Anchor yourself

Breathing consciously is an effective means to completely transform energy and to anchor your mind in troubled times. When you find yourself in the midst of a reaction, you might have noticed how your breathing becomes rapid and shallow, your throat becomes tight, and you may even feel a pulsating sensation in your head or solar plexus. Your face may become hot and your chest might begin to tighten up. Conversely, when you are calm, feeling peaceful or happy, you typically breathe effortlessly.

The next time when you experience an adverse reaction to anything in life, do your utmost to apply some conscious breathing. By engaging your mind to bring focus to your breathing for a few minutes, you can begin to moderate your reactions. Then as you begin to take deeper and more rhythmical breaths, they can help you to find an anchor for your calmness. Allow this anchor to grab hold and steady your emotions as you continue to breathe consciously.

Awareness is Enlightening

Pay your attention to all things in life, they are more important than you may realise. As you give more focus to each passing moment, life will no longer seem to be passing you by. You can use the period of introspection to increase your awareness of your inner self and lead to your own enlightenment.

Lessons of Life

It is commonly stated that life teaches us through our mistakes. When you slip up, simply ask yourself what you were destined to learn, as opposed to searching for justifications or to find others to blame. We grow more from our mistakes, errors or blunders when we recognise and accept such lessons with humility and grace.

Is your Mind Making you Busy?

When every little thing around you appears to be rushing by at a frantic pace, stop for a moment. At that point pose the question, is it the world that is hectic, or is it my mind? You may well discover that the truth is, that your mind is cramming your day with countless and frequently unwanted and often unwarranted thoughts.

When Ritual Reigns

Ritual can take over if the essence of your true self is forgotten. Our outward appearances can come to be more important than our inner experience when ritual reigns and dominates the spiritual practice. For instance, if you practice meditation in the hope of enlightenment, how much time, and with whom you meditate, should not be the driving imperative. It is actually more important how your meditation or spiritual practise has allowed you to reach within to your inner self. The greatest value is understanding how your spiritual practice has enabled you to change your heart and transform your thoughts and feelings to those people around you. Always strive to reconnect to your inner self in your spiritual endeavours, allowing you to transform your thoughts and bring to light authentic awakening

The Emptiness within

Sunya from the Sanskrit language relates to zero, representing emptiness and void or blank. At the same time, sunya represents the possibility of producing all things. Everything starts at zero, including knowledge, business, reputation, wealth, and so on. Sunya does not symbolise the discontinuous, but symbolises the limitlessly latent potential of your Life Force.

More to Thinking

The human brain is comprised of roughly one hundred billion neurones, which are thereupon interconnected by trillions of connections, called synapses. Each of these associations may be relaying between one and a thousand transmissions per second, to fabricate the process which we equate to as thoughts or ideas in the physical brain.

To fully comprehend your thinking, it is necessary to appreciate that the human brain is just part of a complex system which entails the entire cognitive form.  Your thoughts become manifest, not merely as electrochemical connections of the brain, but also as electromagnetic impulses. Some cognitive scientists have started to acknowledge that thoughts are not confined to the brain, but concurrently occur in the body as well as the brain. It is this electromagnetic nature of thoughts and ideas, which enable them to spread through the brain, the body and the environment around us.

Achievable Aspects

Entering into a state of Cognition is to quieten your mind with a focused purpose of thought. This can assist you to commence the progression of awakening your Life Force energies. Cognition, when performed effectively, utilises the instruments of Ekagrata, as well as Creative Imaging to yield a purposeful and harmonious mind. Ekagrata is the ability to develop and sustain fully focused thought to accomplish any applicable task. Creative Imaging enhances your focus of thought, employing the capability to visualise or imagine the end objective. These aspects can be achieved and applied in your life, regardless of who you are.

Discover your Life Force

Discovering your Life Force enables you to enhance your health and wellbeing as you remove the limitations which bind you. With the understanding of these inner energies and their influences upon your human structure, you can develop a more complete appreciation of your whole being. Happiness and wellbeing can be realised as you recognise and comprehend the energies which circulate within and also around you.

Knowing your Mind

We know the world around us through the window of our own mind. When your mind is noisy or irritating, then you will perceive the world around you to be the same. When your mind is calm, the world around you will be seen as more serene or tranquil. Knowing and understanding your mind is one of the most important aspects in your life, and is just as important as attempting to change the world around you.

Illuminating your Life with Intelligence

As humankind, we possess higher intellect, perception, imagination and intellection. The cognitive powers of your mind and your faculties of knowledge operate on multiple simultaneous levels. Through active intelligence, you have the ability and the capacity to combine all of the diverse aspects of your intellect to manifest into life. Through positive thought, you can illuminate your life in the same way as light renders colours visible in the world around us.

Product of your Thoughts

We as human beings are the product of our own thoughts. Our thoughts create the basis of our emotions, feelings and actions or responses. For every single thought or action, there is a reaction or consequence. This is quite comparable to the observations made by Newton when he detailed his third law of motion; to every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. When you think, your thoughts are formed of energy, and these energies can attract similar energies which can magnify your preliminary thought. Your thoughts influence not only your life, but the world around you and in effect, you become what you think.

Good Vibrations

Good vibrations pertains to more than the words encapsulated in a handful of tunes, they offer a simple route to leading a happier life. All our emotions and thoughts resonate at varying frequencies, according to their energy signature. Then those energies will induce a sympathetic resonance within you and you are affected by the emotion when you are resonating at the same frequency. It then stands to reason that negativity can only influence you if you are resonating at the same frequency or harmonic. If you start to feel down or negative, at that moment take on some good vibrations to elevate the frequency of your thinking above any negative thoughts.

Transforming Reactions

With hindsight, we commonly look back at past events in our lives noticing that we could quite possibly have acted or behaved in a different way. To assist you in the future, whenever you become aware of any type of thoughts, feelings or emotions, know that you have the opportunity to consider how to act or respond. At precisely that time, you have the opportunity to not fall into previous reactionary behaviours. So be mindful of your anger when you are upset. Be cognizant of your worry or anxiety if you come to be stressed. If you become aggravated or frustrated, be aware of your irritability. As soon as you realise you are falling into reactionary behaviours, stop, then choose to transform your thinking or respond differently.

Quelling Karma

Karma in its simplest manifestation is the principle of cause and effect, implying the consequences which emerge out of any thought or action. There is only one infallible means to quell Karma, which is to be proactive in your thoughts and actions to minimize the cycle of cause and effect. Each and every moment you should strive to be aware of the possible effects or ramifications of your thoughts, actions, or inactions at any point in time. Instead of instantly reacting to life, pause to consider your various courses of action, prior to proceeding. This judicious application of containment can help you to quell Karma and lead a more balanced life.