One student asked me once-"Forty days in a row?!" The whole class laughed. Forty days is the minimum to break a habit and set the stage for an internal shift. In the yogic tradition, meditations practiced for a certain number of days have a certain effect. After preparing the body and mind and balancing the emotions with Kundalini Yoga, we are able to sit quietly and enjoy the silence in our inner space. If we try to be silent without accessing our neutral channel, silent meditation often gets stuck in watching our thoughts and replaying our neuroses.
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One of the goals of the meditative techniques in the Kundalini Yoga tradition is to tune into the neutral mind, where we can access higher states of consciousness. It is our Essential Self that accesses our intuition and finds the Infinite within. We begin relating to our Essential Self or Soul. As we tune into our inner space we are able to identify and stop relating to what is called "excess personality" or "externalized ego". The purpose of deep listening is to turn our attention inward. Your experiences will be more profound and your Kundalini Yoga practice more effective if you incorporate deep listening into your spiritual practice and into your daily life. With deep listening, we cultivate our ability to hear the sound of Silence. The mind must be silent to "hear" the Divine. Or at least they recognize its value and practice the discipline. Listening to the sound of silence is core to all spiritual practices. (one definition of God) ( Lesson 21 "Surrender to the Zone" discusses in detail this concept and how we can cultivate a direct experience of the Infinite.) The purpose of a spiritual practice is to experience the Infinite within our own being and to connect our individual psyche with the universal psyche. Yogi Bhajan always told us that our biggest problem is that we think God is outside ourselves. A spiritual path is about experiencing the reality of this concept.
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(3) "God" also has so many meanings and is a very misunderstood concept. As we do so, we experience "My will is God's will." And "God in me, me in God are One." We need our "aware ego" to tune into God (universal energy) and join forces. It is this "false ego" that we are trying to give up or transcend.Īn important task of our "aware ego" is to train ourselves to listen to our intuition, instead of reacting to random thoughts that are set off by our wounded emotions and inappropriate training. The problem is that we usually operate from a "limited ego" and narrow view of ourselves and the world. Defined as our conscious awareness, an ego is necessary to think, operate, make decisions and take action in this world. (2) Ego is one of those misunderstood words with many meanings. (1) Good ideas! How do I do that?! Kundalini Yoga is one of the spiritual disciplines developed by saints and sages to accomplish these goals. Until then, do your best, enjoy your life, have faith and let God take care of your life."
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