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Do not worry. There can be so many meditations and experiences, nevertheless your awareness is slowly expanding between your meditations, during your daily routines. You might check it out, awareness of more awareness.... Focusing on the breath is just a trick to become relaxed. When relaxed let it go (like 4 breaths a minute). Focusing on body sensations is for awareness and for healing some blockades you might have, again after that let go. @khalifa

@Salaam I have no knowledge about what you are telling. I agree it is not about replacing certain emotions, but about transforming them. I am mainly influenced by Hindu thought on this matter (yoga, Vedanta) and have never before heard things like you are talking about. What`s the source of this knowledge?

@Salaam This is a nice topic if one loves his fear. These are the two big `things` one develops and evolves; love and fear. To love the fear is like making one out of two so it must be good! But what about fearing the love? Something different. Sounds like love is more essential because it has the capability to unite. Fear has not and that`s only because it has relative existence. When you love the fear, is not the fear gone?

@Woman Kind regards too Amanda!

- Love is not an emotion, it`s your very own essence, your own existence. - Chose a direction, maybe hard in the short term, but good in the long run. Certainty has to be found within yourself. Look for ways to achieve that, find a proper spiritual practice and make it a priority, it`s not like shopping... - How do you know? So act, get moving, become the action stat the re-action. - That`s good to know, then it`s more easy to transcend. -

A relation is not a business agreement, the base should be love and that`s not the case. You talk about your man, but describes him as a boy. The sex is bad. You have too many options without him meaning your mind is wandering like a monkey meaning what`s the talk about growth? Your question is one big ego-document.

@khalifa As we ourselves develop through the magic, mythic, rational and trans-rational stages, so does religion. There is nothing strange about an enlightened one to visit a temple or whatever sacred place as it is for a teacher to wander around the different classes and schools.

@Woman Well okay, no need to be cautious right? The best solution for you both is to quite the relation. There will be a bigger chance for you both to become `happy` in a certain way. And I`m sorry, but you really sound like a spoiled bitch...

@Draconis Chaser You need a proper goal and direction in life. This you should make first short-term goals. For example a week, make a schedule for one week where you plan everything ahead and make a vow to stick with it. One day off for pleasure. You can do this for some weeks, this will be much easier for you. You`ll give your life`s direction a lot of power and energy with this. Do not make any plans and do not have any thoughts about everything longer than 7 days ahead.

@GigaWiser78 Lack of focus, concentration, creativity, all part of your energy-body. Find a yoga-teacher to teach you some proper pranayamas, this will definitely help. After two weeks you can learn some meditation.

Yeah, nice video! It reminds me of a question once asked in an ashram in the south of India, what the purpose was of all the mosquitos around there. The answer was; just to tease you so you`ll be forced to dive deeper into your meditation.

