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Category : Meditation FAQId : 6987084 Subject : What is "Free Your Mind" Question : Hello. I'd like to know what it means to "Free Your Mind." Do I have to let go of some previous thoughts of my own? Let go of restrictions? I hear of the saying "Let your doubts, fear, and disbelief go, and Free Your Mind." Can you explain to me, if you know, what that means. If possible, how can you achieve that state of mind? Thanks! Answer : Greetings KKwan82 You are the Master Here... You have created your world with your thoughts, and you are the Captain of the ship. But the power within you is the greast treasure you will ever find. So let go of your restrictions yes. Let go of self Doubt? yes...Let go of all your thoughts.... Try it, you will discover for your self that thoughts are restrictions we put upon the world... as the thoughts slow down, more light shines through. That's why in meditation you practice the art of letting go. You don't think, you feel, you are aware. Upon coming into this world, we have always been taught to put our awareness outside of ourselves. So in meditation we take that awareness and put it inside and see what's happening. Since thought is creating existence we unthink the whole process...Let all of the thoughts go back to where they came from. Let your heart open up to the unconditional love that is within you. A state of mind is trapped in time... we want to go beyond time, beyond the mind... we want to be still, completely still, we want to be aware of the awareness that comes when you simply be as you are. Without interuption, without desires and thoughts of any nature.... Most people have a steady stream of thoughts, worries, fears etc that keep the physical world intact...which prevents anyone from going inside because the door has been closed by thought. Something that happens to free the mind happens when you become aware of your breath. The grace of existence is within that breath, the very grace of God...Just place your awareness upon your Breath and let everything else fall into place....it will center you and keep you from being so involved in the thought process. We cannot find the truth through thought. We cannot find peace by thinking about it. We cannot find God through thinking.... All of your actions in this life will either help or hinder you in maintaining the higher level of awareness. There are meditative techniques to use to open the door to that higher consciousness. Direct experience with the light of the universe through opening your third eye. This comes through concentrating your awareness at the 7th chakra. You can listen to the eternal river of sound within yourself through sound Meditation, but not if your thoughts are taking you away. And you won't see any light if your thoughts are chugging away...all you will see is the physical universe of forms. We want to return to the place before form before creation...before thought... and that is what happens when we are completely still..... Where there is no thought...there is complete transformation of the physical universe, it will disolve before your very eyes filling you with bliss and enlightenment... We are so fortunate to be able to realize that power within....to become aware of that breath that is sustaining this very existence. Your faith toward the truth will open all of the doors to the center of your being, and fill your whole existence with Bliss. And May you always be so blessed. For some more info please read the enlightened soul at www.babainstitute.org Peace baba
Rating : FAQId : 6988628 Subject : My experience with meditation Question : I was compelled to start meditating when I was 14, and it completely changed my outlook on life. No one ever taught me how to meditate, I just started doing it and started noticing powerful changes in my life. My intuition became incredibly sharp, and I started having strong feelings about future events - like I was able to see into the future; not actually see future events happening, just have an strong kind of instinct about things. It kind of freaked me out. I felt this amazing bond with the natural world, like everything was part of everything else. I experienced a new "glow" inside - I wanted to share this feeling with the world. Now I am 24, and I haven't meditated in a few years, and I can feel a sort of degeneration of my spirit as a result. Life got pretty rocky in my early 20s - I spent years trying to find my life's direction after college - and now I am ready to turn over a new leaf for 2002. I guess I am seeking affirmation that what I felt was a universal result of meditation, that "I'm not the only one" and what happened isn't just my imagination running wild. I continue to let my instinct guide me, and it tells me that everything is going to be fine, but it's so hard to talk to people about these feelings; I feel like people will think I'm a nut and won't believe me (it's also tough because I live in the Bible Belt). I feel so alone. Thanks in advance for your responses, Shelby Answer : Hi There Turner Shelby Oh Joy Joy Joy Tis music to me ears to hear you sing the praises of that beautiful experience that is waiting for each and every soul to behold... You describe so much feeling and devotion... There will come a time that each and everyone of us wishes we would not have wasted so much of our precious time toward that search for the truth. It seems as if you had to stray a bit to realize that what you experienced was real... and now could it be that you miss it a bit?...Never fear it hasn't gone anywhere, it's still there waiting for you to come home... It's totally normal for one to get to a certain level of experience and then to take a break to digest it all.. usually when one returns to continue the journey, it's with a renewed sense of dedication and perserverence to discover the ultimate truth. Everything on your path is as exactly as it should be unfolding to you. The totality of the truth lies within you and the closer you get to it the better everything gets. It's the natural law ... Isn't it wonderful? And you are sharing it with all who would behold..... Good Cheer baba www.babainstitute.org if i can help Rating : Thanks for your response, Baba. It was very inspiring. Shelby
FAQId : 6988957 Subject : meditation Question : sir, My problrm is that i stammer in front of people while talking. It is not my physical problem but it is due to lack of confidenece.When i talk with my parents ,brother,friend i do not stammer. Some body told me that meditation will solve this.Infact there is fear of people in my subconcious. Can u help me Answer : Hi Shafgaat Ahmad Greetings to you my friend. You are a child of God, full of every power of the universe within you... You are a perfect being endowed with the grace of God flowing through every fiber of your being. You can be comfortable with God. You can be comfortable with yourself. You can relax in that truth that can be found within yourself. Know that your faith in God will open any door and bring balance and harmony into your life. You can relax into your breath...your breath is always with you....Concentrate on your breath to keep you in a safe place so that all things fall into place. Being aware of your breath will relax you and bring balance into your every movement. The power of God is within your breath. Being aware of your Breath will keep you centered within yourself and in balance. When you are centered within yourself you are standing in confidence, understanding, and a lack of fear. This is a good meditation with our normal duties in everyday life, because we can be aware of our breath and still do everything we do. As you become comfortable with that, you can go into deeper meditation as your hunger will take you. Becoming aware of God within yourself is the ultimate journey. Meditation is a direct path to God Realization. God Realization fullfills you. i think when we stammer, a thought gets ahead of where the voice is saying..... if we keep aware of our breath it will keep both balanced in the right perspective. As with more meditation into higher consciousness ... more understanding, more relaxation, more bliss, more prosperity, more happiness, more confidence, enlightenment...what more could we want? The elixer of life? the Fountain of youth? all there too... Here's what i would like you to do.... Become aware of your breath on a constant basis... Check out my web site at www.babainstitute.org if you want to get deeper into meditation... and... say this prayer for 30 days: "Dear God, Please Release any negative Past Life Cell Memories into the White Light of your Consciousness. Thank you" this is in case you're holding on to some past life memory. Say this every day for 30 days And let me Know what Happens Cheers baba
FAQId : 7361939 Subject : how to Question : I seriously wanna get into meditation... but I don't know where to start. Like how to and what to do... you know all the basic stuff that a beginner needs to know. Can anyone give me any information? Thanks. Answer : Greetings Good choice my friend.... Very basic and the first place to begin is with your breath.. very powerful this breath. Your essential breath of life it is always with you and all you have to do is to be aware of it...coming in and going out. this will center you and give yourself a new awareness. Meditation is being with God, so a spiritual lifestyle will be most effective in bringing about a clear meditation. In meditation we want to bring our attention inside. Which is the exact opposite of what you have been doing all of your life. All of our attention, our energy, creativity etc, since we were born, is directed outward into the physical world right? so we have to turn that awareness around and direct it inward. Since we are so accustomed to looking outside, everytime you look at the breath something will draw you back outside into the world , because this is where all of our attachments and desires are. So you really have to know what you want.... Then there’s this thing called thought. This is what we do in that physical World, the whole and everything ...it’s all thought....and as long as we are thinking, we cannot be meditating. Understand? We want to get beyond thought, ....with a mind that is constantly thinking. Paradox? Become attached to being aware of your breath, it will help to keep you from having so many thoughts, it will center you, and you can do all of your activities while doing this. So let’s sit down and relax and be still.....Take a couple of slow deep breaths and relax into yourself, keep your back straight.. Watch your breath come in and go out, endlessly, perfectly, effortlessly... just be still.... as thoughts come up, don’t give them any energy..just let them return from where they came...and relax be completely still...relax into the silence within yourself.... As we go deeper we can meditate on Light, & Sound. You understand that everything is energy and vibrations and all that stuff right? and in meditation we want to go beyond thought, beyond the world of form, beyond this very existence right? straight into high consciousness......... my website is devoted to that person who is looking for such answers http://www.babainstitute.org ...read the enlightened soul, you can download it for free on the site. The site will show you how to meditate and will answer your questions, and you can get in touch with me there if I can help.... cheers baba
