Meditation

A lot has been talked about meditation.

I am only going to tell you what happens when we meditate and how does it affect our state of being. And what we can do to achieve that state of Peace and Calm, if not Bliss.

Our mind has three sections – Conscious mind, Subconscious mind and Critical filter between the two which separates them.

This filter has a lot of work to do. Whatever we see, conceive, and perceive through the day. Our conscious mind passes it on via critical filter to our sub-conscious mind. This critical filter decides what needs to go to sub-conscious mind for storage and what needs to be discarded. This process mostly happens when we go off to sleep or relax. Now if we don't get sound sleep or are not relaxed, this critical filter gets overloaded and becomes sluggish. We keep adding new information to it and keep feeling stressed, lack of concentration, tired, low etc.

When we meditate, we cleanse and rejuvenate this filter so that it works at its optimum and we are ready for new experiences in a better manner. 

Despite all its popularity, today very few of us truly know what meditation is. Some think meditation is the mental concentration on some point, others feel while we meditate we imagine something that gives us peace or satisfaction. All these methods are basically to slow down and, eventually, completely stop the incessant activity of our minds. These exercises are not really meditation – they are substitutes for meditation because it is normally very difficult to stop our minds all-together.

In reality, meditation is a state of thoughtless awareness. It is not an act of doing – it is a state of awareness. We are either in this state or we are not, regardless of what we are doing in life. Truly, a man can be in meditation while doing his day’s chores and another man can be very far from meditation while sitting in a lotus posture on the top of a mountain.

When we take a look at the various explanations of meditation, another thing we often see is that meditation is defined as taking a moment to sit quietly or to ponder. True meditation, however is much more than this. It is a state of profound, deep peace that occurs when the mind is calm and silent, yet completely alert. This is just the beginning of an inner transformation that takes us to a higher level of awareness. This enables us to fulfill our true potential.

How does one make sure that mind is silent and calm?

How does one reach that profound state of deep peace??

To reach that state one need to start from basic, from Mindful breathing...

Mindful breathing is the first stage of getting into meditative state...

Watch this space for the understanding of MINDFUL BREATHING

Thoughts

When we are going through an issue it becomes so big in our head that our mind starts controlling us. I have always maintained mind is part of us; we are not part of our minds. Let us understand how we can become in charge of mind.

When we are born, we are an empty vessel. With our experiences of life we start filling it up. Now this vessel like any other vessel has a capacity to hold. For example you have a jug that can hold one liter of liquid. It is in your hands now what would you like to fill this jug with. You may decide to fill it with water, refreshing lemon drink, rejuvenating juice, alcohol etc… But you can only fill it up to a level. And to put any other liquid than the current one you have to first empty the jug, cleanse it and then pour the next choice of drink. Choices are umpteen and you are the decision maker.

Likewise your mind is that jug and you are the owner of that jug. What would you like to fill it up with? You can either fill it with positive thoughts or negative ones. Just as the jug has to be first emptied to put in the next batch of liquid, similarly we need to clear our thoughts and empty ourselves for the new experiences and thoughts. If we are still stuck in the past experiences, negative or positive, how do we expect to make the new ones?

We clean our body, our homes on a daily basis. Do we ever look at doing a deep cleansing, Cleansing of our thoughts, of our minds.

There are many ways to clear the clutter of mind… The simplest and the most difficult (as people say) is Meditation.

Meditation brings in the much needed calm and clarity in our minds. It helps us realize what exactly we want from ourselves…

To reach to meditative level, we need to first work on our breath. Pranayama is the first step towards meditation. Also it is a good practice to decide on a particular time and sit for 10 minutes every day so that we first train our minds. Mind needs consistency in order to perform. If we are consistent with our practice, mind automatically begins to relax and prepares itself for the practice.

First step towards it is 'Equal Breathing'. Either sit in a meditative posture or lie down in shavasana. Make sure that your body is in alignment and neck and spine is in one line. If you are in shavasana both sides of the body is equally distributed and there is one and half feet distance between both legs.

