Body has innate wisdom

Sit in meditation pose and start breathing. You hold tension in some specific areas of the body. Release the tension by focusing on the specific areas. Relax the forehead. Now release your cheekbones. Open your jaws and let the tension go. Release your neck, shoulders and armpits. Now loosen the whole area from head to shoulder blades.
With each breath, let the body temperature rise. Feel the soles of your feet and palms of your hands. Let them go on fire. Now let the fire roam free within your body, wherever it needs to go. It will cleanse the body within and remove unwanted rubbish just like bushfire does to grassland. Unleash the fire within and let it sweep across the body and  burn excess fat and other unrequired foods.

There are two energies that you work with to rejuvenate your body earth. Fire energy rises upwards from below. It’s also called kundalini energy. It is considered female energy. It moves in curves, like a snake and makes the hissing sound as well.
The second energy is the water energy that comes from above your head like a waterfall. It does not reside in your body but outside it. Imagine a cloud above your head. Let the cloud become rain and shower your whole body. Then bask in the glow of the rainbow and enjoy its colours. Somewhere in between these two experiences you will suddenly see a waterfall. Don’t be affraid if the body starts shaking heavily. It’s all an internal experience. Know that on the outside you are sitting very still. Nobody will know what you are experiencing. You are not looking embarrassing. Simply enjoy the experience. This experience is not your everyday experience. It’s a once off. Next time, there will be some other experience.
Don’t try to move from the fire to water meditation in one sitting. Let the Fire energy cleanse your body for a few days before you move to the next stage. Healing will happen during fire energy meditation. The body will have an urge to move ina certain way. Follow the direction of your body. I was doing my fire meditation today and I had the urge to move my arm straight with index finger pointing. I had a vision of my left hand doing it first and then the right. By the time I thought of following the vision, it was the turn of my right hand; so I raised my right hand and continue breathing fire while the hand was pointing upwards. I brought the arm downwards up to the shoulder level and raised it back up again and started going backwards, then up and then forward and down. I did the same with the left hand afterwards. I realised I had been complaining about the neck pain and this released the tension in the muscles under the armpit and below. This soothed the neck pain. I was not specifically meditating to fix the neck pain. I had actually forgotten I had it until after the body urged me to do the exercise that released the muscle tension that I realised why I did so.

Vagus nerve stimulation to control vital organs

Some years ago I wrote about how I figured out through meditation about the importance of a single nerve - the vagus nerve. Now research is showing that vagus nerve can regulate the Health of our vital organs.  The thing for us to know is that,

"The strength of your vagus response is known as your vagal tone and it can be determined by using an electrocardiogram to measure heart rate. Every time you breathe in, your heart beats faster in order to speed the flow of oxygenated blood around your body. Breathe out and your heart rate slows. This variability is one of many things regulated by the vagus nerve, which is active when you breathe out but suppressed when you breathe in, so the bigger your difference in heart rate when breathing in and out, the higher your vagal tone. 

Research shows that a high vagal tone makes your body better at regulating blood glucose levels, reducing the likelihood of diabetes, stroke and cardiovascular disease. Low vagal tone, however, has been associated with chronic inflammation."  Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/vagus-nerve-stimulation-2015-6?IR=T, viewed 22 March, 2018 article written by  Gaia Vince, Mosaic Jun. 1, 2015 in which he has mentioned about the experiment on rats by Kevin Tracey, a neurosurgeon. in the experiment, they stimulated the vagus nerve to block the inflammation in the spleen.

It's clear that pranayama meditation helps increase our vagal tone and affects our overall health in a positive manner. The vagus nerve starts in the brain stem and travels down touching all vital organs. The nerve has thousands of fibres and most of them are sensory fibres. It’s possible that all yoga manuvers are vagus nerve stimutors.
Read more about the nerve and how its stimulation is helping fix many diseases https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve

Gut Brain / gut health etc is all linked to this single nerve. Good food and positive emotions with knowledge of regulating your breath to improve your Vagal tone will give you a long healthy life.

