Health is the foundation of the body. We can aspire for anything and achieve anything but if health is not there then anything else doesn't exist at all. This body works so naturally and easily but if any part of the body does not work how would it be. Many body diseases are happening because we interfere in its natural working. In this course, we will understand the reasons for not having good health or the lack of energy which forces us to withdraw from various aspects of life and how meditation can help heal the body and the mind so that we get enough vigor and energy and then radiate that energy to participate fully in life. This is called increasing the vitality and passion for life. So let us find through this course how the simple technique of Breath Mindfulness Meditation helps in being healthy and fit.

How meditation helps healing our body:

Epigenetics science has proved that by being in heightened feelings or emotions i.e. love, compassion, gratitude, feeling of oneness can restore one’s health. With meditation we can regain perfect health.

When we re-live any memories with emotions of anger, frustration, feeling insecure, we register that into our cells. This causes stress. Stress causes illness by making us feel anxious and grievous and produces more stress hormones like cortisol. With that we are not able to sleep properly and lowering our immunities.

In an emergency situation, the physical body goes into fight or flight mode and same thing happens when our mind is under stress. Like, in physical danger situations, the blood is directed to the body part where it’s needed more and other biological function gets interrupted. Similarly, when we are under stress our conscious mind doesn’t work properly. Re-living such memory adds 50% more when a negative incident is repeated as we share with others. That’s triggering our body to go into fight and flight mode stressful all the time impairing other system. Our body doesn’t work properly as the energy is directed to protect the high priority tasks. So, most of the stressful person lives with digestive system issues like heart burn, constipation.

When we regularly meditation, as we empty our mind, we are reducing energy to such events. Our thoughts and memories come down. Old memories go away. We become more self-aware and take better care of ourselves.

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Stress ages body very significantly. Meditation slows the aging process because it reduces stress. Cortisol is a harmful chemical which is released in to body due to stress. It pumps up blood and sugar levels that interfere with the body functions. Rise in sugar levels has an adverse impact on skin. Elastin and collagen are both proteins found in skin.

Meditation is enabling the production of more growth hormone (also called the fountain of youth chemical) that helps in ant-ageing

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Meditation is helping in removing a lot of addictions and cravings. Regular practice of meditation is helping not only in the production of "endorphins" but also a lot of feel good chemicals including dopamine and serotonin. These feel good chemicals help navigate a meditator to get over these addictions.

With regular meditation, the stress is reduced as the thoughts come down. Also, the "feel good" chemicals are produced in adequate supply ,and eliminate the necessity for external substances. Meditation helps in focus on present movement.

To know more about "How meditation is helping in filling up our body with lots of energy'", let's watch this lecture.

With meditation our sleep gets better. Thoughts are significantly reduced and our brain waves changes, from high beta, beta, alpha to delta. The delta state is the state during our deep sleep. That helps increase in a hormone called, melatonin  and reducing cortisol. It Brings deeper sleep and also transcendental experiences ( i.e. oneness, larger than body, peace, calmness).

So the deeper quality sleep is achieved by, Lowering the brain waves, Increase in melatonin and reducing cortisol.

Number of thoughts are reduced over the period of time. Less thoughts makes your brain like antenna, receiving messages through intuition.

We gain energies during our meditation that we need to preserve in our day to day life, so that we use that energy for better health or spiritual progress. We become mindfully aware so the number of thoughts reduces, we become more impeccable with our words, not getting into un-necessary conversation and we conserve our energies.

Diet plays an important role in conserving energies. As we meditate we become aware of our food what we eat and how much, our diet reduces, result in better digestion hence energy is conserved. That Increases metabolism, reduces food cravings and eventually it disappears. Body requirement is reduced as we are full with the cosmic energy. We have better energy all the time and hence better productivity.

What we eat also plays a big role. Non-veg food doesn’t digest properly. Human body is designed to be herbivorous as we have long intestines where food takes longer time to digest and meat-eating animals, carnivores have shorter intestine.

Farming animals take more resources from earth and the animals as well as environment suffers a lot, as they are treated and raised.

Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein and Mahatma Gandhi were vegetarian with compassionate heart.

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Bhagwat Geeta says Yogah karamsu kaushalam.