Make necessary adjustments and concentrate either on your heart centre or Eyebrow centre. When you concentrate on heart centre you are bringing more compassion in life(surrendering to the divine); if you are concentrating on eye brow centre then you are bringing in focus and clarity in thoughts (being an observer and witnessing).

Now be aware of your breath, after few breaths when you feel comfortable breathe deeply all the way to your stomach for 7 times. The right way of breathing in is that your stomach will extend out like a balloon fills up, and while breathing out stomach will go inwards towards the spine. Now start equalizing your breath. Start inhaling and exhaling for equal counts, so for example if you breathe in for 3 counts,you will breathe out for the similar count i.e. 3 counts. Do 10 rounds of inhalation and exhalation, this one set of pranayama of equal breathing. Do 3 such sets of Equal Breathing. After a fortnight of practice increase the length of inhalation and exhalation to 4 counts.

This will strengthen your lungs, dispel stale air trapped in lungs and also it will bring in the calmness. And prepare you for meditation.

It is a good practice for those who have insomnia. Before going off to sleep you can practice this to have a better quality of sleep.

If you wish to know more you may either post the query here on this page itself or mail me…

Miracle

"What is this LIFE, if not a miracle?"

Isn't it Miracle, that Magic which happened to us?
We come to this earth in such a miraculous way...Conception itself is wonderful and magical.There is so much joy we experience when we see a newborn child :)

We see miracles, magic on a daily basis...Are we ready to recognize them?

The Whole Universe is ever changing, ever evolving, ever trusting to create magic around us.Only if, we ‘pause and listen’ to those sweet encouraging whispers cool breeze brings along.

Only if, we took out some time to look around and appreciated the power of Nature...

Nature does nothing extravagant to be in the flow, it just flows. Just by Being itself Nature brings in so much of balance.

When it comes to our lives, our issues and our sufferings, what do we do? How do we handle it?

We tend to forget that Nature has its own beautiful ways to heal us, clear our issues, mend our ways, harmonize us, balance us...

And it is 'Us' who have created the Dis-harmony! Im-balance! in our own systems and around us.

Why do we do that?

·        We do it because we don't want to change.. It would be nice if others changed for us.

·        We don't want to evolve yet others should evolve.

·        We don't trust the very nature that brought us into this life.

·        We get into the whole cycle of blaming, brooding, sulking, demanding.

Let’s take a pause and few questions to ask ourselves...

·        What more can we do to make our life better??

·        What is it that we can do to make our journey smoother?

·      What more can be done to trust? 

Drop the judgment

Always remember when you criticize something or someone you are actually criticize a part of your own being as you will only recognize that part of the other which resonates with you energetically.

To understand this in a simple language, Say you speak German and the person you are interacting with speaks French. Would you be able to understand what the other saying?

No, Right!!

Similarly your energy structure has a language and it will only recognize what it speaks within. So whenever you have a negative emotion coming up for someone, look within where it is arising from? Which parts of you, you don’t accept? Which part of you feels jealous/ upset/ irritated/ angry with the other?

If you feel jealous of the other does it mean that you don’t have enough? Or does it mean Life is not fair to you? Does it make you sad/ upset?

If you feel angry with the other then what exactly made you angry? Remember anger is not an emotion by itself it is an after effect of deep hurt. Which part of you got so hurt that it resulted in an outburst? What made you hurt?

Reflect on your behavior by the end of the day.

Did it go the way you planned it to be?

Were you able to keep yourself positive and upbeat through the day?

If not, then what made you upset? Which part of you didn’t feel, complete and fulfilled? Stay with the thought and you will start understanding your deeper emotions slowly.

Ask and you will receive

"Ask and you will receive" JESUS

How many of us understood what it meant. I didn’t. I always believed why I need to tell him what I wish to have in my life, or what I desire in life.
This belief came crumbling down when I started understanding 'The Law of attraction"

How on this earth was I going to get what I wish to have in my life when deep down in me I always felt ‘I don't deserve it.’

If my core belief was of undeserving then my energy structure also gave similar signals. I would feel uncomfortable asking for money. My fee which was rightfully mine, I spent time with my clients, my valuable time that I could have spent with my child, family. It was an issue to charge for my sessions as I felt undeserving, and other people’s needs were more important than mine.

