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I was once inspired to learn about “Reiki”, and thus did some levels as well. This was my initial stage of being a truth seeker. I did some classes and few courses. But literally, did not feel any energy or felt that whatever was taught was so superficial. It seemed that master knew all about chakras, auras and how to clarify them, but nothing seemed realistic. Everything was superficial, means just on the surface, they talked softly, sweetly, very humble, quiet house, etc etc, but I felt all was unnatural. I saw that everyone was just pretending or maybe in a big illusion. Just feeling little vibrations or energy does not mean your chakras are clear. I just moved on and understood fully that I need a real master not these fake ones, who where just interested in spreading their “business” and wanted me to pay for the courses one by one and make thousands by just talking superficially. Wasting so much time, energy and money. When I found out that there is a big chain of such fake masters, I completely understood that this is not my place. I needed a real master, under whom I can study, by not paying hefty fees, doing so many levels of courses one by one. Luckily, I was able to find a GURU - means a teacher who pulls you out from the darkness to light. Also it is a saying that “When Student is Ready, teacher must appear”. Under his guidance and spiritual practices, I understood what is this “Shaktipaat - Giving Energy” is? Today’s Reiki Practitioner are in a situation like: you want to give money, but you yourself don’t have enough? How can a sick person heal others? How can you give energy while your kundalini pathway is blocked with bad habit and diet like meat, alcohol, smoke etc. Only some energy of your own can be given and that gives just a temporary or even momentary relief. The practitioner himself/herself is going through physical discomforts, looks not fit at all, overweight, obese, can not do his/her daily tasks or routine, gets tired quickly, can’t walk even a mile, struggling with relationship issues and is unhappy, get angry within no time, how can that person give you energy? No way. "One needs to learn how to be in-tune with oneself before attempting to get in-tune with higher power or consciousness." - Shailaja As most of the Reiki practitioner does not even know how to protect themselves with negative forces that people carry all the time. If I was one of these Reiki practitioners, I would already be in dreadful condition physically, due to lack of proper knowledge. Also I would be responsible for just taking money out of customers pocket without even doing much or any kind healing. Symptoms of a Real Reiki Master:
Who can do Shaktipaat? Only advanced Spiritual practitioners can do some level of Shaktipaat. Those who have worked on their body, mind and soul to purify, are able to give some energy. Not only that person is physically fit, but have also worked for years on purging their own toxins like negativity from their system, eg jealousy, anger, hatred, and ego. Lives in Harmony with all living being. This needs years of Spiritual practices to clear chakras and raise his/her energy. Even it this person touches you with compassion, within no time you will feel little shift within you. Enlightened one and advanced spiritual practitioners are the one who can heal from distance but it works only if you put your own efforts. "No matter whoever puts efforts to do Shaktipaat, if your efforts is zero, and you are simply relaxing on the Reiki Table, it's all in vain." - Shailaja Shaktipaat, only works if Spiritual Practitioner's pure energy (just a context; energy is always pure) merges with your efforts to heal. Your efforts can be in the form of daily spiritual practices eg: meditation, yoga, helping others, self analysis, collecting good karma, understanding bad karma, burning karmas, etc. Do not remain in illusion, awaken yourself. I would say it is better to seek Doctor’s help instead. Depending on others eg: doctors, reiki practitioner or even an Enlightened One/God won’t help, if you do not help yourself first. Understand and learn how to heal yourself by correcting your habits, lifestyle, diet and change your vision little bit. You will see a huge difference within no time. Love Shailaja   The very first episode, where the journey really started was when I was Hurt. You don’t care much about others but yes, when your closest person hurts you, it hurts really deep. When I really got hurt, it made me think again and again. Why me? What wrong did I do? Do I deserve being hurt again and again? This question was wondering around my entire being since ages.
