Making Your Mind Your Best Friend

Your mind is a space. In its natural state, it is pristine, open, luminous, at One, in a constant state of celebration with the Infinite creative energies of the Universe.

If you are unable to celebrate, if you are filled with worries, if you are constantly in the grip of stress, it is because your mind is occupied. There is no space for celebration in a cluttered mind.

You may think that with meditation, all your worries will disappear. This will not happen! It will not happen because you are holding on to dead energies, negative energies at a biological level as well as in the mind.

Your priority is not to start meditating. Start with the external. Start with your body, with your own breath.
Your breath is the primary source of your biological and energetic renewal. Your mind cannot see with fresh eyes, because your body is filled with stale air!

Your breath releases 70% of the toxins in your body. If your breath is shallow, if your breath is constricted by
accumulating stress, if it has shut down due to physical or emotional trauma, toxins accumulate in your body and mind, poisoning them.

You accumulate clutter that blocks the flow of your energy. You also have every power to release that clutter, to create space for celebration. The most important thing in your life is your determination, your Will Power. With will power you can uplift your mind from all negativity, you can breathe freshness and joy, you can usher in positive light and vision.

You don't have to regulate your breath as you do in pranayama or chi practices. Just watch your breath. Just be the witness to the Universal play of energy, the prana flowing in and out through your nostrils. Focus your attention to the upper lip around the rim of your nostrils, and feel the flow of life! It is calming. It is detoxifying. It is emptying you of all the negativity that you have been unconsciously accumulating.

Your mind longs to be in a state of total rest. You long to be in the kingdom of peace and tranquility, joy and harmony that is within you. You alone can open the doorway. The doorway is there. You alone can clear the clutter that obstructs your source.

You are stressed because your supply of energy is too small. It is like a small well which dries up often and easily. You run out of energy, though the demands on you keep growing. You cannot cope with the increasing complexities of today’s world with only a shallow supply of energy.

There are hidden dimensions of your body and mind, however, that have much to offer you. These dimensions can be tapped by stretching your body and stretching your breath. It does not take much time nor effort to stretch your body and to breathe deeply. It takes only your intention and willingness, some consistency of effort, and your full attention to make a huge difference in the quality of your daily life.

By stretching your body and stretching your breath, your whole being begins to expand. You break the cycle of contraction and constriction of your muscles and energies. As you stretch with your breathing, as you mindfully do breathing practices, you will find that you are gradually connecting to a limitless well inside of you. That well draws on the hidden ocean of all resources. You begin to feel freedom from the stress that otherwise plagues you. With all of your body’s cells invigorated with more life force, you begin to find you are entering the day better equipped to meet its challenges.

Initially you have to convince the child of your mind. You have to help it to understand the purpose of the stretching and the breathing practices. Take a few seconds before beginning your exercise period each day to remind yourself why you are doing this. You are doing these practices to love your body, to acknowledge the gifts of the body, to honor the needs of your body, to re-establish yourself in the creative and harmonious rhythms of the universe which gave birth to you and which nourish you, to establish a conscious connection to the source of all energy through the breath. You are doing these practices to open new portals to natural peace and joy.

If you are consistent, if you practice even 15-20 minutes a day with full concentration, in just a few days you will begin to feel the difference in your body and mind’s energy pattern. Then you will not miss it any more.

Yes, the tragedy is heart breaking. But have we, as the human society, done justice to the purpose that Life has given to us? Our purpose was meant to fulfill the need to love ourselves and others, and live a life of simplicity and devotion.

What have we done instead? We fanned greed all over the world. We took things for granted. As a result, the collective consciousness has been polluted over a period of time. Now that the fertile ground of negativity has spread, the terror is let loose all over. Who is responsible? Is it just the terrorists? We are also responsible, each citizen, each nation, in this world.

It is time we come back to ourselves and took a look inside ourselves, to find that the ultimate source of disruption in the world is within us, that is, in our own mind. We are inimical with our own mind. We surrender to all sorts of negative thoughts, and keep fanning them until things go out of our control. Is that not a kind of terrorism of the self, by the self?

Let us wake to the call of the Universe at this hour, going beyond all sectarian views of the religions, and work for a universal spiritualism that would create human Beings out of humans. Let us work for peace by beginning first with ourselves. No politician in the world can give peace to anyone in this world. It is a gift that only you can give to yourself. I can give peace to myself, and we can all give peace to ourselves, through the practice of prayers and meditation.

We can do a great world-changing service by just worshiping our own breath, which has no religion. There is no Hindu breath, no Christian breath, no Buddhist breath, breath is Universal. Just watch your breath with all your heart in it, witness the universe flowing through you, blessing you from within and without. Healing the world all around.

You and I cannot fight against terrorism unless we first stop the disruption in our own mind. The process of healing our minds would ripple over to the other, and the other, and the other. Eventually, it will spread everywhere to envelop the entire world in peace.

The ultimate purpose of this life cannot be to eat, drink, and make merry! If it were, then humans would have long ago attained happiness in life and peace in life. For centuries, we have been searching for happiness and peace through the process of desiring and consuming things; but, with all that man has gained, he has achieved neither peace nor happiness.

When you experience good times, it is easy for you to laugh a lot, and to trigger positive healing energy and boost your immune system. But can you also laugh when you face hurdles? Can you smile because you visualize the universal design that gives you greater challenges in order to achieve greater success? Those who can value the power of the Inner Spirit, and its inscrutable ways, can keep the smile alive in the midst of all the frowns. That is way to be happy and successful.

Fortunately, there is an alternative to the eat, drink, and make merry philosophy. The alternative for us is to live, knowing the Art of Living. To breathe, knowing the Art of Breathing. To celebrate, knowing the Art of Celebrating! These arts are natural to man. They let us be free and be enlightened.

So dear children, your mind is the place where you make a heaven on earth. By keeping company with positive thoughts always, you begin to walk the path of making your life a heaven. Your home becomes a heaven; your work becomes heavenly; and your relationships become as fragrant as the heavenly garden that you have created in your own mind.

The key to happiness and peace is as close as your thoughts. Observe and watch. Let the laser of your consciousness cut down the weeds of negativity. You can rest assured, the weeds will be burned off, and you will see a beautiful garden right there. All of it just through companionship with your own mind; by loving, participating, non-judgmentally witnessing, and sharing the grace of your own Higher Conscious Mind.

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Don't fight your desire for food! If you try to fight, you will lose the battle.

Just relax your effort. Instead, with love and joy, do both stretching and breathing exercises. Stretching builds your body and mind. Most important of all, remember to breathe with deep, rhythmic breathing. Take a cat-nap meditation regularly during the day by counting to 90 like the ticking of the clock. This short meditation will fill you with positive cosmic vibrations.

As you practice stretching and breathing properly, you will experience increasingly effective hormonal balance; further, your greed for food will diminish without effort. As the communication channels get clear and clean due to breathing in universal creative energy, you will find your emotional blocks are also released. It happens like magic, even if you do not realize it at the time.

Eat when you wish to, but don't forget to do the stretches and deep breathing. Worship the God of positive energy and vibrations all around you. You will slim down; you will be healthy and beautiful, for in your inner Spirit you are already Healthy and Beautiful. You are not what your body is right now. You are who You ARE!

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