Rating : FAQId : 7387020 Subject : emotional health Question : i'm 23, sexually frustrated,I can't get married now(money). I can't have sex nor masturbate because its against my religion. though that i'm over-masturbating but i really want to stop it and i want to find a healthy life and stay clear of sex and masturbating.please help me with many ways to stop what i,m doing wrong. Answer : Hi Chino3 Know that God loves you and that you are created in his image. You can do anything that you want to do and God will still love you.......We have many choices, and can experiment with all of them until we realize that the each choice also carries with it a corresponding level of consciousness. Since this life is all about discovering our different levels of consciousness, we want to access the whole spectrum and not be locked into the lower levels through our actions. your frustration is from your lack of contact with your higher self. Your avoidance with communication with God. You want to stay in the playpen with the lower physical self.. The intimacy that you desire is focused into the lower realm within that playpen as well as your pleasure and desires. and you have created your play area with the power of God. Do You want the highest intimacy...the most intimate?.... the most fullfilling, pleasurable feeling that you could ever have?... ...then go for the gold! go for the ultimate ecstacy....only it’s not to be found within a climax or an ejaculation....this is a waste of your spiritual fuel. It’s found totally beyond the physical plane of pleasure.....your spiritual fuel should remain contained and brought up the spine into the higher chakras as in “your kundalini rising”. this masterbation is peanuts compared to the merging with God Consciously on the higher planes of consciousness..... we have a lifetime of putting our awareness outside of ourselves into the physical realm, in meditation we turn around that outside flow of awareness and return that awareness to it’s source within. in masterbation we are stimulating the physical once again for our pleasure...which keeps us from taking the elevator to the higher floors....for the ultimate experience.... go for the highest intimacy....that between you and God. you can find this through meditation which will allow you to direct your awareness toward Sacred Ground [within] the highest intimacy is within... the highest ecstacy is within.... the highest feeling of contentment is only to be found within.... that most pleasurable feeling is in directly merging with God [that perfect place of truth within yourself] meditation is a direct pipeline to that direct experience with the highest reality [pure consciousness] that perfect place of contentment within yourself, is where you will find your highest attainment...... my website at www.babainstitute.org will help you if you so desire....and want to know more about meditation. also.... cut down on your sugar intake... cut down on your meat intake and remember that your breath contains the secrets of the universe....become aware of your breath and see what happens... everything you need is there. Cheers and God Bless baba Answer : Greetings Chino3 and i too wish you a beautiful life.... one filled with Good Health, Happiness, Prosperity, and God’s Grace fullfilling you and protecting you....now and forever. My parents taught me from birth to eat meat, it was all they knew, so I can’t blame them. Around the age of 22 I began to realize that i didn’t support eating meat anymore for a number of reasons. i didn’t want to see another being having to give up their life for me to exist, also I began to realize that all of the meat that i was eating had gone through slaughter houses. A funny thing happens when all of these animals are faced with death....they know it. They all have souls and feelings as well. They become totally terrified when this is about to happen, they are all crying out and are totally filled with fear. This fear becomes trapped within every fiber of their being. Needless to say when one eats this fear we take it unto ourselves. Over years of this, we become that which we consume. Once we take on a spiritual lifestyle, we realize that every single detail of our life effects our awareness and our consciousness. So we begin to let go of all those things that veil our consciousness. The more we fine tune our awareness the more we see all of the things that keep us in the lower levels of our being begin to drop away. One step at a time...we evolve. Animal instincts come with eating meat...fear, agressive behavior, violent tendencies... These all disappear when we become vegetarian. The spiritual realm begins to appear, and literally we begin to see the light of Higher consciousness. It is necessary to be aware of these things to understand why we would want a spiritual lifestyle, and why we would want to become a vegetarian. I applaud you for asking such personal questions that have to do with your spiritual path, and your spiritual growth. Nature has given us so many wonderful foods that grow upon the earth...all to support and nourish our existence. So many healthy vegetables, grains, nuts, fruits.....what a wonderful planet....thank God, huh? One day I stopped eating meat and meat products completely, never to return. That was over 30 years ago. If you can stop completely all at once then do it... If you have to gradually do it...then do it that way.... either way, if you decide to do it...you will just do it. Try vegetarian at first. Macrobiotic is very strict and you can ease into it if you choose. How to be vegetarian?...Just do it...no how about it , just do it. You can eat fish if you want meat sometimes...this too you can eventually transcend. Eat lots of nuts, beans etc for your protein. Soy products like tofu is very good for you. You can eat fish occasionally...deep water fish...but not too much too often because the oceans are becoming more and more polluted. There is so much nuclear waste being dumped into the oceans, and all of the oceans become one body of water eventually. Or eat fresh water fish that you know are free of pollutants being dumped upstream. Stay away from farmed fish..lots of additives and pollutants. So eventually we have to give up the fish for health reasons. Although fish don’t cry out in pain when you take their life, still it’s a step up from meat. so if you have to have the meat for awhile switch to fish. Even vegetables and fruits etc cry silently when they are separated from their lifesource, so it’s nice to thank them for giving up their life to sustain yours. Also it’s good to take your vitamin and mineral supplements along with your daily food. A long time ago the land that we grow on was full of minerals that the vegetables would assimilate. Constant growing has depleted much of the minerals that used to be absorbed through the root system. A vegetarian diet goes hand in hand with a spiritual lifestyle. Eat fresh and stay healthy, as they say... i congratulate you on your awareness of what’s important for your spiritual growth.... but more importantly God will bless you with increased awareness and a higher consciousness. Cheers and God Bless and I hope this helps babaRating : you are the only one that gave me a helpfull answer thanks for caring. FUQuestion : you are talking about chakras then you must know about macrobiotics. if so please tell me how to change my lifestyle to the macrobiotic way or how to switch to be vegeterian.note I live in Egypt thank you very much anandjibaba. I wish you a beautiful life.
FAQId : 7388968 Subject : telepathy Question : hi mcan anybody help me to develop or learn telepathy? Answer : Hi We are all born psychic.....but it gets covered over quite quickly as we proceed with life. we are taught that everything is on the outside of ourselves...and not taught that the real existence is within..... If we become still...completely still....we can communicate through thought without talking. Telepathy is a natural occurrence on the higher planes. There is no such thing as distance on higher planes of consciousness....Telepathic communication can happen between someone in California and someone in India....or between you and Jesus....no limits. Problem is we are mostly in constant thought....this is what produces the body. This is what keeps us from being aware of higher energy [consciousness]. when we silence the mind and that flow of thought, we can “tune in”, just like tuning into a radio station. Clairvoyance, the ability to “see”, clairaudience “to hear”, and telepathy all can be accessed through higher consciousness. All this awareness happens within your sixth chakra [energy center] This is also called the Ajna chakra, or your Third Eye. If you know where to concentrate your energy at your third eye you simply rise to that level of consciousness, and your awareness expands. This is your command center of your sixth sense. Meditation will still the mind. it is very easy to talk to God,....but if we want to listen to God, first we must make quiet the mind....through meditation we can bring our awareness to the subtle planes of consciousness where celestial activity can be experienced. Most Notable Psychics that I know of will all set quietly and through meditation they will center themselves and raise their energy level to that of the third eye level, before they do a reading. my website www.babainstitute.org will help you open your third eye if you want to understand meditation. as far as psychic development... read stuff by James Van Pragh read stuff by Sylvia Brown also check out www.berkeleypsychic.com for info and classes on psychic development. You can see telepathy between you and your lover, and Telepathy can be observed between you and your cat or any pet that you have, or any animal. we usually don’t pay attention to this because it seems so natural.Cheers and Good Luck Hope some of this helps....