@randombodymind I hope you`ll not start worrying again...... Every object in this universe is endowed with four characteristics. They are Dharma, Karma, Prema, and Gyana. Dharma means nature. Everything has a definite nature; animate or inanimate objects. They’ve a nature. Monkeys have their nature; human beings have their nature. In the same way, metals have their nature; aluminum has its nature, copper has its nature. Nature is called Dharma. There is certain activity, definite activity, that is attributed; or that comes out of each object. It’s easy to say object, it can include also living beings. It is Karma. Then, the third is Prema, means love. There is love in every particle of this creation. Love is attraction, love means absorbing, the viscosity bring together. So many atoms come together, so molecule is made up to an object. A type of molecules and atoms get in to a shape, so we called this metal, this is copper etc. there is something that holds things together and disfrock of bringing together. Holding things together is called love or Prema. Love is present in the entire creation, in every particle of this creation. There is love and that is how there is reproduction happening. There is love, that’s how the planets are moving around orbits. There is love, so sun is shining, stars are shining. There is love in every atom, that’s why the electron is moving around the charged particle. The charge of attraction or in the entire creation is power or love. And Gyana. A body, which is listening and knows what is happening in the surrounding, is the consciousness. The knowingness present in our body also present in every particle of creation. How do we know? Only through the head? Only through the senses? No, our entire body has ability to know. The mind is not just in the head, it is all over the body. Suppose, when your name was called in a dormitory, you wake up, not the other person. But even in sleep, we have an ability to know. And this ability to know is permitting in our entire consciousness. And consciousness is present in all over the body and beyond the body; this is called Gyana. The knowingness of intelligence or the intelligence in the existence. You might have seen the touch-me-not plant; when you go near it, even if you’ve not touched it, it gets closed. The plants can feel as they know; similarly animals have their own degree of knowingness. The dog can sense, birds can sense something that is going to happen. If there is an earthquake, you can hear the birds behave few hours’ earlier making noises. Dogs can feel much earlier than you could feel it. So, there is a degree of knowingness present in the entire creation. It varies, like the level of love also varies. Say, how much love a dog expresses? Suppose you’re out even for few hours and comes back home and the dogs get crazy; jumps all over the place, jumps on sofa and jumps on you; it doesn’t know what to do. It wants to pour out all its love on you. It tries to express; it doesn’t say – I love you very much. It doesn’t say – I can’t live without you; but that moment it just flirts you with their moments. In the same way, the plants and trees in your garden do imit love, they express loves to you. What is Karma? Most used and often misunderstood word is karma. Karma is action. The action could be letting, could be in the form of tendency, and could be a future happening. So, there are three types of karma. Prarabdha, means the action which is manifest now; Sanchita Karma, means the future action which was proposed to do later; the collected karma, the present karma which is running in action and then the future karma that would happen. After listening to whatever we are discussion here now, and you’ll go back home and you might remember or you may totally forget it, this is Agami Karma; the future karma. So the impression in the mind is latent action; it is still action, but it is latent. Just like the memory; a memory functional now, other memories are latent within us. You know the mathematical table; but right now you’re not memorizing it. You no need to memorize every time; when you need it just pops up. So certain impressions, strong impressions in the mind remain and they form the future karma. Every habit is a sort of karma. Suppose you’ve been drinking coffee every morning; and one day you don’t drink, you get head ache. This is coffee karma. So, how to eliminate coffee karma? Either by drinking it or observing it. Being aware of a tendency in us will help us to overcome the tendency or experiencing the tendency will overcome the tendency. Here is the clay of Gyana, knowledge, awareness. Knowledge means the informative knowledge; here knowledge means awareness, the sense of knowingness. When you increase the sense of knowingness, your karma gets reduced. All the animals have got only the Prarabdha Karma; means the karma on which they do not have any controls. The nature runs them so they don’t accumulate a future karma. If you’re like an animal totally you don’t get any karma. But as a human being this is impossible; because our mind gets in to that impression. Now, Reincarnation – that’s another topic. Reincarnation means coming again in to a body. Our mind is energy and by the third law of thermodynamics – energy can’t be destroyed. If mind is energy, what happens to this energy when someone dies? Now when someone dies, what is happening? Death is almost like a sleep. What happens to you, when you sleep? Every night you go on to your bed and sleep and you never met you a sleep. If you meet your sleep; if you happen to understand your sleep, you can understand your death also. While sleeping, all consciousness, attempts of your mind shrinks and shrinks and then one by one you’re shut off from the outer experiences and moving inward, into a wide space. And then how you wake up in the morning; that’s the same energy, same consciousness which was shrunk now starts expanding and opens up and you wake up. When you carefully observe the mechanism the last thought that you get just before falling asleep, becomes the first thought when you wake up. This gives you a clue of your reincarnation. The mind which is full of different impressions leaves this body but the impressions remains with the mind like a balloon; and waits for a proper situation for the same mind to come down. And when there is copulation, when there is a proper room formation, then it just draws, pulls that mind into that room. And then a child is born. A body is gain. So, it is a last thought is more important. Whatever you do throughout in your life, at least in your last moment your mind should be free and happy. If you’re happy with the last moment before your leave the body, then you get a better body next time. It is almost impossible to get animal body after a human birth. It’s very rare; but still it is possible. Someone in the last moment keeps thinking about the chicken, and then he’ll born in the poultry firm. Because the last impression will be the strongest impression and that impression in that mind will produce such a circumstance, situation for the mind to come to the body. Karma is that which propels reincarnation. Stronger the impression, the nature of next life could be like that. The one thing that can erase the karma is awareness, self awareness. If you’re in total love then you’re free from karma. When you’re in total knowledge, total awareness that is what coming out of the circle of birth and death. You’re not bound by any impression; you’re free. What gives you the freedom is your awareness. Addictions are nothing but very very strong impressions in the consciousness. Whether it is alcohol, sex or drugs or anything; any addiction is like a compulsion or compulsive behavior is all is a part of karma. The karma is infinite. Creation is a not a linear function, it multi-dimensional. Truth is not linear, it is multi-dimensional. It’s like a spherical; in sphere every point is connected with so many other points; if it just a straight line one point is connected with only two points, one back and one front. But in a sphere, point is connected 3600 sides. There are many types of Karma; individual Karma, immediate family Karma, the societal Karma and time has Karma of its own too. When a plane accident happens, people of same karmas will be there. And different people of different karmas will escape from the plane as their life has not finished yet. It is almost impossible to pin down which karma brings effect what effect at deep level. Of the three different karmas, Sanchita, the karma which we’ve brought with us; Prarabdha, the karma which is yielding fruits right now; and Agami, the karma which we may incur in the future. Our Sanchita Karma, the karma which we have stored tendency can be burnt out; we can remove that, eliminate that with all this spiritual practices, prayers, service, loving people around us in the nature, meditation; all this erasing the karma which we’ve acquired. The Prarabdha karma, which is already yielding results, will have to be experienced. The third karma is Agami karma which we might meet in the future. Suppose you violate some loss of nature today and in future you’ve to experience. That is consequence. Every karma has a limited span of its results. Mainly five things come to us in our life from the Sanchita Karma. Five aspects in life came; birth and the place of birth, the parents from the past karma; your education and line of education, degree of education, how much you acquire knowledge; the wealth, the source wealth; your longevity and mode of death, how you’ll die. These five things come from Sanchita Karma, the karma we’ve acquired. Now, how rich we became, how much we can grow in awareness; our marriage, children, and our social work, all these is Agami Karma, the future karmas. And the future karma you can associate now; what you gain now becomes your future karma. So you’ve certain degrees of freedom to act now and acquire more karma. And you’ve certain fate or we call it certain destiny that you’re provided with, that you cannot change. Love is the common factor of entire creation. If you see birds, there is love in the birds. Your connectedness with that love takes beyond birth and beyond death. S.S.R.S.

