http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/fourelements.pdf
Mindfulness is always necessary to balance faith with wisdom, concentration with effort, and concentration with wisdom. Mindfulness is desirable under all circumstances, because mind-fulness protects the mind from becoming agitated due to excess faith, effort, or wisdom. P. 12

Second brain in the gut? Gastroenterology - Vagus nerve

In the Reference book 'The element encyclopedia of the psychic world: the ultimate a-z of spirits, mysteries and the paranormal by Theresa Cheung' c2006, ISBN 9780007211487, p 273, its mentioned that,

"the body has a 2nd primitive 'brain' in the layers of tissue lining the stomach, small intestine and colon. It is actually a network of neurons, neurotransmitters and proteins called enteric nervous system (ENS). The ENS and its interaction with the brain in the head are so complex that it is a field of study in its own right, called gastroenterology.

It further said that eventually the connection between the two brains shrunk to a single nerve, called the Vagus nerve.

 

Scientific info on Vagus nerve is on the following site.

http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/grossanatomy/h_n/cn/cn1/cn10.htm

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/621522/vagus-nerve

Its interesting to note that this nerve is connected to the larnyx which as mentioned by Samuel Sagan in his book, 'Opening the third eye' that activating the Larnyx is very important in achieving the results from deep meditation. Also breathing into the solar plexus (stomach area) is important for deeper meditation. It looks like all the important points in meditation, have the Vagus nerve going through them. It might be the magic connection between the third eye, throat chakra, heart and the nabhkamal / solar plexus.

Clairsentience, the ability to get intuitive insight and information through your sense of touch or feeling what is around you is what we refer to as gut feeling, intuition or vibes etc. This ability, I believe is developed more and more with regular meditation.
So can we simplify meditation in its first stage as the awareness of the Vagus nerve and its connecting places? Is it the magic nerve?

Now I have found a yoga site that calls this nerve the cool nerve associated with the feeling of Gratitude, Compassion, Love and Happiness. There you go! So I just figured out something that everyone already knows! :)
http://www.subtleyoga.com/220/



Seeing a jagged tree trunk and then a log

I woke up at 2 am today which would be 3 am, my regular time with day light saving. Since yesterday I was too tired at work and I didn't have that natural urge to meditate which I usually do, I decided to go back to sleep. At 6.15 am after enjoying chatting with my beautiful son in the bed, I felt rotten that I hadn't meditated. So I started it, just to keep the practice going. After a while, I saw a jagged medium size tree trunk which looked miserable. I prayed to fix this trunk and saw a neatly cut log on the ground. I didn't understand if it was any better thank the jagged trunk standing.

According to the dream dictionary
Seeing a trunk in your dream, represents old memories, ideals, hopes, and old emotions. It may indications issues and feelings that you have not dealt with.  Seeing the trunk of a tree means your inner sense of well being and personality. If the trunk is thick and large, then it indicates that you are a strong, rugged and durable person. If the trunk is thin and narrow, then it suggests that you are a highly sensitive person.

Reading this explained  that it truly was how I feel about a certain old memory which came up to the surface after listening to the 'Asa di var' yesterday, which my son had put on. Some situations really don't have a solution when you really don't want to address them thinking there is no hope of a changed behaviour on the other end.

That was the very reason, I didn't feel like meditating this morning. I didn't want those memories to come to the surface which did show up as jagged tree trunk anyway. So I know now how jagged my soul is, in relation to that issue. However, seeing the log was good. The dream dictionary says that a log is a new opportunity.

Fathom Ether - What does it mean?

Today after my meditation, in my sleepy state I saw these words "Fatham Ether" written in black colour. When I asked what does that mean? I was shown a long triangular shape. Inside it was a twig with some flowers on it. Does it mean for me to try to comprehend the beauty in nature and God's creation? As I tried to wonder about this meaning, I saw the written words again, except written in Green colour this time.

In the old English Fathom means - outstretched arms. This takes me into a deeper meaning. In the last couple of months I have discovered that focusing somewhere in the space within one hand distance around my body, gives fantastic meditation results. I have previously written a blog on Body Pyramid which also mentions about this empty space around the body.

When I think about the meditation session, I was asking for Guru Nanak's direction. I probably was also indirectly complaining that He has given me darshan a few times but never have I experienced the light coming out of his toe. I expressed my wish to take amrit from his toe as He use to do in his time on this planet. I repented the day when He came and I started looking at him from his feet upwards. I was upset with myself, "Why did I focus on recognising the face rather than on placing my head on his feet, which I first felt the urge to". Anyway that opportunity is gone.

