How to Pass through the Eye of a Needle: The Ego & SuperEgo

​Dear All,

Here's a quick tip about overcoming the mental barriers that may be holding you back from success in something.

One of the things that becomes apparent to you, sooner or later, when you're practicing sahaja yoga meditation is that you're not your mind.

Even if you're able to achieve 'thoughtless awareness' for a few seconds at a time  - when you're walking, commuting, at work, or sitting down to meditate at home, then for those few seconds you've managed to transcend your mind. You're free of any mental barriers.

Then in that state, the universe of wonderful possibilities which was artificially limited by the false cacoon of ego (thoughts about the future) and super-ego (thoughts about the past) opens up to you.

This is how it is that with a little meditation, things you may have been struggling with in personal life or at work just work out, sometimes in quite surprising ways.

It's as if you had been struggling to thread a needle because the eye of the needle was so small and then suddenly the eye of the needle becomes very big and the thread passes easily through it.

In the iconography of sahaja yoga, the ego is ruled by the archetype represented by the awakened Buddha. This 4 minute clip from the movie Little Buddha, shows the Buddha (Keanu Reeves) at the point of final emancipation. 

In it he is overcoming the fears and insecurities (negative self-talk we sometimes have), personified as Mara ('evil twin'/ Ego). The part where the flaming arrows aimed at him turn into a shower of flower petals is a great analogy of what happens in sahaja yoga meditation when you experience your worries & problems turn into positive outcomes. Click here. 

See you at group meditation in tomorrow.

Regards

Vibes - What's Cool (and what's not).

​Dear All,

Below is a simple table showing you what extraordinary ability and capacity you have as a result of your kundalini-awakening. If you need any motivation to be regular in your sahaja yoga meditation then it's all about the Vibrations.

Develop your vibes and transform your life and possibly someone else's.

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See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards

How Affirmations Can Help You Achieve a Better Meditation.

Dear All,

​Here's another way to benefit from your kundalini awakening: try affirmations and see whether you can develop a certain ability within yourself​ or make some positive change. The basic sahaja yoga meditation affirmations are given below.

​If you haven't  quite got into the use of mantras to clear the chakras then affirmations in english are the next best thing​. The affirmations are addressed to your own kundalini, which is referred to as 'mother'.

When you've been using these affirmations for a while and notice the postive effect it's having on you, both during your meditation and afterwards, then you should try and make up some of your own affirmations.

Two examples might be 1. placing your right hand on the centre of your chest and repeating to yourself 'Mother, I am fearless!' - particularly effective if you're experiencing any anxiety or lacking in confidence.

2. Placing your right hand over your stomach and repeating 'Mother, I am satisfied!' - this can help with material insecurity as it opens the nabhi chakra.

You have within yourself a huge untapped potential of kundalini energy and an inwardly expressed desire in the form of the affirmations is the simplest way to begin to access it. You can use this to motivate your daily practice of sahaja yoga meditation  and achieve the results you want.

See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards

House Clearing - Your Inner Makeover.

​Dear All,

It probably takes about 15 days into the new year for the shape of the year ahead to start forming for most people. Patterns form fast and then are difficult to break out of. Especially if there's some carry-over from the previous year. Here are 2 easy suggestions for creating a fantastic year ahead without the need for new years resolutions.

1.  Tidy Up & Throw Stuff Out.

The simple act of clearing out a corner of your living space where you've dumped stuff that's built up, can be very satisfying on several levels, including psychologically. Even more so if it's a whole room or a whole house that's un-trashed . Japanese author, Marie Kondo wrote a book about it in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, which was on the New York Times best-seller list for 86 weeks and has sold millions of copies world wide.

The idea of throwing away in order to clean or clear something is a powerful symbol of your 'inner-work' in your practice of sahaja yoga meditation. The state of the chakras can be the road-blocks to becoming our best selves and achieving all we want out of life. With every 5-10 minute sitting in meditation, the kundalini does this deep work of clearing the chakras of the 'emotional debris' gathered perhaps over several life-times.

2. Here's a Plan (which you don't have to follow; just use as guide whenever)

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A small note about the 'Geography of the Virata': The Earth is a 'living' entity with 'chakras' located at certain points on her surface which coincide with various countries and cities - Mother Earth - spiritual geography

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See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Have an enjoyable holiday!

​Dear All,

As we round off 2017, here's hoping you've gotten something; even a little bit worthwhile, from having your eyes shut, as above, on Tuesdays in Chelsea, and/or at home, trying to achieve your 'thoughtless awareness', this past year. You'll be happy to know that it does get easier.

