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Meditation is a practice that has been around for centuries for many good reasons. It is a powerful tool for reducing stress, improving focus, enhancing your well-being and unlocking your spiritual awakening. While there are many different forms of meditation, one aspect which can be overlooked or conversely overemphasised is the use of sound.

The application of sounds during your meditation, whether natural or intentionally generated, has the potential to boost or enhance the meditative state through several key aspects. The harmonious melodies of nature, the soft cadence of chanting, or a gentle rhythm, can all serve as powerful catalysts for a meditative experience that surpasses the ordinary.

As you start to practice meditation, you may find that your mind teems with thoughts and distractions, which hinders your ability to properly meditate. The use of wisely chosen sounds of nature, such as flowing water, rustling leaves, or bird songs, can act as harmonious companions during meditation. These sounds, often associated with serenity, create a backdrop that eases the mind into a state of relaxation. By immersing yourself in the gentle cadence of these natural sounds, helps to keep you focused, so the chatter of the mind does not disrupt your meditation.

Secondly, sound can be used to help directly induce a meditative state by calming the mind and nervous system. Certain types of sounds, such as binaural beats and white noise, have been shown to have a calming effect on the nervous system. Additionally, the application of a rhythmic pulse of binaural beats can, for some people, create a sense of synchronisation and harmony between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Through the application of these sounds, you may be able to more easily enter a meditative state due to a harmonised mind and relaxed nervous system.

Thirdly, the use of sounds, such as the resonant tones of chimes, gongs, singing bowls and the like, can be applied as intentional tools for meditation focus. These sounds, carefully chosen for their vibrational qualities, can be used to anchor the focus of your mind. The rhythmic repetition of sounds can help synchronise your awareness to your breath, creating what some describe as a cohesive and meditative experience. By attuning to these intentionally created sounds, you can help focus your mind to cultivate a heightened sense of presence, allowing the mind to settle into a tranquil state conducive to deeper meditation.

If you are looking for a way to kick-start or boost your meditation practice explore the many different applications of sound. There are many different types of sounds, including silence which can be used in meditation. Find one that works best for you. Once you become more proficient at meditation, you will likely find you no longer need the use of sound to boost your meditation.

Life can often teach us all valuable lessons through our experiences, and often more significantly through what we would term mistakes. When you make mistakes, it is imperative not to berate yourself. Instead look at this as an opportunity to reflect on what proverbially went wrong, then learn from your experiences. Even better yet, apply this learning to make changes to your thinking, behaviour or decisions going forward.

Making mistakes or odd slip-ups is a natural part of the learning process and can help us to develop resilience, perseverance, and a greater sense of self-awareness. When you have made a mistake, you should take the opportunity to honestly look at what happened, rather than trying to blame someone else or the situation. In doing so, you force yourself to examine your weaknesses and limitations which leads to the problem. That is the source of learning which can then be applied forward in your life.

It’s important to bear in mind that learning from your mistakes, blunders, missteps or even faux pas calls for readiness, to be honest with yourselves, take responsibility for your actions, and make a real effort to learn from your experiences. It is additionally important to exercise self-compassion and forgiveness. You do not want to proverbially beat yourself up about a past blunder or error which after all is now in the past and cannot be changed. Try to limit the time you spend examining the past, because if you dwell too long on these past incidents you may find yourself being dragged back down to the level of the problem and situation, which could be damaging to your overall mental well-being.

Take the opportunity to examine and learn from your mistakes. You do not need to live them over and over again in your mind. Then accept and embrace the learnings which have been gained from the past, to provide an effective means to grow and develop as an individual.

We all strive to bring some meaning to our journey through life and our daily living. As you continue your journey, no matter where that may lead, allow harmlessness to be your constant companion in life. Your true harmlessness works through right thought and speech, governed by self-control, which manifests into right action.

As your companion, harmlessness can lead to a better you. One in which you can experience a higher expression of yourself in your everyday life. As you do, you will find your own life journey to become more meaningful.

