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Surrendering doership is an important yoga practice. You have the right to do your duty, but the results are not dependent on your efforts. There are numerous factors that come into play in determining the results. The witnessing power within you is your true self and your doership feeling is the ego. Mindfulness  is the art of

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Surrendering doership is an important yoga practice. You have the right to do your duty, but the results are not dependent on your efforts. There are numerous factors that come into play in determining the results. The witnessing power within you Read more....

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Harmony is the smooth flow of life. Harmonious living means, establishing balance with the internal world and external world. Our internal world is full with thoughts, emotions, memories and beliefs. To establish the connection with the higher fields of consciousness, Read more....

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Harmony is the smooth flow of life. Harmonious living means, establishing balance with the internal world and external world. Our internal world is full with thoughts, emotions, memories and beliefs.

To establish the connection with the higher fields of consciousness, we need to make peace with our-self. To make peace with our-self, we need to thoroughly know the consciousness that is housed in our limited physical body, within the five senses and the three dimensions of reality. We need to drop the imaginary mental formations – our habit patterns.

To establish the connection, we need to open the higher channels of our consciousness. Different experiences gradually develop various reactions in the body-mind complex, which creates unconscious habit patterns. These habit patterns are the true bondage in the journey towards enlightenment. The habit patterns keep the channels of our consciousness close – especially higher channels. Closed channels create fragmented consciousness.

Mindful living is a conscious way of living – noticing the beauty of life in every moment. Mindfulness is the doorway to live in harmony with the Universe. Mindfulness creates harmonious consciousness. Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions.

Mindfulness is the doorway to live in harmony with the Universe.

– Excerpt from the book “Enlightenment: Step by Step” Amit Ray (This material is copyrighted, and published by permission from Inner Light Publishers).

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What is the procedure for accessing inner world without meditation? Normally inner world is accessed through Poetry, Narrative. Literature, Music, open-eye-meditation and Visual Art.  Here, I am giving below the thirteen ways to access your Inner World without formal meditation. The 1st Step of accessing the inner world is to understand your nonconscious, subconscious and unconscious mind. Inner world is deeply related with who and what we are and what we think and believe and what we feel. Inner world is the world where all creation started. The thirteen ways for accessing your Inner World are:

1. Choose your path according to your nature; Choose your path, based on your nature; all path’s lead to divinity. All paths are divine because you are divine.

2. Help others and do service for the benefits of other:  Try to help others that will bring more meanings to your life. If you think you are trapped in one negative situation of life, helping others will bring you out from the negative situations of life. It is working selflessly for the good of all without any expectation of reward, name, fame or even recognition.

3. Bring perfection on your action. If your focus is on right action, action for the greater good, offering this action without attachment, you will arrive in the light. You are light.

4. Understand Inter connectedness and oneness: To understand the inter connectedness you need to move to the deepest levels of your feelings beyond the physical senses andlearn to stand and act in our own truth.

5. You are more than your physical senses. Simply know that there is so much more, infinitely more, beyond what can be seen, felt, heard by your physical senses. 

6. Anger is delusional, and can cause trouble in mind.  You should try and be as calm as possible to maintain a balance.

7. Remember the Divinity is within you: Always remember that the supreme being is watching you and resides inside your heart.

8. Generate positive vibrations in life. Death is inevitable. Whoever is born shall die one day. None is immortal. Radiate positive vibrations and remember all encompassing, all divine energy.

9. Cultivate equanimity: When one is established in the yoga of equanimity, she realizes her hidden Self and becomes satisfied with the Glory of the Self.

11. Maintain your Balance: Balance and moderation are important in the practice of the yoga. There is no place for extremities.

12 Know the Witnessing Power Within You. Self dwells within us. The body is an aspect of Nature and it is the city of nine gates. Self is the witnessing power, the Guide, and the Non-doer. Be the knower of the body and the Self. While standing, walking and sleeping witness all your actions, movements and modifications arise in the body and gradually you will be one with the Self.