Types of samadhis

To attend a course or not is the delima. I have always received the knowledge from within. These days I am not meditating. So should I go to the 3 day course in Sydney by Oshodhara group? They have 28 meditations done over several years. The guy who told me about the program mentioned Patanjali, so I found th3 following blog on 10 types of samadhis https://dondeg.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/patanjalis-ten-types-of-samadhi/
I am interested in listening to anhat naad in each meditation. This guy claims that each day he sits in meditation, he is able to listen to it. I have only ever listened to this unplaced music two times and very briefly. It’s my goal in life to reach a stage to hear it in every meditation.
Would the course expedite anything? Is it an illusion? I believe you have to practice with the right emotions and if I am not in the righ5 emotional state, it won’t help and if I am in the right state, I don’t need any instruction, Am I being stubborn? What’s there to lose, if I go and do the course anyway?

Elements

Pavan Guru - Air is the messenger of knowledge and wisdom. Air is infused in the body through breath. Increase the quality of breath to receive more knowledge and wisdom. Sound influences the air as air carries sound. So travel on air through sound. Master travelling on air to receive intuition and wisdom to make this world better.
Pain pita - Water is the father carrying the seeds of life. If you poison water, you poison all life.

Mata Dharat Mahat - Earth is the mother, the nurturer. Inside it's womb is also the life carrying medium. Mother Earth may take toxins and turn them into nutrition but water can't. Mother has that sacrificing nature that allows it to feed its children ahead of worrying about her own needs. Eventually, someone needs to take care of Earth or it will become week. 

Art of breathing

You are laughing, right? Breathing is not an art? It is something the body does naturally. We don't need to force it. You are right. You are not to force yourself to breath but if you ever paid attention to the quality of your breath, you will understand why some people have more energy than others and why some people think more clearly while others have a foggy mind.
Watch your breath. Are you breathing right now? Yes, off course you are but is your breath coming more easily from left nostril or the right? Most likely, you will notice that one nostril is clearer than the other. This might change if you check again in a couple of hours. Your energy level changes every two hours. It reflects the health of your meridians. Meridians work within the body according to their allocated time of two hour slots. So the best thing to do is to check every two hours the quality of your breath, which nostril was actively breathing and your energy level and record it. Do this for seven days at least, preferably for 21 days.
Note the times when your energy level was high, were you breathing more from the right nostril? Right nostril breath gives energy and left nostril breath relaxes us. When we are working for a deadline, often we forget to breath for long periods or do shallow breathing. Therefore, the quality of breath declines leaving our muscles with less oxygen. Thus, tension starts to build up in the body starting from the shoulders and neck. In the long term, this affects our health.
Now that you are convinced that I have a point, let's start observing our breath and alter its course to open up the parts of the body that have been holding tension all along.

• Take a deep breath. Another deep breath and close your eyes. 
• Loosen your lips and fully open your jawline as wide as possible before leaving the mouth lightly open. 
• Notice the sensation in and around your cheekbones. 
• Take another deep breath and notice which nostril is fetching more air.
• Use your right hand to close your right nostril with your thumb.
• Breath in from the left nostril, close the left nostril with the three fingers after the index finger, hold your breath
• Open the right nostril to let the air out of the right nostril.
• Breath in from the righ nostril, close it with the thumb while you hold the breath and then breath out of the left nostril
• Repeat this for at least 5 minutes or 10 breath cycles.

The above exercise will balance your left and right side of the body and give a chance to the underperforming nostril to get it's act together and start performing at equal pace.

You are already feeling better. The above exercise can be done anytime, even during your five minute break at work. Make this a habit. Instead of observing others and passing judgement on their behaviours, simply focus on your breathing and judge its quality every time you have the urge to judge other peoples' actions. The moment your mind starts to pass judgement, remind yourself about the replacement habit of observing your breath.

Once you have continued practice of the above exercise for 21 days, 5 times a day; you are ready to do this naturally. So now you are ready to notice how you breath when you read poetry or prose or your daily prayer or when you sing your favourite song or hymn. The purpose of chanting a mantra is also to regulate your breath. Make up any mantra that works for you and repeat it while observing your breath. The point is to really listen to your voice and keep breathing at the same time.

After this you can start practicing the keys of the musical scale. Chose a key to match your voice to and sing for as long as the breath will allow you to. Find peace in the magic of the voice and the breath. The sound that you are creating is vibrating throughout the universe. Feel it.

If you can, observe your breath while sketching or painting something. Notice that you regulate your breath to the stroke of your brush without effort. Once you start observing, you will know that every activity helps to regulate the breath but only when you remember to breath and pay attention to the breath.

