Why meditation seems so difficult to do?

Meditation helps calm the mind and reduce chatter. There are different meditation techniques, but in the most common ones, you focus on one object or hold a thought or observe the flow of thoughts. The idea is that over time, your thoughts will slow down, and your mind will become still. But often that doesn’t seem to work.

To understand the problem with this approach, let us take an analogy. Think of your mind as a tub with water with an open tap. The falling water representing the flow of breath. The falling water into the tub creates ripples in the tub, leading to bubbles, which are like your thoughts. Like bubbles, these thoughts are short-lived and pop. Paying attention to the bubbles will not slow or stop them. Because the bubbles are an outcome of the ripples that is caused by the flowing water from the tap.

In Vasi Yoga, unlike common methods, practitioners focus on controlling the very source of this mental noise. Through pranayama techniques, they gain control of the tap and are able to regulate the flow of breath. This automatically calms the ripples and stops the bubbles.

Inner Transformation Yoga breathing techniques, prepares the body for Vasi Yoga.