13. Offer the fruits of your actions to God. Perform your actions without desire for their fruit and offer them to God, who is the source of all actions.

Know the true nature of self as all-pervading pure consciousness and you will have the full access to your inner world.

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You need to experience life in order to learn the lessons. Here are twelve important life lessons that have stood the test of time. If you practice them regularly, you don’t need to learn them in a hard way.

Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter. — Amit Ray

1. Help others and Bring more Meaning to Life

Try to help others that will bring more meanings to your life. If you think you are trapped in one negative situation of life, helping others will bring you out from the negative situations of life.

2. Life is to Radiate positive vibrations:

You need to go back and understand the big picture of your life. Focus your energy to fulfill the the dreams of your life. Life is larger than your job.

3.  Rebuild Life from Inside:

You need to stand up and look for joy in everything. If you are broken from the inside, you need to repair it from the inside.

4.  Build friendship with Others:

There is no perfect friendship. Friendships give a whole different new energy. Try to make connections with the heart. Trained yourself to love the world. Don’t be too serious. There is so much fun. Take the risk of possible rejection.

5. Gracefully Accept Change and Grow

You need the throw yourself out into the open field – let it grow. Life is too short to be unhappy. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but to be happy, you need to move towards the ocean.

6. Give Value to your Opinions:

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think. The only person who can pull you down is yourself. Every way try to pull you up. Don’t choose your choices in life based on the expectations set on you by others.

7.   Fulfill Whatever Talents you are born with:

Identify your talents and cultivate those talents. You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself doubting your worth, life is wasted.

8. Live the life in Full – There is no Time Left to be Unhappy.

Appreciate life’s every second. They are valuable to you. Follow your hopes and not your fears. Never speak bad about yourself. Never give up on your dreams.

9. Add Value to the Society

Love the people you are serving and add value to your service.

10.  Participate in Life Instead of Just Watching it

When you participate actively and with meaning, life will bring many gifts to you.

11. Don’t blame others for your own failure:

Don’t always be too quick to blame others or yourself. To inspire yourself. and others, focus your attention on the solution not the blame.

12. Stay Healthy and Be Kind

Healthy people are more productive, creative and mentally sharp. Be kind to yourself. Be kind to others.

Once you learn the lessons, you can apply them in your life at any age and see the benefits to your happiness and well-being.

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“In reality, we live in every one. Deep down there is a rose in every heart.”- Amit Ray

People suffer in many ways – mostly due to blind beliefs and unconscious following of others. Understanding human unconscious thinking processing is vital for growth and coming out of the cycles of sufferings. Unconscious mental processes are primal and basic, hard-wired in brain. Conscious processes represent higher order values such as intuition, inspirations, caring for others and finding meaning in life. Happiness is often linked to the unconscious mind. When you tune yourself with the cosmic whole, your life will resonate on a higher level of consciousness. Normally, the minds of the common people are clouded with words of prophets and religions. They lost the connection with the cosmic soul. Mostly, they are carried away by the unconscious thought patterns. They lost the light of their soul. Hence, there is so much narrowness and intolerance in the name of prophets and religions.

Unconscious thinking is the cognitive processes that we’re not aware but they modulate our emotions and behaviors.  The unconscious mind is a combination of two boxes; placed side by side. One box is full with positive habits, intuition and thoughts and the other box is filled with fear, anger, confusion, guilt, depression and other negative thoughts and habits. Blind beliefs and unconscious following strengthen the negative box of the unconscious mind. Awareness and conscious choice strengthen the positive box of the unconscious mind. The positive box is the source of artistic and scientific inspiration and intuition. Spirituality is coming out of the negative unconscious mind and focusing on the positive aspects of life.  Spirituality is the nourishment of positivity and the youthfulness of the soul. Deep down there is a rose in every heart. Spirituality is unfolding the petals of that rose.

