Achieving Your Health, Wealth & Happiness By 10-Minutes Daily Thoughtless Awareness. Finding Your Sweet Spot. 'Bindu-Sarvananda' - Making Everything Feel Good. Dear Friend, You're made for bliss. If you use the length of your  pointing finger to measure the distance from the middle of your forehead (starting at the hairline)  to the top of your head, the tip of your finger rests on  a subtle point called 'bindu sarvananda'. In Sanskrit, 'bindu' means 'dot' ( point origin of the universe). 'Sarvananda' is made up of two words : 'sarva' meaning 'everything' and 'ananda' meaning 'joy' or 'bliss'. So 'bindu sarvananda' means 'the source of all-pervading joy /bliss'. This point is triggered by the steady inward flow of your 'chitta' (attention) caused by your kundalini during meditation. Without the awakened kundalini, the normal human attention flows outwards and gets stuck to or attached to the phenomena of existence  - the stuff of waking consciousness. This could be people, places, things, ideas etc. which creates 'vritti' or fluctuations in the attention ( 'chitta'). It is this vritti that gives the up and down nature of our experience of daily life. Your kundalini is 'chitta vritti nirodha' . it stops (nirodha) the flactuations (vritti) of your attention (chitta). This is how she tries to achieve yoga (union) in you. By this she gives you the experience of reality through your  bindu-sarvananda, where everything gets coloured with good, good feelings (nirvana). More below. Also below: Matt Malley - American rock star and yogi; and, Akshaya Tritiya - gaining something indestructible. Best wishes P. PS.  Moon Calendar (at end) this coming week: Tue. 29th April - Akshaya Tritiya (Guarantee of Success);Sat. 3rd May - Saptami (Lucky 7th); Sun. 4th - Durgashtami (She stoops to conquer). Click Here For Online Community Meditation Sessions & Resources + 21-Day Challenge Course

Matt Malley : From Rock Musician to Meditation Music. You couldn't meet a more humble guy. Matt Malley's kundalini meditation has taken him to the heights of rock stardom with Counting Crows, the band he co-founded shortly after his self-realisation (kundalini awakening). Not to mention Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for the song Accidentally in Love from Shrek 2. Here he is talking about his journey... Akshaya Tritya - Wishing For Something That Lasts (a Meditation). Akshaya Tritya ('indestructible 3rd') on the Indian lunar calendar, is said to be a day that guarantees the success and durability of any venture began on that day. This is why many people in India choose it for buying gold, getting married or starting a new business. This year Akshaya Tritya is on 29th/30th April. You can test whether this works for you, by using this short meditation in the lead up to it... Making Everything Feel Good . When you begin to change the sound-track of your daily life with your regular kundalini meditation, what is actually changing is your inner feeling-state, which begins to colour everything you do. This leads to success in all kinds of ways. And your joys come in the different varieties described here... Click Here to Download the Free Meditation App 'We Meditate' Popular Posts Others Are Reading. Quote of the Week   "The first one is Shri Lalita, the Goddess Shri Lalita, which is the goddess of beauty. She is the joy giving, Sarvanandamaya. Gives the joy from everything. In every created world, in every particle, in every form, there is a power which gives us joy. This power is the power of Shri Lalita. She is called as Mahatripurasundari, Para [highest], Para Atirahasya Yogini, means ‘Para Para Atirahasya [secrets]’, ‘the One who knows the secrets.’ The ‘Para’. ‘Para’ means ‘the one that is beyond of the beyond’, the secrets of that area. The one who knows is Shri Lalita, who is the Yogini. At this state She is Bindu Sarvanandamaya. She is the dot [Bindu] which is joy giving." October 14th 1978, Easthampstead Park Conference Centre, Wokingham, (England). Regarding depression (last week's newsletter), I find that doing breathwork helps me. How might this relate to the yoga? In Reply: Your subtle (yogic) body has 3 main 'nadis' (channels) : Ida nadi (left channel). The channel of 'manas' (emotions/mental impressions). Sushumna nadi (central channel). The channel of evolutionary ascent. Pingala nadi (right channel). The channel of 'prana' (physical self). Depression is a symptom of being over-balanced on the left channel. Breathwork (prana-yama) is an activation of your right channel that counter balances the left channel. The affect of this is to pull you into the centre (balance) and out of depression. The activation of the right channel can also be done by taking up physical exercise of some sort, such as going for brisk walks in nature, which deepens the breathing.  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. Lunar Calendar - Get Ahead By Getting Your Timing Right. Click to Expand and See Key to Understanding What Day is Good For Achieving What.

