Yogic tradition tells us that all consciousness that can be identified has ten bodies. It is the common denominator of all beings and collections of beings. We can approach healing in a very profound and permanent way if we recognize this and relate with the bodies in a contemplative way. Contemplating a body of an event we can find the story that holds the tendencies of the patient at a very primal level and modify it. Our workshop will address this proposition and we will practice healing using this method.
Meditation: “Sniff” meditation
Sit cross legged. Place left hand on left knee, in gyan mudra. With right hand, place thumb on the mound of Mercury (on palm just below the pinkie finger), palm facing your face. “Sniff” each finger in succession as you silently recite the mantra “Sa Ta Na Ma”, starting with the Jupiter (index) finger. After the fourth “sniff”, exhale the breath and begin again.
11-31 minutes
This meditation will stimulate your perceptive field and intensify your experience.
Meditation: “Blow Your Mind”
Put finger tips together at chin level. Sing Ra Ma Da Sa (pause) Sa Se So Hung. Emphasize the first Sa, then pause before the next phrase.
Eyes at tip of nose. Look at mudra. 31 min.
This is for when your space is too organized or constricted
Meditation: Initiate an Intuitive Existence
Place hands on knees with the thumbs touching the Mercury fingers (pinkies). Balance the weight of the body. Place eyes at the tip of the nose. Place tongue at the upper soft palate, in the back of the mouth. Don’t move. 31 min.
Meditation and Healing Workshop July 20, 2013 with Hari Nam Singh at the Healing Heart Center (Review)
We held a Meditation and Sat Nam Rasayan® Healing Workshop with Hari Nam Singh at the Healing Heart Center in Hollywood. The topic of the workshop was Healing with the Elements.
Meditation: Initiate an Intuitive Existence
Meditation: Sniff Meditation
Meditation: BlowYour Mind
The Elements are a system of forms that we can use in a healing relation. They are Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether. An assumption of using elements to heal is that any system can be described completely by the composition of elements present in the system. Our mortal incarnation can be described physically as a collection of elements held together by our prana. When the prana can no longer hold the elements together, they disperse, and we expire.
How elements are combined can describe conditions of imbalance or disease. Too much of one or more elements and a lack of others can produce a condition of imbalance in the body, in the mind, or perhaps in a relationship between a person and someone or something else. Bringing the composition of elements into balance can remove the tendency of the condition.
The way we use elements to heal is simply to include them in the healing relation. We relate with elements in the same way that we relate with the event. We find how we are affected in our perceptive field by our intention to include one or more elements. It is the same intuitive process that we use for all healing. We do not need to conceptualize nor visualize an element as an object or static property, but rather look inside our perceptive field to find how we are affected in relation with it. Those effects are the reality of the process. Any preconceptions of an element that come from outside of the experience only serve to limit the experience and dilute the effect. The use of elements has an immediate and strong impact on the healing relation. We use them to effect quick results where the precision of other contemplative forms is not required.
Highlights of the experience.
The Wolf and the Lamb, an Aesop Fable
A WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.” “Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, “I was not then born.” Then said the Wolf, “You feed in my pasture.” “No, good sir,” replied the Lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.” Again said the Wolf, “You drink of my well.” “No,” exclaimed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.” Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, “Well! I won’t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations.” The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
Translated by George Fyler Townsend. Aesop’s Fables (p. 15). Amazon Digital Services, Inc..
It is Ten Years Today…
…since the start of the Iraq War. Last week my family listened to Rachel Maddow comment on war in our time when she visited Los Angeles. Neither a pacifist nor a war hawk, Rachel shared her thoughts on why it our nation has a propensity for engaging in perpetual war. She has written a book entitled Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power. It is an American political history of America’s most recent wars. In her address she described her motivations for writing the book and described some aspects of its context.
Here I would like to share some highlights.
View Intro Video Why she wrote the book
View Excerpt Video Reading a passage that describes the aging and deterioration of the US nuclear arsenal.
Meditation and Healing Workshop March 16, 2013 with Hari Nam Singh at the Healing Heart Center (Review)
We held a Meditation and Sat Nam Rasayan® Healing Workshop with Hari Nam Singh at the Healing Heart Center in Hollywood. The topic of the workshop was Healing in the Dream State. Here are some of the highlights:
Audio recording
Meditation Use the Wind to Produce Trance
Meditation for Mastery of Time and Space
Meditation See Without the Eyes
Nicolaus Copernicus Gets a Google Doodle … And Here’s Why – News Watch
Meditation: LA877-19960604 – Self Realization
See the lecture video from 19960604
Humee Hum Brum Hum
Tantric Har
See full transcript LA877 960604 Self Realization in Library of Teachings
Meditation: KYB117-19860822 – Achieve an Experience of God
Sit in Easy Pose, bend your elbows so that your upper arms are by your rib cage, and the hands are at shoulder level, palms facing forward. Bring each hand into Surya Mudra with the thumb and sun finger (ring finger) touching. Keep the other three fingers straight. Silently meditate to Rahke Rakhan Har by Singh Kaur. Your hands are in Surya Mudra and you are meditating to a Surya Shabd. Close your eyes and go through your oneness.