When we meditate, we are able to perform our duty in a better way. Its improving our brain function, Synchronizing left and right brain. Expanding long term memory area. It is increasing grey matter thickness, conscious mind. From birth we come with full set of NN in the brain and it slowly diminishes. Till 20 years of age, it grows later it downgrades. Meditation help us gain that back. It increases our IQ. We are able to take more work and achieving in great ways.

Intelligence quotient (IQ) gets us hired and Emotional quotient (EQ) gets us promoted both are increasing. IQ is increasing by increasing brain power and using it efficiently. Subconscious mind has things that we learned by repeating it over the period of time. Frontal cortex or our conscious mind, does all the logical and analytical thinking and takes decisions. More and more NN is formed for meditators as we keep practicing. It reduces number of thoughts and that’s how we conserve our energies. It also enhances different regions of our brain.

7 memory power increases:

1. Storing power - Storing efficiently.

2. Access Power - Storing all the related things together making quick access and retrieval.

3. Concentration Power - how long we can focus on a subject.

4. Reading Power - Reading just by scanning a paragraph pretty quickly.

5. Learning Power - we are open to learn and listen more. NN helping us learn new things. understanding different dimensions and putting together.

6. Creative power - left brain and right brain come together. Our both brains get stimulated with meditation. Doing things differently and new things attracts.

7. Thought power - thoughts and emotions creates our reality. We are cultivating our mind by reducing negative thoughts.

Life becomes more passionate as we gain health, energy and intelligence.

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Meditating experience will be more deeper when we meditate

• in nature,

• meditating in groups,

• meditating on full moon night

• meditation with music

• meditation in pyramid

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Meditation, Bhagwat Geeta and vegetarian food makes our life complete. We are more than the body, we have unlimited potential. Long meditation allows us to be in empty state of mind for longer time connecting to quantum energy field for greater manifestation.

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Desires as we start transcending we can notice that it is aligning to the purpose. And so we start transcending that. As it's becoming a purpose and becomes a need for us. When it starts aligning to the purpose, it becomes a need for our individual consciousness. And slowly becomes others in European descent, evolution.

Meditation is making sure that our attachment to the desire goes away, our attachment to the result of it, so we can put in anything into this manifestation, principles and techniques. The simple meditation is helping us understand helping us implemented into practicality. Absolutely impeccably.

Energy Science -Three Principles

· We are Less Matter, More Energy

· We are Unlimited Possibilities and Potential

· We create our reality through our thoughts & feelings

Observation manifests possibilities in to physical reality

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Memories of the emotions are stored in energy centers. abundance is saying that we are unlimited and thinking unlimited and feeling. Because there is this infinity of that field yesterday, we understood that field is infinite, unlimited possibilities exist, we need not worry, we do not feel inadequate about anything. We become more aware so that next time when we're thinking, we're going to bring in a heightened emotion of unlimited, so poor self image is one emotion there are many of them feeling guilt. feelings can produce an electromagnetic signature up to 5000 more 5000 times more than a thought. during the course, we're going to introduce some meditations, which we'll use to apply and then rework apply some energy to reprogram our emotions to let's go into this breath, mindfulness meditation.

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Soul is the driver of non dual nature of ourselves and Mind is the driver of dual nature of ourselves. Both being in the dual nature in the non dual nature, we are combining these two. So it's like we have a great mentor, the superhuman mentor with us. Science is always liberating to understand, that we can create and manifest, So we got all of these right ,we can create whatever we want. It is often the mind focuses on what we don't want. So friends, let's go into a meditation and then understand these complete steps of manifestation.

Dream & Visualize about clear purpose and goal.we want to move from Limiting belief to Elevated thoughts. Our personality of limiting belief creates an outer reality that is not in line with our goals, so we need to reprogram them. By gaining right wisdom through books and affirming empowering belief we are moving in to elevated thoughts. Follow the 5 point formula from our news letter attached.

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We will implement manifestation using the 5 point formula. Kindly bring in all the associated feelings and emotions what you will experience after the goal is accomplished.

Identify goal, construct a mind movie, by the time I prepared and talk about meditation, construct a mind movie of how if that goal happened for you, how would your life change constructor mind movie, bring up some few sequences of things.

