The Techniques
The techniques discussed here are by no means rigid, but are very
good suggestions. You are free to improvise after you have
spent some time with the ones below. It is best to do a routine every
day. Over time most people see themselves changing so that
their thoughts are more peaceful and directed.
Group practices such as meditation often feels deeper because the
nervous system naturally synchronizes with others, making it easier
to settle into calm without effort.
The shared silence reduces self-focus and mental struggle,
allowing the observing awareness to come forward more easily. Being
with others also provides structure and a sense of safety that helps
the mind relax and stay present.
Meditation is not about forcing the mind to stop. It is about
creating conditions that allow the inner system to settle.
First, you intentionally pause outward activity. You stop doing and
give yourself permission to rest.
Next, you allow the body to relax. Breathing slows, muscles soften,
and the nervous system begins to feel safe enough to settle.
Then you gently anchor attention, often on the breath, a sound, or
simple awareness. The anchor keeps attention from being carried away,
without trying to block thoughts.
As thoughts and emotions arise, you observe them without
interfering. You notice rather than engage.
With continued observation, effort drops. You stop trying to
meditate. The mind quiets naturally.
Finally, you rest in a state of presence or stillness, then gently
return to activity, carrying some of that balance with you.
Chanting is the deliberate repetition of a short, uplifting word
or phrase that steadies and directs the mind.
The phrase may be sacred, meaningful, or personally inspiring, but
its strength lies not only in the words themselves, but in the
intention behind them.
When spoken rhythmically, gently, and with sincerity, chanting
becomes a conscious directive issued from consciousness to the mind.
In everyday life, the mind tends to run Idle dialogue — replaying
concerns, predicting problems, and generating worry-based loops.
Chanting interrupts that pattern by giving the mind a clear, simple
command.
It keeps the mental machinery engaged with one focused
instruction. The mind becomes busy, but in a guided and structured
way.
With the mind occupied in repetition, it becomes far more
difficult for worry, rumination, or upsetting content to gain
traction.
Other intrusive patterns find less room to enter because attention
is already engaged.
From a neural standpoint, repetition stabilizes firing patterns
and reduces scattered activation. Instead of jumping from thought to
thought, the brain entrains to a steady rhythm.
Emotional intensity often softens as the nervous system shifts
toward regulation. The mind is no longer chasing unresolved loops; it
is following a chosen pathway.
As the phrase continues, something subtle begins to shift. Because
the mind is repeating the same words over and over, its creative and
reactive functions temporarily quiet.
This creates space. Awareness is no longer entangled in new mental
narratives. In Deepermind language, the soul becomes the observer,
this observer strengthens as identification with thinking weakens.
Walking and chanting in synchronization left step, right step,
left step, right step enhances the effect.
Awareness begins to move away from mental content and settle into
a deeper, quieter presence. Higher level thoughts are produced in
this peaceful atmosphere, and when chanting is completed, new
insights often occurr.
Many describe this movement as awareness shifting from the head to
the heart, or from the thinking mind to the soul.
As chanting continues, especially when the words are spoken in an
uplifting tone and genuinely felt in the heart, the emotional center
begins to open. The repetition becomes less about verbal sound and
more about inner alignment.
The mind remains occupied, while awareness deepens beyond it.
For chanting to be effective, it must not be mechanical. The
phrase should be chosen carefully and spoken with warmth, sincerity,
and feeling.
When the heart is engaged, the repetition harmonizes thought and
emotion. The mind follows the directive. Awareness stabilizes. The
sense of connection to the deeper seat of being becomes more
accessible.
Chanting, then, is not an escape from the mind but a skillful use
of it. Consciousness gives the mind a simple, uplifting command. The
mind stays busy with that command. And as it does, awareness is freed
to rest more fully in the soul.
Mindfulness is the ability to be aware of what is happening right
now without judging it or trying to change it.
It means noticing your thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and
surroundings as they are, while staying present instead of being
pulled into stories about the past or future.
When you are mindful, you are not lost inside thinking or reacting
automatically. You are aware of experience as it unfolds.