Regulate your emotions

Emotions are energy. Happy emotions increase energy and sad emotions drain it. If you express emotions freely, you might see yourself as a passionate person. It may seem like a great thing but know this - if you express happy emotions more openly, it's likely that you also show anger and frustration more easily. The reason being that you don't regulate your emotions. Conserve a bit of your energy, stop expressing them so freely. Think about your emotions. Be like a regulator for a gas cylinder whose job is to regulate gas and not let it all out in one burst. Imagine ne the consequences, if the gas cylinder didn't have a regulator.
Look back at your life. Has there been unregulated moments in your life? Have you had occasions when you nearly blew your relationships because of emotions?
It's not just about regulating negative emotions. Have you noticed people look at you strangely when you express happy emotions like excitement? It's not that thee is anything wrong with excitement, it may be seen as childish. Again, nothing wrong with childlike innocence. Sometimes it's better than being adult but when Yu are around other adults, especially work colleagues know that regulation of emotions is a skill highly praised for management positions. Cool head is also appreciated in professions that involve negotiating and presenting your case like union reps and lawyers.

You may not have thought of religion, but cool headedness is also encouraged in religion. When Sikhism talks of "Harakh sog te rahe niyara." , it's suggesting to refrain from extreme emotions.
Sikh scriptures also say, "
Jo nar Dukh me Dukh nahi mane.
Sukh saneh ar Bhei nahi Ja ke
Kanchan maati mane"
It means that those who don't become too sad in sad times and keep their head cool, can also perform their duties without worrying about their luxury, favouritism or fear because their decisions are not influenced by monetary rewards for oneself.
If people can work with what is best for an organisation, how can they not work with what's best for the humanity?
Financial sustainability and control of their market are best for any organisation but welfare of all human beings is best for humanity. The two are in conflict as a matter of principle. People are controlled by monetary rewards. The more an organisation is aware of the desperation of humans, the more chance it has of hiring labour by offering less money, hence increasing profits and financial sustainability. Humanity demands equity but it's hard to achieve because even the universe hasn't us all equity. Those born with diagnosed and undiagnosed disabilities have limitations of understanding and physical capabilities. Others who have become disfunctiona because of stresses in life als have different levels of motivations. When we all don't have the same level of motivation to succeed in life, how can we have equitable resources to thrive in this life?
May be we need to get back to scrutinising our emotions. How do we feel when someone drives a posh car and your car goes to mechanic for repairs every other day? Resentment?
How do you feel when you see news of people suffering due to natural disasters, accidents and war?
Detaching yourself from a situation doesn't mean not caring about someone. It simply means not upsetting yourself to the extent that you can't function anymore or can't think clearly. Getting back to the analogy of the gas regulator., we still need some emotion to keep the fire going, not cut the supply altogether. So keep the fire of your life going for longer by regulating your emotions.
Keep the fire of others life going by not hogging all the resources but releasing some to allow others to thrive. When others don't have the same luxuries as yourself, you have a responsibility to care but not be overwhelmed by the sorrows of this world. Do not worry that your actions can't change the world overnight but simply cherish the fact that it will make some difference. When your actions do make a difference, don't boast about the success but think how can the actions be implemented to increase the effect further. Remember, not everyone has the same resources as yourself.  Be the bridge between the two sides. Find a way to slide some resources from those who have more than you to those who have less. When you see physical strength and mental capabilities as resources, you suddenly see a whole lot of responsibility that we have been shrugging from. Just like a mother looks after her baby with love and care, without the monetary reward; look after those who are not so fortunate as yourself with regulated love and care.

Lazy Self likes to blame others

A person's first responsibility to themself is to stay in human form for as long as possible. To stay alive for the longest possible time, you need to stay healthy. Healthy bodies need a healthy mind. It seems that they actually go together. The more physical activity you do, the more your mind stays active and healthy. The same also goes for your involvement in the community. The more time you spend being involved in positive interactions with other people, the longer you will have the desire to live and your mind will stay away from the problem with balancing the body and dementia; the two troublemakers in the way of a long healthy life.