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Limiting beliefs from the past have to be reprogrammed with empowering beliefs and thought patterns. This can be done through reading books, getting inspiration from similar real life examples, learning from autobiographies of people etc. Thought patterns have to be reprogrammed to overcome the limiting beliefs. We need to list down the limiting beliefs and write an empowering/elevating thought/belief against it. This way we can overcome our limiting beliefs over a period.

For manifestation to happen, everyone have to overcome their limiting beliefs and reprogram them with empowering beliefs. We need to stay in elevated thoughts all the time. Visualize the situation has happened more often and by that the feelings become elevated and when thoughts, beliefs and feelings are elevated then manifestation is bound to happen.

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Every goal will be manifested if there is a clear purpose and need for it. There is a difference between what we desire and what we need. If our desire and needs are in alignment and there is a noble cause behind the goal, and if our thoughts, feelings and emotions are into it completely, then the goal is to be manifested.

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Meditation enhances the happiness of life. With meditation, we understand the different levels of consciousness. There are 4 different kinds of pleasures: body pleasures, mind pleasures, intellect pleasures and soul pleasures. With time, we understand how to transcend them. There are only 3 NO's for a spiritual seeker. No violence, No interference and NO killing. Practicing these three NO's and asking for manifestation will happen. When we force something on someone, we are going to face it as there is a law of cause and effect.

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Knowledge is precursory to the experience. We are learning from every experience. Good knowledge leads to good experiences. Poor knowledge leads to poor experiences. Meditation makes the experiences more “real”. Meditation helps to experience life fully and to experience it with balance. It helps us to be in the present moment and enhance that experience. Meditation and knowledge  are two key pillars to have a joyful life.

There is an immediate need to ensure to not relive past negative life experiences. Instead, we need to clear our thoughts with meditation, and read right books of various masters to gain positive experiences.

Doing is applying the knowledge and bringing that into practice. This repetitive knowledge becomes a habit or a skill, which eventually gets into the subconscious mind. It is the subconscious mind that is being projected into our life.

Our thoughts and feelings create our respective realities. When we regularly learn and regularly meditate, we stop firing the older neural connections and start firing the new connections.We move from learning state to doing state and we become of it.

Our brain is divided into three parts called Learning brain (Conscious mind), Doing brain (Subconscious mind) and Being brain (Unconscious mind). The frontal area is called the Neocortex. The middle area is called the Limbic brain and the third area is called the Reptilian brain.

All the new learnings and processing the new learnings happens in Neocortex. Anything that we learn from sensory inputs is from the Neocortex. When we learn something new, neurons connect with other neurons and forms the new neural connections.

Doing is applying the knowledge and bringing that into practice. Every time we face repetitive situations, we fire the same neural connections again.

Our thoughts and feelings create our respective realities. When we regularly learn and regularly meditate, we stop firing the older neural connections and start firing the new connections. This is the beginning of a change.We move from learning state to doing state and we become of it.

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People can be broadly classified into four categories- some maybe spiritually rich,some spiritually poor,some materially rich and some materially poor and a combination is always available. For materially poor people we lend help as much as that is possible by us and when we encounter materially rich people we make Friendships.Following generalisations is something that every meditator will avoid. We have to get away from generalisations. Spiritually poor- when we recognize that someone does not know anything about Anapanasati then we do not give money but instead provide that spiritually poor person with liberating knowledge i.e Meditation. Give selflessly everything that you know about that knowledge without holding back anything. We become students to spiritually rich people and learn from them. We ask questions or listen to them as they have so much knowledge.

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Experience sharing by Indumalik

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" 'MEDITATION' more that anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of wisdom of whatever success I've had" - Ray Dalio

We all want to be successful. Meditation gives us Energy,Wisdom and Friendship. Chanakya in his wisdom has mentioned that in order to be successful one needs to have passion,knowledge and mentor. And then we add friendships.

• Knowledge+passion=Energy

• Clarity+energy=Passion

• Knowledge+Wisdom=Experiential knowledge

• Mentor= Comes from friendships

To progress on material goals we need to have all these. We all should have mentors who give us independence to execute. While there is physical energy,material wisdom and material friendship,there is also meditational energy, meditational  wisdom and meditation friendship. To be successful in life we need to have all of these. Meditation helps in generating wisdom,energy and good friendships.

