Perform A Tratak Kriya To Cure Eye Related Ailments

One of the most effective yoga techniques to achieve high degree of concentration of your mind is called Tratak Kriya. Tratak Kriya can be defined as the process of looking at a fixed point of your choice with your full concentration till your eyes are tired and get tears inside. The Rishis of ancient times improved the concentration of their minds using this technique. Some of the Yoga followers can perform this Kriya for hours together without blinking their eyes. However, initially, the beginner can perform this Kriya, may be only for around 2 to 3 minutes.

The procedure to perform this Kriya is to sit in Padhmasana or Sukhasana, keeping your both hands on the respective knees with the thumbs touching the first fingers of your hands. Place a thick white paper of around one foot by one foot on the wall, around 6 to 7 feet away from you. Mark a small black circle of half an inch diameter on it in dark black color at your eye level. One can write the letter OM also on the white paper in black color. Alternatively, keep one lighted lamp using pure Ghee or the oil around 6 to 7 feet away, at your eye level. However, make sure that the flame of the lamp should not be blinking and must remain steady. Concentrate on this lamp or the black spot with the open eyes without blinking your eyes. Do not stretch the muscles of your eyes. And keep the eye in natural open condition. Try to remove all the thoughts coming in your mind and just put all your attention on the lamp or black mark. When the burning sensation is felt in the eyes or the tears start coming from the eyes, close your eyes slowly. Repeat the procedure for 2 to 3 times. Gradually, try to increase the time duration of this Tratak Kriya to maximum around 10 to 15 minutes. This may take around couple of months to achieve. The key factor is not to force your eyes to stretch to the fullest open condition. The muscles near the eyes must not be stretched or tensed in any case. You may be able to perform this Kriya only for around two minutes initially. I myself could not achieve it more than three minutes in the first few days. However, the constant practice can take you easily up to around 10 minutes by end of the first month.

Make sure to perform this Kriya in an isolated corner of the house, where you do not get disturbed. The early morning hours and the evening sunset hours is the best time to perform this Kriya. You also may not attend to telephone or any other means of communication during this Kriya. When you get up after completion of this Kriya, try to involve in your routine very slowly. Do not jump in to your routine activities immediately by giving mental stress to your mind. Always try to maintain the same place in your house for performing this Kriya and do not keep on changing it frequently. You may mentally recite the name of the god in which you have full trust. This would help removing all other useless thoughts out of your mind during this Tratak Kriya.

There are many advantages of performing this Kriya on regular basis. All the ailments pertaining to eyes are cured. Even the eye power also gets reduced very rapidly by performing this Kriya. In particular, short sight is cured very quickly through this Kriya. The laziness of the body and mind goes away and one starts feeling energetic and full of confidence to face any challenge of this material world. The patients of depression can get maximum benefits out of this Kriya. The mind also becomes steady, sharp, and analytical and do not get upset over small matters. The individual becomes firm and determined in all his approaches. It is also a very effective cure for high blood pressure over a long period of 3 to 4 months.

Looking to all these tremendous benefits, my advice to all my AC readers would be to start this Kriya as soon as possible. I am always available to all my readers in case of any doubts.