How? Apparently, the more people that are doing something, the easier it becomes for everybody else. That's according to a theory by Author & Biologist, Rupert Sheldrake, that there's a collective memory in Nature that we tap into[1]. This applies to sahaja yoga meditation and getting into thoughtlesss awareness.

Since the state of thoughtless awareness is the key to achieving everything you've ever wanted (- you may not know it just yet :o) ), here's a little something you can use as motivation to achieving even a few seconds of thoughtless awareness at a time, to make 2018 a transformative year for you.

Freedom, Happiness and Money, are, apparently, 3 of the top 10 things most people want but can't seem to get.* The other things are shown below, along with where they sit within us, with the promise that with the advantage you have of sahaja yoga meditation, you can open some doors within and without.

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Tomorrow's is the last group meditation session of the 2017. We'll be back on 9th January. However, you can still keep in touch - I may still send out guided meditation & meditation music clips on our whatsapp group during the break. If you want to be included in the group then send the  whatsapp message 'Chelsea SY' and your first name to my mobile .

Have an enjoyable holiday!

Regards

From Effort to No Effort - a small tip on getting something very Big.

​Dear All,

No time to meditate? Below are 2 charts to give you a little encouragement in the right direction. The first one shows you the path to your success. And the second one is what some of you told me about the benefits you got from just trying a little bit.

If you're already meditating regularly, there's still something you can take away from both charts.

Chart 1:

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​Here's that quote again from last week about why the state of thoughtless awareness in human beings is a big deal:

" But when you are inside that you are in thoughtless awareness. Then, not only that you are there, but you are everywhere, because that is the place, that is the point where you are really in universal… From there you are in contact with the Principle, with the Shakti, with the Power that permeates into every particle that is matter, into every thought that is emotion, into every planning and thinking of the whole world. You permeate into all the elements that have created this beautiful Earth. You permeate into earth; you permeate into Akasha [sky, ether], into teja [light], into sound."​ Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi , India, March 30th 1976.

(Chart 1 could represent any kind of evolutionary transition in species. For example: fish massing in shallow water and then developing 'feet' to become the first land mammals. See Tiktaalik)

Chart 2:

'How Has Sahaja Yoga Meditation Helped You'

​(Chart 2 is the result of a survey sent out earlier this year).

If you're really pushed for time in the morning, the least you could do is to raise your kundalini and put on a bandhan before leaving the house. Something is better than nothing, and you may even begin to to feel the postive effect of that. Click here for how to do it properly.

See you at group meditation tomorrow. By the way tomorrow's is the last but one session we're having this year. Tuesday 19th is our last meet for the year and then we're back January 9th. Try and finish 2017 on a high by coming to these 2 last sessions if you can make it.

Regards

How to impress the boss and get to where you want to go.

​Dear All,

Here's how to conquer Oxford Street and impress your boss/clients with your creativity and brilliance from doing this simple exercise, wherever and whenever.

First off, the 'Oxford street' we're talking about is the one in your head; of thoughts, moods and emotions that chase each other like a trail of London buses at a busy intersection with it's crowds of shoppers, and which doesn't help you to easily get to where you want to go.

And where do you want to go? Peace & Happiness, right?

So here's what you do: right there on the street, just stop! just stop and stand still - on the real Oxford street, people seem to do this all the time :o) . You could actually be at your desk at work, or out walking, or on the tube, or at home. Just cut into your train of thought and stop.

Shift your attention to the top of your head and hold it there as if you're balancing a ball on top of your head. Hold for 5 seconds; and it's as if you're holding your breath, but you're not - it's very gentle abdominal breathing that takes care of itself. Your back is straight. Let it go. Do another 5 seconds. Let it go . And then another 5 seconds.

Here's what will happen or should start happening: where your attention goes , your kundalini follows, so the kundalini's cool sensation will start to be felt at the top of the head. It's like working a muscle by repeated exercise. So try it wherever and whenever and you'll be developing your ability to achieve the 'thoughtless awareness' state.

When you then sit down for your dedicated 10 minutes of meditation, you'll find it much easier.

And about that increased creativity and brilliance; a scientific study on sahaja yoga meditation was published last year which shows that regular practice increases the grey matter  in your brain - basically your brain gets better. Click here to see the paper.

Some indication of how extraordinary being able to achieve thoughtless awareness is, even for only a few seconds at a time, is  given in this quote of Shri Mataji's from 1976 : 'You penetrate into matter' .

See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards