Achieving Your Health, Wealth & Happiness By 10-Minutes Daily Thoughtless Awareness. How Not To Burn-Out - Getting Your Perspective Right. Dear Friend, Someone I know was telling me the other day how they'd taken a sabbatical from their stressful job because of burn-out. They looked fine to me but burn-out is as much a mental state as a physical one. Or it could have been because we were having the conversation at a Sahaja yoga meditation session. An NHS mental health website defines five of the symptoms of burn-out as: Feeling tired or drained most of the time Feeling detached/ alone in the world. Having a cynical/ negative outlook Procrastinating and taking longer to get things done Self-doubt If you were to ask 10 of your friends whether they ticked any of these boxes, 5.2 of your friends, apparently, would say that they did (16 Employee Burnout Statistics You Can't Ignore). A key ingredient for Happiness, according to Positive Psychology, is being engaged in something that you find meaningful. A first step then to protecting yourself from burn-out might be to find something you enjoy doing and which is meaningful for you and divert some of your energy into that on the side.  A change in perspective can also help of which more below. Also below: the uses and benefits of frankincense; and a mantra meditation to achieve mental silence.   Best wishes P. PS. Photo collage of Sahaja yoga around the world, further down. Click Here For Monday 7:30pm Meditation (Zoom)

Holy Smoke - The Uses & Benefits Of Frankincense.  If you've ever wondered why it is that when you walk into a Chelsea SY meditation session on a Tuesday evening, you feel immediately calmed and uplifted at the same time, it could be because of the meditative Indian classical music playing in the background. But contributing to that is the few drops of frankincense oil in an oil burner to the side. Recreate the effect in your meditation space at home . Here are the additional benefits you get from frankincense... Still Lake, Still Mind - A Mantra For Mental Silence & Peace. A still lake is a picture of your mind at rest . No ripples. No thoughts . Sitting quietly your kundalini, like a boat, will take you there. Paddle a little with these oars and then let them go. Here's the mantra for 'nirvi- chara' ('thoughtless awarenesss') . Just listen and then rest... Change Your Perspective By Seeing The Bigger Picture. Take a walk on the wild side. Sometimes you've just got to get away from it all by going out into Nature and reconnecting to something vital that gives you a fresh perspective on things. And while you're contemplating water and mountains, let this sink in : the Creator is a Living Mother , according to the Indian philosophy of the Divine Feminine ('Shakti'). This is how it happens... Popular Posts Others Are Reading. Quote of the Week    "  She [Adi Shakti /'Primordial Mother'] creates all the universes ('Bhuvanas'/ worlds)...there are 14 Bhuvanas, means, many, many universes make one Bhuvana. And She creates all these things on the right hand side. Then She goes up and then She descends down creating all the chakras – 'Adi chakras' [energy template of the cosmos] or the pitas [Roots of ] . She comes down, makes all these pitas and then She settles as the Kundalini. But Adi Shakti is not fully the Kundalini, we can say, the Kundalini is a part of it. The rest of the work is much more than this. Now, once this has happened, then She creates human beings - not directly, but through the evolutionary process. First hydrogen, carbon and oxygen and all of these things were mixed up and [then] nitrogen comes into play and [then] a living process starts.  "  June 21st 1998, Cabella Ligure (Italy). " On average, how long should I have been meditating before I start to feel and see the benefits?" In Reply: It's like taking a cold drink in hot weather when you're thirsty - it should hit the spot straightaway. So you get the feeling of calm every time you meditate. What a sustained, regular practice - even over a few weeks - will achieve for you is a physical and mental make-over .  You'll look and feel good. Sitting in on a group meditation: Mondays over Zoom or Tuesdays in-person in Chelsea,  should accelerate the benefits. Click Here For Tues/ Thurs Live Group Guided Meditation & Music (Audio) Living Your Best Life Mind Rest. Using Your Powers. Energy Centres (Chakras) Transforming The World: One Awakened Kundalini at a Time.