Meditation for healing addictions

This meditation was one of the first meditations I started practicing daily. It is part of my fundamental morning practice. I practice it for 3 minutes every day since 2019, and I do 11 minutes whenever I can (instead of scrolling Instagram or playing on my phone, if I have a couple of minutes I’ll do it). 

It helped me get rid of food cravings, addictive thought patterns and most recently, drop co-dependency tendencies I didn’t even know I had. I’ve heard multiple stories of experiences similar to mine. Try it for yourself, observe what pattern drops for you and let me know.

“There are two things – infinite addiction is love and addiction is habit. But your life runs by addiction, you are all addicted to one thing or another that’s why you repeat mistakes sometime because it is addiction. Anything in which your senses do not make sense and you do it is the outcome of addiction. And everyone is addicted, politician is addicted to politics, a holy man is addicted to religion, a man of God is addicted with God and a thief is addicted to thievery.” – Yogi Bhajan, April 12, 1989, Los Angeles

Who is it for? 

This meditation is for anyone who ever struggles with addiction (pretty much all of us), which goes way beyond addiction to substances and includes addiction to our phones, certain thought patterns, eating, drinking, emotional love, rejection, work, etc. 

“We are a nation in addiction, we are in bondage of addiction, we consume sixty percent of all drugs produced in the world, we do, we have laws, if all the laws are implemented seventy eight point three percent all citizens will go to jail for three years minimum.”  – Yogi Bhajan, May 2, 1990, Santa Fe 

If you’ve ever tried quitting smoking or any other type of addiction, you’ll know how difficult it can be to rely only on will power. Our addictions are deeply rooted in our subconscious mind, and trying to get at it using our conscious mind is a real challenge.

Imbalance in this pineal area upsets the radiance of the pineal gland itself. It is this pulsating radiance that regulates the pituitary gland. Since the pituitary gland regulates the rest of the glandular system, the entire body and mind go out of balance. This meditation corrects the problem. It is excellent for everyone but particularly effective for rehabilitation efforts in drug dependence, mental illness, and phobic conditions. 

How does it work? 

This meditation works on the subconscious mind. Unlike having to constantly fight the addiction, it removes the addictive pattern. The addiction is simply gone, so no need to fight against it anymore. Basically, it’s as before if you were on the addiction TV channel, and now you’ve switched to another channel. 

The pressure exerted by the thumbs triggers a rhythmic reflex current into the central brain. This current activates the brain area directly underneath the stem of the pineal gland. It is an imbalance in this area that makes mental and physical addictions seemingly unbreakable.

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This meditation is one of a class of meditations that will become well known to the future medical society. Meditation will be used to alleviate all kinds of mental and physical afflictions. But it may be as 500 years, however, before the new medical science will understand the effects of this kind of meditation well enough to delineate and measure all its parameters.

Meditation for healing addictions

Sit in an Easy Pose, with a light jalandhar bandh. Straigthen the spine and make sure the first six lower vertebrae are locked forward. 

Eye position: Keep the eyes closed and focus at the Brow Point. 

Mantra: 

SAA-TAA-NAA-MAA

Mudra: Make fists of both hands and extend the thumbs straight. Place the thumbs on the temples and find the niche where the thumbs just fit. This is the lower anterior portion of the frontal bone above the temporal-sphenoidal suture. Lock the back molars together and keep the lips closed. Keeping the teeth pressed together throughout, alternately squeeze the molars tightly and then release the pressure. A muscle will move in rhythm under the thumbs. Feel it massage the thumbs and apply a firm pressure with the hands. 

Silently vibrate the five primal sounds- the Panj Shabd- SAA-TAA-NAA-MAA, at the brow. 

Time: Continue for 5-7 minutes. With practice the time can increase to 20 minutes and ultimately to 31 minutes.