Let the surya or sun energy circulate. Start with 11 minutes and work up to 31 Minutes.
Rakhe Rakhan Har
Transcript: KYB117-860822-Achieve an Experience of God 19860822
HNS Class Golden bridge – 2012-12-26 – Dissolving the Boundaries of Perception
Hari Nam Singh
Sat Nam Rasayan® Class
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 — 4:00 p.m.
Bodh Gaya Room
Golden Bridge — Hollywood, California
Tune-in. Ong Namo….
Meditation For Mastery Of Time And Space (890312 — M0512):
Mudra: Place both hands on your lap with the palms up. The right hand is on top of the left hand. The tips of the thumbs are touching.
Sit straight. The chin is slightly tilted toward the chest.
Eyes: Focused on the tip of the nose.
Mantra: Recite with the tip of the tongue silently, “Waa-hey Guru….” Use only the tongue. Do not move the lips. It’s silent. Just let the tongue do its exercise.
Time: 11 Minutes
To End: Inhale, hold the breath, exhale, relax.
So Sat Nam Rasayan® is a healing tradition where we use our awareness and find in our awareness through our perception how we’re affected by something. We can trust that to be our reality. Our perception happens inside of us. Everything that we relate with — people, our environment, and everything else — in some way affects us and brings certain perception to our awareness. As healers all we need to do is recognize that. If we are able to relate with the experience of that relation in a neutral way, then something new can happen. The perceptions that come from that relation are allowed to modify. We don’t need to modify them. They will modify if we relate with them in a neutral way. The tendencies modify in a way that healing happens. We don’t need to push back on any perception that arises through our relation; rather just allow it, don’t react to it, and then see how it changes. It will produce more perceptions, more awareness. That broader awareness is experienced by both the healer and the tiny pet in some way, and healing is allowed to happen in the tiny pet. That’s simply a description of the process that happens when we do this.
So we don’t need any particular knowledge, only experience of how we can relate in the proper way. We can relate in the proper way by placing our awareness in a certain position where we can relate in a neutral way and then allow our intention to heal to manifest. It’s just very simple; however, not necessarily simple to recognize that so that’s why we practice. Most of what we do we do through Meditation and Practice. If we can arrive to that place of awareness, then our intention becomes very effective. We set the intention to heal, and then that’s what happens. It’s actually much more simple than you could ever even imagine.
We tend to imagine all kinds of things: “This is this way. That is that way. This is just one of these. That’s one of those.” We relate to things typically by referring to something else, rather than just having the experience of relating with something in a very fundamental way. So it’s also useful that we renounce all the preconceptions that we have about everything so that we can have perceptions that are new and perceptions that really do reflect what we’re relating with, rather than our own preconceptions. So that’s about all that may need to be said about all of this. If you have any questions, I would like to entertain them at any time.
So why don’t we then just begin. We’ll do some healing exercises with partners. So select your partners, and we’ll begin. Let’s have the new people lie down first.
Round One : Open the space. Recall the space of the Meditation that we just did. Expand beyond the physical sensations. Find the boundaries of perception. Begin to become aware of your Visual Field and how it appears to you as you observe it. Begin to be aware of how all the sensations, everything in your entire Field of Perception, is interacting in this Visual Field. Don’t try to look for any content. Just observe how your sensations, everything that you feel, everything that you think, and even the sounds are affecting the Visual Field. Choose to allow your partner to affect your Field. Recognize your partner. Just let the experience go where it will. Modify your intention to relate specifically with your partner’s Throat Chakra. Just research how your relation with the Throat Chakra appears in your Field. Use your intention to expand your perception in the Field. As you do that, recognize the resistance to expanding your perception in the Field and the tendency that limits perception. In your Field, presume the existence of a single Point that has no size or dimension. Just include it. Feel how it’s affecting the Field, and how it affects in particular your Visual Field, as if you could see how it’s affecting — not necessarily the point itself; however, its effect on your perception. Research your relation with the Throat Chakra in the presence of this Point. Keep allowing the effects of that Point in your Perceptual Field. Expand beyond the resistances of your perception. Hold the space of the Point as it appears in your Visual Field. Come to conclusion. Switch with your partner.