Whenever you ask for something and it has not been given to you, look within. Do you really have conviction of what you are asking for; are you absolutely worthy of getting it? 
What is your belief system related to it?

Is earning money an issue? 
Money brings in responsibilities. Money takes away humility. Money brings in power and many can't handle that power. 
All these are belief systems that we have been carrying for long, either we saw something we didn't like and our subconscious registered or we had our own experiences which created these beliefs in us.

Does a relationship mean a burden, deep within? Does a relationship mean that you will lose your identity? Or you will not have your freedom with you? Would you feel obliged to look at other person’s need over yours?

What is it that is your core belief related to that particular issue you are facing at the moment?

If you can identify it, with awareness you can bring in the shift in your perception and look at it in a new light. Once your perception has shifted, you can bring in the much needed change in your reality as well. Your energy structure will now start vibrating at a level where you can attract whatever you wish to. Once there is an alignment between your core belief and what you are asking for, it shall be given to you. When you are giving out mixed signals even the DIVINE is confused what to give you. And mostly HE will give you is what your energy structure is vibrating at, what you believe at core level.

Reiki Healing

I have heard people mentioning about their brief connect with Reiki. Either they took a session or learnt Reiki but it didn’t work for them. They believed that once they have taken a session it should have worked on its own for them and clear out all that they have been struggling for long. To some extent Reiki does work in cleansing the system deeply yet it needs an active change of attitude and approach towards life. Trust is the major component in getting healed.

I have also heard people saying after the session their issues or pain have become worse. Learning with Reiki and healing with Reiki does not mean that one is cured 100%. Healing does not happen overnight (almost never happen if we apply our logical mind to it) though it can help in relieving from aches and pains at the superficial level. It takes some time as inner work is being done and shifts taking place in the life of the person being healed. It can be an uncomfortable process to start with.

If you look at it as a long pending spring cleaning, you will be able to understand it in a better manner. At first you would dread to even start the process of cleaning because you don’t even know where to start from, so you keep delaying. Then there will come a time when you will get up and tell yourself ‘Enough is enough! Now I better take charge of it and start cleaning up.

You reach out to the room, your closet, cabinet, drawers which is crowded, messy, cluttered with filled with junk. When you have to this cleaning first thing you had to do is to pull out all the junk and that looks messy, very messy. The whole place is upside down and this scenario doesn’t look so good. You feel what you got yourself into. Now when you are doing this cleaning you might want to cling to those things that have certain memories attached to it, you might not want to throw that out though you know it is not required in your life and it is only taking space in your cupboard. You might just want to be with it for a while. May be you would just put everything back. Here you have a choice to either clean it or put it back in your drawer/closet/ room. When you stay with the things and put them back in your cupboard the whole exercise becomes futile as you end up with the same junk with you.

When you carefully sort out by cleaning, dusting things which are required and throw away things which are of no use any more. You get back your beautiful, clean, wonderful looking place back to yourself.

When we get attuned it often triggers a long term healing crisis within us. It’s a process and takes some time, especially when we have had many years of dysfunction or illness in our lives. We must allow time for Reiki to reach to deepest level of our issues and clear all that is not required for our highest and the best. It took many years to build up the memories and traumas associated with the issues we are dealing with. Letting go of those traumas, creating new patterns & memories also take time and can be painful. It is cathartic in nature and if we allow the flow in our lives, it can be uncomfortable in the beginning but peaceful, joyous, wondrous, magical by the end of it.

If you have been taking Reiki sessions or have been attuned in Reiki and that has brought in discomfort in your life, start looking for signs, possibilities and understand where they could come from. Allow yourself to clear out layers of old you and welcome the possibilities and wonders of New YOU.

Ask for the guidance from the Universe and be assured that it will be given to you J

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CLAIRGUSTANCE (CLEAR TASTING)

This is the ability to taste something that isn't actually there. This experience mostly comes from out of the blue when a deceased loved one is attempting to communicate a memory or association we have with a particular food or beverage that reminds us of them.

If we have a heightened sense of taste, this would make us natural chefs, bakers or food critics.