– Excerpt from the book “Enlightenment: Step by Step” Amit Ray (This material is copyrighted, and published by permission from Inner Light Publishers).

Spirituality is the nourishment of positivity and the youthfulness of the soul. – Amit Ray

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Be a Columbus, smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them. – Amit Ray

Most of us really do end up with a safe and monotonous life. Our all thoughts revolve around the routine works. We want to follow the safest paths. We give very few chances to our desires, passions and ideals to fulfill. It is correct, many people wanted become Columbus but ended up with nothing. But that doesn’t mean adventure and innovation has no value. Choice is yours. You can be most optimistic people who dare to take risk and fulfill the dreams. Otherwise, you can be one who just follows others. Who never give any chance the real you to come out.

Life is to achieve something higher – something positive. Being the most optimistic person you can transcend many limits of the nature. That will give a huge impact on your consciousness. That will give a huge upliftment in your evolution. In life, especially in adventurous life, discouragement may come. But if you are committed to your highest potential, existence will support you with new energies to overcome the limits and discouragements. Of course, you need to enjoy the journey. The moment you drop the established patterns, trends and routes, new opportunities will find ways to connect with you. Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges. Innovation and spirituality is like swimming upstream. Originality and innovations need immense focus. You need right approach. You need to dig deeper to find out your unique ways of understanding the truths. Always press forward in pursuit of your goals. Keep your mind clear and focused. If you are carried away by the downstream of traditions, there is no hope for spirituality or innovation. Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides the light – a greater depth of understanding about life and truth. There are limits in nature but the consciousness knows how to overcome those limits step by step.  Therefore, the key point is to focus on the challenges of life with clarity and evenness of the mind and above all learn to walk in the light of your soul.

– Excerpt from the book “Enlightenment: Step by Step” Amit Ray (This material is copyrighted, and published by permission from Inner Light Publishers).

Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of your soul. – Amit Ray

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“Normally life runs in a semi-unconscious mode. Bhramari om chanting can change that into a conscious mode.” – Amit Ray

Positive mind set, right attitude and good habits are the mark of conscious mind.  When we act on “semi-unconscious” or “auto-pilot” mode our behavior tends to become repetitive. This is why we are generally unaware of our behavior, in fact most of the time we are not even aware that we are acting unconsciously. “Bhramari Om Chanting or Humming Om chanting sends positive messages to the brain and the cells in our body and can actually reprogram our health and behavior. Humming Om chanting is an effective method to increase the nitric-oxide in the nasal cavity. Nitric oxide has many health benefits. It increases immunity and fights against free radicals and chronic inflammatory diseases. Humming causes the air to vibrate, which increases the exchange of air between the sinuses and the nasal cavity. In the humming Om chanting, the “…mmmm…” part of the humming Om creates light vibrations just above the nose area and in the lower forehead area, resulting in a large increase in nasal nitric oxide. The frequency of the Om sound creates resonance in the lower forehead area in-between the eyes. Silence between two humming Om chanting is very important. During this phase, the nitric oxide is dissolved in the blood. The gap between two humming Om empties the sinuses and this period of silence allow the NO to accumulate again in the nasal cavity.” – Excerpt from the book “Meditation: Insights and Inspirations” Amit Ray (This material is copyrighted, and published by permission from Inner Light Publishers). Bhramari Om Chanting  can even change cellular structure.

 

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Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when and how to ignite the spark. – Amit Ray

In this competitive world gaining the winning edge is important. Gaining the winning edge is a habit and it can be cultivated gradually. Meditation brings out the best of you. It brings the concentration, confidence, control and commitment in life. Proper meditation removes the common distractions of anxiety, mistakes, fatigue, and negative thoughts. It gives the mental quality to focus on the task in hand. It gives the tough attitude to win – the ability to except situations and make them work in your favor.  It does not allow people to get frustrated when pressure and mistakes happen. Meditation brings enthusiasm and persistency.

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