Thoughts still appear. Emotions still arise. The difference
is that you see them rather than being driven by them.
It creates space so balance can be restored. Mindfulness is not
emptying the mind, forcing calm, or withdrawing from life. It is a
gentle, steady awareness that allows clarity, emotional strength, and
alignment to emerge naturally.
Falling to Sleep
Sleep allows the brain to form useful abstractions from the events
of the day while discarding unnecessary detail. Sleep is
actually more important than meditation or mindfulness, because you
do not need either of these.
Going without sleep for long periods prevents the brain and body
from completing their basic restoration processes.
Thinking becomes distorted, attention breaks down, emotions become
unstable, and judgment weakens because the nervous system never fully
resets.
As sleep loss continues, the brain struggles to regulate
perception and meaning. Memory formation fails, emotional residue
accumulates, and reality can become confused or dream-like.
In extreme cases, hallucinations, immune failure, metabolic
disruption, and serious health risks appear. Sleep is not optional
maintenance; it is a core biological reset without which the system
cannot remain coherent.
Many sleep problems are not caused by the body’s inability to
sleep, but by continued inner activity.
When you lie in bed wanting to sleep, some part of the system is
often still active—thinking, planning, monitoring, or even checking
to see whether sleep is happening.
Sleep is not something the mind can do directly. It occurs only
after the processes that keep you awake have quieted.
The key shift is to stop trying to sleep. The intention to “fall
asleep” keeps the mind engaged and prevents shutdown.
Instead, treat the bed as a place where nothing needs to happen.
Rest is enough. When the pressure to succeed at sleeping is removed,
the system is free to power down on its own.
To help this happen, gently move attention away from meaning and
into simple physical sensation.
Thinking operates in meaning; sensation does not.
Rest attention in the breath, the weight of the body on the
mattress, the warmth of the blankets, or the softening of the jaw and
tongue.
Do not analyze these sensations—just stay with them. As
attention stabilizes in the body, thinking naturally loses energy.
As sleep approaches, experience becomes vague and unfocused.
Thoughts fragment, images drift, and time loses structure.
This is not a problem to solve but a transition to allow. If you
let experience blur without grabbing onto it or checking progress,
the system completes its shutdown.
Sleep then arrives on its own, not through effort, but through the
absence of interference.
Introduction to Balance
So far, the groundwork for deeper understanding has been laid. We
have learned how to meditate and how to cultivate mindfulness. We
know that sleep is very important and how to go to sleep.
We
have learned that we are the observer, and that words are not things
in themselves, but pointers to meaning.
Now we go deeper, beyond seeing our inner life as five separate
boxes: soul, senses, emotions, ego, and mind. At this level, what
matters most is not categorizing parts, but learning how they come
into balance.
The deepest goal of optimizing life is not productivity,
perfection, or constant happiness. It is alignment.
When life is aligned, it feels light without being shallow, strong
without being rigid, and meaningful without strain. There is
coherence between thought, emotion, body, understanding, and
relationship.
There is also a quiet sense of being in tune with something larger
than oneself, with life, with truth, with other people, and for many,
with God.
Noticing Your Plate Alignment
Alignment means putting things in order. It means noticing what is
out of balance and gently restoring harmony.
You notice imbalance when life feels frantic, strained, brittle,
or exhausting. When effort feels constant. When sleep is difficult.
When the body will not let go. When thoughts keep racing even after
work is done. When emotions feel sharp instead of warm.
Balance begins with observation during meditation. It is not
magical insight, but simple noticing. When we become upset, reactive,
or tense, we are out of balance. This is not a failure. It is
information.
Going out of balance is a common human experience. The opposite
experience, moving into grace, is less common, but profoundly
beautiful. The feeling of grace arises when balance is restored.
There is a sense of freedom and a quiet happiness in simply being
alive.
In religious language, this may be felt as forgiveness, holiness,
or being filled with God. In experiential terms, it is the feeling of
alignment.
