When you first get on a spiritual path, looking within, you start to see the garbage in you that you weren’t previously conscious of. Looking within can be a dirty job. The negative mind becomes magnified and amplified. All your flaws become bigger and your self-loathing is right there in your face.
There’s this expectation that one day meditation and yoga is going to be a snap. This is especially the case for those of us who are, how should we say… fanatic about the practice. We work it pretty hard and so we expect big things. Sometimes big things happen, but most of the time it’s [...]
This is a great discussion of meditation by a great mind. Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, PhD., helped with the writing of the book “The Mind, Its Projections And Multiple Facets” by Yogi Bhajan, PhD. He’s a brilliant yogi and he really knows his stuff. For those of you who may be put [...]
When your mind changes, you change. When you change, what you project changes. When what you project changes, what you experience changes– and this becomes what you see in front of [...]
I mentioned the lengths of meditation periods to my class and what a repetitive meditation can do in those lengths of time, but recently a student asked me for clarification so I thought I’d reprint it here, straight from the book.
To master the effects of a meditation, practice it as a Sadhana, a daily discipline. [...]
When you feel good, are in the moment and are creating your life as you want it, you’re in sacred space. Joseph Campbell defines sacred space as any place where you’re hermetically sealed off from the world. This can be a room, or an activity, or just a state of mind. But [...]
All yoga is designed to raise the kundalini energy. What’s that saying, “All rivers lead to the ocean?”
Yoga gives you an activity, which stops the mind and allows your energy to flow. A very sohpisticated technology of the physical body and energy system, it allows you to open the energy channels of [...]
MEDITATION TO MANIFEST MONEY
Given by Yogi Bhajan
September 23, 1997, New Mexico
“Life is nothing but Alertness. You can only be Alert if you are wise & disciplined.” –Yogi Bhajan
Mudra: Sit with a straight spine, chin in, chest out. Bend the elbows into the sides of the body, and place the palms [...]
Thought while meditating this morning: The sun shines on us all equally. It warms us equally. It casts our shadows equally. We should light upon all we meet like the sun in the heavens, equally and without care or judgement.
After thinking about that, it gave me new understanding of the song “Long Time Sunshine,” an [...]
Got this from Tej Kaur Khalsa last year 3/8/2006. Many people suffer from depression these days. It’s a sign of the times. Our fast paced world actually gives us a scattered feeling of emptiness. Things are moving so fast that our creations are shallow, lack depth, and so create a feeling [...]
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