To comprehend who is “Brand You”, you need to first and foremost understand the construct of the personality which adheres to every part of your being, like a really sticky material. Your personality is pervasive to who you think and believe you are. It has the three primary facets of how you perceive yourself to be, how you believe others see you and the actual layers of the thought of others about you.

Your personality is both influenced and affected by numerous other aspects. These include, yet are not confined to conditional thinking, thoughts, emotions and feelings of others; causality or karma (especially of friends and family); astronomical astrological programming; and much deeper elements of your Life Force. Your personality is bi-directional, indicating that it has two distinct sides. This is similar to a stained glass window, which might appear rather drab from one side, whereas when viewed from the opposite side, it can take on an entirely different light.

The concept of “Brand You” is your perception of how the world discerns you, and is in effect the external expression of your personality. Increasingly this facet of your personality is not composed from direct human interactions, but is established and reinforced via your interactions in social media, and the illusionary worlds of computer games and virtual worlds such as the Metaverse. Consider for a moment how you would feel after you make a post on social media or appeared in the news. Think about how your personality can be affected by all of your friends or followers whether they like or comment on your posting; or you receive either no reactions or conversely your post, article or video goes viral. All these reactions on social media generate the energies of thought and emotions which are directed towards you and your personality.

The aforementioned aspects of personality and “Brand You” can become amplified to where the brand becomes much larger than the individual, particularly for celebrities and influencers. This “Brand You” can entirely engulf the personality and dominate that person’s existence in this world. So carefully consider how you project “Brand You” into the world, as all facets of the personality so expressed can bring about numerous lifetimes of accumulated karma

There is a strong correlation between being happy and optimistic to being physically well. Typically, people who express positive thoughts and emotions are at a reduced risk of becoming ill. Feeling happy or having positive experiences is linked with better general health or more content living. So is there more to this than just positive thinking?

Yes, this is more than just thinking a good thought. Positive psychology is a branch of psychology focused on the character strengths and behaviours that allow individuals to build a life of meaning and purpose. While many other branches of psychology tend to focus on dysfunctional aspects of the human mind, positive psychology is centred on helping people become happier on many different levels. This new branch of psychology encompasses a variety of techniques that focus on developing positive thoughts, positive emotions, and developing positive experiences. You can see how this new form of psychology extends beyond thoughts alone to bring forward the complete picture of the human system of wellbeing.

Positive psychology is often confused with positive thinking, which is purely about thinking positive thoughts, rather than changing your way of thinking into a different frame of mind. Positive psychology works at a deeper level on improving our positive character traits, such as loyalty, humility and integrity. It does not discount that there are negatives that impact our lives. Instead, positive psychology aims to look at the situation to better understand human experiences and determine how to best foster positivity and good thinking. These aspects of positive thoughts are then reflected and reinforced by positive emotions and feelings. As we live in a physical world, if these positive thoughts, emotions and feelings can be bolstered by positive experiences, it creates a more powerful narrative than any of the elements individually. We can all leverage aspects of positive psychology so that we can thrive rather than just survive.

The capability to really focus your mind is a pivotal aspect of any kind of meditation, mindfulness and certainly many facets in your life. If we were to evaluate the populace in its entirety, it would be discovered that a very small percentage of individuals have the inherent capacity to really focus and quieten their minds without concentration. While roughly two-thirds of the population will regularly struggle to bring focus to their minds. When your thoughts lack focus, it is akin to light travelling through a prism contrasted to light going through a magnifying glass. While the light transverses both the prism and the magnifying glass, what occurs to the light on the journey is very different. The same holds true of your thoughts, where you can learn how to focus your thoughts, as opposed to letting them become scattered or dispersed. This is becoming considerably more important as our awareness or attention spans are diminishing, along with our capacity to retain relevant information as a result of the arrival of social media and contemporary InfoTech.

What approaches can be utilised to aid in bringing true focus to your minds and thoughts and not on the occasional time that you remember to practice? Most techniques which are embodied in mindfulness and meditation can assist you to focus your thoughts, but you may wonder how can this work.

One of the most effective tools to achieve focus is Ekagrata. Though the techniques of Ekagrata are typically only beneficial for a tiny percentage of individuals who have actually been determined to tame their minds and invested the hours of training.

