Soham Inner Calm CHAPTER 1 - SIT DOWN and SHUT UP Guided Meditation CHAPTER 1: SIT DOWN Welcome to meditation. First, find a comfortable place to sit. Not your bed. You'll fall asleep. Not the toilet. We're trying to build a spiritual practice here. Sit comfortably. Straighten your back. Relax your shoulders. Close your eyes. Now, breathe. Inhale. Exhale. Congratulations. You are officially doing something your body has been doing for free since birth. Now your mind will start talking. "I forgot to reply to that message." "What should I eat tomorrow?" "Did I lock the door?" "Why did I agree to this meditation?" Perfect. Don't fight the thoughts. Don't chase them either. Just notice them. And gently tell your mind: "Thank you for your contribution. Now, please shut up." Breathe again. Sit down. Shut up. Be here. That's it.

I have taken the paywall down. Until this week, joining meant a credit card before you had heard a single word from me. So it is free now. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel. Join and the 7-Day First Stillness Challenge is yours. Seven lessons, five minutes each. Day 1 teaches the breath, inhale So, exhale Ham, and every day after adds one small thing on top of it. By Day 7 you have a practice you can return to on an ordinary bad Tuesday. There is still a Premium tier for the rest of the library and the live sessions. You never have to take it. The free door stays open either way. One ask, and it is the whole reason I am posting this. Think of one person who has said "I can't meditate, my mind is too busy." Send them the link. Last month I would have been asking you to send them to a payment page. Now there is nothing between them and Day 1. skool.com/soham-3171 Comment OPEN below if you have sent it to someone. I want to know this landed somewhere. Soham. I am That. You are That.

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This Janmashtami, don’t just celebrate Krishna’s birth, awaken the Krishna consciousness within.

The 7-Day First Stillness Challenge is sitting in your Classroom right now, and most of you have not opened it yet. That is not a telling off. It is an invitation with a date attached, because open-ended things never get started. Here is what it actually is. Seven lessons. Five minutes a day. No experience needed, no perfect posture, no silent room. Day 1 teaches you the breath - inhale So, exhale Ham - and each day after adds one small thing on top of it. By Day 7 you will not be enlightened. You will have something more useful than that: a practice you can return to on an ordinary bad Tuesday. Start today and you finish on 7 September. That is the whole commitment. Thirty-five minutes across a week. Open the Classroom and press play on Day 1: https://www.skool.com/soham-3171/classroom/e29074c9?md=fce24d4554ef44799af15222f1bbd399 Then comment DAY 1 below so the rest of us know you have started. We are doing September together. This is where it begins. Soham. I am That. You are That.