The Chakra Plates and Rocks Analogy
Imagine your inner life as a series of seven plates, each balanced
on a narrow point at its center. These plates represent the whole of
your being. By their nature, they want to rest in equilibrium.
There is a meaningful difference between the center of each plate
and its outer edges.
The center of a plate is where balance is easiest. When rocks are
closer to the center, the plate naturally stabilizes. This is the
place of rest, ease, recovery, sleep, quiet happiness, and deep
well-being. Very little effort is required to remain balanced here.
The outer edges of the plate are different. Near the edges, rocks
create leverage. A single rock placed near the edge can have a large
effect, easily tipping the plate. This is where intensity lives.
Focus, effort, urgency, problem-solving, striving, and action
naturally belong closer to the edges.
Neither the center nor the edge is wrong. Life requires both.
Trouble arises when rocks remain too long at the edges, or when too
many rocks crowd there without returning inward.
These experiences are signs that balance is being asked for.
Noticing this is already a stabilizing act. You are no longer pushing
harder at the edge. You are preparing to move inward.
Across traditions, this moment has been called awakening,
remembering, mindfulness, repentance, or simply honesty.
Nothing is wrong. Alignment is simply asking for the rocks to come
home.
Each chakra plate, like each part of life, can exist closer to the
center or farther toward the edge, depending on what life is asking
in that moment. Learning to notice where the weight is, and how to
guide it, is the art of balance.
Healing With Just Words or With Meaning
If we say a prayer without understanding it, the words have no
meaning to us. But you do not need to understand what you are
saying. If you flow with spiritual nature of the prayer it is a
powerful prayer if you are in a deep spiritual place.
It is a difference experience, usually more powerful to really
understand the words of the pray, one can go further a feel intent of
the prayer, how the words and their meaning are very powerful.
Words are used to transfer meaning.
There are no magic words that break natural law. But the words
themselves can have effects. It is as you believe.
So praying to a loving God before dinner can still have a real
effect. It creates an atmosphere that settles people emotionally and
brings a moment of calm and reflection to the table. Tensions are
released.
A resolution in the form of a prayer is more powerful than just
saying the resolution. For example, if you pray not to overeat, you
are more likely to hear a small voice when you are temped.
Visualizing The Problem and Returning to Balance
The inner self naturally feels content when it is in balance.
Imagine that anything bothering you appears as an inner rock. For
example, if you are constantly losing your cell phone, the repeated
loss becomes your inner rock.
Attached to that rock are the emotions connected with it—panic,
frustration, anxiety, or self-criticism. These emotional reactions are
part of the weight that throws you off balance.
Instead of using comforting explanations or “magic words,” this
approach focuses directly on the problem itself. Something has
occurred that pulls you out of balance. To visualize this, imagine a
flat plate.
The plate represents a part of your life, such as a thought, an
emotion, ego energy, a habit, a chakra, or even an external event. On
the plate sit rocks, which represent the specific thoughts, feelings,
memories, or concerns associated with that issue.
When a rock sits near the edge of the plate, even a small movement
can cause the plate to tilt and wobble. Life feels unstable.
But when the same rock is gently moved toward the center of the
plate—or removed altogether—the plate naturally settles and regains
balance.
The rocks themselves are not the problem. They are movable. Balance
is not achieved by pretending the rocks are not there, nor by trying
to eliminate everything on the plate.
Balance comes from seeing clearly what is present and consciously
repositioning it so the system can stabilize on its own.
In this way, balance is not forced. It is restored through
awareness, understanding, and direct engagement with what is actually
causing the imbalance.
Allowing is the conscious decision to let an inner experience move
without trying to stop it, fix it, or control it. It is the
willingness to feel what is already present.
When anger rises, allowing means you do not immediately suppress it
or justify it. When sadness appears, allowing means you do not
distract yourself or argue it away.
When fear surfaces, allowing means you feel it in the body instead
of constructing a mental escape.
Allowing is not approval. It is not indulgence. It is not acting
out.
It is the refusal to interfere.
The inner system is dynamic. Emotions arise with energy, crest, and
resolve if they are not resisted. When we resist, we interrupt the
natural arc.
