Feeling vibes - what's cool & what's not.

​Dear All,

Somebody asked me about Reiki. This question is part of a general one about the relative merits of the many different meditations and meditation-related practices out there.

The answer is simple. You decide. But develop your discriminatory awareness which helps you to make choices that help you rather than hinder or harm.

The discriminatory awareness improves when the hamsa chakra, which governs the olfactory bulb at the bridge of the nose is improved. 

One way of improving the hamsa is by use of the simple Ayurvedic practice of ghee(clarified butter) nasel drops at bedtime. This has been suggested on this the 4th week of your 4 week sahaja yoga meditation plan(shown below & attached).

Further below is how to make ghee and how to apply it as nasel drops.

​Home-made ghee is better than buying from the shop. Put liquid ghee inside a dropper - it solidifies at room temperature but you can place dropper in warm water to melt again. Before going to bed, place 1-2 drops of the melted ghee into both nostrils and keep your head tilted back to allow absorption. Repeat nightly for a week and see whether you notice the benefit.

As an ayurvedic treatment, it is said to relieve congestion of the sinuses(sinusitis), improve facial complexion, brightens the eyes and soothes the temperament.

The nasel ghee also helps the vishuddhi chakra. So both the hamsa and vishuddhi are improved. and it is these two chakras which in combination help you to judge things based on vibes : whether something feels 'cool' or whether it's not.

In this short clip the '6th sense' of 'vibratory awareness' which can develop in everybody is explained: super awareness.

See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards

Benefits of chickpeas & singing

​Dear All,

Did you know that including 'Chana'(chickpeas) in the diet, not only provides you with a very nutritious source of protein but also strengthens the mooladhara chakra which improves your meditative stillness?

Did you also know that some form of singing helps your vishuddhi chakra which is key to your ability to express yourself more fully and feel vibes on the hands?

We're now in week 3 of your 4-week sahaja yoga meditation plan, and you'll see from the plan (below & attached) that suggestions for this week include taking chana and singing.

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If you want to try both of these then here's some additional encouragement.

Health benefits of Chickpeas in the diet include:

• Rich source of protein & vitamins
• Relief of stomach disorders & digestive problems (according to Ayurveda)
• Improves Skin
• Weight management
• Heart & blood sugar health
• Energy supply
• Detox

(source: Lifespa.com )

There are 2 human activities which, as far as we know, haven't yet been discovered in the animal kingdom. These are : laughing and singing. Both of these likely activate the pleasure centre in the brain and have health benefits, but laughing is involuntary and depends on some stimulus whereas singing is entirely up to you.

Singing exercises the vocal cords in a way that talking doesn't . It also makes you change the pattern of breathing thereby increasing the oxygen supply to the brain. Find the lyrics to a song that lifts you mood and try singing that. If you want to get serious then take some singing lessons. Tim Bruce an Actor & Singer, who has been practising sahaja yoga meditation for many years is highly recommended. His contacts can be found on his website linked below.

Tim Bruce - Actor/Singer/Writer

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Here's Shri Mataji giving further advice about looking after the 'Temple' of the body:
Sahaja Yoga Treatments.

See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards

Your Power of Change - 'House cleaning' the chakras

​Dear All,

If everything is on track then you may be looking at week 2 of that 4-week meditation plan to help you get to where you want to get to this year( the plan is shown below and attached in case you missed it last week).

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If you're starting the plan this week, that's fine. You can start at week 2 and include some of the chakra clearing from week 1, which helps the vibes flow better, leading to a better meditation. The chakras are also a mirror of our relationship with the outside, so by clearing them there's a lot that can be improved for you on the outside eg. personal, work, family, social.

You can think of it as personal 'house cleaning' for a better life.

How do you clear a chakra?

There are 3 ways.

1. Rub the finger on your hand that is tingling when you meditate - see subtle system chart on plan.

2. Make a clockwise movement of the hand around the chakra to give it vibes.

3. Use the mantra - also shown on the plan. This demo meditation with mantras may help(click for free download).

A good over-view of how tingling or heat on the fingers can be used to diagnose the chakras is provided in this video clip.

As usual, if you have any questions feel free to email me. See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards

PS. The photo above shows Shri Mataji and Sir C. P Srivastava(husband), who was Secretary General of United Nations International Maritime Organisation(IMO), in front of the World Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden, which he helped establish. Thankfully, piracy on the high seas is a thing of the past (mostly) and global international trade depends on all countries following international conventions set out in maritime law, which is what the university specialises in. Their yearbooks of past graduates is a 'Who is who' of international dignitaries and diplomats. It's interesting how while Shri Mataji was bringing the world together on one level, 'Sir C. P' was doing similar on another level.

Have a good xmas & new year holiday!

​Dear All,

Yesterdays group meditation session was the last one of the year. Our next one will be on 10th January 2017.

