Written by Vincent Sandee
Monday, August 30th, 2010
All humans want basically 1 thing: Supreme Happiness, the Ultimate Good…. Feeling good about themselves and their lives, every area of their lives.
There are lots of tools here on this planet at the moment, choose the one that resonates with you, but also be willing to expand your mind. Grow organically. Start with what intrigues you or you know is right for you.
It all starts with 2 questions:
1) WHAT DO I REALLY VALUE?
2) WHERE AM I AT?
Our reality is vast, it is not just about this body, if we let go of fear things will be revealed gradually. Our perceptions will change and our life will change. Our ability to discriminate will be based on Truth, resonance with the Self.
This is important because it allows us to be able to dream the dream we want.
If you want to change your life for the better and make it grow until you become aware of their Spirit again, by understanding the mechanism of your True Power, then you already understand that cooperation with the Universe is very important in all your life changes and improvements towards your goals or next stage in life.
That is why people need to have a solid technique and True Spiritual Path that allows them to have MATERIAL, MENTAL and SPIRITUAL development.
The Kriya Yoga path is slso is for people who are Aware of their Spirit and want intellectual and practical clarification on how to use their Awareness in a creative way.
I identified the teachings of Yoga as a resource of true connection with myself; as my self-nourishment; the food for my soul and an enhanced awareness. I am talking about all aspects of Yoga, not just the yoga postures known as Hatha Yoga, today much more used as a gymnastic mechanism. I refer to the methodology of Yoga that brings you in touch with your true nature, with the image of the Universe within you, some people call it God abiding, or living, in you.
Yoga is not a religion, is a methodology and a way of life. One could practice Yoga even if he’s a Christian, a Bhuddist, a Muslim, a Sufi, etc…
This is because the Universality of Yoga is such that it doesn’t belong to a system of beliefs, but it is made up of Universal Principles that are common to all religions. For example we find the principles of Love, of Peace, of Non-Violence. These are principles common to every true religion.
All true religions are also trying to point the way to happiness while avoiding suffering. Again this is a way of life based on principles. Yoga, with it’s beautiful methods gives one total Mastery over one’s life.
I practice Kriya Yoga, which is in itself a way of life and a methodology, especially as taught by Paramhansa Yogananda. And I have also been fortunate enough to have studied directly with two great teachers who had known Yogananda personally.
All the teachings that I will refer to here are highly inspired by the Kriya Yoga teachings, even if I have adapted their use to modern reality. I have NOT changed the teachings and the techniques, which are absolutely pure in their methodology and system, but I have adapted the philosophical principles into modern day practical living steps. In this way everyone can use Universal principles easily in their life and bring incredible improvements.
When I was a monk in India, one day I went to the cinema and I realized that people would not become monks, at least the majority……they wanted to be happy and be master of their lives…….. develop themselves……. They didn’t want to their lives to be interfered……. They wanted practical methods that worked that allowed them to take full charge of their lives.
In all Kriya Yoga and life Improvement classes I want to provide a space for Transformation, where people can find themselves in charge of their lives again. And if you are already in charge, transform what you still need to transform in order to be more happy. And if you are happy, then why not be totally free… FIND FREEDOM… in other words, start living in your own true divine nature, establish yourself there.
Here are some of the topics included in these wonderful teachings. And believe me, as I followed them, my life has changed incredibly, and so will yours.
Development of Dynamic Will Power
Human beings are self-hypnotized, thinking they are what they think, their body, their emotions.
They also think that they don’t have power over what happens in their lives. I am not talking about environmental control, but of matching the divine life with the earthly life.
The development of Dynamic Will Power will allow you to overcome this mental and emotional lethargy and you will find true resources of power to move on in life and move on mountains!
Development of Magnetism
Paramhansa Yogananda formulated this principle: “The higher the Will, the higher the Flow Energy. The higher the flow of Energy, the higher the Magnetism”.
The need for increasing the intake of energy, Life Force (we live by that).
More Life Force = More Life = More Happiness (energy up) = More Energy = Creation of Opportunities at Will.
Right use of affirmation
Not used to reinforce beliefs, but to affirm and realize your divine primordial origin and potential.
It is also another way of uniting the nature of the Self with the vibration, or pure sound, of your voice. This becomes “right speech”
Meditation Techniques
In the Kriya Yoga practices there are many wonderful meditation techniques that puts you in tune with the essence of who you are always more and always more quickly.
All the techniques can bring you liberation (identification and abiding in the Self, in your true divine nature). You are once again in full charge over your Life, for real.
The more advanced the technique the more the power, energy and advancement involved.
The Right Ground
This happens spontaneously and beautifully.
You need to have the will to improve and grow in your life. To become the best you can be. We all have good sides and bad sides, our choice must be to manifest the most beautiful and loving part of who we are.
