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