Round Two : Take your partner. Touch your partner in a comfortable way. Close your eyes. Begin to become aware of all of your sensations. Allow your sensations as they happen. You’re not giving any particular attention to any of them, and allowing them just to flow. Include all of your sensory sensations, everything that you feel, everything that’s happening in your mind, all the mental sensations. Allow everything just to happen, and don’t resist it. Allow your attention to be on your entire Field of Perception, without discriminating any part of it. Wherever you find any distraction where your attention goes to something in particular, just allow that to happen. Observe how that is affecting everything else, how it’s affecting the whole of your perception. Allow any discomforts that you have, any resistant thoughts, and whatever comes up. Feel how it’s affecting everything, and just let it happen. Allow everything that happens in your Field of Perception to be part of the flow of your experience, without interrupting it or differentiating any part of it. If you judge your experience, then just let that be part of the experience. You don’t have to reject any part of your experience. Any opinions that you have are just part of your experience. Anything that doesn’t feel right or is uncomfortable is just part of your experience. Be aware of sensations that appear in your skin around the area of your Navel. Feel how those sensations are affected by and interrelating with all of your sensations. Feel how all of your perceptions in some way are affecting those sensations in your skin in the area of your Navel as though those sensations are becoming the source of all your sensations. Allow those sensations to be your main organ of perception, as though you have eyes in your skin around your Navel. Allow your Navel to become the eyes of your perception. See everything through those eyes. Make a simple intention that you will allow your partner to affect your Perceptive Field so that now the eyes of your perception include all the ways that your partner is affecting you. Include the perceptions centered at your Navel as though everything is happening there. Whatever you’re feeling, feel it in a neutral way. Whatever you feel that does not feel like Deep Security, feel how it relates to Deep Security, and then use your intention to transform it. Come to conclusion.
Round Three : Open the space. Hold your awareness in your Navel as before. Wherever it is, find the resistance to the proposition of moving your awareness to your Navel. Let’s repeat the exercise. Allow your Navel to become the eyes of your perception, relating with Hari Simran Kaur. Everything that you feel in a neutral way, research how it differs from feeling Deep Security. With your intention bring that relative distance to Zero. Come to conclusion.
So the point of these exercises isn’t what we did or didn’t do, and not to be able to retrace the steps that we did; rather to have the experience of doing what we did. We don’t have to believe anything that we’re doing, only observe what is there in our awareness. We see how we can relate with that and choose to relate with that. If we find something in our awareness and we notice something about it, then we can contemplate that and then see how our separation from that can begin to be made Zero so that we can merge with the experience.
The first exercise mainly was so that we could expand our perception beyond the boundaries and limitations that we impose. If we can always do that, then anything is really possible. Healing isn’t a formula. The only formula is to be present and aware in the moment and then see how we can merge with the experience of that and relate with it in a way that will bring to neutral the tendencies that cause separation and that cause imbalance, not from any judgmental perspective, only as to how what you’re experiencing in relating with something differs from being merged in the open neutral space. Does anybody have questions?
There’s no point in trying to understand any of this because it is mysterious.
Being conscious of the fear and not being reactive to it, being neutral with it, and relating with the experience of that in a way that’s neutral and lets the fear merge into the totality of the entire experience, which can include the fear; however, that’s only a small part of the experience. You’re diluting that aspect or diluting that tendency.
Keep in mind that positive and negative are two sides of the same coin. Wherever you have a polarity of positive and negative, you can’t have one without the other. Go beyond the duality so that you’re merged in the experience of it, and it can include both. When we’re experiencing something, we tend to like to go for what feels good; and we want to reject what feels bad or uncomfortable; however, as a healer, what we really need to do is contain the entire experience, allowing for what feels good and and allowing for what feels bad, and not be reactive to it. Reactive would mean, “Well, this feels really good. Let’s go with this,” and be reactive to it in that way, which would deny perhaps its polarity or some other aspect of it that you’re not willing to observe or include.
So all we need to do as healers is really contain the experience. Just contain it so that we have as much of that experience as we can perceive by extending our awareness as much as it will extend beyond the limitations that we impose. It may not be obvious how we impose limitations; however, you can allow for the possibility that that happens. That’s why it’s a good policy that you renounce whatever preconceptions you have about how everything works, how everything is, what everything is, who everybody is, and the fixed ways that we see how everything is interrelated, and allow it to become represented in our experience of what Yogi Bhajan called “The ElectroMagnetic Field,” which is the dynamic interrelationship between everything in the moment. Keep in mind that’s a fiction, too; however, we can allow for some unifying experience that includes everything. Anything else?
