A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic

Starting with eliminative contemplation first helps to remove the layers of temporary labels off you. When you feel incredibly light after doing that, you can work on affirmations or contemplation by acceptance.

Affirmative Contemplation

After you have negated what you are not, reinforce what you are. Affirmative contemplation is the reinforcement of your true identity and it is this reinforcement – this knowledge – that will help you stay calm and blissful while operating the world. As an instance, when people criticize you or hurt you, at that moment you have to visualize who you really are, that they are merely saying things to your body and that you are beyond the body.

I have adapted the affirmations below from three Upanishads, the sacred texts expounding on the metaphysical and esoteric aspects of Vedic knowledge. You can pick and choose what you like. They are merely there to guide you. The goal is to contemplate on all eternal elements as you.

How to do it right

Sit in a comfortable position. Any comfortable position will do. You don’t have to be seated in a yogic posture.

Take a few deep breaths.

Start the process of contemplation by affirmation, that is, keep recalling what you are.

Here are the prompts:

I am I (the Self). I am That. I am Brahman. I am the Source. I am of all the worlds. I am He. I am Siddha. I am the Pure.

I am the Supreme. I am. I am always He. I am the Eternal. I am stainless.

I am Vijnana. I am the Excellent. I am Soma. I am the All. I am beyond honor or dishonor. I am beyond the dualities.

I am neither existence nor non-existence. I am beyond language. I am the Shining. I am the Glory of void and non-void.

I am the good and the bad. I am Happiness. I am beyond grief. I am Consciousness. I am awake. I am equal (in all).

I am the like and the non-like. I am that.

I am the eternal, the pure, and the ever felicitous.

I am the form of immeasurable Bliss. I am beyond body.

I am beyond bondage or emancipation. I am the pure Brahman. I am He.

I am ever of the form of deliberation and yet am beyond deliberation.

I am the earliest. I am beyond the contemplator and contemplation.

I am neither the thing defined nor non-defined. I am the non-absorbed Essence.

I am not the measurer, the measure or the measured. I am Shiva. I am the Seer of all. I am beyond the eyes. I am the Wise.

I am the Quiescent. I am the Destroyer. I am the doer of all actions. I am Pure Bliss. I am beyond the universe. I am of the form of all light.

I am the Light in Absolute Consciousness.

I am free from the three periods of time. I am beyond desires.

I am beyond body. I am the One that has no body. I am beyond compare.

I am solely the thing that is of the nature of wisdom. I am beyond Ego.

I am of the nature of the vast and all-full wisdom. I am one that is witness and beyond desire.

I reside in My glory alone. I am beyond motion. I am beyond old age.

I am beyond destruction. I am the vast ocean of bliss. I am the subtle.

I am beyond change. I am the soul, beyond the illusion of qualities. I am of the nature of the true wisdom beyond limit.