Annapurna meditation is a mindfulness technique. And the sole purpose of this technique is to increase your awareness bring you in the present moment and bring you closer to the God. God is in the present moment and all that existential stuff, but the point is that Annapurna meditation increases your awareness and awareness alone is curative. Okay. There is a quote by Carl young, he says that if you cannot make the unconscious conscious, you will always keep blaming the fate. That means that if you have a negative pattern in your life, and you are unaware of it, you will always call it a destiny.

But if you become aware of your negative patterns, you can stop the cycle right there and you can change your fate. You will be in control of your life if your awareness is at a higher level. The more aware you are about your thoughts, your actions, your consciousness, the more curative nature will be of your mind. That means if you produce a problem you will be able to solve it quickly. Awareness alone is curative. There is a great resource out there on YouTube.

I think it is. It is by Leo Gura from actualised.org. He has made a great video on awareness alone is curative. So you can check that out. I will post probably link it down in the description in the resource section for you. So let us proceed with the Annapurna meditation.

What you have to do is simply sit down. Take a moment just to center yourself. Okay. Now focus all your attention in the area, from your upper lip, to the tip of your nose. So, this triangle, this region right here should be the area you have to focus on purposefully. Okay?

If you don't let your mind wander away anywhere else, then this religion in fact wanders, you bring it back to this region. Now what you have to do is you have to watch the breath, come in and go out the way it is. You have to feel the sensation in the nostrils. Okay. If you're breathing in, just be aware that the breath is going in and when the breath is coming out in, just be aware that the breath has come out. You don't change your breathing.

You don't control your breathing. You don't have to do any kind of breathing exercise or pranayama. Okay, you just have to focus all your attention on this area and feel the natural rhythm of the breath. If the breath is shallow, if the breath is shallow, it is shallow, you don't change it. If the breath is heavier, accepted the way it is you don't change it. Just the way your breath is.

You have to simply observe without placing any judgment or without manipulating anything. This is an abundant meditation. So, what I want you to do is just take a moment for yourself after this video and do this exercise for yourself. You have to remember three things. First is you have to purposefully pay attention to this region, then you have to be very attached with your breathing, whenever it comes out and whenever it goes out. Your focus should be on the breathing because breathing is always in the present moment.

And the third is that you don't judge the way you are breathing. You don't label your breathing as short or long. Heavy, subtle. Okay. You have to stand as a watch guard on your nostrils. Not a single breath.

Enter without your notice, not should a single breath go out without your notice. I hope the idea of meditation of Annapurna meditation of mindfulness is clear to you. So, after this video, just do the exercise