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