babaRating : FAQId : 7486652 Subject : fart 60 to 80 times a day Question : Please guide me,I have a problem with F A R T .I got fart 60 to 80 times a day.My friend and any family member do not like.Is there any simple treatment for this. Your-suresh Answer : Dear Anonymous Strange question for the Meditation Board. Maybe we can meditate and it will go away? Physical plane activity follows cause and effect... so here’s what I want you to do. First of all let’s determine whether it is diet related, or if the symptoms have a deeper physiological reason for happening. Please fast for a day. No food at all...only water. At the end of your fast, having taken no food, do you still have gas? If so, you should probably consult a DR. for a checkup. if not then it is probably diet related, which is probably the case. It sounds as if it all comes from what you are eating. Simple .....all you have to do is control what you are eating. Simply eliminate that food that causes the gas and you have solved your problem. After your fast, start taking your food one at a time in moderation until you have discovered which food causes your gas. Very easy to do and this will pinpoint with accuracy which food causes you gas. i love burritos [lots of beans and stuff in a tortilla wrap], but I can’t eat them because it causes so much gas... Beans if they are not really cooked well is a major cause of gas. Spicy food will also cause stomach distress with accompanying gas. i am also lactose intolerant, which means that everytime i drink milk i will get an upset stomach as well as gas. Overindulgence can cause you gas...simply eating too much of a good thing. You might have a very sensitive stomach and digestive tract, and certain foods cause the disturbance resulting in gas... You might not produce the right amount of good bacteria in your stomach to digest the foods you are taking... if this is the case, taking acidophilus [Good Bacteria] would help you. This is something that i take on a regular basis and it really helps. This you can find in your local health food store. A vegetarian diet can give you lots of soothing food that rebuilds your system instead of tearing it apart.... i’ve never gotten gas from fruit...fruit is very mellow on the stomach, very soothing, and very good for you. There is also some stuff like Beano and different types of this. When taken it allows you to eat almost anything without getting gas from the food. If you really get into this you will be able to discover what it is that causes your distress and you will be able to control it, or eliminate it altogether. Good luck with your situation, and I hope this helps you. Cheers baba
Rating : FAQId : 7488139 Subject : practicing meditaiton.. Question : I heard that meditation helps one feel more comfortable and relaxed. I feel so tired and confused at times that I only need a break! I don’t know much meditation. So how can I practice it in my home ? what shall I do ?! Thanks,Answer : Hello nurhan999 You have heard correctly... Meditation will not only relax you and make you feel comfortable and content but will fullfill you and enlighten you. Meditation will fill you full of energy, and will show you your energy. Meditation will totally fill you with knowledge of your self, and of all the secrets of the universe.... Meditation will balance you and make you complete....healthy, happy and prosperous. Sounds like the cure for everything doesn’t it? We have a habit of identifying with all the things in the universe that are temporal. We put our energy into all of these tempoary things that come and go right before our very eyes. It’s no wonder we are confused , restless, tired and wondering where the door is that will open up to a whole new world...Where the elevator is that will take us beyond all of this....Where the understanding is that will fill our heart with joy. We identify with all of these things that cause us stress and heartache... all of the things that are illusory in their existence....instead of that which is eternal and beyond confusion..... Welcome home nurhan999....you have taken the first step into that which will turn your life around.......soooo.....Relax! Relax into yourself and forget all of your troubles. Relax into yourself and find all of your answers. Relax into yourself and observe your eternal nature. Let’s understand who you really are. You are not who you think yourself to be. You are not your body, and you are not your ego. You are a divine spirit; and that divinity can be realized, can be experienced and can be known. Your divine nature becomes apparent in meditation. You are your awareness. You have never been born, and you have never died. Your body will go through these things, but you have always been here. This can be realized through meditation..... In meditation, we want to silence the crazy mind---the source of our confusion. In meditation we transcend the mind and it’s limitations. In meditation we become still...and in that stillness all of the universe opens up to us to reveal the ultimate truth....and the truth shall make you free. In meditation we simply place our awareness inside instead of outside. All of our lives we are aware of the things outside of ourselves, so now we turn that awareness around and return to our source within. Something that is always with you is your breath... This will be your starting point. Within your breath is your lifeforce that sustains your very existence. You want to become aware of your breath...just become aware of it and let the rest of your life fall into place around that awareness. This will bring your awareness from the outside to the inside and will help you to stop thinking so much. Since the essence of meditation is to get beyond thought which is creating your world. We want to uncreate all that which we have created. That way the pure light can come shining through. Usually when we have a thought, we put energy into that thought and we carry it forth. In a meditative state we watch the thought come up, but we don’t give it any energy. Instead we watch it fall back to that place from where it came from. Put your energy into being aware of your breath instead of developing the existence of that thought. This being aware of your breath can be done throughout your day no matter what you are doing. This is a starting point, our foundation for building higher meditation practices. Later as our awareness expands we can learn to meditate on the light and sound within our being. Now let’s take our foundation a step further..... Sit in a chair with a straight back. Sit with your back straight your feet flat on the floor, and your palms turned upward resting upon the lap of your legs.... close your eyes and follow your breath as it comes in and goes out. Relax... Let all of your thoughts go....as one comes up, don’t perpetuate it..let it fall back. be aware of your breath... Relax into yourself and become aware of the silence within yourself... There is a symphonic presence within that silence... be aware of it without creating any thought. Relax... Let everything go...all of your wants, your needs and your desires. let go of all the things that you think about constantly...... just be aware of your breath and that fullfilling symphonic presence within the silence... just be still. Again this is your foundation for moving deeper into higher meditation. Before progressing into higher consciousness...there should be some understanding of energy, of the vibrational makeup of this world, and of the different levels of consciousness. All of this is to be ventured into with your heart full of love and devotion to that which has given us this eternal life...That which we call so many names....the greatest being God. There is one God, One eternal consciousness that permeates each and everyone of us.... For higher meditation teaching and higher understanding of our divinity, plese go to my website at www.babainstitute.org...read the enlightened soul. Spiritual awareness is a lifetime journey...one step at a time. As we are ready, the next door automatically will open to the next level.... You have taken the first step into awareness of your eternal nature... all things will fall into place when the time is right, and all shall be revealed to you as you go deeper within yourself.... God Bless and have a good journey. baba
Rating : FAQId : 7490742 Subject : What indications of actualizing needs do you currently see in your life? Question : Hi, I would like to ask what indications of actualizing needs do you currently see in your life?? Your answer will be greatly appreciated, thank you very much~~ Answer : Greetings jacqueline_82 i hope i am understanding your question... if i go off into the deep end please tell me and i will try again. Actualizing needs... if i am hungry i eat, if i am thirsty i drink. Of course what i eat and what i drink can vary tremendously. i could eat rotten meat, or spoiled vegetables,....or i can take a diet that is good for me. i can discern between what is beneficial for me and what would cause me harm. But how do we know what is good for us and what is bad? experience... i have tasted both the good and bad, and as a result i can discriminate between what is actually beneficial for me and what is not. Many times we feel we have a need, and when we persue it, we eventually find out that we didn’t actually need it at all. Many times it is a desire that actually isn’t a need at all, but simply a figment of our mind. I want this I want that I need this and I need that..etc etc..the mind will go on and on. This is the nature of the mind. To keep you going for this and for that and for more of this and for a lot more of that... We are full of desires for everything in the world, But do we actually really need any of it? Everything that we “really” need automatically will come to you if you believe it to be so. The greatest indicator is your intuition. Trust this inner heartfelt feeling....it comes from your heart and soul...this you can trust. The mind will tell you that everything you need is to be found in the physical world. This way the mind is keeping itself activated. But deep within yourself you get this feeling that there is something more than all of this stuff ... but the mind will have you actualize all of this stuff, convincing you that this is “needs”. Your discriminating awareness will see through all of this maya. The mind will weave this veil of illusion so tightly that it becomes all that you can see...and as a result will convince you that all of this is needed....But perservere. Trust your awareness to see through the veil of illusion. Trust your intuition to increase and expand your awareness. So we ask what is real and needed. And since we are the creator of what we experience in this lifetime, it behooves us to see what is real and what is an illusion so that we can manifest what we really need. The only way to have crystal clear clarity in regards to this is to go deep within yourself to the very core of “Truth”. This is beyond what the mind can comprehend. We have to silence the mind. At this moment we can see what is really real and needed to be made manifest. If we are seeing things through the mind’s eye we do not have the clear picture, for the mind will keep you on the physical plane, and all of the indicators of actuallizing needs will not be truthfull to you. We can actualize anything and everything to the minds delight, and this can go on for lifetime after lifetime. Your question tells me that a very deep feeling is coming to the surface and wants to know the truth. This is a very good indicator that your time has come to cut through all of the rubbish and realize that which is the ultimate truth of all existence. This truth is not to be found in the manifested planes of consciousness. This truth is to be found within the center of your being, and can be reached through meditation. If you feel that you want to take the next step to a higher awareness of all that life has to offer, please visit my website at www.babainstitute.org. You can download the enlightened soul for free...maybe it will help. i hope this has helped you with your question. Cheers baba