 

Achieving Your Health, Wealth & Happiness By 10-Minutes Daily Thoughtless Awareness. Combating Depression & Anxiety. Why Happiness is in Your Belly (Laughing Buddha). Dear Friend, Depression is big business. When I worked in Big Pharma, millions of dollars of research money was being poured into SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) or antidepressants. It's easy to see why. According to a World Health Organisation(WHO) 2017 report, 322 million people world-wide were living with depression. This figure has risen significantly since the pandemic. More patients means more antidepressant prescriptions. It's just as well that there are other ways, apart from medication, of combating depression (and anxiety). These include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Interpersonal psychotherapy.  But recently there's started to be a shift in the understanding of what causes depression and therefore how better to treat it. Depression, according to Joanna Moncrieff, a professor at UCL, is not actually due to a deficiency of the  'happy hormone', serotonin. So antidepressants are not the answer. Plus they come with undesirable side-effects such as addiction. Instead, there's now evidence that the gut microbiome (good bacteria that helps to breakdown organic waste) can trigger depression. To keep your gut bacteria happy and stave off depression may be about getting the right kind of fibre in your diet. Science sometimes takes a detour before arriving at was is already known in yoga. There's a reason why the laughing buddha is depicted with a generous belly. This is why your Nabhi chakra is key to your happiness and wellbeing. More below. Also below: Book your free tickets for a dance concert; and, manifesting on your chakras with affirmations. Best wishes P. PS.  Moon Calendar (at end) this coming week: Tue. 21st April - Navami (Going with the flow, wins); Thurs. 24th - Ekadashi (Abundance); Sat. 26th - Shivaratri (Being true to yourself ). Click Here For Online Community Meditation Sessions & Resources + 21-Day Challenge Course

9 States of Mind Dance Performance - Book Your Free Seat  For Friday 25th April 6:30pm @NehruCentre Mayfair. If you want to experience how watching a dance performance can be uplifting and meditative at the same time, then quickly book seats for this ( you can take a friend). The performance is based on the Indian arts aesthetic theory of 'navarasa' (9 sentiments)... Affirmations - Say It and It Will Be So. Manifesting on Your Chakras with Meditation. Here's an advantage you have. When your kundalini rises, she enlightens your 'vani' (spoken words). The effect of this is that what you say, even when not on purpose, tends to come true. This means that your use of affirmations has a special potency (mantra). You can test this on your chakras with this short meditation... Why Happiness is in Your Belly (Nabhi Chakra). You've got two brains. the second one is in your gut. The two are connected via the vagus nerve, which is why what's happening in your tummy can influence your mood amongst other things. This is why when you meditate daily, you should spend a bit of time 'navel gazing' ie. paying attention to your Nabhi chakra. Here's what you get from that.. Click Here to Download the Free Meditation App 'We Meditate' Popular Posts Others Are Reading. Quote of the Week   " This Nabhi chakra [is affected] when we take to alcohol or drugs and, even I’ve seen certain medicines can spoil this. Then you get a problem with the other things like digestion, you get constipation, all sorts of things take place, by which you develop gas troubles and other troubles and then your heart troubles and it goes on one after another. I do not say that it’s only alcohol that will cause. There are other causes also, but alcohol can never be helpful, in giving you good health.  Because health is not only physical health. It’s also mental health. People think that physical health is the end of everything, is absolutely wrong because we are not only the physical being. We are also the mental being and the emotional being." March 27th 1981, Maccabean Hall, Sydney (Australia). Which chakra do skin problems come from? In Reply: Skin issues come from the liver and the liver is looked after by your right Swadisthana chakra. Another symptom of a right Swadisthana catch is over-thinking. So all the sahaj treatments for over-thinking, such as the use of an ice-pack on the liver as well as a cold-water footspa, can benefit your skin health  as well. Regularly drinking vibrated water can flush out the liver and also help with the appearance of your skin. 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. Lunar Calendar - Get Ahead By Getting Your Timing Right. Click to Expand and See Key to Understanding What Day is Good For Achieving What.