Okay, standing meditation, we're gonna do the first standing meditation here, at the beginning level. When you learn this meditation, you can do it just once a week, can add it in with the other things that you're doing. Standing meditation is done. Pretty much any place you can stand. You can do it in the backyard on your porch, you know, maybe inside the house or whatever. body posture.

Because you're standing, it's a little bit of a different feel than like a sitting meditation. The breath pattern for standing meditations, very important. You're going to do three breaths to start 9080 7050 do do your meditation for the remaining time, five minutes, and then three breaths to come out of it. The breath pattern is actually the same for all of Standing meditations, I'm only going to teach you one right now. So this is standing meditation number one. Okay.

So three breaths. To begin, you're going to do three normal breaths. That's just normal. Breathe in, breathe out. You know, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out, that's three times. Then take a full breath.

You're going to let 90% out. Take a full breath. From that point, let it all out. Take a full breath, let 80% out. Take a full breath. Let it all out.

Take a full breath. Let 70% out. Take a full breath. Let it all out. Take a full breath. Let 50% out.

Take a full breath. Let it all out. Then you're going to meditate for the remaining time of five minutes. And then you're going to take three breaths to come out of the meditation. Remember, those first three breaths are used to get you into the meditation. So by getting into the meditation we're talking about, it kind of like quiets your mind.

It brings your Body and Mind together gives you a chance to just let go of everything you know, let go thoughts don't, you know, don't engage in any mental mind, mind chatter or anything like that is your chance to kind of center and focus yourself. That's very important. Then you do the breath, Pat, you know, the breath pattern, meditate and then the three breaths at the end kind of take you out of the meditation. These meditations are done with the eyes closed, you can learn them with the eyes open, but then do them with the eyes closed. The first meditation, the hand posture is going to look like this. I'm going to drop the camera so you can see this, both of my hands are going to be open.

Palms up, left hand, right hand goes on top. Thumbs can touch or come close to touching. They don't have to press in or anything like that, but kind of close and it rests. Maybe about belt about belt level. Hi, I'm going to back up and do this meditation. I won't do the full five minutes, but I'll do it long enough singularly.

Get a feel for it. Now remember to when you do standing meditation, your feet are going to be more or less even flat on the ground. Knees are going to be slightly bent. your pelvic bone is going to be tilted just slightly forward that helps straighten out the spine. Shoulders rounded. You don't want to be crunched up like that.

Just nice and rounded relaxed. chin slightly back, tongue on the roof of the mouth. Okay, this helps complete the circuit. Okay, I'm going to back up here. I'll lower the camera a little bit, so we can see this Just one thing to I'm going to drop the camera a little bit just so you can see my feet just seeing show that they're flat on the ground, that's all. And the important thing to note there is just my feet are at a natural stance that they're about shoulder width level, you know, shoulder width apart.

And again, my knees are slightly bent. And, you know, my body, my back and spine and everything is pretty much straight throughout the whole meditation. Okay, that is standing meditation. Number one, we give you 18 different meditations. It's not necessary to do all 18 meditations best just to pick one, but we give you 18 so that you have variety in days of old In days of old means back in, you know, hundreds of years ago with the Shaolin Temple, you would meditate next to the master and you would listen to their breathing pattern. And you would follow that, and you would mimic their breath pattern in order to get it.

And today's age we have, we just simplify it calling up, you know, percentages of breath, and makes it a little bit easier, just a little bit easier for people to learn, you can always travel to be next to a master or whatever. So I'm going to teach it this way. These meditations are very powerful, they will develop your ci and especially the more you do it stronger, you're going to get, you know, again, at the beginner level, you can just do it like maybe once a week, as you become more you know, into it with your practice and start moving up to the levels you can increase how many times you meditate, you know, throughout the week and whatnot. We give you a team so you can pick and choose the meditations tap into the sky. You know, they start the CIM moving and all of that the hand posture kind have, you know dictates how the flow of the meditation through your body and you'll be able to feel that as you do different meditations at different points in time.

Another choice for you to do with having so many meditations, is once you learn all 18, you could actually just pick one of those 18 and do them, you know, as you see fit. What I do is I typically carry around, I memorize, you know, one or two hand postures, and I do those on a regular basis. And then I just sort of rotate myself amongst the other hand postures, you know, as I see fit, but you could do the other way and just use, you could do a different meditation every single time and that's fine, too. It. It's all about what fits you and what will work with that and there's no right or wrong in terms of having to do it. I do recommend however, then the beginning stages, learn one meditation, learn it well.

Practice it become proficient. with it because once you do that, you can easily do the other meditations. Okay that has been standing meditation number one