Rating : FAQId : 7525788 Subject : Help me find silent retreats in Northern Ohio Question : It's very important to me that I find a silent retreat as soon as possible to go to in the summer time. Soon because I assume that time is running out for me to sign up for one. I'm f/17. Please please please help me find one. Thankyou so much. Answer : Hi ReallyBigStar Hope this helps your star to shine brightly.... Check www.specialtytravel.com you can email them at info@specialtytravel.com or call 1 800 422 4922 they might be able to help, they have over 600 unique listings of stuff happening across the globe. Also check www.commongroundmag.com they have about 30 retreats and retreat centers listed in their index. i picked up a new copy of their magazine this morning...now i know why. You might also check out www.universalmind.com ...It's an interactive Resource site for info on global importance. email them at info@universalmind.com If you care to travel to California...there are so many retreats all over the place as you will find out in your search. www.gangaji.org...She has silent retreats quite often.. i applaud you for the silent retreat...so much can be learned in silence. My first year in India was spent in silence thanks to the urging of Meher Baba {One of my many teachers} In preparation for your retreat you might visit my website at www.babainstitute.org you can download the enlightened soul for free... Hope you find your retreat.. if not.... just retreat into the silence within yourself, my website can help you there. Cheers and God Bless baba Rating : Thankyou
FAQId : 7525789 Subject : Help me find silent retreats in Northern Ohio Question : It's very important to me that I find a silent retreat as soon as possible to go to in the summer time. Soon because I assume that time is running out for me to sign up for one. I'm f/17. Please please please help me find one. Thankyou so much. Answer : Hi ReallyBigStar Hope this helps your star to shine brightly.... Check www.specialtytravel.com you can email them at info@specialtytravel.com or call 1 800 422 4922 they might be able to help, they have over 600 unique listings of stuff happening across the globe. Also check www.commongroundmag.com they have about 30 retreats and retreat centers listed in their index. i picked up a new copy of their magazine this morning...now i know why. You might also check out www.universalmind.com ...It's an interactive Resource site for info on global importance. email them at info@universalmind.com If you care to travel to California...there are so many retreats all over the place as you will find out in your search. www.gangaji.org...She has silent retreats quite often.. i applaud you for the silent retreat...so much can be learned in silence. My first year in India was spent in silence thanks to the urging of Meher Baba {One of my many teachers} In preparation for your retreat you might visit my website at www.babainstitute.org you can download the enlightened soul for free... Hope you find your retreat.. if not.... just retreat into the silence within yourself, my website can help you there. Cheers and God Bless baba
Rating : FAQId : 7543090 Subject : mediation Question : dear friends, whenever i meditate i am able to for only 10 minutes because i have pain at my back and knees and numbness.please help me to overcome this problem. Answer : Hi rs_murali Your question is hard to answer without knowing more particulars... but I will answer in various ways: What kind of meditation are you doing?...and how are you sitting for your meditation? When I first went to india a long time ago, in Benares I came across a book that described 108 different ways to meditate. After I studied with various Masters I realized the way that would take me straight to pure consciousness {God} All of my teachers taught the same thing... that is meditation on the Light and Sound within yourself. These types of meditation require you to become perfectly still and to put your concentration and awareness within certain energy centers. A great help in these types of meditation would be to sit in a full lotus position, and of course to keep your back straight, so that the energy could rise up the energy channels along your spine. When I first started doing this the legs would go to sleep and become numb from the circulation being cut off. After awhile the muscles stretched out and I could sit for hours quite comfortably. The Knees would also cause me a lot of pain until after much practice , they too loosened up. After awile I realized that I didn’t have to sit in a lotus position to merge with God. Also when we are first beginning meditation, the energy will awaken in the lower chakras {energy centers} and sometimes get stuck at the base of the spine.....translating into the physical realm as lower back pain. After we realize not to get stuck at any particular place, this too will dissipate. This happens because we are holding onto the lower realm and won’t let go. We are holding onto ego and all that “stuff” that keeps us locked into the physical plane. This sometimes happens when we try to go too deep too fast without the understanding that comes with higher consciousness. We go at our own rate of understanding. Some masters make their chelas {disiples, students} listen to much satsang {talk about the truth} over a period of years before advancing them in their meditation practices so getting stuck doesn’t happen. Other students can be enlighted in a split second... Other people try it without any teaching and get stuck quite often resulting in quite a few psychosomatic symptoms... For sitting meditation, all we need is a chair with a straight back, or no back, if you wish. just keep your back straight and not tense... relax...relax...relax into yourself. If you use a chair with a straight back, you can also use a lumbar support that you might rest against that would keep your back straight, and this would give you some comfort. But none of this is absolutely necessary...after you get beyond all of this you will see that none of this is required to merge with God. But if you want to sit in a chair for your meditation thats cool. let both of your feet be flat on the floor, and relax into yourself...the object is too become more and more comfortable as you relax..let all of the stress and tenseness float away. become aware of your breath coming in and going out and relax deeper into yourself. ther is no stress on your knees, there is no stress upon your lower back or anywhere. Let your hands be palm upward upon the lap of your legs.. there is no stress and you are completely relaxed.....Just focus your awareness upon your breath. This will open a door to your increased awareness of higher consciousness. This is the basic starting point and foundation for any and all deeper states of meditation. This is the simplest form of meditation that will take you straight to God and higher states of consciousness. You can also sit on the floor with your legs crossed comfortably. We want to get beyond all of this thinking that we do...All that we have thought we have become. Our universe is totally composed of thoughts, desires and all of that ego stuff. All of our energy is put into the “world”. We want to reverse all of that and go inside instead of always putting our energy and awareness outside of ourselves. Becoming aware of our breath will put our awareness toward the inner aspect of ourselves, and changes will begin to happen right before your very eyes. Your thoughts will slow down and spaces will open up between your thoughts.... Being aware of your breath , you can take anywhere. While you are walking..you can be aware of your breath. While you are working you can be aware of your breath. This simple meditation you can carry wherever you go and whatever you do. As the spaces between your thoughts get bigger you can open your third eye and begin to meditate upon the light of higher consciousness. {also called Christ Consciousness} This type of meditation can be understood through my website at www.babainstitute.org You can download the enlightened soul for free {33pages} This particular meditation is where you concentrate your awareness at your sixth chakra, the ajna chakra. {energy center} At this level you can literally see your higher energy. This is the level of consciousness where you have celestial vision. We want to reach that place within ourselves that is in silence. In that silence within our soul we can hear the Divine harmony.....a symphonic presence can be experienced when we are completely still, when all the ripples of the mind have become still and calm and reflect our true nature...that of unconditional love. This meditation on the silence within is also explained in my website. When we meditate, the mind will come up with a gazillion reasons and ideas to take us away from trying to silence that mind. Tis the nature of the mind to keep you involved in thought. But with the right attitude and understanding the light will come shining forth... if i can be of some assistance, please let me know. i hope this has helped with your question.... Blessings and Good Cheer baba
Rating : FAQId : 7553567 Subject : How do you do this breathing technique? Question : Does anyone know how to do the breathing technique called Sudarshan Kriya? Someone sent me this email but wouldn't tell me how to do it so I wanted to ask if anyone would tell me how to do it. If anyone knows how please tell me because I have ocd and need help and I don't live anywhere near where they have these classes so I don't have any opportunity to learn it. Here is the email he sent me... I have been suffering from OCD since childhood. It was both compulsion and obsession but mainly obsessive thoughts. Two years back I took help of a Psychiatrist who prescribed SSRI medications. This helped me but once I stopped taking the medicines, the obsessive thoughts started coming back. I have however stopped taking medicines for last eight months because it has too many side affects. Three months back I attended a course from Art of Living foundation (www.artofliving.org). This course basically teaches you yoga and meditation technique but most important they teach is a breathing exercise called 'Sudarshan Kriya'. This is basically a rhythmic breathing exercise where you breath slowly, then faster and faster. The whole cycle is repeated 5 to 6 times. The whole process takes around 20 to 30 minutes. I do this exercise every morning and what I found was that all of my obsessive thoughts were gone. I feel that it creates the same effect in the mind as were created through SSRI medicines. I felt that I have no obsessive thought and I am totally normal whole day. It kind of normalises the brain wave pattern and gives a deep sense of relaxation whole day. Some research has been done on the this technique for reducing the depression and it is well established that this eliminates the depression. But eliminating the OCD and obsessive thoughts is really a novel thing for me. I would highly recommend this course to you. It is held at various locations all over the world. If you can let me know your location then I can send you details of the next course in your locality. If u have any more question, please let me know.Answer : Hi purrsnfur Please do not identify with OCD.. Please Do not say that you have OCD... Please Do not think that you have OCD... if you do any of these things, then you will have OCD. For this is how the mind behaves...this is how your world will be manifested.... exactly how you think it to be...so shall it be. Breath of fire as this technique is also called is a short term relief for a problem our mind has created...this is not a cure but like taking an aspirin for a tooth ache. The aspirin does not cure the toothache but covers up the symptoms. The cure is not completed untill we see the dentist and have the abcessed tooth repaired or removed. This breathing technique is performed until the body is temporarily pushed to exhaustion and then in that state of rest that comes afterward, we find some peace. Again everything that we think, we become... everything that we identify with, we will take