For a lot of people, making use of sounds such as chimes or gongs can provide an external stimulus which will assist in focusing your mind. People can then focus on the sound, as opposed to the various other thoughts which float around their minds. With this focus, you can then establish calmness within, which can then provide the basis for you to discover more advanced or sophisticated aspects of meditation.

Conscious breathing and techniques similar to Breathe with Purpose; which are free, can offer an alternative effective way to help focus the mind. Such techniques are notably beneficial for applying positive affirmations. These are just a few of the numerous techniques which can be leveraged to help you. The most important aspect is your ongoing efforts to bring focus to your thoughts.

Thought is a rudimentary human function, and something everyone does daily. The human brain is made up of about one hundred billion neurones, which are interconnected by trillions of connections, called synapses. Each of these connections could be relaying anywhere between one and a thousand transmissions per second powering the basic biological engine of thought. That being said, are your thoughts beyond this biological process within your brain?

It is necessary to consider that the human brain is just part of an intricate system which entails the complete mental form. Thoughts arise not only as electrochemical connections of the brain but are present as electromagnetic impulses. Some cognitive researchers have started to perceive that thought is not confined to the brain, but simultaneously occurs in the brain and the body. It is this electromagnetic nature of thought, which enables it to spread through the brain, the body and our surroundings.

As thoughts are generated via an electromagnetic impulse, thoughts are in their very nature, formed of energy. Let us consider for a moment, that thought is created, and by so doing, you have actually placed within the thought your very own energy. On a fundamental level, you can regard the energy of thought as the biochemical energy which is derived from the metabolism of sugars within the neurones and glial cells of the physical brain. You should additionally regard the energy of thought as being the magnetic energies which flow through the mental form to enliven the thoughts generated in your physical brain. You have created thought with the combined energy within the brain and mental mind, and then because every little thing in the known cosmos is constituted from energy, then it stands to reason, thoughts are in themselves energies.

Astrology has been steeped in misunderstanding, confusion, dogma and even superstition for many years. Yet it strangely is discussed as being separate from the scientific discipline of astronomy and the actual observation of the sky and stars. With True Astrology, these two seemingly inharmonious areas of knowledge are combined, bringing into view astrology backed by precise and scientific knowledge to yield the indisputable observations of the Sun, Moon and planets throughout the skies. This extraordinary form of astrology takes into consideration the complete motion of the planets and the stars, factoring in the precession of the equinoxes and other real-world phenomena.

The awareness, understanding and comprehension of the energies which continually affect and influence you are pivotal to grasping how you live your life. The energies which are patterned by the Sun, Moon and planets as they transit through the constellations influence you and form the basis of True Astrology .

The utmost goal for anyone undertaking meditation is to realise a tranquillity of the mind. However, the majority of us have noisy minds and attaining this preeminent state of a quietness of mind is seriously difficult to achieve. Yet having a noisy mind, does not mean that you cannot meditate, it merely means that you need to take a different approach in which you discover how to become the master of your mind.

If you have a noisy mind, trying to achieve silence of your mind may be tough to achieve. Frequently your very own efforts to quieten the mind will restock your mind with the noise of thoughts comparable to those which you are attempting to remove. Your mind might seemingly inject thoughts such as “I can’t stop thinking” or “I do not know if I am doing this right” feeding the increasing levels of noise as your mind tries to persevere control. This can reveal just how much attention most of us pay to our mind, listening to every single thought which it raises every day.

While you may not have the ability to achieve a quietness of mind at the outset, it is very important that you must not give up. You just need to discover an alternative means to focus your mind. Some people find success in creating a space in between their thoughts of their noisy minds. While others can discover success by learning to become the observer of their thoughts, as if they were being played out on a movie screen. Others may find that listening to a gong or similar tone can assist by the sound becoming the focus of the mind away from the endless stream of thoughts. In all of these ways to accomplish meditation success, the key, whether apparent or not has been on achieving some focus for your mind. The distinction being, that as you come to be that master, you can learn to focus your mind, thereby banishing the noise of your thoughts to the background. So even though your mind is not quiet, you can achieve meditation with focus. Then overtime, you will find that as you repeatedly take control of your mind and focus on meditation, these other thoughts will drift further into the background, so you may attain success.

