ZIKR: What is it and what is it used for? This concept is literally translated as "Memories of the Divine." It is believed that this practice is developing awareness and helps to cleanse the negative, to enter higher energy vibrations. Talk about the features of Zikra.
What is zikr?
ZIKR is a Sufi practice, chants in a certain rhythm, which are accompanied by movements and proper breathing technique.
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It is believed that different emotions of a person withdraw its energy potential on a certain frequency of vibrations. Negative feelings: anger, envy, insult, irritation, fear and others lower energy vibrations, positive - love, gratitude, acceptance - increase.
Therefore, the goal of Islamic spiritual practice is to heal the consciousness of a person from injuries and negative, make him move to higher energy vibrations, spoke from everything that bothers it.
In Islam, Zikre is very common. The practice lies in the entrance to the meditative state with the help of special techniques of respiration and televitations, accompanied by multiple tunes of prayers.
Practice Zikra
The efficiency of Zikra lies in the fact that during practice a person performs a set of actions. He reads prayers, and works with the body, and monitors the correct breathing technique. All this together allows you to achieve a good result in working with the subconscious.
Important moments and features of practice:
- The most famous and most frequently used ZIKR - Prayer "Ishk Alla - Mabut Alla", which is literally translated as "God is love." There are other texts that are selected individually, depending on the problem that a person wants to solve.
- Most often, Sufis practices group meditation. People get or sit in a circle, act synchronously. This significantly enhances the effectiveness of practice, because there is a powerful energy potential.
- It is very important to keep track of breathing. It is believed that inhale and exhale symbolize life and death, respectively. Therefore, to respiratory practices, the scenes treated very precisely and carefully.
- With the help of zikra, you can reveal your creative potential, plunge into your own inner world and it is better to know ourselves, find a link to yourself and find a connection with him.
- Texts of prayers for Sufi practices are taken only from the Quran. Therefore, most often they are used by Muslims. If you consider yourself to another religion, it is better to read your prayers, because the result requires a sincere faith in that God to whom you worship.
The main goal of Zikra is to help a person to gain contact with God, feel the Divine inside himself, let the faith in his heart. If it turns out, you acquire powerful energy support, kill negative emotions and give yourself a permanent sense of security.
Varieties of Zikra
There are several types of Sufi practices that differ in the way of interaction with God.
They are as follows:
- Jali - remembering out loud. In this case, a person pronounces prayers loudly and clearly, concentrating on sound vibrations that come out of his larynx.
- Havi - commemoration in thoughts. In this case, prayers are mentally pronounced, completely concentrating on the sensations of the body, plunging deep into his own subconscious.
- Collective zikra - work in the group. It is important that all practice participants keep certain poses and moved their breathing, it should occur in unison.
When working in the group, you must need a mentor who will control the process and help the participants deeply immerse themselves in meditation. The head (Sheikh) monitors and so that people do not simulate, but fully observed the technique.
Before Practitioners, it is recommended to clean the body: take a shower or bathroom, go to the bath, put on clean clothes, and body deviate with aromatic oil mixtures.
As for the poses for meditation, it is recommended to sat down on prayer mats, cross the legs, and the palms are free to put along the body. Pose must be open. She resembles a yogistic lotus.
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Stages
ZIKR is divided into three stages of remembrance. Consider each of them.
Stages of Sufi Practice:
- Language zikr. This is the first stage of remembrance. At the beginning, a person must put the goal and enlist the intention to feel God in his heart and try to focus as much as possible on the process. At this stage, there is an appeal to God, sincere and honest and literally "the gates are revealed" so that the Divine is in the soul.
- The second stage is "heart zikr". At this stage, prayers are no longer pronounced out loud, and try to make it mentally, feel all their feelings, realize God within themselves. It is very important that the words of prayers come from the heart. A person can experience heat in this area or ripple. In the first sessions it is hard to work, but over time you do not have to make any effort, because sensuality develops.
- The third stage "Sirr" is the same "Zen", to which everyone who is engaged in spiritual practitioners. This is an absolutely peaceful and calm condition, which in the future, a person is experiencing not only during meditation, but also in ordinary life.
What can happen to man during practice:
- At the entrance to the meditative state, a person can see what is hidden in his subconscious, so the process is accompanied by a variety of visions.
- Enhanced sound, tactile and visual, as well as color sensations. The world becomes incredibly bright and loud. Some people say that they saw bright zippers, outbreaks of light, rushing in front of her eyes one by one.
Sufi practices allow perfectly to work out the problems of the human subconscious. You are filled with energy, go to higher energy vibrations, which ultimately helps to quickly solve problems in any life spheres.