on those attributes. This is he nature of the mind and the universe. The symptom is obsessive and compulsive thoughts and desires. the solution is quite simple... to get beyond all of these thoughts and desires... and to be in charge of the mind instead of the mind taking control of you. Through proper understanding of who you really are all of these OCDs will disappear completely. The nature of the mind is to think about everything and anything in an compulsive and obsessive way. We have been taught to do this since we came into this body. Nothing to worry about. We just need somewhere to put our attention other than into thought. All of our lives we have been taught to solve all of our problems though thought. All of our solutions have been through thought. The truth cannot be found through thought.......we need to control the mind and the desires. Very easy to do.....if we know what to place our awareness upon. We have a thought and we identify with that thought....we follow it and hold onto it and become it and we are doomed. We are trapped into that framework and cannot ever get out of it by hanging onto thought... But we can make all of those thoughts just simply disappear...by not giving them any energy the thoughts will simply return from the place where they have come from.... We do this by placing our awareness upon something beyond thought.... Specifically we place our concentration upon that which is eternal rather than that which is limited and finite... As long as we hold onto thought we are within the physical realm and the physical body and are subject to all of the problems that we create. And they are all self created, and there are gazillions of this kind of stuff. We can do rapid breathing for temporary relief, but i suggest that you go for the cure and enlightenment, rather than a short term fix. In my book the enlightened soul i describe the breath of fire and how to do it, but it is in conjunction with an education in higher consciousness and how to maintain this state of enlightenment. Through proper understanding and meditation upon the truth that is to be found within yourself, you will transcend all of this petty and temporal stuff like the ocds. Please go to my website www.babainstitute.org you can download the book for free... it will show you how to find that higher consciousness within yourself that will take you right out of the ocds....... Cheers and God bless baba please contact me if i can be of assistance
Rating : FAQId : 7557477 Subject : Meditation=Sleep? Question : can/does deep meditation/relaxation have the same effect as sleeping? Answer : Hi Turnabout When we are in deep meditation we are in communication with the source of our existence...consciously merged with God. That time is the most supercharged event in our life.. Regeneration, Healing, Completely ReCharging your batteries.... Complete understanding, complete rest, Rejuvenation, Enlightenment.... The words and descriptions can go on forever describing this state of consciousness and the benefits arrived from deep meditation. You are an eternal spirit that has no need for sleep ever.... However..living within your body on the physical plane...one must follow the physical laws of the physical plane. The body needs two hours of rest for every hour that you are awake... so the experts say.... The body needs constant fuel to support its activities... The body needs rest to restore the depleted energy....since the makeup of the body is energy, a recharge is necessary everyday. As our consciousness rises to the higher levels...we find that we don't need so much physical rest. As our level of awareness rises we find that we don't need so much physical food because we are feeding off of the light. On the other side we need neither food nor sleep because we are in spirit body, and pure energy fills your every need. But existence on the physical plane follows the physical law of needs. So we sleep and rest... When the body is at rest....your astral consciousness will roam all over the place, doing all sorts of physical impossibilities. As a result you can often arise more tired than when you went to sleep. In deep meditation we are concentrating the energy, the awareness to a certain level of vibration...a focused level of awareness and consciousness and the benefits that are derived are very precise and liberating, relaxed, invigorating, and the totally relaxing to say the least. Whereas when we are in sleep mode our dreams can be so overwhelming and depleting of our energy. So sleeping is not the same as deep meditation as we can see... and the results are quite different. i read in one of your replies that you have insomnia and have a hard time to get to sleep... Usually when we can't slip into our sleep and rest period it is because of our mind constantly being restless with all of the thought activity...... if we learn to control the incessant thought activity we have then the sleep will come naturally. There is nothing to worry about... there is nothing to be restless about... there is nothing to be nervous about.... there is nothing to think about..... once we realize who we are and the nature of the universe all will fit into place and when you want to rest, it will come naturally and automatically... Your chi is energy and is controlled through your breathing and as you say the chinese Chiqong meditation relaxes you so deeply... so always be aware of your breathing. The source of the universe is to be found within your breath. Complete relaxation is found when you will be in awareness of your breath. When i lay down to take the rest, i will do one of two things. Either i will concentrate upon the breath, and will become totally at rest and relaxed and then sleep...Or i will concentrate my energy within my third eye..and immediately will focus all the awareness there and will be transported to the land beyond time...and then proceed with total rest... i have found that when i return to earthly consciousness the following morning, i am in the same place in meditation..and am totally rested and ready for the day..... The secret is to move beyond the constant stream of thoughts that pervade our mind......and sleep will come like a blessed event. This is the basis of discovering who we really are.... We are not the body.... We are not the mind..... we are not the ego......... but we are an eternal spirit. my website at www.babainstitute.org can help you discover your existence beyond thought, beyond time..... It will explain to you how to get within your third eye and to have celestial vision beyond the flow of thought... We create everything with that constant flow of thought...even insomnia. one thing we cannot create with thought ....and that is God. God, {pure Consciousness} can only be seen when thought has ceased..... You can download a free book that might help you...... Sweet dreams and God Bless baba feel free to contact me at any time if you need Cheers.... Rating : Thanks a heap. You gave me alot to think about. Do you think it is humanly possible to go beyond the need for sleep that all would be needed is just a few hours ours of rest and meditation, or is sleep it something that is a required to live a physically and mentally healthy life even with the meditation ritual. I am also trying to figure out what the genuine purpose is and what other benefits meditation has other than relaxation. I hope you can give me an anwer on that. thanks :)
FAQId : 7558277 Subject : Arteries and bones cleaning formula in overage Question : Hi Is there any (due to HEART and blood pressure)formula cleans arteries and vessels and veins and bones in over age.Please guide me. Yours-RAJ Answer : Hello Mahashya So, here is how you can clean your blood vessels and arteries. i hope you're serious about this... The blood vessels and arteries become clogged from exessive cholesterol and fatty waste accumulations. Also smoking cigarrettes will clog your arteries and slow down blood flow with the accumulations of all of the poisons in the tobacco. To begin with cut out all meat intake..,.and all animal products. Stop eating all foods that are high in fat content.... buy yourself a juicer, if you don't have one.... here is a three day artery cleansing formula...... After eliminating all animal source foods, Take 4 tablespoons of lecithin daily. Lecithin is a fat melting soybean product that can be found in soybeans. You can put it in your vegetable juices, sprinkle it over your salads, add it to your soups... and bake it into your meatless loaves etc. Include the use of garlic in your diet. Garlic is an excellent detoxifier and it boosts the general metabolism and stimulates your cleansing reaction. Take two or three cloves daily. This formula will cleanse your arteries and blood vessels. So this should be your new diet.... lots of vegetables and fruits, nuts, beans etc and no animal products. and lots of fresh juices both vegetable and fruit. Now on to the juicer: Fresh fruit and vegetable juices are assimilated rapidly so that these enzimes and nutrients can cleanse your cells and will result in improved health. Take much of your diet in juice form and then fill in your diet around that, you will see and feel immediate results... All fruit and vegetable juices are good for you and provide so much goodness that you body will instantly thank you. Here are some juices and what they are good for: Apple juice will cleans your skeletal structure, loosens blockages, helps with elimination and helps correct digestive orders. Apricot juice purifies your bloodstream, and regenerates the circulatory system. Beet juice purifies your bloodstream and cleanses your nervous system. It is very strong so mix it appropiately with other vegetable juices. Carrot juice...make this your foundation of vegetable juices and add other vegetabke juices to this. This cleanses vital organs and neutralizes circulating blood impurities. Cleanses the skin impurities also. Celery juice will cleans the liver and kidneys and washes impurities out of the bloodstream. Cucumber juice will eliminate the wate product of uric acid. This accumulates within the body and causes many illnesses. Grape juice will raise your energy level in minutes and helps to cleans impurities. Gratefruit juice will cleans your liver, cells and tissues. Lemon juice will cleans blood impurities, protects against infectious allergies and respiratory distress. Lettuce juice is full of cleansing nutrients and helps to wash away wastes from organs. Orange juice cleanes blood plasma of impurities and strengthens vascular walls. Peach juice promotes natural urination for the elimination of stored up waste. Pear juice cleanes the bowels and kidneys and regenerates blood cells. Pineapple juice is a powerfull cleanser for your vital organs. Tomato juice cleanses the bloodstream, strenthens artery walls and guadrds against cellular deterioration.... You can discover a world of eternal youth with complete health through fresh vegetable and fresh fruit juices. This is just a sampling of the nutrients, and enzimes and complete source of vitamins and minerals that are available to through this type of diet.... At one time i was working on a doctorate in natural health, i guess i still am periodically. When peeople ask questions like this it brings me back to it...and i am gratefull to you for giving me a bit of a refresher course.... The only way you can prove this to yourself is to experience it for yourself... i guarantee it will make a huge difference in your health and outlook on life, your longevity and quality of life and pureness of life will radiate from your being for all to behold....... Since this is the meditation question board, i would be not complete unless i recommended that you visit my website at www.babainstitute.org... So eat fresh and stay healthy...and if you follow these suggestions, you will radiate with good health and an abundance of joy. Cheers and have a long and prosperous life. baba
