Tag: techniques of meditation

  • Healing Abuse and Trauma

    What is the root cause of mental illness?
    Truly, it is negative energy, violence, and those stressful world situations that cause them.

    What heals us?
    Kindness, good behaviour, positive words, action against negative energy, removing evil from society, helping victims, supporting those who need support, and truthfulness heals us.

    In case noone around is supportive, we meditate and find our own inner peace and will power. For example as vegan activists we get abused even more if we say even a small thing because people care more about their enjoyment, food, and about non vegans than about each other, or animals. We need to learn inner healing techniques.

    When it comes to mental illness or disorders there are two types.

    1. Violent or Abusive Personalities:

    Some people can be lacking empathy and be disordered as violent or manipulative personalities which means psychopaths, sadists, or narcissistic beings who hurt or abuse others. They may not always change due to medicines or therapy. They definitely need to be educated on how to behave but they won’t be listening and reverse blame victims. Sometimes drugs are prescribed if they get calmed down or less aggressive due to them. But they may not seek out any support or cure at times and function in society all around us, pretending to be good on the outside, but being poor in the ways they treat others at a personal level when you live with them. They rarely feel empathy for animals because they get nothing out of them and their only enjoyment comes from their own pleasure, food, fun, and entertainment which is their life purpose, even if it means ignoring the needs of others or using them towards their own selfish interest, consumerism, and to ‘win’ an argument or war for own ego to be massaged.

    2. Victims and Trauma Symptoms:

    Some people might be victims or might be empaths and feel ill or depressed because they feel the pain of violence, stress, and negative behaviour around them. If you have trauma or ptsd and depression because of your struggles or sadness at the ways of the world, we need some sort of healing. Some people use medicines, others prefer non chemical forms of healing over time. But in some cases if its emergency medicines may be prescribed for some time. Medicines do not provide the ultimate cure and may have side effects. In my case I found more harm than help in case of trauma or PTSD after my abuse since 2010 which was a long term very severe abuse that completely destroyed my life. But I recovered well through Affirmations and my own meditation and healing through myself. I found doctors and drugs to be useless when I was about to die because the stress became physical illness too, after a local woman from my city attacked me last year to cause me grave harm, but I came back through will power.

    Looking at people abusing animals, cooking and serving them, eating them, ignoring the plight of the victims, not taking action, harms an empath. It is not only one’s personal abuse. Its also witnessing abuse but feeling helpless that harms us psychologically in a big way.

    How to Heal Yourself:

    Everyone’s experience is different and only an individual who faces a problem knows how it feels and probably not everyone does the same things to recover, be healed, and protect oneself.

    One great way to protect yourself is to block negative energy, another is to banish it, and a third is to amplify your own positive energy through your work, to shine out even more, do better and support yourself till your last breath.

    All of these are called spells or healing techniques that are mind based or will power based, hence called magical because the work happens at an inner level. Of course, these are positive spells and not to harm others but to help yourself and eliminate bad energies or people out of your life and give them a lesson.

    An example is when I was being threatened with knife, abused sexually and assaulted or hit by someone against my vegan activism and my spiritual career to bring me down three years ago, I visualised that the abuser would receive a judgement and exactly that happened. Every word I thought in my mind was said by the judge exactly in issuing a court order. Therefore, we do manifest situations in life in order to learn who we are and to be aware of the power of our minds.

    Everything is about one thing. Realising that your mind creates reality in this dreamworld.

    Just two days ago, I cast a spell that negative and harmful people are leaving my life, and exactly that is what has been manifesting over the last two days.

    It’s amazing that the mind creates reality as I have witnessed how my thoughts made people new people appear physically out of nowhere through the third eye and say or do things exactly as I imagined.

    While it’s great to empower oneself in this experience of manifesting reality, it is a great idea to remember that it is all illusion or a dreamworld or the Matrix and to remain a good person from within (your soul), and be open to learning what truth is instead of believing in things from any scriptures or belief systems.

  • Meditation: The Most Important Thing For Us All

    Meditation: The Most Important Thing For Us All

    What is meditation?

    Meditation means going within (from the latin word medi that means middle or center). We all are something beyond our physical bodies, beyond our feelings, our desires, our thoughts…there is something deeper within us. Meditation is about being with this deeper part of us.

    Why should we meditate?

    In our day to day life we go through many ups and downs, seeing and experiencing both negative and positive things in the world, in our lives…and getting affected by them all. This is a state of duality or illusion…where we fall out of balance, fearful and unaware of who we are. Negative energy, fears or blockages are a result of this imbalance or ignorance…manifesting as diseases, problems, harmful thoughts, negative attachments, destructive beliefs, disturbed behavior or unhappiness of various kinds. Through meditation we awaken to our inner truth and discover inner happiness. We know that there is nothing to fear at all. This brings peace and joy to all of us and puts us all back in a balanced and wholesome state making everything better.

    Who can meditate?

    Anyone can, there are no restrictions of gender and even children can meditate whenever they are ready for it.

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    When should we meditate?

    Meditation is an inner state and not restricted by time. Whether it is morning or night, before food or after, is not so important, although keeping a light stomach helps some people in focusing better, and it helps to be not too sleepy when you are trying to meditate. Women in their periods, or people who are not feeling well can meditate as well. In-fact meditation could help in healing you during uncomfortable times. With practice meditation will become easier and effortlessly possible at any time.

    What should be worn?

    There is no need to wear any special type of outfit. As long as you are comfortable you can meditate whether at work or home in your day to day clothes.

    Are there any specific methods of meditation?

    It does not matter what technique you use to draw focus from outer world to the inner self….some people begin by closing their eyes and sitting still, some prefer listening to soothing music to relax their mind, some focus on chanting or mantras, some focus on their breath, all these are just aids or induction techniques to gradually achieve stillness. Yet these are not meditation itself. Meditation is when we go beyond all this and be without any thoughts to discover the innermost self.

    What are the steps to follow?

    Step 1. Relaxed awareness: In day to day life sometimes we get absorbed in the experiences without remembering our innermost self. The first step in meditation is to draw our senses inwards. You can try this by closing your eyes gently and sitting in a comfortable posture, neither slouching not stiff.

    Step 2: Observation: Instead of getting attached to any feelings, thoughts or mind-chatter, just observe them and watch them quieten. Observing something gives you power over it. Observe your breath and your mind… and watch the space between your thoughts.

    Step 3: Witnessing: When you find the space between your thoughts …when there is inner silence, then you can observe your true self. This is who you really are. Be with yourself as a witness to the self. This takes you beyond the illusion of the world process and in alignment with your inner truth which is pure peace and bliss.

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    For how long should we meditate?

    You can meditate for as long as you want. You might take some time in the beginning to even reach a meditative state and the idea is that once you get there you must stay in it for as long as possible. You can begin with practicing for 30 minutes a day and slowly increase it to one hour a day. As you practice each day after a period of dedicated practice, you will find that the meditative state will come naturally to you and in every part of the day and even at night while sleeping you will be in a deep inner state. Still it will be good to dedicate at least one hour a day for specially being just with yourself and meditating.

    What will happen once you reach a meditative state?

    For each person their own individual and unique experiences are important. You can note and observe our own experiences. For example: Being one with nature, Being one with the universe, Feeling light, Just being, Pure peace and bliss…these are some of the common experiences of people who meditate. After you achieve this ‘enlightened’ state you will not feel superior in any way but will be more compassionate and humble, recognizing that all is one.

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    Swati Prakash is a spiritual author and founder of Global Wicca tradition of spirituality. You can read more on www.swatiprakash.com