Stop worrying and things will work out just fine.

​Dear All,

Here's a little story about your Swadisthana chakra and the part it has to play in helping you to stop worrying about things; and getting an inner peace which is actually dynamic in it's effect.

It could be that you have no worries about anything. In which case, you may be part of the 15% of those surveyed in a UK poll in April 2015 who claimed that, while 62% of the population weren't sleeping well at night because of worries about money, family and health, they were sleeping as snug as a bug in a rug.

Below are the poll results taken from theguardian.com

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We worry because we think too much. Most of the thinking in general is non-productive, which is termed 'rumination' (see below). Rumination is also the term given to the process by which cows and certain other four-legged mammals burp up from their stomach the grass that they chewed and swallowed earlier and chew it a second time. Which is a good illustration of what we do when we ruminate.

Rumination - excessive and unnecessary thinking,worry -  is a tax on the liver because part of the function of the organ of the liver is to supply energy for brain function ie. thinking. If the liver is over-taxed by excessive thinking/worry then, like anything that is over-used, it may stop functioning properly. When the liver stops functioning properly then it's ability to convert blood sugar(glucose) into energy(glycogen) could be affected. This is what diabetes is and that is why in sahaja yoga knowledge a link is made between the swadisthana chakra, which is the 'power generator' for the liver, and the increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the general population(see below). People could be literally worrying themselves sick.

When the kundalini is awakened and nurtured through your daily 5-10minutes sahaja yoga meditation, then it's like a direct tap into a national electricity grid: the supply of a energy(subtle/vibes) becomes potentially unlimited The chakras , in this case the swadisthana chakra, is boosted by this and the liver is helped.

The uniqueness of sahaja yoga meditation is that it counteracts ruminative thinking because it develops in you the state of 'thoughtless awareness' ('nirvicharita'). It is this state which, in human evolution terms according to sahaja yoga, is both vital for the preservation of the species and is where everybody or most of humanity is headed - they just don't know it yet :o) .

The fact that you are practising sahaja yoga meditation to get into nirvicharita now when in future it may not be necessary because we'll all just be in it automatically, may be because in Nature all mass phenomena has to start from somewhere, small.

The gap between our current human awareness based on thinking and nirvicharita could be as wide as the aesthetic difference between early primitive art such as the cave drawings of hunter/gatherers and the artistic production of a Rembrandt, a Rodin or a Beethoven. The inconceivable becomes conceivable.

To discover for yourself how nirvicharita benefits you if you have a tendency to worry about things or think too much then try this:

• -Raise you kundalini and put on a bandhan ( you can do this mentally if you're in a public space).
• -Focus on the top of your head until you can feel the sensation - ideally a cool breeze - of the kundalini there.
• -Now shift your attention to your right hip area(right swadisthana - source of thinking) while still remaining aware of the top of your head. Are you feeling any sensation on the right hip/groin?
• -Hold it and see whether you're getting the sensation of vibes coming into the right swadisthana. The right hip/groin area should start to feel lighter and you'll notice that you can stop thinking at will. This is the nirvicharita.

Now bring the focus of your attention completely back to the crown of your head.

Recall the matter that is worrying you and put it into nirvicharita.

Again the sense of anxiety comes up, put it again into nirvicharita.

Do this repeatedly until the matter 'dissolves' and has no effect on your meditative poise, your inner peace in this moment. There! The fear or anxiety that sustains the worry is conquered.

With the detachment that comes from the sense of inner peace you get from the meditation, witness, in the following days, what happens along the lines of your former worry. This is the working of 'Paramchaitanya': action from non-action or 'wu wei'.

As you know, all the chakras are encoded on the hands. The swadisthana chakra is indicated on the thumbs(see chart below). In this 6 minute clip, Shri Mataji demonstrates how to clear the right swadisthana chakra by working on the right thumb and on the liver: Cure for excessive thinking

See you at group meditation on Tuesday.

Regards

Notes:

Rumination(psychology)

Diabetes: ticking time bomb for the NHS?