Rating : FAQId : 7568847 Subject : chelation therapy Question : Dear expert,Hi I have high blood pressure as130 170 /85-102mg as normal.and Ihad heart problem and had angioplasty in 1996 in india.Now I want,Is there any therapy to clean arteries and vessels.I am 59 years old man.Please also guide me about chelation therapy. Yours-RAJ Answer : Hi Raj was checking the bulletin board and saw your new message...so i will respond to the email you sent me here on the bulletin board... believe it or not the formula that i gave you for cleansing your arteries and blood vessels does work, it comes straight from a nutritionist and is documented in the case studies as a before and after treatment with the results being 100%.... In your email you asked what will lower your blood pressure.... these things raise your blood pressure: eating meat and meat byproducts....Using salt (Sodium) in your diet....High cholesterol will raise blood pressure...Eliminate eggs (full of cholesterol} Meat is full of fear that gets trapped within the meat when the animal is slaughtered...Fear will raise your blood pressure...worry raises your blood pressure...stress raises your blood pressure ...so simply remove these things and your blood pressure will go down.... These things will also lower your blood pressure: Meditation will lower your blood pressure. Relaxation will lower your blood pressure. A feeling that everything is all right and that everything is according to Gods plan no matter what is happening will lower your blood pressure. Knowing who you really are, that you are an eternal spirit that never has been born and that has never died....Enlightenment! this restores everything to a natural balance and will completely balance you and lower your blood Pressure. Garlic thins the blood, reduces fatty deposits, and lowers blood pressure. Take herb in tablet form or eat one to two cloves a day. works best when used as a regular preventative rather than a remedy. Buckwheat and Gingko Biloba aid circulation, reduces blood pressure and prevents arteriosclerosis. (hardening of the arteries). Gingko=Take tablets or 1/2 tsp of fluid extract with water twice a day for two to three months at a time. Ginger improves circulation, especially to the capillaries. Grate 1/4 teaspoon of fresh ginger into your food each day... To maintain good health, the body's three trillion cells need to be bathed in fluid that brings them vital nutrients and removes waste products. When there is poor circulation the body reacts with raised blood pressure which places a long term strain on the heart. A low fat high fiber diet, and regular aerobic exercise helps keep the heart and arteries active and clear of fatty waste products that can clog the vessels and arteries... The best herb for circulation is Garlic.... Avoid western medicine because it doesn't treat the cause but treats the symptoms and always has many side effects that do more damage than good. You say you take CoQ10...excellent!!!!! as you probably know that CoQ10 is produced naturally in the body for cellular energy. As we grow older the levels decrease and we should take CoQ10 as a supplement for it is VERY good for the heart and cardiovascular health. It is good for blood cholesterol, immunity, energy levels, muscular health. A decrease in CoQ10 levels has been linked to cardiovascular and heart problems. High quality CoQ10 is bright orange or yellow in color. Many companies use a low grade of CoQ10 and dye it orange. You should use CoQ10 that is 99.5% pure . The Hawthorn flowers and berries that you take have a remarkable tonic effect on the heart as you probably know. It increases blood flow to the heart and restores normal heartbeat. Literally it is "food for the heart" It relaxes and dilates the arteries, especially the coronary arteries... the bioflavonoids are antioxidant helping to reduce or prevent degeneration of the blood vessels. A 1994 study in Germany showed that hawthorn improved heartbeat rate and lowered blood pressure. Herbalists using hawthorn have found that it restores blood pressure to normal.. So, good choice in your herbs Raj.... The Flaxseed (linseed) you take as you probably know is rich in mucilage and unsaturated fats and makes a remedy for many intestinal and chest problems. It soothes irritation throughout the didestive tract. The seeds also absorb fluid and swell, drawing in toxins and form a jelly like mass which acts as an effective bulk laxative. If the seeds are split before taking, they provide essential ƒatty acids. To a lesser degree the seeds also benifit the urinary tract... but you already knew all of this right?? Was just responding o your email can't help you with Chelation Therapy, all i know is the central atom of a metal ion is attached to neighboring atoms to form a chelate ( a ring structure) or something like that. The minerals that i take might be chelated..at least the iron is... ...I will find out about chelation just to help spread the knowing. probably someone will have the answer here... there are a lot of smart people on this board hope some of this helps... and by the way 59 is not old not by any means 2000 might be old...... to effect a healing, you must see healing it's really that simple Namaste Raj Singhal Cheers and may the power of the universe be at your command. baba I studied with a few enlightened souls in india & india was home for three or so years...india is so rich in the heart ... I miss her so..... the only place in the world that I bow down and kiss the ground when I return.
Rating : FAQId : 7573773 Subject : meditation Question : what is it all about? what do you do? do you go somewhere or something? thanks mike Answer : Hi Mike Welcome Home my friend...... These questions have just opened a door to your higher self....a journey unto the unknown...may you have a good journey and a prosperous life. What is it all about?...it's all about that truth within yourself...... To acknowledge that there is possibly something greater than what we are aware of is a true blessing................it is to become aware of... something so great that it gives you the very life that you are living, the very life that you are breathing..... It's about higher consciousness...and being aware of who you really are.... It's about a so very pure truth that is the same in you and in all living beings...a very consciousness that all living beings share that is the very source of your life...it's about being aware of that consciousness and then creating a new world...one full of peace and love with all living beings.... It's about getting beyond the physical world to another level of consciousness and experiencing so much joy in you heart......... Meditation opens a door straight to that higher Consciousness....straight to God. Generator-Operator-Destroyer....straight to Nirvanna.....to Buddhahood...To Enlightenment. How far you can open the door is up to you....... How long have you been thinking? How attached to your thoughts are you?... Like who are you? You are not your body... and you are not the mind that is constantly in a train of thought.... and you are not your Ego.........Who do you think you are? You are not what you think yourself to be.... but yet You are what you think yourself to be and that is our problem... but yet you are so much more.... We cannot find all of this through thought...we must get higher than thought..... So meditation will take us to the place where there is no time... No thought............. for once the thought enters your mind the door closes..... as we think...we create our world... The world is made up of thought... All of our lives we think our way through everything.... If the thought disappears...the physical world will disappear. But what opens up at the same time the physical world is disappearing?... At the same time the thought is disappearing? Another level of consciousness.....God Consciousness.... That truth inside yourself becomes manifest in all it's shining Glory..... We are totally hung up on thought.... our story is a never ending monologue...... and we run it over and over again.... This higher consciousness can be experienced once we get thought out of the way..... We are attached to everything.....we desire everything.... desire is a trap. Meditation goes at your own pace.......according to your attachments... according to your desires...according to your surrender.......... If you want to learn to meditate..please go to my website at www.babainstitute.org...you can download a free book that will help you to understand and to learn meditation. It's all about having your head and heart in heaven while you walk upon the earth.... Peace baba
Rating : FAQId : 7574380 Subject : I have a hard time meditating Question : because my brain is constantly thinking about SOMETHING. I can't keep my mind blank for more than a few seconds because I always forget to breathe. I get some success when someone talks me through mental exercises but once I'm on my own I have difficulty again. Is there a type of meditation anyone can recommend for someone like me, that doesn't involve a higher power? Answer : Hi Janesta Yes this is the nature of the mind...to constantly be engaged in some level of thought activity......Bravo! this should get you a Gold Star upon your angel wings... You see that you are always thinking.... now we see some ways that will help get it right... Let's not run from the breath...your life source is found within your breath.... your breath is literally the breath of God...Embrace it and become it..... Let's start with a very simple meditation that is within your heart and soul....Your Breath. This meditation will help you to remember to breathe... Simply be aware of your breath.... Your Energy is controlled by Your breath... Watch your breath come in and go out Be aware of it all the time.... For everywhere you go...your breath will be there... just be aware of it....and let your life revolve around that.... Let that be the center of your attention and everything else will fall into place. For while we are consumed by our breath Watch what happens to your thoughts.... as you take your awareness and redirect it toward your breath.... the thoughts will slow down...... As a thought arises, don't give it any energy....just let it fall back from where it came from...just watch it. If you give it any energy at all it will take you and off you go flying....... You are an eternal spirit Janesta There is no way that you can get away from the higher power... you are the higher power... Literally you are God's power in action. You can deny all of this and become lost in the mind and, lost in the ego we can be lost for lifetimes.... Or we can realize that we are a divine spirit in human body... We can realize that we are an eternal soul. As we have so many thoughts , our world becomes so tightly woven...the veil becomes so thick...At this level we are frustrated...we have all of the problems of the physical world. When our thoughts slow down, and there arn't so many ...the light begins to shine forth, and everything is a little brighter. As the thoughts begin to dissolve, consciousness rises... and when we can control our thoughts and we let no thought arise..... Your world will be filled with bliss and understanding. Try and sit still some time... sit in a chair with your back straight and relax ...just become still.... relax into yourself and be aware of your breath let your hands be palm up resting on your lap, your feet flat on the floor and relax into your breath...follow it in and out and become still Ther are some breathing exercises in my book the enlightened soul you can download it for free (33 pages) www.babainstitute.org there is some information there and deeper forms of meditation if you are interested. Thought creates the physical world....when thought is not in existence....another level of your existence will come into being...the light of your soul will shine.... so when we meditate we want to meditate upon the eternal truth within ourselves the Breath is foundation the Light must be found and your third eye must be open and the silence must be heard within yourself.... These are good meditation pathways. We want to put our concentration upon something beyond thought you see what happens when we give energy to thoughts ...we get more thoughts..... Take care of yourself Cheers baba Rating : Rating : Thank you!