After this thought, I had focused on the Reiki and other healing etc and asked him if Reiki was also one of those 18 Sidhis that one can attain by meditation. I wondered what were the 9 Ridhis and 18 Sidhis exactly that one gains. Then I whinged that I do not find the peace and joy in healing or in knowing the future or in those revealing dreams and written words that I see. These things might be useful for the day-to-day living but I want the joy that I have once experienced with the opening of the Heart-lotus and with the Darshan on the Nirankar. That is what I am truly searching for. Surely pregnancy is a hinderance in meditation as I am never comfortable sitting or lying down. I start feeling dizzy and strangely uncomfortable after regulated breathing, the very reason i was upset with this pregnancy when I so wanted to experience deep meditation until 2012 at least. Somewhere deep, I feel that I must be ready for another lesson in life which this newborn will bring for me. New lesson I can handle in life but challenges I can't anymore. So I pray to the Guru to help me get through whatever is destined for me and help me accept the Divine Will.

God is Guru / the true spiritual master

 Sayings from Gurbani taken from Guru granth Sahib ji, the holy scriptures of the Sikhs



Pavan Guru, Pani Pita

Gur jaisa nahi ko dev

Gur Mere Sang sada hai nale

Guru guru gur kar man mor

Gur ka shabad basai mere hiyare

I had a great meditation session today. Can't remember the 2nd line that automatically came after Pavan Guru, Pani Pita. I was going to write a blog on the TRUE GURU but found the link below by accident when I ended up typing 'GURU PAVAN' instead of PAVAN GURU. Not sure what to make of the writing about the satguru in this blog. In one sense I agree with him on the state of Sikhs but not sure if its OK to be called a Satguru and steel (should I dare say?) the Gurfateh of Sikhs
'Waherguru Ji Ka Khalsa
Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh'

and mould it slightly and say

'Satnaam Ji Ka Khalsa
Satnaam Ji Ki Fateh'.

even though, it is validating Guru Nanak Dev ji's Ek Onkar Satnaam.

This guy (so called Satguru) seems to be following the right path as I trully understand his point of view that all Sikh prayers are asking the deciple to meditate and yet not all Sikhs are doing it. I am also most impressed with the experiences of the writer of this blog - Jaspal Singh. My worry is that there are many so called (self-promoted) enlightened masters including OSHO and Byas Satsang guy - The Radhaswami's but they all take their material for lectures etc from the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs. These Satguru's haven't contributed anything original to the spiritual world yet like Guru Nanak did. So for me, its hard to justify that they are Satguru's. I believe as Guru Nanak said that God is undescribable, immesurable etc that the latest Satguru should be able to tell us a bit more about God than any predecessor spiritual masters. Otherwise how can they claim to be satgurus?
http://eternalguru.info/baba-jis-disciples/42-uk-congregation/289-jaspal-2006

Do unborn babies have astral body?

13 weeks of pregnancy would have just finished. Is it the time of the Soul to enter the body? I saw the baby's body in the meditation afterwards. The baby still had a tail bone outside the body. The pregnancy book showed a similar picture.

I had asked a few weeks back that I want to know the soul that would enter this body beforehand. I had requested / should say demanded that I only want a spiritual soul, otherwise I refuse to have another baby, even though I am already pregnant. I said that I will only accept this baby, if I like the soul. I know this is not accepting the Divine Will, but I was upset with the pregnancy. It wasn't something I was expecting at this age. In my mind the family was already complete. I  had also demanded that I know as and when the soul enters the body.  I was so silly to not realise that the gursikh man that came in my meditation on the 10th Jan, 2011 and asked me to make 500 Rotis to donate was asking for it because of my pregnancy. My son taught me the Golden Chain meditation in mid June, 2011 and I saw my baby's astral body go into the green light on my right hand side where I saw many spiritual beings standing with their hands folded. It was a soothing experience but I was ashamed to realise that this baby is still speculating if its a good move to be born again and I was thinking that I am having difficulty acceopting the baby in my life. The soul of the baby is too scared to make any further mistakes in the coming life. I had to convince the soul that all will be Ok and we will make this life better from spiritual perspective, together. (29th June, 2011)

Only a day before I actually saw the baby's body, I had wondered if the unborn baby also has an astral body like other human beings do? If that is the case, then I should be able to see it as I can see the astral bodies. I wasn't able to see the astral body that day. Was I able to see it after the soul entered the body? Why not before?

According to the article below, the soul enters the body at the time of conception. http://www.scribd.com/doc/15502191/When-Does-the-Soul-Enter-the-Body-by-Mary-Kretzmann

Whereas in the link below, the \yoga teacher is saying around 12 week mark, at the time around quickening. http://www.yogaforums.com/forums/f16/when-does-the-soul-come-to-the-body-2486.html

Someone in the above forum added, "we are all different in body, mind, spirit and other dimensions, perhaps our souls unite with our bodies at different stages for each individual, depending on our karma and our needs."

