Into the within

As You have probably already read there are some general precautions connected with meditation. Before I will follow on to the meditation I prepared for you I should start with something very important which is spiritual protection point and creating your inner refuge which is the most important thing when it comes to the beginner’s and advanced yogi practice. Starting from this point even before ( mind you!) start the proper practice is a precaution which is a safety that you need and I mean it in a deep spiritual sense. We are on our own in most of the time – with our thoughts, with our hearts, and by any means you shouldn’t be disturbed by any conflicting, negative or simply not “Yours” energies, entities etc. Creating Your inner asylum: 1. Give Yourself some time to prepare the please where you want to start Your meditation. Make it as comfy as possible, try to disconnect from anything or anybody that can stop you doing that. Make it double sure You are on it. Sit or lie down and

Exercise 1 - Meditating with a candle flame or object Please read this information on preparing for your meditation Imagine the candle as an entrance way to the vast spiritual dimensions permeating everything, imagine it as the doorway to the inner universe. You might see this candle flame standing at the threshold between the physical and spiritual universes. As you fix your gaze upon it, feel that you are looking at the candle with your heart and that you are travelling through it with infinite peace. Follow the flow of energy with your breath. Breathe in the infinite peace of the spiritual universe. Feel your heart opening and expanding as that peace flows into your being like a golden light. On your outward breath feel that your worries and anxieties which give birth to all your mental, emotional and physical tensions, are being gathered up and released. You might imagine this is as a flow of light. You are breathing in a golden white light that is illumining your being with pe

How meditation works What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Meditation is an extremely simple process. It follows three distinct steps 1. We start with the superficial, scattered mind – (This is the level with which we often carry out our day-to-day chores, ‘bring in the newspaper’, ‘cook the meal’ - it is often characterised by lots of thoughts, positive and negative, with very little control or knowledge of how they got there) If we are often in this state of mind, we will find that we are easily distracted, have difficulty concentrating, probably worry about unimportant things and have little understanding of the real 'us'. 2. We then progress by virtue of our heart’s concentration - to deeper, analytical thinking. When our mind is focused completely on one thing, we are the most efficient and purposeful in our thinking. (This is the basis of the rules of ‘time-management’ -> to be focused abs

It's possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. Success is the perseverance to go from one failed outcome to another with entirely no loss of enthusiasm. Failure is the final outcome of not falling down and getting up again but the act of staying down permanently

The eternal question which You ask Yourself now and then: why? ... how about asking: in what way? under which conditions? how does it look as an overal process? asking Yourself why often leads to a bottomless pit of suffering, despair, sadness and leaves You in a point blank, point of no return - only one return is available - back to the old patterns: why me? asking Yourself questions about the nature of everchanging process can evoke stronger focus on the core of the "problem" You bear and eventually may lead you to some useful notions...instead of asking Yourself: does it make any sense to You? please aks Yourself: how can You make use of all this what you already know?