Samyama is a mediation technique focused on manifesting specific qualities in your life. The author, Yogani, suggests that it be done right after a more traditional mediation. During Samyama, one focuses on a series of concepts, surrendering each to the infinite divine inside you. The author’s recommended set of concepts include: love, radiance, unity, health, strength, abundance, wisdom, inner sensuality (sensing inner happenings), and inner space (feeling light like air).
SESSION #1
My first samyama style mediation showed that I was a little rusty, but I found my way back to inner silence. After opening my chakras and focusing on the inner silence / divine, I tried each samyama sutra (concept). I chose to FEEL each concept. Feeling love for self, others, and the world and then dropping that into the infinite divine in the lower abdomen. then feeling radiance our from myself and wanting that for others and then giving that over to the infinite divine with gratitude made a difference. Then unity, health, strength, abundance, wisdom, etc.
Feeling each concept in my life as they are and a wish for each to continue to grow, then giving all credit, control and desire over to the infinite divine.
Abundance triggered significant kundalini energy but it felt stifled.
Wisdom was humbling, I felt a promise to share and immense gratitude.
Inner sense and lightness of air felt like I had not yet reached that level and I had a harder time connecting to these concepts.
I moved on to giving over my purpose – to help people find peace. I gave over any notion of what that should look like. I want a life where amazing people and experiences give me the wisdom to help people find peace. Big crazy good, peace, joy and ecstatic LIFE. I give over the details to the divine within me and all things.
Upon resting there was a new vibration in my arms, but particularly on the left.
SESSION #2
Kundalini energy was much more present, flowing out of my arms to wish these concepts on my loved ones, neighbors, town, world, etc. I localized the energies in much more detail (inner sense). Wisdom was no longer humbling, but felt worthy, low in the belly and a vision of wisdom welling up from that infinite space. I place the wisdom far away and up high and the whole of humanity is drawn to the ideas as I fade into the background.
Inner sense is getting stronger but lightness of air is not there yet. I can see how these concepts build on each other as a progression. The infinite divine seemed to be more in front of me and only partially in me – in front of each chakra rather than inside it. The infinite divine was like a bowl in my lap like a shield or a projection.
Manifesting, that is connecting with the energy world to influence your reality, is effective when done from the back of the head but it appears to be much more effective if done from the infinite divine.
I felt like each chakra connected with different levels of the energy world or in different ways; If the energy world was a software program, it is as if the third eye chakra connects with the user-interface but the root chakra and sacral chakras are the root kit. Nerdy, I know.
I returned to the same feeling I had when manifesting the RV by the pool that day (the RV found me the next day).
Movement was also useful to me and brought about more kundalini energy. It helped me to move my hands and arms to visualize sending out wishes for these concepts to others and then bringing in the desire and giving the desire for it over to the infinite divine.
So far, I think this is a much more refined and effective technique for not just manifesting but for advancing more quickly through the stages of self-development.
I like the feeling of kundalini energy flowing out of me.
I have adjusted some of the sutras (words for the concepts) – Love, radiance, oneness, vitality, strength, abundance, wisdom, inner sense, lightness of air.
SESSION #3
I notice that it is harder to do meditation on a full stomach. I DO feel more ready for activity afterwords, as predicted. Any routine, however, must be adjustable to the user – the big ideas are more important than the specific approaches. I am, however, zeroing in on a practice routing that suits me and is sustainable. It felt right to manifest vis sending it out the back of the 3rd eye and dropping it into the infinite silence in the belly at the same time. I have adapted Yogani’s word set (sutras) to be: Love and acceptance, radiance, oneness, vitality, strength, abundance, wisdom, inner sense, and relaxed joy. I expect this will keep evolving.
FURTHER READING
Although I do not yet see evidence of some aspects of his teachings, there is a lot of wisdom in the basic concepts throughout Yogani’s writing.
1 – All of existence is dichotomy in balance: silence and ecstatic energy (yin and yang, male and female, up and down)
2 – Any diet, spiritual practice, or physical regime that focuses heavily on one thing is likely to bring problems or at least not be as effective as more balanced options. There is no silver bullet. (a diet focused on one food or an exercise regime focused on one single exercise will not be as effective as more varied and balanced methods.)
I see here a basic framework for a practice that could be adapted from Yogani’s more specific approach. It would look like the following, in order…
Some kind of moving meditation (yoga, tai chi, dance, etc)
Some kind of focus on breath
Some kind of meditation (transcendental, prayer, mindfulness, somatic, etc)
Some kind of manifestation (samyama, visualization, prayer, etc)
Rest, being in the moment (really, just rest)
Some kind of activity (work, exercise, learning, etc)