I experiment with food a lot and it comes in handy for me although I don't get a distinguished taste in my mouth yet, still I have a strong ability of figuring out various ingredients of a dish.

Experiments to enhance Clairgustance

You can also experiment this, while you having a dish which you didn't prepare try to identify ingredients in the dish.

Try different variety of foods which you never tasted earlier.

Clear smelling complements clear tasting. You all must be aware when your nose is blocked you don’t really get a taste in your food, because you actually start eating the moment you see the food and the moment you start smelling it. Without the smell your taste buds can’t function at its optimum.

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CLAIRTANGENCY

Every place and object has a frequency of its own, and on top of it collects energy of people using them. Altogether it emanates combined energy of its own and people who used it. Clair tangent people are sensitive towards energies of the places and, situations and objects.

Usually Psychometric is defined as Clair tangency but it is just a part of it. In psychometric one can pick up the energies of the person who has been using it for long, in Clair tangency one picks up energies of people via objects, energies of place and situations. If Clair tangency is your strong Clair then you would generally be uncomfortable using someone else’s clothes, jewelry. Although you are not a judgmental person, somehow thinking of wearing somebody else’s clothes would you jitters.

Do you feel uncomfortable using someone else’s clothes or jewelry? Do you ever feel the need to wash your hands after picking up or looking through used items?

Used Clothes and jewelry pick up the energies of its owner; it also carries the emotional state of the person while it was worn. You tend to pick up on those energies and it makes you feel uncomfortable.

Does it sometime feel itchy or strange to sit on theater seats, restaurants, and public toilets? Would you rather walk for an extra than to visit a restaurant or a theatre just because it doesn’t give you a good feel?
Places reflect the energy of people who keep going in and out of it. It collectively sets up the energy for it and your decision to visit it depends on whether or not it resonates with your energetic structure.

Do cluttered places unnerve you? 
Clutter carries scattered energies and these energies can be really intense and unnerving. It can also give out the feeling of being stuck as the energy stops moving in the places where things are kept in a pile and have not been moved for a long time.

 Do you ever find that a messy house or workplace affects your mood and productivity?
An unkempt house used to bring a lot of irritability in me. I need a prim and proper house to myself when I get up in the morning and if that is not the case, my mood used to change, I would get irritable, snappy at times. Earlier I had no clue what was happening to me, it has started making sense to me when I am working with energies and understanding how and where it works at you at subtler level.

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CLAIRCOGNIZANCE (CLEAR KNOWING)

Are you the kind of person who can assemble or fix something without looking at a manual? Is it easy for you find directions to a place solely based on your instinct? Do you keep getting ideas to develop something or create something?

Clair cognizance is an internal knowing of something. When you know for sure how things are going to turn out in your life. You just know it, and for that knowingness you have no explanation or logic to it. This is because we tune into the outcome of our actions and that gives us a certainty within. We somehow brush these thoughts aside as we are not too sure of our decisions. Even if we know within that a particular decision will be disastrous for us, we go by our logic and fact that are kept in front of us rather than listening to that little knowingness within. We tend to get influenced by other people’s opinion and their experiences.

Claircognizant people require a tremendous faith in themselves as they only have their gut talking to them; they do not have any other tangible thing to rely upon. There is a difference between your own thoughts and inner knowingness. Inner knowingness has a certainty against all odds and does not indulge you in fear, or any other negative feelings, your own thoughts can come from the past experiences hence could be judgemental.

Many philosophers, professors, doctors, scientists, religious and spiritual leaders and powerful sales and business leaders tend to be highly intuitive and seem to just know the facts with a sense of certainty.

Exercise to strengthen you Claircognizance

Know the color

• All you need is a deck of standard playing cards, the kind that has two different colors: red and black.
• First, set an intention. Your goal is to correctly pick the color of the cards that you pick.
• Next, shuffle the cards to “put your energy on them”, Reaffirming your intention.
• Then, pick a card (without looking at it) and mentally ask yourself “What color appears on this card? Red or Black.
• Go with the first thought that comes to mind and flip the card over to reveal its color.
• Be sure to create 2 piles of cards: one for the ones you got right and the other for the ones you got wrong. Anything over 50% demonstrates a psychic ability
• Keep practicing as you improve your accuracy.