Through years of Spiritual practice, I realized, how it works? Yes, it takes some time to practice but its all worth it. Hundreds of life’s puzzles are solved, mysteries reveal and you really start living as a new born with lots of energy and awareness. It is just a life's ways to make you stronger. So let’s talk about Being Hurt. Why I choose this topic? Because this being hurt, became so repetitive that if made me a real Truth Seeker. I wanted to learn why all human being has to go through this pain and suffering. Lots of questions stormed my brain. Is it even possible to live life without being hurt, being angry and happy always? This “Being Hurt” was the strong urge and was a click somehow to take a U- turn in life. With this U-turn I thus started a real journey towards me, myself, looking inside. My Guru always says, all the answers can be found from within. Until then I was all about being a wife, daughter, daughter-in-law, mom, sister, etc etc but now its was all about finding myself. So thus “Being Hurt” helped me in a way to kick start my spiritual journey. So now let’s see what exactly is being hurt? Is that really me that is being hurt? If I have learnt that the soul is in constant bliss or I have learnt our true nature is being in joy and happiness, so where is pain and heartbreaks come from? Let’s about who you really are? Do you identify yourself as a mother, daughter, father, engineer, doctor, Hindu, Muslim, Christian…… In a process to know myself, the very first darkest shield I had to pull off from my being was EGO. Now EGO is very sneaky, it is in disguise in the form of almost anything a degree, education, money, power, profession, caste, religion, and much much more. EGO makes the permanent shield like around your soul, but once this is removed somehow, the path towards discovering yourself becomes little clear. What gets hurt is your image that you yourself created knowingly or unknowingly. This image is a family of EGO or in the form of desire “to become something”. Whenever situation arrises that you have been hurt, always recall that it is not you but is the image that has been created. So now what to do about it? Can you dissolve this image and if so how? Yes, you can dissolve this image. How? By paying attention to it. Pay so much attention. Just be in tune with this hurt. It might take few moments, few hours, days or weeks, Time does not matter but within no time, once your attention becomes stronger towards this hurt, understanding what image exactly was hurt, will help you to suddenly drop that image. And within no time, you will be relieved and come out of it strong and bright. Now I will give you few practical examples which will help you to stop being hurt and not only that dissolve the past hurts as well. Eg:1) So if at work, you have been working hard day and night. Thrive to be the best employee on the month. Have sacrificed your family and man fun things so that you can work harder, make company profitable and keep your boss happy. One day the same boss or a company becomes upset due to your little mistake, makes you feel incompetent or does not promote you etc. You are hurt? Nope your Eg:2) Despite long hours of work, day and night , you as a mom or dad have always tried to make family members happy. You are doing the best you can to keep family happy. You have done this continuously for 20 years for your family and someone closest to your heart would complain : You have never been able to give me time, love , money etc etc in life. You are hurt? Eg:3) Your son/daughter says: “You are not a good cook, my friends mom cooks so well”. You are hurt? Eg:4) Someone says “ Your religion teaches weird stuff , you are all the same”. You are hurt? In all the above cases, start to understand exactly who is hurt. Is that you? Or the image you created? Eg:1) an “Employee” striving to prove and “become” a productive, hard working person. What is the image? Employee What he/she wants to become? Productive and hard working (Image again) Eg:2 & 3) a “mom/dad” striving to “become” a “good parent” Eg:4) A “religious person” is hurt. It is important to understand that whenever this image is created, it always gives you pain as you now strive to “become the perfect reflection of that image”. Once this image is hit by someone else’s speech, thoughts and behaviour, it hurts. Now this is a negative feeling, what you should do in this condition? First understand what image is being hurt. Pay full attention to the situation, the hurt and the pain. Always remember, "It is just a life's way to make you look inside and thus make you stronger." "When you pay attention to your negative qualities, they will tend to run away, drop or loose its power, while paying attention to your good and positive qualities, it will enhance, increase and will help you progress faster on your path.” So the next step is now clear. Focus more on who you really are? The souls’ basic nature is to be in peace, harmony with all other living being, helping, cheerful and always in bliss. When you focus even for few moments, these quality will start increasing within you and make you stronger. So start destroying these images one at a time from today. Do not waste a single moment. Once this thick shield of darkness is removed, your life becomes lighter and much more happier than ever before. It is your life, please do not waste it by being sad, hurt and angry all the time. I know it hurts, and hurts truly deep, when that person who is hurting is closest to your heart. But take this as an opportunity to improve yourself and help yourself to live a blissful life. Remember you can not improving for other, to get compliments or praise, you are doing so for your own inner peace. Take this situation positively by seeing it as a life's way to make your stronger. Take a step towards light not the darkness. Darkness has a tendency to pull you down more and more, but you must know that you have infinite power within. Love - Shailaja In this brand new series of blogs I will write my own experiences, self realization in my personal life through spiritual practices and blessings of my Guru. This will help all Truth seekers and Spiritual practitioners to progress on their Spiritual Journey. These blogs might answer questions which might be on your way right now, was in past or will be in future. My spiritual journey started in 2013, when I started learning spiritual practices from my Guru. In my Self-realization Life Episodes, you will have a peek into my spiritual life and read about what were the obstacles on my way and how did I manage to get through all of them one by one. It not only sound like an obstacle course, but literally have experienced them and have removed those layers of darkness, confusion, toxins, karma one layer at a time. One shield of darkness/karma consist of tones of subtlest layers within each of them.