FAQId : 7593289 Subject : Choosing Question : Do you think this needs some meditating on? Little known is the Christian Prophecy found in Rev. 12-14 (days=prophetic years) that says we have another 500 + years before the fulfilled times of the dragon and beast or evil is over! While God could shorten the time, doubt 500 + years would be shortened by that much! If the Holocost now in Holy Land is not stopped by prayer and actions, what hell we and generations that come after us we will be responsible for. The primary purpose of Prophecy is to give us a chance to change the worst we are headed for, to repent and go in another direction. God doesn't want the worst to happen but has left it in our hands and free will to co-create good or evil. There is no sitting on any fence, only degrees of culperability in the day of each one's judgement. We truly live as no others in the best and worst of times. Which will you choose to create today? May the God of All and Holy Love be with you all. Blessings, B.C. Answer : Hi BC i'm with you.... Which do we choose to create? i choose as you do...to choose peace, love and harmony with all people as one being in one consciousness....one love i choose as you do to pray for all of the suffering to cease...all of the hostility to end ... and of such an understanding of unconditional love to prevail over the land... i pray for all people to realize this and one by one change the awareness of the wold.... God Bless...Equality Peace and Good Cheers baba Rating : Dearest Baba, I was beginning to think I was mostly alone here. Thank you dear one, may God Bless you richly. Blessings, Betty
FAQId : 7593600 Subject : prv arians Question : prvarians , these r people who dont eat or drink they just breath air , they have the ability to transform the energy of the air to the energy which our bodies consume to stay alive . they r about 200 persons in the world , they usualy live on top of the mountains . i need a site about them to know more. THANKS Answer : Hi saw the link Rev Diana gave you so i went to check it out... good stuff but centered in Utah? Surprising..... This train of thought comes also from eastern thought... That exactly as you say happens plus they are able to live on the nectar that can be found within .... Once in India....... A rush of energy was felt and we looked over at the jungle forrest.. out of the trees a herd of elephants emerged and on the top of each elephant was a naga baba. Some were male , and some were female....but all were totally naked. They all had mud and ashes covering their bodies, and each had three lines across their forehead signifying that they were Shiva followers..... The word in the village was that they needed nothing from the physical world to exist upon... meaning that they did not need any food to eat ever.... i do understand that the vital force is found within that breath and i also discovered a little yogic secret while in india... how to taste that sweet nectar to be found within.... When we come into this world our tongues are naturally up our throats and we are living on this nectar... then as soon as we emerge from the womb someone slaps our behind and we yell out in pain... and from then on we forget about the nectar. It's a quite easy technique in which you turn your tongue upward past the uvula where that action generates drops of this nectar to fall upon your tongue. It takes a while to get your tongue stretched to this new position and to feel comfortable with it, but once mastered one drop will be ecstatic. You can then live off of this nectar if you so choose to do so. This is in my book that you can download for free at my site www.babainstitute.org Here are a couple more interesting sites: www.authentic-breathing.com they have a whole lot of articles on different aspects of the breath.. And, www.cosmicbreath.com there is a quote about getting the vital energy we need from the breath, in the center of home page... Cheers baba
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FAQId : 7617408 Subject : mindfulness Question : will meditation help make me a less absent-minded individual? Answer : Hi chill_factor meditation will work... In those times we drift off from our physical reality... often times the place we seem to drift to turns out that it is on the same path as meditation.... We need to be in touch with what is the utmost truth that we can find. This will complete the picture...We need to be in touch with That pure energy within yourself...Whom we call God...This totally pure energy when experienced will balance all problems and bring everything into harmony. Meditation will take you to God...and your absent mindedness will be transformed into a new awareness about yourself. Sometimes when we are absent minded we just escape to a more content space that we create... Meditation and the understanding that comes from the experience you will have in meditation, will help you in every single situation in your life.....it will fill your awareness with clarity, and such joy that is undescribable will fill your life to overflowing.... A simple way to center your self...and in this process you won't be absent minded.... Ever notice your breath? it's so smooth that you don't even notice it.... just be aware of it as you go about your life.... this will center you and control your absent mindedness... There are other forms of meditation that we can do. we can meditate upon that eternal light within ourselves.... and we can merge into that silence that is so symphonic in it's presence, that is within.... We can sit and let our gaze rest somewhere past our nose out in the field of vision..not looking at anything...and we can see our natural colors move before our eyes....we can see our consciousness in action. You can do mantras that will focus the mind into a specific place thereby keeping you centered within a certain framework....this would give you something to think about. Possibly in absent mindedness we start to think about certain things that take us away into our thoughts... Meditation will take us beyond the physical level of thought.... in meditation we want all of the thoughts to go away and there to be peace..so we watch the thoughts and don’t give them any energy and let the thoughts return to their disappearance. Eventually all the thoughts go away and there is enlightenment.... You can download the enlightened soul for free at my website www.babainstitute.org it goes into meditation and understanding... but you know...we are all in the state of absent mind sometime.... Cheers baba Rating :
FAQId : 7623451 Subject : tall Question : I am seeking the experts of meditation who are tall, maybe over 190cm. Answer : Hi To answer your questions... i don't meditate to get away from my neighbors. i meditate to be at one with pure consciousness....... people visit... i visit when it seems to happen without me directing it. So many layers of physical plane of activity the tall and the beautiful All of God's children are loved by God unconditionally..... Are you Wicca? cheers Answer : Junya You are neither short nor tall, you are not the body but you are an eternal spirit...if you identify with the body you will want to make it longer... if you identify with the spirit then your transformation will be complete... Before you were born..before you moved into your body...you were still alive...just living in a higher vibrational body..you know this, of course? at that time you worked out your whole life map and you chose the particular body to live in....the one you find yourself with now... When we are in that place we can see our whole life history and how to overcome all obstacles... trust yourself for who you are and the body that you are with.. trust that you have chosen the best body shape that you would be comfortable with..... But if you want to atretch things out... to move energy you have to work with energy..that means you cannot identify with the physical body..that means you have to realize that you are spirit/energy, and become one with that energy....and simply will it to be....you can stretch your astral body quite easily in your dreams.... we have to work with the energy before it becomes manifest on the physical plane.... Sorry i tend to ramble... cheers and good luck baba Answer : Yes i am aware of the relationship between every body that is being animated by the soul.. actually it's a soulful relationship since the body is being manifested by the soul to communicate love. Only God can be aware of everybody.... there is one consciousness...you can be aware of everybody if you become God....i am aware that all people have the ability to return to Godhead because it's who we are.... When you are at one with God you can create any body that you want to even tall and beautiful for the vanities... this has all been done before in time... any creation that comes from the mind will be through ego and will be an illusion. this is life on planet earth if you want to be be tall and beautiful don't want to be tall and beautiful for the beauty of it... whose vanity do you want to be tall and beautiful for? yours or theirs? it is all just a game that we play any way, so what i'm saying is don't mistake the game for the real thing.... Let tall and beautiful, if that's what you want, come as icing on the cake... for this will come as prasad if you desire...but let your real passion be toward God and all else shall then be added.... If i were to sit in meditation and be aware of all other souls in the universe it would be a soulful meditation...this is nice group meditation sometimes the energy can be amplified through collective awareness because the collective consciousness is meditative But if i sit with pure consciousness...this is good too. you must reach this relationship directly with God your creator... i hope that you have this conscious connection with that purity within your heart peace Answer : Your belief is totally correct that you can transform your body...you can transform it into pure light, where anyone watching you would say that your body disappeared.....or you can make it as light as a baby or as heavy as an elephant... You can also see God... Is your body tall? Is this why you need to study Teachers that have tall bodies? You say that you can transform your body and for this purpose you are seeking a teacher with a tall Body? why am i confused? baba Answer : Hi junya i agree with you that the body is changing in regard to the circumstances..... but what i was trying to say was ...that you are the one who chose your body... when you were on the other side.... but at some time the body will lay down not to rise again.....but you have not died...just because your old body passes on to be buried...you do not die..you just move on to different levels of consciousness in your spiritual body.... that's why i say that you are not the body but an eternal soul ....that will take on many bodies during your journey. Am I preaching? you know all this stuff anyway right? You asked if i am aware of my neighbors when i meditate..... When i meditate it's with the intent of being one with God of merging into Gods Light. if i wanted to be aware of my neighbors, i could tune in to them... but not when in meditation... and besides i don't like to tune in to people. invasion of privacy?! Do you meditate? i have a free book you can download at my website www.babainstitute.org if you are interested in meditation. are you tall yet? be well baba Answer : Greetings Some time ago , in India, one of my teachers Babaji Gorakshanath presented his body at about six feet or more... We have to understand that some masters can manifest their bodies to whatever size that they wish them to be or feel them to be at any moment..... as well as to be in so many different places at the same time presenting themselves in different sizes.... He might be hard to find...could be he's in a different body by now.... As about spurts in body growth...one would say that the body is but a vehicle for the soul to reside in while in this incarnation....and when the body is seen in it’s true context being that of energy, rather than as a physical body..... then these physical things are not in the consciousness. In other words... it's not thought about because that is not where awareness is being aware.... it's not noticed..because it is all natural and right... it's like your breath..it's so smooth you don't even see it. Do you think that the taller the body of the teacher the more enlightenment that the teacher has? Cheers baba Rating : Junya FUQuestion : I have no idea to keep up with you. You are too mystic, although I like your meditative tone of speech. I find a very different point between our belief, in that I think our body constantly changes reflecting the bearing of our neighbors toward us, while you say our body is chosen by our spirit's counsel. Do you feel your neighbors during meditation? Junya FUQuestion : Hello. Your saying is too mystical for me but if I find something common between our thought, it is that I believe I can transform my body, neglecting what is said by biology. For this purpose I am seeking the tall teachers. JunyaFUQuestion : Invasion of privacy! So you meditate in order to leave your neighbors. Are you bothered when you feel you are tuning in to your neighbors? In this circumstance I do not meditate like you, but I am developing another method than meditation to leave this unity with neighbors. I can even feel tangible this bond with neighbors. And I can trace this tangible thing to the direction where lies the dwelling place of the neighbor who is united with me. I am bothered by this feeling, but if I ignore this feeling my body condition turns ill, so I am always cautious to the direction of such neighbors as I am tuning in to. And I believe that if I resolve this thorny feeling my body will transform into tallness and beauty. Tall people and beautiful people are tall and beautiful because they resolved this feeling attendant to our living in the chamber. Junya FUQuestion : I do not know any of the language of Wicca. Do you not know this correlation of body and its neighbors? Do you not observe it when you are alone, or in meditation? I have thought it is inevitable though.... FUQuestion : I mean I am short and seeking the teacher who would tell me how I can grow, or transform into a tall person over 190cm. I desire to get such teachers. Junya