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CLAIRSENTIENCE (CLEAR FEELING)

Clairsentience is strong in those people who pay attention to their feelings & emotions more than what they see. They can physically feel the pain and emotion of the other person. When we get a strong "gut" feeling, positive or negative, about someone we just met, we may be tuning into the emotional energy of a person.

Clairsentient people get emotional highs and lows for no apparent reason. When you feel butterflies in your stomach, feel peaceful, or happy all of a sudden that gives you an indication of a positive situation and when you feel tightness in your stomach, jaws, and temples, stress for no reason that could be a warning or an indication of a negative situation. When we are highly sensitive and are in tune with not only our own feelings, but also the feelings of others, this makes us natural healers and caregivers. We often feel inspired to pursue careers as doctors, therapists, counselors, nannies and teachers.

If this is you, clairsentience is at the top of your senses list. 

In my readings I mostly get the physical sensation for a person who has a physical ailment a strong feeling for emotional distress of the other person. Initially It was difficult for me to understand why I suddenly feel low in my energies but over the period of time with experience and understanding I have started to understand between my own emotions and other people’s feelings.

As clairsentience is one of my strongest gifts, I get impulsed all the time through physical sensations. Whenever I am doing a reading, I get a strong sensation on my temple or on my forehead in the middle of eyebrows (third eye).

How to Develop Your Clairsentience

Psychometry Exercise

This exercise involves getting hold of an object that someone has worn regularly, like a watch or a bangle. All objects absorb energy from their owners. Hold the object in your hand for a minute or two. You will start getting messages or feelings about the person who wore the watch, bangle etc. This might take a little practice, in my workshops I have seen people picking up thoughts, feelings of the other person at once.

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CLAIRVOYANCE (CLEAR SEEING)

Clairvoyance is where the vision of past, present and future flash through our mind’s eye (third eye), much like a daydream. Many of us are highly visual and able to understand an idea best when we see it written or sketched out as an image on a computer screen or on a canvas. You may remember or learn things best with visuals (as opposed to, for example, being told something new).On a day to day life when our attention first gets drawn to how things are looking our clairvoyance is dominant.

Visual people often choose to be artists, builders, photographers, decorators, designers and so forth. If this sounds familiar, your clairvoyance is most likely a dominant sense.

Earlier I wasn't much aware of my clairvoyance until now,when I look back I realise, I used to get Deja' Vus all the time as child. Since I didn't have anybody who could help me understand, it slowly took a back seat. After doing certain practices and working on this path has gotten me to a level where I can now visualise things. 

Common clairvoyant instances include:

•  You have a vivid dream which later comes true.
•  You lose your keys or wallet. Then, a picture of the place where you left the item flashes into your mind.
• As you're driving, you see a mental image of the car ahead of you turning left. Two minutes later, the car turns left exactly as you'd mentally imaged.
• You suddenly see an image of a person in your mind's eye. Later that day, you receive a call or a letter from that person.

These experiences of clairvoyance are quite normal and often very useful. Even more, you can learn how to increase your clairvoyant power so that it becomes a reliable tool for everyday living. We can enhance and improve clairvoyance, like any behavior, with learning and practice.

Following are few exercises to improve Clairvoyance:

Observing thoughts: Keep a journal and on a daily basis practice closing your eyes and noticing what pictures flash through your mind’s eye. Be aware of those pictures. Some of the pictures would be just clutter from your day, and others are some kind of inner vision. Keep a note of those visions, messages thoughts. Write them down, and ask yourself what these could be. See, if there are any steps you can take to resolve them.This exercise will help you differentiate between the clutter you pick on a daily basis and your inner voice ‘gut feeling’ (clairvoyant messages).In time, you will come to tell which clairvoyant images are and which images are clutters from everyday activities.

Clarity-Builder: Practice looking at an object or image, then visualizing it exactly in your mind's eye. It is a good idea to keep digging into it to get the minutest details. This will help you create clearer images when you look at things clairvoyantly.

Mental Games: Some exercises you can use are seek and find picture puzzles. These are often available in books for children. While meant to be a game, they can actually enhance your visualization skills.