The strange fact is that although I was pregnant, I didn't feel I was carrying a life until this day. After this experience, I told everyone that I am having a baby with no feeling of burden that I was feeling before. The results of my ultrasound and the blood test have not come in yet but I am feeling positive about this baby now.

Trapped emotions cause disease and karma - release them

The Emotion Code - How to Release Your Trapped Emotions/ by Bradley Nelson. I should read this book. Here is a sampler of Chapetr 5 of the book, I haven't read yet.
The-Emotion-Code-5-Chapter-Sampler

Spirituality and Reiki - God and Satan - White magic Vs Black magic

What is Spirituality? Complete surrender to God's/ Divine Will is paramount in Sikhism.

What is God's Will if someone uses Black Magic to harm a person? Are we suppose to intervene as saint / gursikh / good humanbeing for the wellbeing of the other who is disadvantaged?

I have been troubled by the above thoughts and didn't know what was the right action. At last, when I was really scared for the well-being of this person and worried that he will loose his life as the magic was very strong. This person had been sick for two years with the condition only getting worse and initially no one knew what was causing the problem. This person couldn't eat many foods, couldn't sleep day or night, started having anxiety attacks without any reason, eventually started loosing 1KG weight each week. The Dr first mentioned Helicobacter virus and then said it is fatty liver problem. For two years, I didn't interfere thinking it was a health issue, then thinking its some emotional issue causing the health problem. Eventually, one day some voice provoked me and said, 'Why don't you help him?'. It was simply because I didn't want to interfere in anyone's life or in God's Will.

It's only a few weeks after this, that two nights in a row, I felt extremely scared as if some black energy was trying to attack me but couldn't get to me. I have never felt scared in the middle of the night. I walk around giving water to the kids or walk off to another room to meditate. It was a very strange but very strong feeling.

That night I walked back to the room where my kids were sleeping and lying in their bed intended for the white light to protect me and my children from whatever it was.

Next morning or the day after, in the early hours I was meditating while lying down when I saw my dad pouring white flowers around me in a circle and then in a vertical line from above. The next thing I saw was the biggest black suitcase I have ever seen, next to a brick wall of a house. I recognised this to be the house of this person I am writing about. I felt ilke removing this black bag / suitcase but instinct told me that it was far too dangerous and I might get the bad stuff of it. I managed to then blast it with the white light without touching it. Then I sent the white light all around this house and inside to eliminate the danger of any darkness / black stuff inside the house. After this I felt like giving the shite light to this person as I realised at this point that there might be the dark energy inside him that is making him sick. When I tried to send the white light to him, suddenly it felt that I had run out of white light and there was a brick wall stopping the energy from being received by this person. I rung him immediately, 5 am in the morning it was and asked him to start meditating as I was sending him healing but feel that he is not receiving it. He meditated but somehow I couldn't send it to him.

While I was meditating, I saw a lebanese lady, fair skin, curly dark hair smiling at me. I took it as if she was there to help me. I introduced myself and asked who she was and if she was ther to help me. She moved backwards, which indicated to me that she wasn't there to help me. I felt at this point that she was the person behind that black energy and had come to see who was opposing her energy. She was impressed with my effort but wasn't there to help. I asked her to leave and she did.

I searched the internet for how to get rid of Black Magic and what are the signs etc. I read someone's comment saying don't try to tackle it yourself, pray to Jesus. This motivated me to pray to Guru Nanak. I remembered the Sakhi of Guru Nanak changing the life of a female Black Magician, Noorshah. Guru Nanak saved Mardana from Noorshah's magic who had made him into a sheep and motivated her to leave the way of Black Magic and live in God's Will.

Next day, I woke up to meditate and as I did, a phone call came at 4 am. I went to pick it up but it stopped. I tried to find the missed call number but the service told me the last missed call was two days ago. I didn't want to disturb anyone, just in case this person was asleep but had this grave fear that it was a call to tell me that this person has died. I wished it was untrue and went to the temple and meditated. I prayed to Guru Nanak and asked him to rid us of the Black magic, if that is the cause. I also prayed to give live to this person. I might mention the actuall experience another day but that day Guru Nanak heard my prayer and gave life back to this person and there is no fear of Black Magic anymore. You can judge this any way you like. I just know how I felt during these experiences. I have since realised that fighting back is no where as powerful as complete surrender.

Future prediction on written words

Do you see words written in the vaccum? Do they mean something and come true? This is what has been happening to me lately. First time I saw the word TRECHERY written on a plant in my garden while I was chatting with a guest. It was a warning sign for me. There was something happening affecting my life that I wasn't aware of.

Then I saw the word GREED written in my dream in the early morning. It also came true, the very day I saw it.