To know more about how 'Meditation gives us success' lets dive into the lecture and bottle ourselves with more wisdom.

Clarity is what we all need in life. Meditation gives us the ability to discern right from wrong easily and thus gain clarity in decision making. Health and Energy is naturally gained when we meditate and then clarity is also gained through meditation. Everything in life is all about materials,time,energy,money,etc. Meditation is giving us that clarity and the more clarity we have about life the infinity of energy we can embrace. Clarity of which,what,when and where is received by doing meditation.

A high Emotional Intelligence(or EQ) is essential for developing strong interpersonal skills. Higher EQ mean an individual is more self-aware,self-expressive,inspired,empathetic, and engaging. Self-awareness is the process of going within and connecting with our true self,not with our outer appearance or personality,but with our inner essence.Self-awareness helps us in becoming more composed and calm in any situation. It enables us to see others as reflection of us and act from a position of learning rather than blaming others in tough situations. Meditation helps in being empathetic towards others rather than being frustrated and blaming.

Self-expression is about balancing or emotions.It brings out positive emotions leading to thoughtful and positive outward action. Meditation helps in enabling this part of ourselves.

Meditation helps us in keeping our ego aside and being able to take inspiration from others. With regular meditation we avoid indulging into arguments and learn to express our point of view firmly,yet remain open to receive and listen to other's point of view. This makes us more engaging and and develops etter relationships with people more naturally.

Know more about EQ and how meditation helps us in 'Improving our EQ significantly' , lets give a hearing to this lecture.

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Meditation helps us in making friendships and an important part of that is making friendships with ourselves. Friendship is accepting the persons as it is and that is where comes the point of accepting ourselves as we are. That is called self-love.  We cannot be a critic of ourselves and there is no way we can be friends to others. We have to have friendship with ourselves,animals, and with people.

While talking about Emotional Intelligence and meditaion enhancing it, there is no way that we miss the opportunity to understand the four agreemnets developed by a great shaman master Don Miguel Ruiz. In the book The Four Agreements,Don Miguel Ruiz offers four simple guiding principles based on ancient Toltec wisdom for experiencing a liberating life that breaks the constant limting beliefs imposed by the people and environment.

1. Be impeccable with your words :- Speak with integrity and utmost care and say what you mean. Our thoughts and feelings create our outer reality.

2. Don't take anything personally :- Recognize that everyone has their opinions based on their knowledge,wisdom and evolution.

3. Don't make assumptions :- Making assumptions about people,their words and actions can create a lot of negative inner chatters.

4. Always do your best :- Our best is going to change from moment to moment.

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Everything is energy.Every thought form or every angelic form is energy. One represents life force energy,other represents creative energy and other learning energy. Depending on whatever form one knows it is all energy and ultimately we are also energy depending on our state of being. When we are into emptiness we are becoming one with this various potentials of energy. To know more about energy and emptiness watch the lecture.

Meditation improves Emotional Intelligence significantly and helps become more Self-aware,Self-expressive,Inspired,Empathetic and Engaging.

A high Emotional Intelligence(or EQ) is essential for developing strong interpersonal skills. Higher EQ means an individual is more Self-aware,Self-expressive,Inspired,Empathetic and Engaging.

Self-Awareness helps us become more composed and calm in any situations.It enables us to see others as reflection of us and act from a position of learning rather than blaming others in tough situations.

Self-expression is about balancing emotions.It brings out positive emotions leading to thoughtful and positive outward action. Meditation enables this greatly. With greater self-expression,we do not seek approval of others and do not feel the need to prove a point.We recognize there are many points of view and they need to listened to.This develops better relationships with people very naturally.

As we build more and more relationships,and with a transformative deep self awareness, we become empathetic towards people,places and events. With regular practice of meditation, we become less judgemental, more tolerant and more forgiving.We allow for failures to happen,fully recognising them as a core part of learning.We become very genuine in our approach.This helps us to be seen as natural leaders among the communities and colleagues.

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One of the ways to multiply the effects of our meditation is by utilizing Pyramid Energy. Research has shown that Pyramid energy can be utilized for Preservation, healing and for going into altered states of consciousness during meditation.