You can take a test to check you clairvoyant abilities at:

http://astraltest.com/extrasensory/clairvoyance.php 

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http://www.angeltherapy.com/article4.php

Next we’ll look into:

CLAIRAUDIENCE (CLEAR HEARING)

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Let’s do this small experiment with ourselves.

Just let us try to be aware of our feelings when we are around people whom we like and whom we are not so fond of.

What happens inside you?

What happens to your body language?

Sometimes, you meet someone you don’t like too much, but there is no real reason for the not liking. They didn’t really say anything to you but something changed your mood, your feelings and your reactions to the person you interacted with.

And how many times have we met someone, whom we instantly ‘connect’ with. Whom we liked, for no real reason, just feel that the ‘vibe’ was right.

What is this ‘vibe’?

There are many questions like this, that are part of our daily, everyday lives, and which Science yet can’t answer and prove.

All the changes in mood and emotions are solely based on what kind of energy the other person emits and whether or not it matches with your frequency. If it matches with yours, you feel good in the company. If it doesn’t, you try to keep a distance.

Energetically, we all know what is good for us and what isn’t. DO we really listen to that little voice in us that guides us? That little voice comes from our energetic self. The one which wants bests for us at all times. The more that we get attuned to ourselves and our inner voice, the more will we start experiencing magic in our lives.

We are part of the energetic structure that emits various frequencies and signals at different levels. Science have been able to capture few of them such as sound and light, but it is nowhere close to identifying and recording of higher beings such as Angels, fairies, ascended masters and beings from other planets.

Human evolution has already shown that we have physically and mentally grown.

Energetically we are in hierarchy with other things around us such as rocks, plants, animals- rocks being the densest energy and humans at the most light, so we can occupy more area, easily. Science has already proven this fact. Rocks and stones & crystals are energetically different. Some stones & crystals have much higher frequency and each of these have certain qualities & frequency that is the reason for an astrologer to recommend a certain stone for our use. This stone interacts and synergizes with our individual energy and aids our energetic structure to vibrate at a level where it matches with the desired outcome.

Angels operate out of 7^th dimension. A dimension is a frequency band like wave band on a radio. Humans mostly live at the frequency band of the 3^rd dimension. As we start working on ourselves to look into positive side of life and operate out love, peace, joy and harmony we start tuning into 4^th & 5^th dimension where we can connect with Angels and other brings easily.

Every thought, emotion, feeling also has an energy attached to it. The happier and more positive the emotion & thought, the higher the frequency is. And the sadder, more negative emotions and thoughts have denser energies.

Science has also proven that energy can’t be destroyed. So if we connect to this for a moment we will realize why we sometimes cry or feel sad while watching a movie. Something moves somewhere within us, it connect to our energy and we feel sad, cry. It matches the frequency of some emotion within us. Similarly for a happy scene, we laugh, we enjoy. That is the reason we like to go to a party and have fun as the energies are already higher and happier there. And some people like to go and sit a bar, for the energies are denser and match with their state of being.

As soon as we start working on raising our frequency, we can form our connection with angels and it becomes easier to listen to their message.

Read on to learn more....

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Angels.

Who are they?Do they really exist?

Can we see them or feel them?Can we talk to them or meet them?

Everyone has these questions in their minds. But then we look back into our childhood, did we really need any assurance from anyone that Angels exist? We just believed that they are part of our daily lives. We just turned to Tooth Fairies, Santa Claus, Angels to fulfill small little wishes that we held in our ever-trusting pure hearts.

What made us start doubting their existence, when we ‘grew up’?

What was it that happened to disconnect us from them?

We started believing in Science more than our own feelings, our own intuition. As we matured, we lost that trust in our heart and actions. Our dependency on the outside world and need for tangible proof created this disconnect from a wonderful realm of trust and belief. If there is no scientific (Physical!) proof of them existing, how could they exist? Angels are deemed just imagination and fantasy.

Do we really need science to prove the existence of so many co-incidences happening in our lives? Can we ever prove our own existence scientifically?

Keep tuned in to understand about those co-incidences, that little voice. You might just find the answers to those certain questions running in your mind.

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