Dear All,
Making a small change can have a large and positive effect on your life. This is what was discovered by Marie Kondo,
who has become a guru of how to improve your life by getting rid of
stuff clogging up your house. She's even written a book about it which
is currently on the New York Times Best Seller List* .
This idea of a little thing leading to a big change and doing that little thing now is also true in your practice of meditation.
Some
of you have mentioned to me that because of being busy with work and
other things, you sometimes don't get the time that you'd like to
meditate.
No problem. Meditation is a way of unclogging your mental house. But is not an activity. It's a state, which you can be in at any time. Wherever and whenever convenient, just close your eyes , put your attention to the top of your head and go into thoughtless awareness for 1 or 2 minutes. It has an immediate effect and can even change something for the better straightaway.
No problem. Meditation is a way of unclogging your mental house. But is not an activity. It's a state, which you can be in at any time. Wherever and whenever convenient, just close your eyes , put your attention to the top of your head and go into thoughtless awareness for 1 or 2 minutes. It has an immediate effect and can even change something for the better straightaway.
Examples
regular sahaja yoga meditators have given of how merely shifting their
attention to the top of head, while being in a particular situation, has
suddenly unclogged something and led to a positive result, include:
being in a job interview; at a work meeting; facing an immediate problem
of some kind; stuck in an unpleasant situation.
Little.Now.
Being in the moment. Simple. These are qualities associated with the
'Ganesh'** principal within us on the Mooladhara ('root support') chakra
and they can be strengthened. How?
With
the late burst of summer sunshine it's still dry enough outside to go
sit in the park. Sitting regularly on the mother earth is very good for
the mooladhara chakra, as well as regularly footsoaking.
By improving the mooladhara, you're strengthening your foundations. Like building a skyscraper, the higher the building has to go the deeper must be the foundations. And with that meditation is easier and you'll be amazed by the results you get.
By improving the mooladhara, you're strengthening your foundations. Like building a skyscraper, the higher the building has to go the deeper must be the foundations. And with that meditation is easier and you'll be amazed by the results you get.
Here's a 13 minute clip from a 2002 lecture in California to sahaja yogis : Importance of meditation.
See you at group meditation on Tuesday.
** The 'Ganesh principal' is said to lie at the basis of everything and has often been related to the carbon atom in chemistry 
.It's the basis of life on the planet itself:
"What we normally think of as 'life' is based on chains of carbon atoms, with a few other atoms, such as nitrogen or phosphorus", per Stephen Hawking in a 2008 lecture, "carbon [...] has the richest chemistry." [3] The most important characteristics of carbon as a basis for the chemistry of life are, that it has four valence bonds, that the energy required to make or break a bond is at an appropriate level for building molecules, which are stable and reactive Because carbon atoms bond readily to other carbon atoms allows for the building of arbitrarily long complex molecules and polymers" -wiki on Carbon
"What we normally think of as 'life' is based on chains of carbon atoms, with a few other atoms, such as nitrogen or phosphorus", per Stephen Hawking in a 2008 lecture, "carbon [...] has the richest chemistry." [3] The most important characteristics of carbon as a basis for the chemistry of life are, that it has four valence bonds, that the energy required to make or break a bond is at an appropriate level for building molecules, which are stable and reactive Because carbon atoms bond readily to other carbon atoms allows for the building of arbitrarily long complex molecules and polymers" -wiki on Carbon
An interesting 1 minute clip about Carbon Atom : Spiritual Secrets of Carbon Atom ("I am the alpha and omega")
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