Extremely few people are aware of, or comprehend, just how much we come to be totally connected with our intense thoughts and psychological responses in our lives. Being so engaged, we rarely consider that it is our mind, which generates a huge portion of the unhappiness, worry, anxiety, sorrow and even aspects of depression and ill health in our lives.

Every day and every instant in time, you can choose exactly how to react or respond to anything in your life. Via the astute application of active intelligence, you can opt to remain in control, rather than falling right into habits or sets of pre-programmed thought archetypes, which have been bolstered by the psychological reactions of your passive intellect and everyday excuses. Seize the moment to briefly stop and deliberate regarding just how your own thoughts and psychological reaction and responses are impacting your everyday thinking; after which you can choose to make an informed response through the application of your active intelligence.

Each of us have some form of stress which impacts on our lives. Appropriately recognising and dealing with it can lead to a more balanced and healthy life. There are many schools of thought as to the root cause of stress. However, a new way to look at stress, is that stress is purely a build-up of energy. As you experience life, your own thoughts and reactions can lead to an accumulation of energy within different areas of the mind and body. If this build-up of energy is not appropriately dissipated, the overload of emotional energy will cause issues for the human mechanism.

While we can still consider the traditional aspects of stress, this new slant on stress provides you with an opportunity. When you start to feel stressed, find a way to release the build-up of emotional energy so that it does not hurt you or others around you.

Some simple techniques can be utilised to help you destress by draining away these overloads of energy. One simple method can entail taking a few minutes out in meditation or mindfulness to seeing yourself near a lake or ocean, seeing the emotional energy draining away into the water. Another similar method is to stand on the earth, then think of the emotional energy being drawn away into the ground. Alternatively, if you are practised in breath works, then you can see these excess energies flowing out as dark clouds when you exhale.

Increasingly the thoughts of many people are being affected by external sources such as reality TV, and influencers on social media. Every day millions of us are being bombarded by messages, images and videos from these various sources. It is becoming normal that people accept what they see or hear without questioning its content or validity to their own lives. On acceptance, it can then become integrated into your own programmed thinking.

Realise how you can react to situations or events with the programmed thinking which was manufactured for mass consumption. Make the smart choice to not act as if you were participating in an episode of Goggle box. Break free from this social conditioning to be your own life influencer.

A significant amount of many people’s brainpower is overinvested in worry and concern. Knowing how powerful your mind is, you have the capacity to bring about some change in your life. It will take practice and perseverance; however, thinking anything will occur can be a significant step towards making it happen.

Make an effort to divert some of your mental capacity to evoke more favourable changes in life. Focus on what feels good and find a task that occupies your mind to take the body out of its cycle of negative or disruptive thought.

What is clearly distinct in any one of book by Franz Bardon is his dedication to the work including Hermetics. Hermetic refers to knowledge that is in correspondence with the conduct of the Universe. His books concentrate on the substance of the work, supplying beneficial and functional information for the student. What establishes his books apart from the majority of his contemporaries, is that there are no assertions regarding his success, or achievements. Bardon did not appear to be seeking to develop a legend regarding himself. The only self-references in his works are irregular attestations that he had himself used this or that procedure. It is very clear that Franz Bardon concentrated on substance rather than celebrity in his in-depth works on Hermetics.

Astrology has been steeped in misconception and superstitious notions for many years, yet has normally been considered detached from the scientific discipline of astronomy and the observation of the stars. With Astronomical Astrology, these two discordant areas of knowledge are merged, bringing to light astrology backed by scientific research and the actual observations of the Sun, Moon and planets throughout the skies. This unique form of astrology considers the comprehensive movement of the planets and the stars, taking into account the precession of the equinoxes due to the long-term wobble of our planet.

 

The awareness, understanding and comprehension of the energies which influence and affront you is key to grasping how you live your life. The energies which are patterned by the Sun, Moon and planets as they transit through the constellations influence you, and form the basis of Astronomical Astrology.