Dr. Alok Kanojia

You don't have any worries.

It feels incredibly peaceful, right?

And you are there.

You're not comatose, but you don't have a personhood in that moment.

Another really great example of this is like,

If you really need to pee and you're like waiting to use the bathroom and then finally you get your turn, the moment you start peeing, you cease to exist, whether you've got mortgages or you need to get a Valentine's Day present or you have to do this, you have all those thoughts.

You were just there as a nothing.

So these shunya practices are a little bit, you have to do them with a little bit more caution.

There's some like introductory practices.

One example is if you close your eyes for a moment, this is going to sound kind of weird, but like where do you feel your body?

Like so think about proprioception, right?

So like pay attention to your arms, your head, your nose.

So what I want you to do is focus on the area of the solar plexus and look for like an absence of feeling there.

Like as you breathe in and out, like you can feel your rib cage expands.

Maybe you can feel your heartbeat.

But if you really pay attention to just the area of solar plexus, there's going to be a feeling of emptiness.

And so as you meditate upon that, you'll get closer to shunya.

The other really interesting, easy way to get a taste of shunya is close your eyes.

I want you to breathe in.

and then breathe out.