We all know that we are good in the heart. Even when we do something wrong deep in our heart we can easily find a way to justify what we have done. This is because we can perceive the goodness in ourselves. Matching that goodness in our words and action is the right ground upon which all this methodology will grow.
Don’t have to think necessarily of a goal or how good another person is compared to you. In fact that person might seem good but it could be only appearance.
Do not compare your internal state to an illusionary external state!
PEOPLE ARE NOT THEIR ACTIONS.
I know that many people are skeptical on this statement, and I am not saying that one should not take responsibility on what he does.
What they do, their actions, represent what they are going through, but that could be a transitory period.
Do NOT judge. Go beyond the appearance, take a commitment with yourself, compete with yourself, every day do better than what you have done the day before. Step away from the appearances of good and bad, tomorrow things are going to be different because we live by cycles, and a cycle moves continuously between good and bad because the nature of the cycle is to try to balance itself out. But since there is movement, there is no balance.
A scale finds its point of balance when it finds stillness, and so it is, when you find stillness you find balance.
When you find balance you see clearly, there is no hypnotic self-imprisonment, you know how to create what you want, what is your life about, what is the next step, you find that you have another resource of knowledge: Intuition.
INTUITION INTELLIGENCE COMES FORTH!
Knowledge is not intellectual data. Knowledge is perception of Truth. Intuition is direct perception of Truth at any moment you need it, about what you need. Would you like to know what you need at the moment you need it (and just by pure spiritual connection)? That is Intuition. It is a quality of the Soul that comes out naturally as we let go of the old idea that we are our mind patterns and emotions, or even our body.
THOUGHTS ARE UNIVERSALLY AND NOT INDIVIDUALLY ROOTED
This statement changed my Life. Once I understood and accepted this concept fully I knew I was not was I was thinking, but I was just attracting that thought into my head through the magnetism generated by my brain, which is of course working in terms of consciousness. In other words the brain is a magnificent storehouse of information programmed by your consciousness.
Being conscious of what is happening (it is not necessary to explain it) is your first step in taking consciously charge and responsibility over your life. In the recognition of what is happening in your brain, which in turns attracts your thoughts, you can consciously start changing the thoughts you attract.
It starts with a conscious decision. The will power of your choice generates magnetism, and that magnetic power attracts right thinking, right living, right opportunities.
The more conscious decisions you make the more you involve a change in consciousness. A change in consciousness is an energetic change, and that is of course a change of vibration. It is a shift in your center, and if you vibrate from another center you build a totally different life. What if you can choose from which center to vibrate?
The more will power you have developed, the more energy you have, and the more magnetism you have. The more magnetism you have, the higher your ability to change your life for the best.
Mind Shifting
Knowing that thoughts are not ours, but attracted to us, we can start making right choices for our life. What is in our consciousness will come to us. And this starts with conscious decisions and conscious intent.
Once you know through intuition what is right for you, and you have developed enough magnetism, then you can use the incredible tools of mind shifting. The more you use them, the higher the power they acquire.
Mind-Shifting is a particular method that allows you to approach your reality in order to change it. I largely use the method of Mind-Shifting in my personal life and in my trainings.
What you do is to project your current reality outside of yourself, transform it, and re-project into yourself what you have transformed. It is a principle. The more you use it, the more you become Master of your Reality.
Mind-Shifting uses the Laws of movement in this Universe, to get to the Source of Creation, and from there re-create a new reality into movement.
If you go to my website: www.joycelestial.com , you will see that I have also applied this concept into the practice of the yoga postures (go to the workshops page).
The techniques here can be extremely easy, and also more advanced. That depends on the experience one might have. It is the principle at work, following certain universal rules, that counts. The techniques may vary according to the situation, to the people, or even what kind of energies need to be involved.
BEFORE APPLYING ALL THESE TECHNIQUES, ASK YOURSELF: WHAT DO YOU VALUE IN YOUR LIFE?
This question was asked by one of my spiritual teachers: Goswami Kriyananda. Knowing what you value in your life is the first step in finding the direction of your life. Unless you answer honestly to this question, without answering what you thing you “should” be doing according to the voice other people have put in your head, you don’t have your direction in Life.
The answer to this question must be an honest answer. What are you looking for in all that you are doing? What is your real aim? Some people answer “I want to heal the world”, or “I want to find God-Consciousness”, but that’s not a honest answer. That is what they apparently seem to do, but it’s not the true answer and they know that. Be honest with yourself.
I realized that I am looking for Peace.
The real happiness in life comes when you unite what you are giving value to with making a real contribution to the world around you. But that is the second step that can never be taken without knowing what it is that you value for real.
You Life Purpose
This obviously lead us to the question: “Why am I here on this planet?” “What am I supposed to do?” “What is my Life Purpose?”.
And again, it all starts with 2 questions:
1) WHAT DO I VALUE?
2) WHERE AM I AT?
And it then gets more mystical and interesting.
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To Your Joy and Success
Vincent Sandee
(Swami Ekabuddhyananda)