I have written more before but in the form of a piece of advice, but I also realize that I myself is still in learning process, or am still a student, would not be capable of advice. So now I will sharing my own experiences in a form of a learning process for all those who are craving to learn about life and spiritual practices, thus might be able to solve most mysterious life’s puzzles. Love Shailaja Yes it’s called “Soulfulness”. Never heard that before? Let me reveal this first, that all the Real Masters, since the beginning of Human Life, no matter what era they were born, all have practiced and taught “Soulfulness”. It is forgotten, lost its popularity because now we started to live on the surface. And “Mind” lives on the surface.
If Soulfulness is so profound and beneficial then why it is not popular and not talked about? Unfortunately it is forgotten due to lack of knowing, understanding and mainly due to our own habit of following the crowd like a sheep following the herd. We adopted practicing “Mindfulness” so fast, because it seemed easier as Mind is on the Surface, it is very much there, all over us, ruling on us like a king. But we forgot about the real owner, real king which is “Soul”. You are your own owner. “SWA-AMI” mean you - the owner, you - the victorious one, the Soul. No one else can be your Swaami, unless you let them be your owner. Mind is an employee, following the orders of the owner “Soul”. But if you start giving too much power to the one who is not actually the owner, you know what happens then!!! It amazes me to see even spiritual people, Yoga teachers all practicing “Mindfulness”, while they clearly know what “Spirit-uality” is. It is about us, it is about our spirit, our soul. Mind is completely scattered so we have to learn different types of “Mindfulness”. There are tons of Mindfulness practice for example Mindful Eating, Mindful Meditation, Mindful Psychotherapy, Mindful speaking, Listening, Showering and what not. But the strongest point of Soulfulness practice is , it is all-in-one practice/medicine for all. Once Soulfulness is practiced, once the focus is the Soul and not the Mind, all negativities, all that is not serving you right now, all the weaknesses will start falling off automatically. Now few obvious question that arises:
Universal Law: “Whatever thing, person or attitude you focus on, that thing, person or attitude becomes stronger and stronger.” So in the practice of Mindfulness the focus always remains on “The Mind” or “the Senses”. And in Soulfulness focus is “The Soul”. According to the Masters, the real power which is constantly working behind the scenes every moment, is Soul. They also mention that even though there are yogic techniques to concentrate and gather the power of mind but generally it is scattered. Even while the mind is focused, the power of Soul is way beyond our imagination. Secondly, the difference is between their existence itself. According to the Enlightened Master like Acharya Shree Yogeesh and many more have mentioned that Mind does not exist. While our own existence here on Earth at this moment proves that Soul exists. But our dilemma is due to lack of knowledge and wisdom, we never learnt to go deep into the Soul level. We only love being on the Mind Level, as it is on the surface and tricky at the same time. We have always loved to be in illusion, trying to master the mind, to read mind, to manipulate mind and what not. Let’s take two examples to understand this difference: Example 1) Eating Mindfully: Now in this practice, we are taught constantly to watch what we are eating, be aware of the food that we put in our mouth, eat with awareness, CONTROL your mind, CONTROL your senses, focus on what food has how much calories and how much fat,. So after sometime of watching everything it seems to be overwhelming as “Controlling Mind” becomes the focus. And mind is that Monkey who would never ever stop jumping here and there. And finally you give up, learn to suppress cravings, create deficiencies, headaches, confusion, frustration etc. Example 2) Mindful Meditation: First of all, Meditation is not “to do” something. It just happens. Let’s see what exactly happens when you sit