The second responsibility to self is to stay happy. Don't try to blame others for your unhappiness. Staying happy is a habit that needs to be formed. Get in the habit to notice yourself more often. Can I feel lines of stress on my forehead? Bring on a fake smile and see those stress lines vanish instantly. It's like the game of see-saw. Play the game of frowning and smiling and see for yourself. Once you realise this, you don't need any reason to smile, you simply need to smile. Find excuses to smile and be happy. Don't try to give me reasons why you are stressed and what problems in your life are stoping you from smiling; just smile. If you can't seem to smile without reason; try helping someone. Make someone's day and feel happy. I know you are too busy and even though you would like to do all that good in the world, you can't. Stop making excuses. Start from doing something for your partner, child, sibling or parent. Then get involved with a community group, social group or a religious group for just one hour a week. Make sure that hour is not spent on self gratification. You are not to get dressed up to show off or to sit in a cafe to indulge. This hour is dedicated to doing something for someone else's gratification. Oh, you never thought about that... ? Doesn't matter, now you know that you are not the only most important habitant on this planet. Every other being is equally important and today you will do something to make someone happy. No, it's not going to be your boss and you are not going to make the boss happy so one day he / she can help you get a raise. You are going to do something for someone who can't give anything back to you and even better doesn't even find out that you did something of value to them. Anonymous act or an act of kindness in a community group, so the credit doesn't just go to you but to the group. That's not fair, I know, because you are so use to making sure that it does even when you don't deserve it. Yep, that's because your parents raised you that way. They gave you undue praise and attention when you didn't deserve it but you started believing that sun only rises when you open your eyes. So you think, it's important that you get out of your lousy bed, so the world could have sunlight? No, that's not your act of kindness. The sun rises anyway! Does that mean that the world doesn't need you? Does that mean you should just die. No you monger. The is so much work to be done on this planet. The earth needed physical bodies to carry out those tasks. So it prayed for you to be born. Now get to work and do something to leave this a better place to live for the next generation. Can you? Yes, you can. What's in it for you? I told you already. The mechanism is built so that you only feel happy when you do something for someone else. It's also built in a way that the more hardwork you do, the longer the body can perform. That translates into longer life. So get off your butt and instead of planning your next holiday, plan something for this planet. Your plans are not for other to act on. When you plan, you need to get motivated to get the ball rolling. Once it starts rolling, ensure that you have a system in place to make it keep going indefinitely. That's why we say God is infinite, God is creative, and God is fearless. You are that God who is going to do because God is Kartapurakh, the doer as well. 

Knowing comes from doing

Everyone wants to know about God but not many are interested in sitting still to witness God.

Deliberately diluting Sikhism

The recent attempts to dilute Sikhism by Hindu factions is a politically motivated movement since Modi became Prime Minister. Facebook shows clear evidence of groups of Hindus marching with Gatras on. Traditionally Gatra was worn to hold Kirtan, one of the five articles of faith worn by a Sikh after initiation by taking Amrit prepared by five beloved Sikhs / Panjabi pyaras. I also saw videos of Hindus with cut beard wearing orange turbans matching their orange clothes doing waheguru simran on harmonium. It's not being done to promote Sikhism to Hindus but to dilute Sikhism and trying to prove that Sikhism is but a sect of Hinduism which clearly is not the case.

It's amazing what political movements like this to destroy a religion can do to those trying to move away from strict Sikhism. I was one of them. I was moving away from Sikhism and trying to be more spiritual person for some years now because I didn't want to be identified as Sikh but simply as a spiritual person. I intended to promote meditation to help humanity move towards personal spiritual development instead of spending more time belonging to a religious group. Unfortunately, what I have seen recently in India seems to me as an attack on Sikh Identity given by Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th guru. Whether I count as a Sikh or not was not important to me for my personal spiritual growth but my growth is not the only important thing now. Sikh Identity given by my spiritual father Guru Gobing Singh Ji must remain alive in this world and that is is more important to me now only because there are vigorous attempts being made to destroy that identity.

Whenever there will be attempts to destroy Sikhism because of political reasons, it would only result in more sehajdhari Sikhs adopting the Bana, the uniform given by my guru and those like me returning to Sikhism. The reason for that is same as 'Lest not forget' attitude towards the fallen soldiers. We must not forget those who make sacrifices for us, our parents, our soldiers, our marters and true leaders like Gobind Singh who taught people to live with pride and not give up their beliefs under political pressure. Guru Gobind Singh Ji did not hesitate to sacrifice his own life, the lives of his four sons and his father for the sake of everyone's right to choose their religion and today the very Hindu's, whose religion he made sacrifices for, are trying to destroy it, then those who see Gobind Singh as their father must keep that identity alive. The principles for which Guru Gobind Singh stood for must be kept alive in this world abs so should the identity he bestowed upon us.

