If you're aiming for any kind of breakthrough, this may help....

​Dear All,

Here's something that you may find useful in dealing with any day to day challenges that you think are beyond your power to do anything about. Hopefully, this is a reminder too that kundalini awakening not only provides a simple way to become a more effortlessly meditative person, but also the key to something much bigger.

For different people, the challenges are different; for some they could be more personal, for others they could be more social or work-related. This doesn't matter. What all the challenges have in common is that they give a feeling of being a prisoner of circumstance and therefore powerless.

When you sit down to meditate, here's what you should do:

Pay attention for a moment to the left side of your body while bringing into focus your emotional response to the situation/problem/challenge. The left-side or left subtle channel, which is the channel of desire/emotions is called 'mana shakti'.

Next, pay attention to your breathing. The breathing is called 'prana shakti', which is the right-side or right-channel, the channel of action. Try and let the breathing quieten down.

Now bring the focus of your attention fully to the crown of the head. Hold steady until you can feel the kundalini at the centre of the top of your head as a throb or pulsation, but ideally as a cool flow or cool sensation.

At this point, your left and right-sides are 'dissolved' ('laya') ie. there are no thoughts. This is the thoughtless awareness.

In this 7 minute video clip of the exercise, Shri Mataji explains how (when focus at crown of head ) the emotions are placed at the ' Feet of your Mother' (kundalini) and become 'en-lightened' and this is how they get solved.

See you at group meditation on Tuesday.

Regards

Working it: work that (subtle) body!

​Dear All,

If you're managing to slip in a few minutes of paying attention to the top of your head and getting a few moments of thoughtless awareness, a couple of times a day, you'll appreciate the immediate lift this gives you. A lift to both your mood and energy.

'Doing a little bit often and whenever' in this way, is how you can also learn to 'read' the state of your subtle system. At any time you wish, you can know whether you're in balance or more left-sided or right-sided, and which of your chakras are 'catching'. This is part of the introspection, not mental but on vibes, that gradually leads to a better understanding of vibes and therefore leads to becoming your own master.

As your own master, you'll know what sahaja yoga tool/technique to use and when to use them to improve your state. Over a period of time, you'll begin to experience an all-round sense of well-being without having to do much. It's interesting how people's lives change with this and it could be a case of : 'if you feel good about yourself, then good stuff happens to you'

Here are a few examples of the use of introspection.

Hot & bothered after a hard day at work? It could be a combination of nabhi and swadisthana chakra catches. Use a cold water, salt foot-spa when you get home.

Feeling worried or insecure about something? If it's emotional, then there may be a catch on centre heart chakra. To treat it, hold left-hand palm open towards photo(drawing vibes ), place right hand on centre-heart chakra(centre of chest), close your eyes and see
whether you can feel the chakra at top of head (sahasrara/crown chakra) begin to open out.

If it's a 'nabhi problem'(any worry to do with household, job, money etc.), then keep left palm open and place right hand over navel/nabhi chakra and again see whether you can feel sahasrara chakra open up.

However you're feeling, whatever the situation or circumstances that you'd like to change/improve, you can do something about it straightaway.  It's just a case of experimenting to see what immediately changes the vibes you're feeling on the hands and above the head.

The vibes are the reality and not the mental projection. The more you experiment, the more confident you'll be in this special knowledge that can only be gained by experiencing. The power to change things is literally in your hands!

Here's a 9 minute guide to handling your left and right channels: Treating mental, emotional and stress

See you at group meditation on Tuesday.

Regards

Related previous emails :

 What's that tingling on my fingers? Use of mantras

What to do about money worries: You, Greece & the global economy.

How to meditate without meditating

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Dear All,

Based on conversations I had with some of you at last Tuesdays group meditation, here are some tips for helping you to achieve the 'thoughtless awareness' state (mental silence).  It's in the thoughtless awareness state that you'll begin to: touch an inner joy we all have within us; tap into your creativity and more easily solve any problems you may have.

As you may have heard mentioned before, sahaja yoga meditation is more a state of being, like 'Zen'(wu-wei: in the moment & going with the flow) , than something you do which involves time and effort. However, it requires a little amount of sitting to cultivate this state.

Also, the trigger into this state is by being able to feel your kundalini as a flow of coolness at the top of your head. Once you can feel this flow then all you have to do is to allow your mental activity to be absorbed/dissolved into that in order to get into thoughtless awareness('nirvichara samadhi' - yoga sutras of Patanjali).

When the kundalini's flow is there, then you can 'be' in meditation without 'doing' meditation and it can work for you at any time: on the bus or train, or at work . Someone told me that they were once at a job interview and got asked a difficult question. In the few seconds delay before answering the question, the person put their attention at the top of their head and went briefly thoughtless. When their mouth opened they, along with the interviewer, were surprised at the pretty impressive answer that came out. The person got the job, a high-powered one as a Lawyer for the ILO( International Labour Organisation).

So what's the tip for getting into mental silence if it's not coming easily in the beginning? Two things : the photo and some almond oil rubbed into the top of your head.

If you can't feel the coolness at the top of the head, then by a putting a small teaspoon of almond oil into your cupped hand and massaging into the centre of the top of your head, it may soothe the nerves and gradually increase  the sensitivity there. 'Sweet almond oil' is available in the Asian food section at Tesco. The same oil will cost you four times as much in a Health shop.

If it's difficult to achieve your mental silence because there's just too much going on in your head, then just open your eyes and pay attention to the dot on Shri Mataji's forehead in the photo. Hold it for a bit, then close your eyes and put your attention to the top of the head and see what difference this makes.

Finally, if you need to leave the house to go out in the morning and don't have time for 5 minutes of meditation than at least raise your kundalini and put on a bandhan before you go out . Again , gradually you'll see how this can help you.

This weeks 4-minute video clip is about how truth/reality is beyond our mental projections and is to be experienced directly, in the way we experience whether something is hot or cold(ie. on the central nervous system). A good way of understanding the action of the Kundalini is that she is trying to take us beyond the mental projections and establish us in reality('satchitananda'- 'the bliss consciousness'). This is what the human evolution is (as per 'thanks for coming' email).

See you at group meditation on Tuesday.

Regards