FAQId : 7640935 Subject : Karma from past lives riddle (meditation) Question : Hi, One of the main aspects of "karma" that I don't understand is the effects of negative karma from a past life on the present life. My dilemma is this: If the point to life is to improve as a being, evolve, learn, reunite with the universal power, then lessons are important. In a lesson, most often, the student understands the "objectives", and works to meet them, through trial and error, then trial and less error, etc. If I treat someone poorly, and am penalized in the secular world (law, government), I can make the logical link in my mind between my consequences and my earlier poor behavior. And in that case, come to the conclusion that if I don't want those consequences in the future, I must modify (improve) my behavior to avoid the negative act. That situation differs from the "karma" concept, as explained to me. Karma, WITHIN one lifetime makes sense for the same reason that the secular example above makes sense. But Karma from a past lifetime entering into the current lifetime makes no sense to me at all. The reason is that past life karma seems to violate "usefulness". If I am experiencing a "lesson" or experience in this life caused by negative karma from a bad choice or behavior IN A PAST LIFE, how can I ever make the connection between my past life behavior and my current results/lessons/experiences, without current memory of my past life (which most people do not have)? I don't think I can. In that case, the "lesson" in this life, the returning effects of the earlier negative karma, will not impact my behavior because I can't understand why it is happening. It will seem random and that will make me angry and leave me without a clear "cause and effect" to work on in the future. What, simply put, am I not understanding here? I would appreciate any comments on this specific topic. Thanks, 1seeker Answer : Hi 1seeker Since the beginning of time, we have been weaving a pattern into the universe.... a web that has become our reality. All of our thoughts, actions, desires and attachments have woven themselves into a maze...this is our life..... lifetime after lifetime after lifetime. Imagine this.....at first there was only bliss, only reflections of a clear pool... and then little ripples started happening and soon the little ripples are feeding off of each other and are creating a minor storm.... where are the reflections? once again you cannot see them because there are so many thoughts weaving the web denser and denser...... Imagine this... start unraveling that web ...one strand at a time...over and over until you can see the web starting to be not so dense any more...not so many ripples in the mind... and at this time you can see this light that seems to be filtering through the web... and the more you unravel this web the more light starts shining through that just seems to fullfill your every wish, your every need.... and you begin to see that all of these strands are our "Doing" We have created so many of these strands through our actions and thoughts that they have woven our life.... This is karma... everything that we have done since the beginning of time... Thoughts are karma as we undo all of the mazes of thought that we have created, the karma starts to disappear the web is karma, existence is karma.... But as the meditative soul transends thought and merges with God...all karma is erased.... If one realizes that God is within, by becoming one with God.....totally merging into that white light...of universal consciousness....if one truly has such an experience while serving God... all karma is erased... If one has a Master and through an initiation you realize God....then all of your karma is erased.... You cannot work out karma in the mind...... One cannot find the answers through thought... this only produces more thought...you cannot understand karma by thinking about it... But as karma unravels itself you can understand it.... and when karma disappears all that remains is glorius.... God Bless baba Rating : Thanks for a very thought-provoking (oops, sorry) answer ;-) Your explanation was easy to understand.
FAQId : 7691077 Subject : hearing power loss Question : Dear expert I am 59 years old man.I getting LOSS OF HEARING POWER FROM EARS.Is there any exercise or herbs for this condition.Doctor told me,I have a problem with INNER EAR PROBLEM.Any expert guide me. Yours-RAJ Answer : hi Raj Finally, after all of your questions... i'm going to say the answer to your question is MEDITATION. Yes meditation with your inner ears meditation on the silence within yourself. meditation on the sound current within yourself.... This is an exellent exercise for the inner ears..... An amazing thing takes place when we merge with pure consciousness (God). Healing is in action... When we merge with that Pure Light of God Consciousness.. all of the physical organs are rejuvenated... all things are in balance... karma is erased... your heart becomes full of joy... and we see ourselves as perfect souls within Gods Grace. when we become one with that perfect place we see ourselves as perfect energy full of healing, full of God's perfect plan, full of awareness about the all and the everything... but When we see ourselves as a body with all of the problems that we have..then we cast our path as that... When we have merged through meditation into pure consciousness, and we see ourselves as a perfect being, we lose our separate identity and become one with that perfection...then we have cast our path in that manner...without any of the problems... in this state there is healing... I'm suggesting that you merge yourself into God and become one with God, lose your separate identity, see yourself as one with the universe and take a healing / cleansing within Gods healing light of pure consciousness... i'm suggesting that you bathe yourself literally in God's Light.... see yourself as pure energy full of awareness.... in this state of awareness healing at all levels is taking place.... If you have a Spiritual Master, spend some time there.... or if not, find one to initiate you into the light Or if you are aware of all of this then spend some time in the light for a healing. If you are familiar with Nada Brahma then meditate upon your inner sound. if not then i will describe.... You see we have listened to the physical world all our life... when we reverse this hearing from the outside to the inside we rebalance when we take that hearing and listen inside.... in that inner silence we will find a symphony.... So what we want to do is focus your awareness at the midpoint between your ears...inside your head. Listen at this point... this will open you inner ears into the sounds of silence. if you cannot keep the attention of your awareness at this point, you can plug up your ears with your thumbs..you can find a comfortable way to do this....in india we made a T shaped piece of wood that we could rest our elbows on. or you can use earplugs.... after some practice you will be able to keep your concentration there, without any of the crutches. The more you listen to the inner silence the more your hearing will improve and be stronger a combination of this meditation and seeing your energy within your third eye at the same time is very beneficial... if you need more info on how to do this download the free book at my website explanations on how to meditate on the light and the sound are there.... baba Answer : www.babainstitute.org Rating : Please guide me,how meditate,What little know.What is your website. Lot of thanks
FAQId : 7744244 Subject : 2 questions Question : One, how do I meditate... well make it 3 questions,... is it possible I can meditate to my diety or God.... I have a strange belief that I can access my Holy spirtual energy through meditation, and clearing the mind of everything accept for my God,O_o I wonder if any advanced practices will lead me to the ability to suggest things to people in a very hush hush almost telepathic sort of way... kinda like a jedi mind trick... :P Thanks, The Anonymous Enthusiast :) Answer : Hi Anonymous Enthusiast Yes you are right..there is but one universal consciousness and you can access it directly through meditation... God is alive and waiting to blossom forth in a full unveiling of the ultimate truth within yourself. All you have to do is walk into God. Walk right in.... How to walk right in? Yes, through meditation... Please go to my website www.babainstitute.org and download the enlightened soul for free [33 pages] it will take you into meditation... and explain some meditation techniques and truths of the universe... In order for the physical world to "dissolve", we need to make the crazy mind free of thoughts... all of the thinking that we do creates our world... So for the higher consciousness to come into view, we have to get beyond what "we" create... Quieten the mind.. become still.... let all of the thoughts of everything go... let all of the desires and attachments go... and be still.... let no thought arise... in that state you will be at one with God. We have been thinking all of our lives, almost non stop... and we cannot see anything beyond thought. Once we can see beyond thought, we will understand the secrets of the universe. Meditation will take us beyond the thought and directly into God. The enlightened soul will help you to open your third eye so that you can see and commune directly with your lifesource. [God] There you will find how to meditate upon the light and sound of God as well as some yogic secrets of what else you can find inside of yourself.... One consciousness... one being... that gets separated into little bits of ego that when merged with the essence shine like a thousand petalled lotus...in a sea of love and foreverness. Cheers and God Bless baba
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FAQId : 7773389 Subject : heart chakra Question : I've read your online book and I'm looking for clarification on a certain point. Where you refer to 'transmuting' the energy we put into our desires into our heart chakra, exactly how does one do this? I imagine the energy of my lower chakras flowing into my heart and making it stronger. Is this an anaccurate conceptualization? Answer : Hi Chill_Factor Desire is such a devious thing... let's say that you are sitting in meditation and all that you see is siva loka all of manifestation is in movement and there is no thought, you have a very pure vision of existence. if you were to look at your energy, your aura..all of your energy would be centered around your third eye. and then..... you desire something and you get pleasure from that and it solidifies you in the lower realm of chakras... there is an arousal of sexual energy there at that level..... if you were to look at your aura, all of your energy would be centered around your lower chakras, and you would not see siva loka. if this is a sexual desire then the arousal heightens and you are trapped there in desire. You |