Pyramids are store houses of cosmic energy.The structural design of a Pyramid consists of three-dimensional triangles, with large bases tapering towards the top and four faces with a 'golden angle of inclination' of 51 degrees and 51 minutes. When built to this angle and placed in perfect alignment with the cardinal directions,Pyramids are found to have an energisation capability.

Pyramids(even as small as 2ft * 2ft) placed on the roadside along the stretches of accident prone highways or traffic junctions seem to reduce fatal accidents. If students wear Pyramid shaped caps while studying , or sit under a Pyramid during studies, they gain higher concentration powers.

Meditation done inside or underneath a Pyramid is called Pyramid Meditation.Pyramid meditation is more powerful than normal meditation.Meditation done under the Pyramid enhances the energy levels in very less time.

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Breath-mindfulness meditation helps is a great tool to set and achieve miraculous goals in our life.. at work,in health,with family,etc. Quantum Physics says "where the attention goes,there the energy flows and manifestation happens".

Our thoughts create our reality. "YadbhavamTadbhavati". Higher thoughts create higher realities. Dense and lower thoughts create lower realities.Our emotions follow the thought process.Happy and positive thoughts create happy and positive emotions whereas sad and negative thoughts create sad and negative emotions.Emotion is nothing but energy which is set in motion. When an emotion arises in us, our body starts resonating to the frequency of that emotion.

Emotional vibration is fundamental to manifestation. Feelings and emotions that are sustained by us attract similar outcomes in our life.We are all creators and when we meditate we become more conscious of how we are creating our life. 

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Spiritual Quotient can be defined as having an understanding of five grand statements: I am everyone and everyone is me. I have unlimited potential in me. My reality is created by me with my thoughts and feelings. There is abundance everywhere. There is a higher intelligence that is always waiting to assist me.

When we understand that everyone is ‘me’ and ‘us’, We move from separateness to oneness. We understand that we are connected to each other in the one energy field and we have a higher tendency to help everyone. It doesn’t matter how others react; we just want to help. We don’t judge anyone.

When we feel unlimited potential, we readily challenge ourselves with new initiatives without fear. We move from fixed mindset to growth mindset and understand that the field has unlimited possibilities. We stop bothering if someone doesn't help us. We feel confident about ourselves and we are always ready to help.

When we have a highly developed SQ, all other intelligence automatically get added to us. SQ is developed only through sincere meditation practice and expanding ourselves with the right spiritual knowledge.

“Meditation to wisdom to liberation”

The best companion for meditation is reading books. When we read right books, we expand our consciousness. When we expand our consciousness, we increase our experiences of life. With each new experience, we gain newer happiness. The more we experience, the more we understand ourselves, the more joyful we become, and the more contended we become. Meditation helps us to read more, learn more and experience more of that knowledge.

Right books to read are all the books about Spiritual Science. Any number of books have been written about Spiritual Science by several world spiritual masters. Spiritual India and Spiritual Science Magazines are International Bi-monthly English journals and are great tools that aid in this process. These magazines bring out the knowledge of Spiritual Science obtained from various Masters and Spiritual Scientists from all over the world.

Dhyana (Meditation) leads to Gnana (Wisdom) which in turn leads to Moksha (Liberation)

Meditation helps us to learn a lot. Everything is possible. Learn how to unlearn yourself from past belief systems that happens with everyday practice of meditation. When we understand that thoughts create our external reality, we create a life of abundance. We expand our consciousness. One has to have the fundamental urge to make a difference. Service is the best way to become one with others. Explore till you find the purpose of your life.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. The companies that we create have a purpose. The communities we form have a purpose. Our innovations such as the phone, TV and car have clear purpose. Similarly, each and everyone of us have a purpose. When we understand our purpose, it becomes easy for us to set our goals at work, at home, in our social circles and so on. What is purpose of life and how to find that?