The energy then stalls, loops, or resurfaces later in distorted
form.
Allowing restores movement.
It creates the conditions for natural resolution. The system
completes what it has already begun. Tension dissipates. Insight often
follows. What felt overwhelming becomes intelligible.
Allowing is not passive. It requires awareness. It requires
steadiness. It requires trusting that not every inner movement must be
managed.
When resistance drops, coherence increases.
And what needed to move, moves.
Recognizing What Is Out of Balance Using the Chakras
When the source of imbalance is not clear, moving attention through
the chakras can help reveal where things are unsettled. Begin at the
root chakra and slowly work upward toward the crown, noticing where
tension, emotion, or mental charge appears.
The lower chakras tend to
fall out of balance more easily because they relate to safety,
survival, and daily life concerns. Imagine each chakra as a plate,
with rocks representing specific conditions, thoughts, or feelings
resting on it.
For example, if you notice fear of the dark, place that
“dark” rock on the root chakra plate and gently move it toward the
center, allowing the plate to steady. This process helps identify
imbalance not by analysis, but by direct awareness and inner
adjustment.
Chakra Balancing
Root Chakra – Safety and Grounding Plate
This plate is about survival, stability, and physical safety. When
it is balanced, the body feels supported and calm. When it is
overloaded, life feels anxious or threatening.
Common rocks on the root plate include the Rock of Physical Safety,
the Rock of Fear, the Rock of Financial Security, the Rock of Health
Concerns, and the Rock of Stability. When too many of these rocks
crowd the outer edge of this plate, the nervous system becomes
vigilant and restless. When they move closer to the center, the body
relaxes and trust in life increases.
Sacral Chakra – Feeling and Flow Plate
This plate governs emotion, pleasure, creativity, and the ability
to enjoy life. Balance here feels like emotional fluidity and
aliveness.
Rocks on the sacral plate include the Rock of Emotion, the Rock of
Pleasure, the Rock of Creativity, the Rock of Desire, and the Rock of
Sensuality.
When these rocks are pushed too far outward, emotions can
feel overwhelming or addictive. When they are suppressed or pulled
away entirely, life feels flat. Bringing these rocks closer to center
restores flow and enjoyment.
Solar Plexus Chakra – Action and Personal Power Plate
This plate relates to effort, will, confidence, and the ability to
act in the world. It is where ambition and responsibility live.
Typical rocks here include the Rock of Effort, the Rock of Control,
the Rock of Responsibility, the Rock of Achievement, and the Rock of
Self-Confidence. When these rocks pile up near the edge, life feels
pressured and exhausting. When they are guided inward, action becomes
effective without strain and confidence feels steady rather than
forced.
Heart Chakra – Connection and Compassion Plate
This plate is about relationship, empathy, love, and emotional
openness. Balance here feels warm, human, and inclusive.
Rocks on the heart plate include the Rock of Love, the Rock of
Relationship, the Rock of Compassion, the Rock of Grief, and the Rock
of Forgiveness.
When grief or attachment dominates the edge, the heart can
feel heavy or wounded. When these rocks are allowed to move closer to
center, connection feels safe and love becomes resilient rather than
fragile.
Throat Chakra – Expression and Truth Plate
This plate governs communication, honesty, and the ability to
express inner truth outwardly.
Rocks here include the Rock of Expression, the Rock of Silence, the
Rock of Truth, the Rock of Fear of Speaking, and the Rock of Being
Heard.
When expression rocks are pushed outward without grounding, speech
can become harsh or compulsive. When they are pulled too far inward,
the person feels muted. Balance allows words to flow naturally and
appropriately.
Third Eye Chakra – Understanding and Insight Plate
This plate relates to perception, insight, pattern recognition, and
meaning-making.
Rocks on this plate include the Rock of Thinking, the Rock of
Belief, the Rock of Interpretation, the Rock of Insight, and the Rock
of Intuition. When thinking and belief crowd the edge, the mind
becomes rigid or obsessive. When these rocks drift inward and make
room for intuition, understanding becomes spacious and clear.
