One vibration

The translation of the mool mantra , the Sikh core philosophy is not simply 'One God'.
It means one doer of actions within us.  Ek means one and O ang kaar, needs to be divided into three parts to understand it's meaning.  O means one sound vibration.  Ang means part of your body. Kaar means action. So,  one sound vibration that is within your body and is the ultimate cause of all action within you.
Next part of the mantra describes it as Satnaam. Sat meaning True Naam means name,  a specific sound to identify the real you.
By speaking these words 'Ek O-Ang-Kaar, Satnaam' Guru Nanak is suggesting there is a true sound vibration within us that takes us to the blueprint that created us. He further clarifies that this sound vibration is the Kartapurakh, the doer of actions, the person truly responsible for how you act and what you achieve or not in this world.
This powerful self within us,  he explains, is Nirbhao Nirvair meaning without fear and animosity.  This powerful trueself,  Nanak claims, is Akal Murat- timeless self.
Therefore,  the timeless self is without fear and animosity and is the doer of all action within us. This self is a sound vibration and therefore can be easily found by connecting with the sound. No wonder then,  that Nanak suggest singing as the quickest way to reaching the true self.
Nanak then explains the deeper connection of this sound vibration to not only self but to the rest of the creation when he suggests that it is Ajuni Saibhag - the vibration itself doesn't come in the cycle of birth and death and self destruction. Nanak suggests that the vibration is found with guru's Grace - gaze of compassion.
To understand a PhD level concept,  you must have the prerequisites to be in that class.  Similarly,  to reach the gaze of compassion, you must develop compassion within you,  do actions fearlessly and without animosity. First of all you must try listening to the sound vibration within you that connects you to the self-healing powerful self that created your blueprint. The powerful self that is also part the whole creation.

God is light and technology is full of it

What is a plant attracted to?  Light.  A seed find its way to the light source.  Humans are not much different from plants.  Could it be that we are addicted to technology simply because these devices are made of glass that emits light?

In meditation as well,  the goal is to close your eyes and see the internal light.  First we reach the midbrain, the part of the brain that stimulates sound and light.
Many saints have described their spiritual experiences where they say God has a thousand eyes or that they heard a sound if thunder followed by other experiences. 
Our goal is to calm the mind and become an observer of the mind,  instead of the technology.  A bored mind is the most useful mind. Stop entertaining it.  Let it be bored.  This will lead to stillness,  followed by contemplation.  It's a higher function of the mind.  Watching is what we do all the time weather its YouTube or instagram. We have to take the mind to a higher function and superficial thinking is not the higher function.  It's your ego's way of fooling you in believing that you are busy and hence productive.
Don't let it fool you.  Being busy in mind is the worse thing.  Give yourself time to not do 10 things at a time.  Stop socialising.  They are not dependent on you.  Their happiness is not in liking your posts.  They don't exist for that purpose.  Nobody is following your story.  They are simply fooling themselves by keeping busy,  and believing that they are connected to others. 
To really connect with someone,  you need to disconnect and contemplate.  The same goes for the universe.  Relax by taking one deep breath.  That felt good.  Now take one more deep breath and notice your body relax more deeply.  Go drink one or two glasses of water,  visit the washroom,  if you need to before you sit down in a comfortable posture in a quiet place.  Turn off technology around you and the lights.  You need to enjoy the darkness first.  Then your mind will find a light source. That's it's innate ability to survive.  Let it find the light source and create images of all sorts.  Just watch the stories it tells you and the images it shows you.  Simply smile and let it go.  Do not get caught in any one thought or story your mind is generating to entertain you.  Your mind is your movie theatre.  You know that none of the scenes it's showing you are everlasting.  The movie will end and the show of your life will be over soon. Your eyes will be shut that day.  You will no longer be able to use your body to express how you feel, to the grieving family. How will you communicate then?  What would you be able to influence.  You will still exist and you will have access to the five raw elements that created life in the first place - air,  water, light,  earth and space.
Observe these elements now.  Understand and try to manipulate these in gentle ways using your breath. 
Air is the carrier of subtle things.
Water gives life and Earth holds it.
You need space to grow your thoughts and actions.
Light shows you direction.
These are your real friends.  Embrace them.  Listen to what they are saying.  

Science, marijuana and shiva’s fountain

Lod shiva, the hindu God is associated with marijuana. He is depicted in inages as wrapped in snakes at many points on his body. It is said that the biggest river of India, the river ganges comes from shivas head. This is the symbolic story describing the effects of having marijuana.
In short, marijuana relaxes the body muscles in stages. It has a delayed reaction time. About four hours after the.intake, the intensity of the drug is felt.
The marijuana users come our with some out of the box ideas because of the brain connectivity that increases with the intake. These users also show signs of lack of empathy. Utlimately, a study proves,  regular and heavy use shrinks the grey matter of the brain. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/10/cannabis-smoking-brain-shrinks-increases-connectivity-study-texas
This study provides sone leads to follow on how it works, the subject of my enquiry. The reason for my enquiry is that it is said that in shiva tradition, marijuana is used to initially give a taste of a spiritual experience but ultimately you learn to have such experiences without the use of drug. My personal experience suggests that the spiritual experiences are far superior in quality and long term effect on wellveing than the drug induced effects. However, the drug used effect is similar in physical sensations it causes and the fact that you see visions. The negative conscequence is that the visions are not in your control at all. Every action depicted in the visions is very fast followed by multiplication of the image by several times. Before the images, one feels the pressure behind the base of the nose. Then you feel the energy going upwards, just like a fountain of energy towards the top of the headand then coming forward in between the two eyes. This is shivas real fountain. I wonder if it the result of extra activity caused in the trochlear nerve. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochlear_nerve

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitofrontal_cortex
When the muscles in the brain relax, brain starts to function faster. The THC stimulates the Tectum in the midbrain, responsible for visual and auditory function. Midbrain also has the four crainial nerves. When the midbrain relaxes, the flow of the cerebrospinal fluid must increase casing the sensation of energy rush from the base of the nose upwards.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midbrain
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_oblique_muscle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_bone

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_crest
“the neural tube is the embryonic precursor to the central nervous system.”
 “the cells of the neural plate form a cord-like structure that migrates inside the embryo and hollows to form the tube.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_tube

In deep meditation, you divide the body for focus on frontal axis and saggital axis.

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.