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Controlling Your Monkey Mind. How Rumination Makes You Age Faster.

Dear Friend,

If you google for photos of US presidents before and after they held office, the weight of the office shows you what it can do to the face.

Obama's relatively fresh and youthful appearance at inauguration makes a contrast to the greyer version of himself by the time he left office. The same with other occupants of the Oval office.

This speeded up ageing may not just be due to the burden of responsibility for making decisions affecting millions of people. It could also be due to the inevitable rumination that goes with it.

Rumination is when you turn something over and over in your head to the point where it becomes a habitual way of thinking.

This is a version of 'monkey mind' or 'wandering mind' which we can all find ourselves doing. Some people more than others.

It is rumination that has been shown to age people faster.

In research carried out by Elizabeth Blackburn, the molecular biologist and biochemist, and Elissa Epel, the health psychologist, they found a direct link between rumination and the quicker shortening of DNA telomeres which are a marker for ageing.

What Elizabeth Blackburn also demonstrated was the positive correlation between meditation and the preservation of your telomeres.

If Mother Nature wanted to upgrade human beings to a version that didn't grow old or get sick, the first thing she'd probably do is make meditation as easy as breathing.

A very good candidate for that would be the Kundalini meditation you're doing daily now. More below.

Also below: Feel better faster by looking after your feet; and, how not to let things get to you with work.

Best wishes

P.

PS.
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Hydrotherapy - The Importance of Looking After Your Feet.
As a reflexologist might tell you, how well you look after your feet can make a big difference to how well you feel overall. This is because, according to TCM (traditional Chinese medicine), your whole body along with all your internal organs are mapped to your feet. The Sahaja yoga way of looking after your feet is by using hydrotherapy in the form of a regular Footspa. Here's the guide...

Avoiding Burnout - The Power of the Middle Way ( a Meditation).
Prevention is better than cure. At the first sign that things are beginning to drain you physically and emotionally, you can prioritize your wellbeing with this short meditation which pulls you back into your center and re-balances you. Your center yoga channel, the Sushumna, represents the power of the 'middle way'.

How to Manage a Wandering Mind and Break the Cycle of Negative Thinking.
If you ever find yourself trapped in a cycle of negative thinking, then use it as motivation to develop your ability to go thoughtless. Every time the thought comes into your head, say: 'not this, not this'. What you are in effect telling yourself is that your thoughts are not reality. Mind is myth as Shri Mataji explains here...

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Quote of the Week

"First of all, I have to tell you, the mind about which we speak and depend upon is a myth. There’s nothing like mind. Brain is reality, not the mind. Mind is created by us reacting to outside, either we react to conditionings or to our ego. Thus, this mind is created like bubbles on the ocean of reality, but that’s not reality.
So one has to decide what to do, how to be out of this trap of our mind. Kundalini is the solution. When She’s awakened She takes you beyond your mind. "

March 3rd 1996, Sydney (Australia).

My life feels stuck and I don't feel like I'm making any progress in anything. How do I get myself out of the rut.

In Reply:

The weight of a person's past can sometimes act as a drag on forward movement or progress.

In yoga, our past is 'stored' in our ida nadi (left subtle channel) which also represents the subconscious and emotional memory.

It is difficult to directly address issues in the subconscious, particularly relating to past trauma. However, a 'treatment' that usually produces good results is, what is referred to in India, as the 'Matka Treatment'.

This is essentially a 'lemon and chilli detox' of the subconscious and strange as it may sound, many people have vouched for its success.

Here's a guide to doing the 'Matka Treatment'

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