Crown Chakra – Alignment and Grace Plate
This plate represents connection with the whole, alignment with
truth, and the experience of Grace as you’ve been describing it.
Rocks here include the Rock of Surrender, the Rock of Meaning, the
Rock of Trust, the Rock of Faith, and the Rock of Unity. This plate is
least about effort and most about openness.
When rocks here are forced outward, spirituality becomes strained
or ideological. When they rest near the center, there is a quiet sense
of harmony, gratitude, and being part of something larger.
How These Plates Work Together
All of these plates are stacked and interacting. A rock moved on
one plate often affects the balance of another. For example, when the
root plate is stabilized, the heart plate softens.
When the solar plexus relaxes, the third eye clarifies. When
many rocks across all plates move closer to center, the crown plate
naturally settles into Grace.
In the Deepermind view, chakra work is not about activating or
fixing anything. It is about noticing where rocks are crowded, guiding
them toward center, and allowing balance to restore itself across the
whole system.
Inner suffering is not caused by these rocks. It is caused when too
many rocks are pushed to the edges and left there.
As you go though each chakra and the rocks, start at the root
chakra and work your way to the crown chakra. Then go down to
the bottom of the charka and feel the unity within. This is your
kundalini aligned and how graceful everything is.
Instead of using the chakras, you can simply look directly for what
is upsetting you. Then move it so it is balanced.
Talking to the Rocks and Guiding Them Inward
Some rocks are lighter than others, especially newer ones. When
these are noticed early, they can be guided back toward balance with
very little effort.
This is not about talking to objects, but about directing
awareness. By acknowledging what a rock represents, you allow it to
shift without resistance.
When effort has been overused, you might recognize it and allow it
to move inward, letting the system rest.
When thinking is spinning, you can notice that nothing needs to be
solved in this moment, and allow that activity to settle closer to
center.
When safety concerns are activated, you can recognize that, in this
moment, there is enough safety for the body to relax.
When rest has been neglected, you can gently invite it back into
balance.
This inward movement becomes especially important at the end of the
day. Sleep cannot be forced. It happens naturally when unnecessary
effort, thinking, and vigilance move toward the center and the system
is allowed to stabilize on its own.
Life as Music: From Intensity to Resolution
The plate helps us understand balance, but life unfolds through
time. Balance is not only about what we carry, but how long we carry
it and when it needs attention.
Each day moves like a piece of music. There are fast, demanding
passages near the edges, where effort, focus, and engagement are
required. There are also slower passages where tension resolves and
the music returns home.
Problems arise when the music never resolves, when everything
remains loud, fast, and demanding, with no return to center.
Great music always finds its way back. In a Mozart symphony,
intensity gives way to harmony, complexity returns to simplicity, and
the listener feels carried rather than strained.
Living well follows the same rhythm. We move rocks outward when
life calls for action and effort, and we guide them inward when it is
time for rest and integration. Balance is restored not by force, but
by timing.
The rocks themselves seem to move in patterns, responding to one
another. In music, phrases echo and return with subtle variation,
creating a sense of life and meaning. In the same way, our inner
movements repeat and resolve, restoring balance through rhythm,
awareness, and gentle attention rather than control.
Grace as the Moment the Plate Balances Itself
Across cultures and throughout history, people have recognized
moments when effort falls away and balance returns on its own.
In Christian language, this is often called Grace. In Protestant
traditions, it may be described as being saved. In Buddhism, it is
awakening or enlightenment. In Hindu traditions, it is alignment with
dharma. I
n modern language, it is often called flow or coherence. The words
differ, but the experience they point to is the same.
When the rocks move closer to the center, the plate balances
itself. Thought softens. Emotion settles. The body relaxes.
Understanding widens. Gratitude arises naturally, without being
summoned.
From a Deepermind perspective, Grace is not something given from
outside. It is the felt experience of returning to center, when
interference ends and the system is allowed to restore itself.
