Benefits of Tratak Kriya
Tratak Kriya can help to protect and enhance eyesight, reduce eye strain, dryness and irritation as well as increase intuition and concentration. Regular practice also boosts intuition and concentration levels.
This practice involves gazing upon one object for an extended period, usually the candle flame; however, any object which captivates our gaze may be used.
Benefits
Trataka Meditation not only improves concentration but it can also purify and strengthen eye muscles. Many practitioners have reported seeing improvements to their vision after engaging with this form of practice regularly, while its soothing effects may help treat sleep disorders or insomnia as well as activate Ajna chakra for increased intuition.
Beginners looking to practice tratak should start slowly; beginning by focusing on small intervals of 10 seconds each until gradually building up to five minutes of gazing will help your mind adjust and avoid becoming fatigued from gazing for so long. This approach ensures optimal results in terms of mental comfort.
Ideal conditions for meditation practice should include practicing in a dark room with high contrast between your object of concentration and its background. This could range from something as simple as a dot on a wall to candle flames – just make sure they’re at eye level in a room without drafts!
Techniques
Modern lifestyle factors like excessive screen time, stress and poor diet often contribute to weak eyesight, yet Trataka can strengthen them, reduce eye strain, dryness and irritation and build intuition by improving concentration and concentration skills.
Practice meditation by staring at one point for extended periods. Candle flames are popular choices; other objects, like black dots on white backgrounds or yantras may also work well. Meditation works best in total darkness but if this is not feasible then any semi-dark room should do just fine – making sure there are no drafts present as well!
Yogis use gazing at a point to clear their minds of all external thoughts and experience the afterglow of an object with closed eyes, perhaps using mantra chanting to help keep their minds still. This form of meditation is particularly helpful for insomniacs, sleep disorder sufferers and depression as it eases tensions while encouraging relaxation and improving overall mood.
Precautions
Tratak is a concentration and purification practice which strengthens eyes while channeling thoughts in one direction, improving vision, increasing learning capacity and memory recall, stimulating pineal gland (also called third eye), stimulating pineal gland stimulation as well as stimulating third eye stimulation – one of the key practices used for yoga cleansing practices. It is one of the key cleansing practices recommended in Yogic traditions.
Tratak meditation typically uses the flame of a candle as its symbol; however, other objects can also be utilized. When closing your eyes and visualizing what will form an image in your mind’s eye when doing this technique – for instance yantras, dots on walls or candles would work perfectly well as examples. It is recommended to practice this technique in a dark room to reduce air currents that might cause it to flicker and flicker again during meditation practice.
One should refrain from practicing this meditation if they suffer from glaucoma, epilepsy, or any other health conditions that might be disturbed by staring into an open flame for too long. Prior to initiating any new practice it is advisable to consult an expert.
Conclusions
Actually, the experience of looking at any figure depends more on its technique of doing tratak than on what figure itself looks like. When most seekers looked at figure A during an experiment their Ida (moon) channel was activated and therefore they felt pleasant while those looking at figure B since their Pingala (sun) channel was active felt distressed.
Tratak can also help increase concentration power and memory recall. Furthermore, it reduces wastage of energy spent blinking which could instead be channeled towards spiritual advancement (refer ‘Science of Spirituality’ Chapter 38 – Path of Activation of Spiritual Energy).
At first, beginners should practise tratak on large objects such as an idol, photograph or deity rather than on close objects that might cause strain on their eyes. Later, advanced seekers can do tratak on an idol’s head or midway between eyebrows for optimal results.