for “Mindful Meditation”. As soon as you sit, after few minutes, your focus comes to mind. How? As the stream of thoughts starts to come one by one. You are now asked “To Do” something. Let me repeat this again: Meditation is not a verb where we do anything, Meditation is a noun - we do nothing, it happens. So now back to the point. We start bringing our focus on the thoughts (product of mind), emotions (sense), breath (sense), body sensations, taste, smell, sight etc etc, all these are on the surface again. We never go beyond this point as by this time we have already lost tremendous energy focusing on wrong things. We just get up, tired, sleepy or with painful body. Would just controlling, watching or being aware of Mind and Sense help? Don’t be shy to say “NO”. It will only strengthen the very nature of Mind and Senses - which it Scattered and jumping around. It never worked or will work like that. Remember when you press the ball harder and harder and then throw it against the wall, that ball will bounce back 10 times faster and harder at you. So will your mind. Now let's see then how can Soulfulness Practice take care of all these issues. First of all, as mentioned earlier, Soulfulness is practiced in WHOLE. This practice does not have Soulful Eating, Soulful Meditation and so on. Its just a simple practice All-in one. In soulfulness practice, the focus slowly goes beyond mind. Once practiced for sometime, one can even ignore and then bypass Mind. Now nothing will bother you anymore. Thoughts, emotions, senses and all the byproducts of Mind are being bypassed. Slowly the power comes back to the real kind, the real owner of our being - “Our Soul”, which has infinite power. 2) Just listed first few Benefits of Practicing Soulfulness, while there are many on this list. (Symptoms that your practice of Soulfulness is taking you to the right path.)
3) Last but very important, How do we practice Soulfulness? Any tools, techniques? As our focus is on the Soul now, considering in mind, “every soul counts”, We need to first realize and accept that life is everywhere, and if we want to progress further, we can’t be doing that on cost of other living being. We can’t hurt other living beings for our hunger. First step is adopting to live on principle of non-violence, not only for the sake of other living being but for your own health. If this very important step is missed out you can’t jump to the next step. Never. Non-Violence also included abusing your own body. Human body is a very precious gift. We have got this after living 8.4 million lives in different body starting from Algae, bacteria, animal, tree, and millions of other lives. So we need to value this by being aware of what we put into our body. Alcohol, cigarettes, and other intoxicating or addictive substance harms a lot. Practicing Soulfulness will also help you to get rid of addictions. This will be covered in different blog and video. But for now let's go to the next step. The technique which I am going to mention here is not new, is a yogic technique, called “Tratka”. This will help you to use our tool “Mind” to remind focused, and this focused mind will then take you to the real owner of your being which is Soul. To Practice Tratka, go to the link below: https://youtu.be/wco1yOP0vh8 Practicing Soulfulness is the Key to Good Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health. Tip: to accelerate your process of practicing Soulfulness is to meet a Master face to face. Soulfulness becomes simple and easier to practice if the real master is there for a proper guidance. How to find out the real master? And Why is it important to meet the master? is in my other blog and link to the videos below… https://youtu.be/MWet1gy6VBU There are many tools and techniques shared by Masters, to practice this Ancient concept called “Soulfulness” or to put it in simple words “Spirituality”. If you have enjoyed reading this blog, please like and share. If any questions, please feel free to comment here or contact me @tastehealthyyoga or visit www.tastehealthyyoga.weebly.com. You can find information about @AcharyaShreeYogeesh at www.siddhayatan.com. |
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