Whether you managed to attend a few sessions or just followed the emails and meditated at home, I'm sure you would have discovered, probably to your amazement, that it really does work. All you had to do was give it a chance and persist just a little bit.

So if through your experience of sahaja yoga meditation, you were able to overcome your stress, cure yourself or improve your health, get along better with other people, fix your finances, become more creative, get a new job or do your own thing, find new purpose in life and pursue it, or simply ascend spiritually, then do tell your friends and family.

Sahaja Yoga is a quiet global movement towards a better world for everyone. In more than 95 countries around the world, including Mongolia and Saudia Arabia, individuals and groups of individuals are daily achieving for a few moments or for longer the state of 'thoughtless awareness', through the spontaneous kundalini awakening, which contains within it the blossoming of human beings fullest potential.

The more people that take to it, the more chance and hope there is of bringing about positive change around us. Instead of the trouble and strife we see on TV or read about in the newspapers or, in some cases, directly experience, a more happier picture could replace it. This is what has been predicted(click here):

​So while you're enjoying the holidays with friends and family, don't forget to make a little time for meditation if you can.

Have a good time and see you in the new year when we'll be aiming to progress together in deeper group meditations that show faster results.

Regards

How your Kundalini works.

​Dear All,

Tuesday 20th December will be our last group meditation session of 2016. We'll be back on 10th January 2017.

But before Christmas and year end, it's still possible to have a growth spurt in your meditation practice by stepping on the gas a little.

There's a law of physics, that says things pretty much stay the same unless some force is applied. This explains boredom; being stuck in a rut and desperately wanting some positive change. Change is possible, but not from the sofa.

The relation of this to sahaja yoga meditation is this:

When you sit for meditation, the strength of your experience of the vibes and of the inner silence depends on the strength of the flow of kundalini energy through the sushumna nadi (central channel/parasympathetic nervous system). This in turn depends on your 'pure desire'. 

'Pure desire' is that inner urge which contains the force of action in it so that there is no gap between wanting and getting. Only the kundalini is capable of this.

So if this force of 'pure desire' is brought in when you sit down to meditate, by sincere wishing directed to your 'mother' kundalini, you'll get much better results. It 's like somebody learning how to move a paralysed leg or hand by concentratedly willing it to move. After some practice, the limb works and no effort of will is required.

It's the same with kundalini and the meditation: it's to be approached with willful intent, until it works by itself. This 7 min clip explains it more.

See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards

'Ambrosial' Hours and Biological Clock.

​Dear All,

Your success may be all down to timing: not so much what you do but when you do it.

There's a special time in the early hours of the morning, known by the ancient yogis as the 'ambrosial hours' when, with very little effort , it is possible to feel at their strongest, the flow of vibes from the sahasrara chakra at top of head into vishuddhi chakra in the throat.

How well your vishuddhi chakra is developed can determine the quality of your relationships and ability to get things done, because it is the chakra of communications.

The 'ambrosial' timing is measured at about one and a half hours before sunrise and lasts for about 48 minutes. Luckily, as we are in winter time, sunrise is sufficiently late to wake up at the ambrosial time without forcing yourself to wake up particularly early.  Sunrise today, for example, was 07:51am. If you woke up at around 06:21am this morning and managed to sit in meditation then you would have been bathed in the rejuvenating nectar-dew of vibes.

This heightened ability to feel vibes in early morning may have something to do with our biological clock/circadian rhythms, depicted in the picture below (from wikipedia: Chronobiology)


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See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards

'Yoga Nidra' - Sleep Meditation

​Dear All,

Here's another way to fit some meditation into your busy schedule. Do it while you sleep. This is not as crazy as it sounds. According to the philosophy of yoga, there are 4 states of consciousness:

• Awake
• Dreaming Sleep
• Dreamless Sleep
• Turiya - Pure consciousness

That last state, Turiya, is actually the state we're taking baby-steps to get to in our weekly group meditations, but while awake. If you want to try and touch it while asleep, and the 'wandering mind' is switched off for the day, here's what to do.

Ideally, you need to do a footspa/footsoak before going to bed to get the day's 'jangle'/'static' out of your system. Before your head touches the pillow, raise your kundalini, put on a bandhan and hold your attention at the top of your head until you can feel your vibes. Finish off with kundalini-bandhan again, and lie down. You're not thinking and the focus of your attention should remain at the top of your head while you drift off into sleep.

This is 'Yoga Nidra' or sleep meditation.

A recent book by Arianna Huffington, called The Sleep Revolution and supported by the latest scientific research shows how important a good night's sleep is to our well-being, health and quality of life. You could be super-charging that with a bit of yoga nidra :o)

Both waking and dreaming could be the same thing: a movie with you as the main character and the projector is the mind. Therein lies life's limitations - being stuck in the script. Here's how to overcome mental limitations.
 
See you at group meditation tomorrow.
Regards