God as Presence
In this view, God is not found in urgency, effort, or pressure. God
is not encountered at the outer edges where striving dominates. God is
felt as presence itself—as balance, stillness, and quiet alignment.
The closer one comes to the center, the clearer this presence
becomes.
Asking God for help is not a request for more effort or struggle.
It is an invitation to return. It may sound like, “Help me come back
to center,” or “Help me let go of what I no longer need to carry,” or
simply, “Help me rest.”
Grace is the felt experience that arises when the inner system is
allowed to settle. As balance is restored, presence becomes
unmistakable, and what many call God is experienced not as something
distant, but as something already here.
Gratitude as the Feeling of Rested Balance
Gratitude is not something you impose. It arises when the plate is
centered and stable.
It is the realization that you can balance your life, that
everything can feel good. This is abundance.
Gratitude often appears naturally at rest, before sleep, in moments
of silence, or when effort finally releases. It is the feeling of
being supported rather than pushed.
The feeling of grace is aligned with a feeling that things are good
Gratitude tells you that balance has returned and nothing more is
required right now. It is helpful to just let God take care of things.
Living the Inner Rhythm of Outward and Inward
Living the Inner Rhythm of Outward and InwardOver time, this way of
living becomes intuitive and easier, less something you think about
and more something you sense.
You learn when to move rocks outward to engage life fully, and when
to guide them inward to restore balance. You no longer try to live at
the edge all the time.
Life begins to feel rhythmic rather than frantic. Strong rather
than tense. Productive without being exhausting.
Samskaras
Samskaras are deep inner heavy rocks formed by past experiences.
They are patterns left behind by repeated thoughts, emotions,
reactions, and significant events.
Over time, these impressions shape
how we automatically feel, think, and respond, often without realizing
it. When we notice that a samskara rock has been pushed to the
outer edges, it is time to release it.
Overcoming samskaras does not mean fighting or erasing them all in
one pass. They are deep scars and they need to be released slowly.
Each time a reaction is felt without acting it out or suppressing
it, the stored energy behind the samskara releases a little. This is
why patience is essential. Samskaras dissolve through repeated moments
of conscious presence, not through force or analysis
Going to Sleep
Going to sleep is a return to center, a time to allow the rocks to
rest. By the end of the day, many inner systems are still active.
Thoughts continue planning, the body remains alert, emotions hold the
tone of the day, and attention keeps scanning.
The plate stays weighted at the edges, and rest does not arrive.
Returning to center is not quitting. It is completing the day. The
center of the plate is where balance comes most easily. As rocks move
inward, breathing deepens, the nervous system relaxes, thoughts slow,
and the body remembers how to sleep.
The center is a place of safety, quiet presence, and simple ease.
It feels much like falling into grace.
Sleep cannot be forced. When rocks remain at the edges, the plate
stays unstable. Trying to make sleep happen only adds more effort and
tension. Sleep comes naturally when the plate is allowed to balance
itself.
Before resting, notice which rocks are still active. Effort may
still be pushing. Thinking may still be planning. Safety may still be
scanning. Emotion may still be charged.
These rocks do not need to be fought. They only need to be seen and
gently invited inward.
A simple inward gesture—such as “Let God take care of it,” “You’ve
done enough,” or “It’s safe to rest”—is often enough to let the rocks
slide toward the center. As the plate settles, gratitude often appears
on its own. Not gratitude for events, but a quiet sense of being
finished, supported, and held.
Sleep then arrives as trust, not collapse. Rest is not something
you earn. It is something you allow.
Conclusion: Grace as Returning to Center
The highest optimization of life is not learning how to stay at the
edge, but knowing how to return to center.
Grace is the lived experience of balance within yourself, alignment
with others, attunement to truth, and being held by something deeper
than effort alone. It is not something achieved through strain, but
something revealed when strain falls away.
Deepermind exists to help people see the plate clearly, move the
rocks wisely, return to center when needed, and live in harmony with
what was always present.
Faith, God, and spirituality are not distant goals. They are always
here, waiting to be felt when balance is restored.