Purpose of life at any point in our life, can be broadly defined as a set of activities that when carried out, one finds deep satisfaction and fulfilment and their life meaningful. It need not always be our primary job/work role. For e.g., A person in his sales role currently at a company finds deep satisfaction in everything he is doing and well aligned. In another case, a person may be working at the company in a specific role, but her deep internal happiness is found while playing for a classical music band in the community. In another case, an individual may have taken to service in a specific place due to family tradition, but always enjoys traveling to far away places much more than anything else. In each of these cases, the real fulfilment is coming from a set of activities, and they are aligned to the job role in some cases, and not aligned in some other cases.

Purpose of life is different for different people. While there is an overarching purpose for every life, most often, what we do towards the life purpose is not fixed for the whole life. It is constantly being revealed as “the next exciting things to do” as one progresses in life. One may find himself/herself doing different type of activity every few years, yet constantly aligning to the life purpose, which is made known to us when we connect the dots after the fact. In exceptional cases, purpose of life becomes very clear to some people from early age and they are fixated in doing that for the whole life time such as few grand masters like Ramana Maharshi who had the calling from a very young age. At fundamental level, purpose of life is to learn and enjoy. With every new learning, we experience “new”, leading to more enjoyment. That’s the nature of the consciousness. Learning without enjoyment can not be sustained and will lead to boredom. Enjoyment without learning will be stagnation and will turn into boredom and regret. As we meditate regularly, we recognize that we are here to experience “new”, and seek a change to whatever we do at regular intervals throughout our life.

Ikigai means “A reason to jump out of bed every morning” or “Finding the purpose your life”. Once you discover your Ikigai, pursuing it and nurturing it every day will bring meaning to your life. It is unique for everyone. Ikigai is much more than a passion or profession. If one has a sense of purpose in life, the concept of retirement does not matter.

People who live the longest have a positive attitude and a high degree of emotional awareness. Meditation is helping them in slowing down the mind. It helps to appreciate the more important as well as the finer aspects of life. The happiest people in the world are not the ones who achieve the most. They are the ones who spend more time than others in a state of ‘flow’, taking small steps at a time and cultivating a habit of discipline, the state in which people are so involved in an activity; the experience itself is quite enjoyable.

A key point to gaining clarity about our life purpose is to never waste time and always jump-in and do something. We do not wait for purpose to be revealed or fully understood. Instead, we jump-in to do something. Our intent is more important and meditation gives strength to the intent. It is usually not money, resources or time that stop us from finding our purpose. It is a lack of intent that prevents us from aligning to our purpose.

To further identify what is important to us, we can make a vision board to put down a prioritized list of goals on it. While developing the vision board, ask this question – “what do I want to do if I have less than one year (or less than 6 months / 3 months.) left in my life?”. From this list, we chose activities / goals that align to our abilities.

Finally, when manifesting any of the goals from our vision board, we must always work out of our comfort zone. Take up small concrete goals, execute one task at a time and go into the detail in execution. This will help us go into a flow. It will help us understand what excites us and what does not leading us towards more clarity.

Many a times, we also gain clarity from the purpose of our parents. What did they stand for in their whole life leadership, community service, hard work? We may find specific patterns in them, some of which often reflect in our purpose.

Thus, meditation gives us much needed clarity and helps us find our current purpose. When the purpose is still not clear, one can attempt to take up something new, and test going into the flow by visualization and execution.

Mindfulness is simply focusing on our moment-to-moment experience. A key aspect of mindfulness is stepping outside of the 'doing' mode and entering into the 'being' mode. In this 'being' mode, we are not trying to fix anything. We are not trying to go anywhere. We are not trying to do anything. It is the basic human ability to be fully aware of where we are and what we’re doing non-judgmentally, and not overly react or be overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.

With mindful thinking, we are not judgmental about events and people. We are more attuned to our senses and are always noticing our thoughts and emotions.

With mindful talking, we are aware of what we speak and, speak only if it is relevant and feel there is real value to add in a group.

With mindful eating and sleeping, we are fully present in what we eat. We appreciate the food, the people and setting.

With mindful action, we reduce unwanted activities like watching unnecessary or excessive TV. We eliminate unwanted time spent on reading news papers, and limit our reading to what is most relevant.

"Who is a Buddha-CEO?"