@Paul-from-France If you drive a car, you can look through the window as far as you like or can, but it`s not going to teach you anything about the power of the car. The senses are nothing but limited tools. To say because of that, we must be nothingness , is a short cut. It`s about making the distinction between the relative and the absolute; that`s where the neti-neti technique is about. So the proper questions are needed otherwise it`s a never ending story. A good example is astronomy. The further one looks the more complicate it becomes till one ends up with total nonsense. Same with the quantum mechanics. If you dive more into the senses the same will happen. It`s important to distinguish the relative and the absolute, the relative meaning everything that has a beginning will have an end also. The absolute being without beginning thus without end. And for the conclusion of being nothingness; I prefer being fullness!

@Lorcan You are aware of it now and when you continue a proper spiritual practice you`ll live the richest life possible! You have learned the codes of the sheep-herd; now move on and do not get caught.

@Paul-from-France Well, because we have such poor senses we have made all kinds of extensions of the senses which we use in our physics. But you are taking a dead end street here..., it is the art of asking the right questions to move forward. This does not make any sense?!

@cetus56 I understand your point very well mate. There is a story from a famous guy, brother of a king, who was diagnosed with cancer also. He tried all kinds of therapy, the world across. Finally he ended up with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and his Art of Living. Sri Sri sended him a teacher to learn him the Sudarshan Kriya. The guy did not heal from the cancer but he died with a smile on his face. Before his death he took care of a lot of things to make this technique widely known among his compatriots and his family members. Because of privacy I am not allowed to tell the details, but I think you`ll get my point mate. Kind regards.