This morning at 5.35am I saw DEATH in the ACCIDENT written exactly how I have written here. Can you imagine how I would have panicked? I rang my sister to pray for my husband. As per her suggestion, had a shower, made Prashaad and went to the Gurdwara with my husband and prayed for a change of destiny.
I saw that written word erased and replaced with 'Spare Live'. I tried to write 'Spare life' but it kept coming as 'Spare live' then the word Alive.
This happened while I was taking the Hukamnana. Then I asked if the person will get an indication of being spared when that event happens today. I got the intuition to forget that thought immediately as it was too risky and the person will not even go that way, he would instead be doing something totally different to nake him avoid that situation completely. I accepted it. All is well.

Reiki, Spirituality and Sikhism - Are they compatible?

I have been thinking about this for nearly two years and should confess that I am not 100% sure what Guru Nanak would say but I have my own logic that convinced me that they can be compatible. Is it a crime for an Amritdhari Gursikh to receive Reiki treatment or attunement? What one says depends on what one believes in and what they know about Reiki and its philosophy. I tried to tackle it from an objective perspective. I will start the story from the beginning -

In 2002,  I had been suffering from a severe shoulder pain for a year and had tried every treatment including physiotherapy, message, kinesiology and acupuncture; nothing had worked completely. One day when I went to an elderly friends house for a social visit, he said that he can see two holes in my body and that usually happens after a childbirth. I didn't know anything about Aura reading or Reiki then. I was surprised at his remark. He further said that he can fix the holes. At this I mentioned to him that I actually have a very bad right shoulder and the pain keeps coming back. He asked my permission to heal me. he didn't mention Reiki or anything. I simply gave my permission. I thought he was going to message my should but he didn't touch me at all. All I knew was that he was standing behind me. I had closed my eyes. I later asked my husband what did he do? He mentioned that this person simply placed his hands near my shoulders. The pain went away for a month. Coming downstairs from his house, I noticed a poster which prompted a conversation in which he told me that he does meditation everyday for an hour in the morning. A month later I called him in distress due to severe pain, he did the same hand treatment again and this time the shoulder pain never came back. I now know that what he did was Reiki treatment. I also know that since this Christian person changed his religion to Jehovahs Witness, he gave up Reiki as it is against his new religions belief system.

In late 2008, a work colleague told me that he has joined a meditation group and now he does meditation everyday for an hour. I became jealous and felt guilty that I, the Amridhari Gursikh, never do meditation and this person, Mr Nobody - according to AKJ standard Sikhi, was meditating everyday. In 2009, my new year resolution was to do meditation everyday, open my third eye and raise my Kundalini to 7th Chakra and see God and whatever else about Him Guru Nanak saw. I have since found out that 7th chakra is not the goal of Kundalini, it is the 4th chakra, the heart centre. Guru Nanak, the prophet of the 4th chakra, according to Sahej Yoga people, also seem to see God through the 4th chakra, the chakra of Love and Compassion for all. I was serious about my goal as 2012 was only four years away and I had to achieve the highest state before the end of the world. I must say I did very well that year and was very happy with the Kirpa of my Gurus. Read my blogs from that time to know about my precious experiences.

In Dec 2009, I went to India. My eldest sister told me that she had received Reiki attunement and was getting good results with healing but she gave up thinking that it was against Sikhism and she was not willing to change her Guru. Knowing how Reiki healing had changed my life ..

I asked Baba Makhan Singh of his opinion. He said that its Ok to practice Reiki but to be aware that when you heal someone this way, you are using your personal energy, although the Reiki theory says that its only God's energy that is being used. He said that since we use our intent to heal the person and to clear their aura (he knew about auras!), our personal energy does get used.

I am scared to see some Reiki healer being sick with life-threatening diseases. I wonder if they are sick as they used up too much of their personal energy and left themselves vulnerable to sickness. In pranic energy healing, they talk about receiving a little more than you are giving, so you don't deplete your energy but Reiki says that the healer doesn't control the flow of energy. It says that the Reiki knows how much is needed and the patient can't receive too much, unlike pranic energy healing where too much can cause energy congestion. Since reiki says its not personal energy being used at all, they do not talk about the harm to the healer for giving too much.

Besides this, in the Reiki Attunement session, the master asks you to imagine a Golden Yellow light around yourself. Yellow is the light of Solar Plexus, which is the chakra of personal energy.

More importantly, when Guru Nanak gave me darshan and before or after my 9 petal lotus opened, my whole body was healed by a emerald green colour particles coming out of a gemstone in the heart centre, hanging on a string that came down from the 7th chakra. Then the electric green colour light came out of my temples up to the palms of my hands in a semi-circle shape. This was not given to me by any humanbeing, therefore I trust this to be more God's energy and something that I was given without asking, so I must have God's permission to use it. Although, I tried to not accept it, as I was scared that I might not have the ability to use it wisely; I know believe that the creator would be a better judge of what I am capable and worthy of than myself. I still haven't used either of these to heal others. I am sure, when its the right time, I will be asked to serve. There is no hurry.