A Buddha-CEO leader who

• Exhibits high energy all the time and leads from the front

• Leads with compassion in all decisions and takes responsible actions

• Encourages constant innovation and newness for true joy

• Uses competition only for developing more excellence and not to dominate or eliminate

• Recognizes that every employee has infinite hidden potential and encourages everyone equally

• Encourages everyone to see themselves as leaders, to solve challenges through intuition and inner strengths

• Provides freedom and a love-based, caring and inclusive environment for people to thrive, as opposed to stifling them with control and fear

• Recognizes the abundance of opportunity for everyone and focuses on his/her own business growth

• Finds meaning and purpose for the business and aligns employees for community enablement and individual fulfilment

We are made up of five bodies: Physical body, Mind, Intellect, Energy body (Individual consciousness), and “All that is” (Infinite Quantum Energy Field or Universal consciousness). We need to nourish all these bodies for perfect health. Meditation nourishes the Energy body directly and all other bodies indirectly. In addition to meditation, unconditional Service to others is the best way to nourish ‘all that is’ , and helps us gain that perfect health !

A beautiful representation of this wholesome world can be visualized with our fingers: little finger – Physical body, ring finger – Mind, middle finger – Intellect, index finger – Energy body, thumb – All that is.

We use the index finger to identify someone or something. Thus rightfully, the index finger represents the Energy body which is the grander self of our Physical body, as we are 99.99% energy and only 0.01% matter (physical). Meditation nourishes the Energy body directly.

With regular meditation, reading and listening to others’ experiences, we keep developing our Intellect i.e., spiritual intelligence to live life in the grandest possible way. Intellect is the ability to discern between right and wrong. Mind is a product of culture,environment and upbringing which possess several limiting beliefs and fears.

In the physical world, the best way to nourish our Physical body is through a plant based diet. Vegetables and Fruits make it easy on the Physical body. The best form of nourishment to our Mind is through art, music and dance. We gain peace of Mind quickly through these infinite forms of enjoyment. The best way to nourish our Intellect is by reading the right spiritual books. The best way to nourish the Energy body is through meditation.

Finally, the best way to nourish “All that is” is by doing Service to everyone and everything around. We recognize that even Service to others is really a Service for ourselves as it gives us greater contentment and fulfilment. Hence we need to perform Service unconditionally just the way we do all other activities.

With unconditional Service, we develop divergent thinking and become more open to possibilities and ideas. Service helps us to subside the "I" or the ego as we work with people from all walks of life and truly learn to live as one among many. Service makes our own problems look smaller as we get exposed to others’ problems that are often much larger. This enables us to stop complaining about life, accept and be grateful for what we have.

Psyche is the product of total understandings, beliefs, perceptions and behaviors based on one’s past experiences. Psyche is the conditioning of our body and mind, carried over from ages. Psychosomatic disorders are the physical illnesses in the body due to the limited development of the Psyche or the limiting Intellect. All mental stressors such as anxieties, fears, worries are all part of the limited development of the Psyche, and are a significant cause for several body illnesses. These are also called lifestyle disorders.

Any meditation program focused on "knowing oneself " necessitates a lot of emphasis on the practice itself. A student learns best by sincerity, depth of practice and the knowledge of the teacher. The journey of a practitioner can be enhanced significantly by following a few best practices.

Give importance to more meditation practice: In each of the meditation sessions, it’s important that adequate amount of time is allocated for practicing meditation. Because one’s individual deep meditation practice can direct him/her to right next steps as meditation is a very intelligent process. Allocate at least 50% or more time for meditation.

Tips for Teaching Meditation

1. Give importance to more meditation practice

2. Share your own experiences

3. Encourage others to share experiences

4. Encourage reading books

5. Speak in simple language

6. Encourage group meditation sessions

7. Go for quality and not quantity

8. Be accessible

9. Trust the process

10. No attachment or expectation on results

11. No force and no special appearances

12. Study these two books : Meditation is very very easy and The art and science of Meditation

13. Remember the teaching session is for you

‘We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; rather we are spiritual beings having a human experience’. We are here to establish peace and make our planet a better place to live. We meditate to rediscover our true self. The sooner we get into the regular practice of meditation, the sooner we will understand the purpose of our current life. The more we meditate, the more we become one with the ‘whole’ … that quantum energy field. We recognize that there is something much larger than our physical body and this material life. We drop our differences with others at once.