultivation of higher ideals and thoughts that comes from meditation makes it ideal for all of humanity.  But first lets relax and see how the Yoga Nidra relaxation technique can assist in getting oneself centred, which is important later for meditation.

Yoga Nidra - Deep Relaxation & Meditation

Please listen to the audio file.  Guided by a compassionate voice you will feel each nerve and muscle of your body relax. Cosmic music and soft breathing dissolves your stress, and gradually free you from every physical and psychic limitation. By the end of the music you will either be peacefully sleeping or deeply meditating. Or both ;-)

The audio file (20k bps - 2.407Mb) can be downloaded at:

http://www.ways-ahead.net/meditation/002-1-Relaxation_Light_Love_&_Joy_020.mp3

It is an MP3 file that goes through the Yoga Nidra relaxation method.  The bit rate is only 20k bps, so the quality is the thinnest, but it is still easily heard in a nice quite room for Yoga Nidra.  That is probably sufficient for immediate purposes.  

A larger version (40k bps - 4.811Mb) is at:

http://www.ways-ahead.net/meditation/002-1-Relaxation_Light_Love_&_Joy_040.mp3

or (for 80 bps - 9.619Mb) go to:

http://www.ways-ahead.net/meditation/002-1-Relaxation_Light_Love_&_Joy_080.mp3

Notes about Yoga Nidra are also included in the PDF file and text that follows.

Dharmadeva

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