Intentions are generally not questioned in the Western world. To a person who is interested in spirituality though, it is of the highest importance. Nowadays spirituality is `big business`, a growing market with lots of `innocent` potentially customers. The weirdest stuff is happening around this phenomenon. So far so good. I am interested in the real stuff so I beware of the gold-diggers. Take for example Leo. This guy`s got nothing to hide. Totally honest, sometimes even brutal honest. He is providing lots of information but in a sincere way. He is most of the time not even charging, only a few bucks for some extra stuff. Next to that it is amazing to see the guy is developing himself all the time and he is able to question himself. Also he is not hiding his sources, he is open about that. When you take Ken Wilber and his Integral Institute. About the same story as Leo, you can feel the right intentions. Half of his books he has to spend telling about all the sources he uses, that is honesty. And his work is for sure not about making money. However when you take this Heartmath stuff it is really different. Coming with fancy new words in a fancy kind of philosophy with poor `scientific` explanations.... Where are the sources? Common, this guy did not invent all this... He is cheating, he is stealing, he is a fraud, and why..? Nothing good can come out of any spiritual initiative when the intentions are not in line with the highest ethical standards. To me that is common sense. May be a good idea anyway to start some kind of topic on this site regarding this? @Isle of View Regards mate! Faith is of the mind, love is of the heart and meditation connects both. S.S.R.S.

Hi Chris, off course one can argue about that. To me it sounds like a disguise, using all those words. When you check the info on the web you`ll see it`s all based in a very materialistic way. It`s all presented like the guy found out something new and that all of it is scientifically proven (scientifically is materialistic) in a laboratory. Common, that`s the old school... It`s a good example of the phrase; beware of false prophets. Besides when you look at the charges they count, it`s legal fraud. So generally the biggest problem I have with those initiatives are there intentions. Yeah, I questioning them, they are wrong.

@cetus56 Haha, no mate, that`s not going to happen. The finest spiritual vibrations cannot be manipulated by gross materialistic stuff. Taking the yogic philosophy as a base, it is total nonsense.

Every law belongs to a certain developed mindset. The known laws of nature are the borders of that mindset. Everything is happening within consciousness, which is limitless. What are the limits of our selves? Limited senses, limited knowledge because of limited metaphysics, all kinds of believe systems limiting you, limited self knowledge, experience, one can go on here for a while. And a real important one; truth cannot be grabbed by merely words. When you talk about a field of awareness, you talk about monism. When you talk about the laws of nature, you talk about dualism. The bridge between those worlds must be non-dualism. If you arrive there you`ll be able to manifest your cars in the sky. Only the need will be gone... @Wouter

Here’s what I think is going on as a fully general explanation of almost all of HeartMath’s research. Their Quick Coherence technique – and various others like it – are basically mishmashes of useful relaxation exercises stolen from various yogas and forms of meditation. Many of these ask you to focus on the heart – although many others ask you to focus on the tailbone, or genitalia, or third eye, or crown chakra – and all of them probably work in some vague way by redirecting your attention onto the body. I have no doubt that these yoga techniques effectively relax you. That changes your balance of parasympathetic versus sympathetic tone, which in turn affects your heart rate variability – which as we saw before, tracks parasympathetic and sympathetic tone. Since you’re more relaxed, you do better at various cognitive tasks, which HeartMath then records and claims is evidence of an effect from heart “coherence”. This explains about 80% of the Institute’s findings. by Scott Alexander http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/17/heartmath-considered-incoherent/ It`s just another example of the so called Western Human Psychological Development sector, mostly US based, who rob ancient techniques, label it with different names and start making lots of money with it. Ignorant criminals selling `love`. It`s a joke.

@Salaam Yes, I agree with this. It`s just that for a lot of people it is important to make the distinction between the emotions and the feelings, most do not. And off course feelings can come from all parts of the body, as awareness can also.

@Elton Kashiap : "How do you make everyone happy?" Guruji : "Become me." Rama : "How do we become you?" What stands between you and me is your self image. Your self image restricts you from being me. Self image whether good or bad causes misery. When you think good about yourself in a very subtle manner you think bad about others. Then anger, jealousy, hatred - everything follows. When you think bad about yourself you feel low and again you start getting angry and you hate everyone else. If you think good about yourself you are in trouble and when you think bad about yourself you are in greater trouble. So drop your self image.

@John You should not do all techniques, stick to one of them. Also do not meditate when you are to tired of working. A little bit tired is okay, but not too much. And when your purpose is to become relax, learn pranayamas. This is so much easier and a meditation afterwards will be effortlessly.