How can I keep myself from falling asleep after about five minutes of meditation?

Answer 1

First of all, before you start meditating please breathe in deeply a few times. With each breath, try to feel that a stream of energy is entering into you. Then try to feel that you are breathing in through different parts of your body: your eyes, your ears, your forehead, your shoulders, the crown of your head and so on. Feel that each of these places is a door, and when you breathe in feel that you are opening this door. At that time, energy enters into you from the Universal Consciousness.

Then try to invoke the power aspect of the Supreme. Do not invoke peace or light; only try to bring forward divine power from within or bring it down from above. This divine power will make you feel that your body is burning with fever, although you are not actually running a temperature, and immediately you will feel energised. You can also imagine a blue-green forest or field, and feel that you are walking through it. Then, no matter how tired you are, you will feel energised. You can also pinch yourself as hard as possible, and try to feel that somebody else is pinching you. While you are pinching yourself, you have to know that it is your conscious self that is pinching your unconscious self. But you have to feel that another person is doing the pinching.

Another technique is to repeat the name of the Supreme as fast as possible. With tremendous concentration see how many times you can repeat "Supreme" with each breath. The power inside the repetition of this name will inundate your whole being and you are bound to feel a new flow of life-energy.

At meditation time always try to feel inside you a dynamic and progressive movement, but not an aggressive one. If there is a dynamic and progressive movement, then you cannot fall asleep. Inside you, feel that a train is speeding towards the destination. Feel that you yourself are an express train with only one destination. The driver of that train is constantly repeating God's name to derive energy, strength, stamina and all divine qualities. An express train stops only at the Final goal, the end of its journey; on the way it does not stop at all. Your goal will be to reach or achieve a profound meditation..

Answer 2

It's pretty simple, but not easy. I have to deal with this issue at times also. Sometimes I just let myself fall asleep because the urge is so strong and then wake up and continue meditating without feeling any fatigue. But most of the time I'd rather not sleep so what I do is put my attention in the areas of my body that feel fatigue. If you try to make it go away it will put you to sleep, but if you keep your attention on those feelings(wherever you feel them) they will eventually dissipate and the whole time your attention is on it you will be able to continue meditating well.

If you are not familiar with how to put your attention on a certain feeling what you do is: while deep breathing look at the spot with your third eye with your eyes closed and don't look away from the feeling until it is dissolved. Sometimes it takes about half an hour or so, but it completely prevents me from wanting to sleep. You are simply bearing witness to your feelings without acting on them.

Answer 3

practice.

I still fall asleep sometimes, usually when I need it, but the experience of meditation provides more than enough interest, most of the time, to keep me awake.

Answer 4

Put ice down your pants. That should do the trick

Answer 5

Don't meditate when you are tired.

Answer 6

Need to be active.

Answer 7

listen to rock music, you'll never feel sleepy