Recap: Healing Intensive with Hari Nam Singh at Park Slope Brooklyn September 27-28, 2019

“Identity Crisis”

In our world there are many powerful sources of pressure that bear upon people in ways that challenge their identity.  This can happen when the pressure is not coincident with one’s intuitive knowledge and produces an internal separation from what one knows in one’s heart.
Such a challenge can be subtle where one gives up a part of themself for convenience, for a pragmatic march to what is perceived to be a bigger goal or by caving in to an outright onslaught of oppression to conform to a popular “norm”.  An extreme condition may be realized when one perceives that ” I am not myself anymore”.  A more subtle condition can be manifest, with or without personal realization,  by indecision, confusion or depression.
Knowing the self and being oneself unconditionally will completely nullify any tendency for that kind of separation.  It is a central focus of the teachings that have come to us from Yogi Bhajan, our lineage and the Guru.
Many practices, or meditations, deal with this issue directly
(See Meditation: LA877-19960604 – Self Realization,
Meditation: LA950 A00214 20000214 Develop Self-Reliance,
Meditation: NM091 – 19921110 – Self Emboldenment, Engagement, Vision,
Meditation: NM0383-20010213 – Culturing the Self,
Meditation: NM0390-20010320 – Provoke Your Higher Self,
Meditation:  NM0426 – 20011117 – Self Transformation, for example).

The listed examples can help to strengthen one’s identity and possibly prevent illnesses of the soul.  As healers, we are sometimes in a position to help people to heal after the fact.  We can help to mitigate directly the suffering associated with some conditions and perhaps open up to them an awareness of a more productive path to self awareness.

In this intensive, we practiced an approach to healing the soul, the fundamental and transcendent identity of our existence.  Listed below are the meditations we practiced along with audio recordings of the two days of workshops.

September 27 Meditations:

Meditation: LA049 780901 Homeh Bandana Kriya: takes away self-pride and vanity

Meditation:  TCH36-8I-2000724-You and Thou

Meditation:  LA015 780227 – To Bring Swift and Powerful Change

September 28 Meditations:

Meditation: LA049 780901 Homeh Bandana Kriya: takes away self-pride and vanity 

Meditation: NM360-20000913 – Making a Mold – White Hole Mudra

Meditation: NM327-990930 Know Your Heart

Class Audio:

Part 1 – September 27

Part 2 – September 28

 

Today: “Engage in joyful social intercourse with family, friends, community and beyond.” – from the I Ching

Engage in joyful social intercourse with family, friends, community and beyond.  Your influence will be uplifting.

Meditation: KWTC 19970630 – For Faculty of Self Engagement

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Today: I Ching – Previous Readings

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#58

The joyous mood is infectious and therefore brings success. But joy must be based on steadfastness if it is not to degenerate into uncontrolled mirth. Truth and strength must dwell in the heart, while gentleness reveals itself in social intercourse. In this way one assumes the right attitude toward God and man and achieves something. Under certain conditions, intimidation without gentleness may achieve something momentarily, but not for all time. When, on the other hand, the hearts of men are won by friendliness, they are led to take all hardships upon themselves willingly, and if need be will not shun death itself, so great is the power of joy over men.

Lakes resting one on the other:
The image of THE JOYOUS.
Thus the superior man joins with his friends
For discussion and practice.

A lake evaporates upward and thus gradually dries up; but when two lakes are joined they do not dry up so readily, for one replenishes the other. It is the same in the field of knowledge. Knowledge should be a refreshing and vitalising force. It becomes so only through stimulating intercourse with congenial friends with whom one holds discussion and practices application of the truths of life. In this way learning becomes many-sided and takes on a cheerful lightness, whereas there is always something ponderous and one-sided about the learning of the self-taught.

Today: “How can your Creator and how can Mother Nature who created you make you lonely?” Yogi Bhajan

“How can your Creator and how can Mother Nature who created you make you lonely? There are beautiful trees, there are beautiful times; everywhere around you beauty is in such abundance that if you look ahead, you can enjoy and enjoy forever and ever. Why do you feel lonely? And why do you want to be recognized? And why do you overextend yourself and make yourself weak?” Yogi Bhajan

Sat Nam!
Ram Anand

Meditation: LA049 780901 Homeh Bandana Kriya: takes away self-pride and vanity

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