Intuitive Force

I was in a class the last night & had to write about my experience because it was very special & unique to me. It was a really great class that seemed to be focused on truth & connecting with intuition as the voice of God interpreted by you. The very last thing we did was connect our index fingers together. The right hand was facing palm out and the left palm in. We were instructed to raise the connected index fingers right in front of our third eye, close our eyes about 95% and see our fingers with our third eye. The breath was two strokes in with the mouth and two out with the nose. We did this for what seemed like 10 minutes but was more accurately 3-4 minutes. After awhile I began to feel a bit dizzy, but kept at it. I then began to feel my whole body. I am talking my whole body all at once. The instructor kept talking and I felt as if God was speaking through him, saying exactly what I needed to hear in each moment. I kept going, I then began to feel every pain but not in a bad way, in a way that made me feel more alive than ever. It was a reminder that I was human and at the same time a reminder that I was more than my body. I felt my shoulder injury, that the middle of my spine was out of alignment, that my left middle rib was suffering from this subluxation, that my right hip flexor was aching, that the front of my left hip was tight due to my sacrum being also out of alignment, I felt my knees aching & the pads of my feet get really hot. At the same time that I felt all of this I knew that I had the capacity to heal myself & I was able to call upon all of my bodily aches and pains all at once and intend healing for myself. It was like I was giving myself permission to let go of the pain and knew that it was my choice to hold on to it for whatever reason. After class I felt completely blissed out, at peace and more powerful than ever. Boy! What an amazing experience.

The Bhakti Path

There are four major types of yoga: Jnana Yoga (yoga of knowledge), Karma Yoga (yoga of action or service), Raja Yoga (yoga of meditation, which is where you will find the asana/pranayama practice) and then lastly Bhakti Yoga (yoga of love or devotion). Bhakti is not the lustful or sexual type that we think of when we think of some of the ways that Tantra Yoga has historically gone. The Bhakti path encompasses an honest introspection toward connection to universal spirit that lies within all of us. This path winds spontaneously in the direction of our karma (our easiest flow). It begins with, is propelled by and ends with love. What is love? "To love is to not ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something. This is the only way to freedom" - J. Krishnamurti.”

Revolution

J. Krishnamurti - Think On These Things - “To know one’s mind is a basic purpose of education. From the moment you were born: your impressions and influences have gradually conditioned and shaped you into who you are right now in order to have you “fit in” to a societal pattern. True revolution is to break away from this pattern & to inquire outside it. Breaking through deeply embedded tradition, dogma, indoctrination and authority to shake off the conditioning that holds your mind will set you free. Free beyond what is known and documented.”

Karma

Karma is your path of least resistance, & when you can overcome it, it becomes the way to salvation or enlightenment.

Give and take

To everything in life there is a balance of opposites. Nature consistently fluctuates between form and formless, give and take and light and dark. Between these opposites there is no good or bad, they are just different forms of the same thing.
How many times have you given expecting something in return? On a deeply unconscious level, many of us give to get. Embarrassing as it may be, when we shine light on this, we can begin to change it. We create our own reality through the awakened and unawakened parts of our conscious and unconscious.
Giving to get often leads to disappointment when our expectations are not fully met. Trying to control something so unpredictable is a waste of your time and energy.
The universe/God is so much bigger and more powerful than we could ever imagine. So why project our limited viewpoints into our experience here on earth? When you drop the limitations on what you receive from the universe, you never know what you’ll get. Practice humility in your everyday life by giving with absolutely no expectations for return.
On your mat, you can practice humility for staying completely present. In your life’s journey, let go and let God. Namaste!

Freedom From the Known - J. Krishnamurti

‎"What can be described is the known, and the freedom from the known can come into being only when there is a dying every day to the known, to the hurts, the flatteries, to all the images you have made, to all your experiences-dying every day so that the brain cells themselves become fresh, young, innocent." -J. Krishnamurti, "Freedom From the Known"

Detachment

The universe conserves the laws of opposites. Our thoughts, our words our actions all contribute to this change. Positive attracts positive & negative attracts negative. The energy that you share with the universe matters. There is a flux to everything in life, so things are always naturally transitioning between one opposite to the other until that part of us arrives at an equilibrium.
Change happens within every moment & that change is not always perceived as good by us. But, all is perfect in god’s eyes and so we, even with our perceived flaws, are also perfect. Perfect meaning we are whole, meaning we are part of it, part of the universe and therefore, part of God.

abhyasa vairagyabhyam tannirodhah / tada drastu svarupe 'vastanam


“The fluctuations of the mind are restrained through practice and non-attachment... Then the seer abides in his true nature.”
Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: Book 1, Sutra 12 / Book 1, Sutra 3