All right. Well, let’s finish.
Sat Nam. Sat Nam. Sat Nam. (silent prayer….)
Okay. We’ll be here next week, God willing. The world hasn’t ended….
HNS Class Golden Bridge 2012-12-19 – Dissolving Resistance to Perception through Attachment
Hari Nam Singh
Sat Nam Rasayan® Class
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 — 4:00 p.m.
Bodh Gaya Room
Golden Bridge — Hollywood, California
Tune-in. Ong Namo….
Breaking The Mask Meditation….
Okay. Take your partner.
Round One: Open the space. Feel the sounds inside of you, and how they affect you. Begin to feel how these sensations merged with the sounds inside you are affecting your brain. Watch the flow in the mind that’s set up, and how the merged sensations with the sound are affecting the brain. Relate with your partner. Allow your partner to affect your Field. Find a dominant resistance. Relate with your partner through that resistance. Contemplate the resistances to the flow in the mind, stimulated by the sensations in the brain and stimulated by the merged sensations with the sounds. Find the resistances to the flow suggested in the mind that are present in the body. Contemplate those resistances. Relate with the flow as though you’re watching it and feeling it at the same time. Release the physical resistances while releasing the resistance to the flow in the mind. Release the resistances in the brain and the pressures by releasing the resistance to the flow in the mind. Come to conclusion.
So where is it that the resistances appear? Everywhere. They appear in the body. They appear in the mind. They appear in a sensation that includes all of it.
Okay. Switch.
Round Two : Open the space. Feel inside you the sensations produced by the sounds. Feel sensations produced in the brain, stimulated by the merged sensations with the sounds. Feel how all of the sensations are affecting the flow in the mind. Contemplate the flow and resistance to the flow. Choose to relate with your partner. Allow your partner to affect your Field. Allow your partner to affect your sensations, what you feel, sensations merged with the sounds, sensations in the brain, and the flow in the mind. Contemplate the major resistance that appears in your relation, everywhere that the resistance appears. Contemplate the resistances in the flow of the mind, and feel how that’s affecting the Sensitive Field. Give space to the resistances in the flow. Resolve the resistances in the flow and also the resistances in the Sensitive Field by resolving the resistances in the flow. Expand the perception. Release any resistance of attachment to perception. Keep releasing attachment to perception by expanding perception. Come to conclusion. Switch.
Round Three : Open the space. Feel the sounds inside you, and how they’re affecting your Sensitive Field. Allow the sounds to merge with the sensations inside you, and also sensations that appear in the brain. Be aware of the effect on the flow of the mind. Choose to relate with your partner. Relate with the resistances associated with your partner’s attachment to perception, its effect on the flow of the mind and also its effect on the Sensitive Field, without discriminating. Give space to the resistances to the flow of perception, the resistances that block the flow of perception through attachment. Be aware of the subtle resistances that block the flow of perception. Contemplate and give space to it. Come to conclusion.
Anything else?
Okay. Let’s close.
Sat Nam. Sat Nam. Sat Nam. (silent prayer….)
Life
Life is flowing…
Moment to moment…
Flow with it,
And be sheltered from the hassles
Of time and space.
Life is full of power…
Live it…
From breath…
To breath!
— The Siri Singh Sahib
from Poems to Live By
compiled by Furmaan Khalsa
Orthodoxy and Heresy
“Nasrudin, is your religion orthodox?” “It all depends,” said Nasrudin, “on which bunch of heretics is in power.”
Awareness of Death
There was once a dervish who embarked upon a sea journey. As the other passengers in the ship came aboard one by one, they saw him and – as is the custom – asked him for a piece of advice. What he advised was: ‘Try to be aware of death, until you know what death is.’ Few of the travelers felt particularly attracted to this admonition.
While at sea a terrible storm blew up. The crew and the passengers alike fell upon their knees, imploring God to save the ship. They alternately screamed in terror, gave themselves up for lost, hoped wildly for deliverance. The dervish sat quietly, reflective, not reacting.
Eventually the buffeting stopped, the sea and sky were calm, and the passengers remembered how serene the dervish had been throughout the episode. One of them asked him: ‘ Did you not realize that during this frightful tempest that there was nothing more solid than a plank between us all and death?’
‘Oh, yes, indeed,’ answered the dervish. ‘I knew that it is like that at sea. I also realize, however, that in living day to day there is even less between us and death. In that moment of dread you were aware of death because you thought it was immanent. Will you hold that awareness as you live this day?