Guru Gobind Singh Ji has always sent me help in the astral world. He has protected me from psychic attacks and foretold me of danger. Even in his non-physical form, he has never stopped protecting those who seek his protection.  This is regardless of whether I kept my Nitnem, my five K or not. He may have become unhappy with me but still doesn't stop help from his side. If guru can keep his side of the bargain regardless of my level of commitment, then he is a true guru who never gives up hope that one day his children will see his point and uphold the same principles in life. We are still learning to walk on his path.

May God bless those faking his path and help them see Guru Gobind Singh and his sacrifices in the right light and make them true followers.

Search for the Golden Gate

In one of my meditation in 2009, I saw a gate open in the heart chakra.
I am a undoubtful follower of Guru Nanak,  spiritual master of the heart chakra, who showed the path of Truth and Compassion. When you have these two in the heart - a desire to uphold the truth in a compassionate manner, a desire to come back to the truth, the original state, the undivided self, become one with the universe, connect with other universes with compassion; you become one with the source, hence, you become the source while you are connected.
The heart centre is the connection between the two worlds, visible and invisible. The invisible world is not just for the dead, it's for the living as well. There are frequencies / different vibrations that you access based on your own Will.

Last night, my mother came to live with me for a month. To make her feel welcome, knowing that she doesn't like sleeping alone; I slept in the room that was kept for her. Since my daughter had gone for her primary school excursion, my little preschooler slept alone in his  bed, after exhausting himself on the iPad. I had contemplated for a moment if I should sleep with him, like I do each night cuddling him all night but decided against it since he was already asleep. In the early hours of the morning, I was woken by a dream in which I was in a bus. I was searching for my little son. I could hear his faint call for help but couldn't see where he was. So I was holding my ear against the floor of a he bus trying to hear if he was stuck somewhere in a box under the bus. Then I found him.
You can see how my dream was directly related to my dilemma, the night before. Similarly, we have so many delimmas in life and strong emotions attached to them. These emotions drive us in the invisible world. The invisible world is not just made up of our own strong desires but also of the others. It's a sum total of all Will. The stronger the Will power, the more the impact of that Will. This is where collective consciousness comes into play. The more being think of a certain thought or feel a feeling, the stronger is the drive of that emotion. The emotion is in all beings, not just humans. So think and feel the emotions of trees, birds, animals that live on this planet; freely roaming wild one's and those factory grown obe's that we treat as our business to eat and make money of by killing and selling their meat. Imagine the pain of a mother whose calf has been separated from her and thrown in a meat truck to be taken to the abattoir for slaughtering. If you know someone who lives on such a farm, they will tell you that those cows cry very loud for days, at night, moaning for their young one.
Guru Nanak says that without daya / compassion, their is no value in a religious act / dharma. If you indulge in a religion, that means that you are concerned about afterlife but the irony is that if you have no compassion while you are alive, the golden gate is not open while you live; then make no mistake there is no golden gate or pearly gates (as Christians believe) opening for you.
Guru / spiritual master is someone with experience in those realms of truth / Sachkhand, where no excuse for merciless acts is good enough to hide your sins. A spiritual master only holds your hand if you undoubtably follow is path and truly believe that he is helping you lead your life in the righteous manner here and in afterlife. Your spiritual master can't help you if you do not rise to his frequency / vibration. If you keep your desires too earthbound, i.e., only compassionate about your own born children but not of others, only want to earn lots of money to benefit your own family, you have a feeling of mine against the rest of the world, even my religion or race against the rest, it's a feeling of competition. Competition is always between the two for the search of a superior one. Therefore, it can't be in the same frequency as the vibration of 'One God'.
One God vibration is when you feel the pain and gain of the other as your own. God is not someone sitting somewhere on a throne. God is a vibration of truth, of unconditional love, of compassion, of oneness and for 'Sarbat da Bhala' / for the Goodwill, for the benefit of all with no harm to any being. God is when nobody is left