Namaste to all the divine soul,To accelerate your innner journey, Take the threefold approach of pranayama, mantra and more formless mediation in your life.
Vivek
PRANAYAM,MANTRA AND MEDITATION
Pranayama is a more important way for internalizing the mind, a kind of pratyahara. It also gives us the internal energy so that when we close our eyes to meditate we don’t fall asleep.
Secondly, the use of mantra. Most of the problems that we have with meditation are that people get eaten up by their subconscious thoughts. If we do regular mantra practice, by changing the sound patterns of the subconscious mind, it becomes our ally in meditation.
From that point meditation is the practice of self-inquiry, the whole process of introspection and examining the meaning of our lives can occur once we have brought our mind into the sattvic state.
The other aspect of meditation is surrender, or the devotional aspect, where we surrender or open up to the divine reality, which is also the same as the higher self. So Try to take that kind of practical and integrated approach and have a number of tools. For example, if your mind gests sleepy than you may do pranayama, or if one mantra appeals tome then you may hold on to it until something comes out of it.
Alternatively, if you fall naturally into a meditative state you just let it be and flow with it. It is like a dance, a tapestry. It is like cultivating a garden and growing flowers. Once you have done that cultivation in the mind and when you open your mind and close your eyes and look within, it is like entering a vast garden in which there are always things growing and developing, as opposed to just looking within and discovering a darkness or blankness within.
Ravinder Kumar
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Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert
It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier
You only have to do something until you want to do it, then you won’t have to do it any more. ~Leland Val Van de Wall
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill
Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Author Unknown
We always think we'd be happier in some faraway place, as if you could catch a plane to a state of mind. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you. ~Author Unknown
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. ~Roald Dahl
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson
I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party! ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)
Long ago I decided that if I get a second life, I will be beautiful and clever and rich, and that has allowed me to focus on this life. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer
We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr.,Handbook to Higher Consciousness
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln
Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. ~Annette Goodheart
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln
Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author Unknown
Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning," 1946
To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb
Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown
If we try to see something positive in everything we do, life won't necessarily become easier but it becomes more valuable. ~Author Unknown
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Try to look on the bright side of things; if the bright side is not immediately evident, keep looking. It is better to be busy than depressed. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer,www.lumpenbangenpiano.com
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius
Your life is your garden,
Your thoughts are the seeds.
If your life isn't awesome,
You've been watering the weeds.
~Author Unknown
Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability. ~Joe Brown
Why aren't you dancing with joy at this very moment? is the only relevant spiritual question. ~Vilayat Khan
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com
The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok
The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude. ~Dennis S. Brown
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.
~William Shakespeare
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. ~Stephen Covey
If you have nothing to be grateful for check your pulse. ~Author Unknown
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ~William Ellery Channing, 1838
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body — the wishbone. ~Robert Frost
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf. ~Jon Kabat-Zinn
Staying positive is one of the hardest fights, though I'm happy I'm in it. ~Daniel,@blindedpoet
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. ~Patricia Neal
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James
Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818
When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown
A friend will remind you that assumptions born of malice are better dealt with by gleefully sticking your tongue out. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
What is possible? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
Which fashioned forth its loveliness
Had other aims than my delight.
~Thomas Hardy, Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, 1909
Whenever you fall, pick something up. ~Oswald Avery
My joy may be diminished now, but I am still alive to be more joyful ahead. ~Ankam Nithin Kumar
Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. ~Margot Asquith
Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~Author Unknown
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ~Elbert Hubbard
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... ~William Cowper
Let your inner sunshine overcome the passing haze of discontent. ~Dodinsky,www.dodinsky.com
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? ~Henry Moore
When life is viewed as good, a bad day is easily absorbed. ~Attributed to Neil Maxwell
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. ~René Descartes
Up is not an easy direction. It defies gravity, both cultural and magnetic. ~Mike Abrashoff
I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
~Author Unknown
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. ~Dorothy Day
Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty. ~J. Andrew Helt
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ~Winston Churchill
Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not. ~Abraham–Hicks
You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day. ~Cotton Fitzsimmons
If the sky falls, hold up your hands. ~Author Unknown
[W]hat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee, 31 January 1958, also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (unverified)
Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. ~Wernher von Braun
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Reach for a better feeling thought. ~Abraham–Hicks
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. ~David Ben-Gurion
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." ~Robert Flaherty
I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author Unknown
The soul does not absorb negativity by accident, always by choice. ~Dodinsky,www.dodinsky.com
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott
Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you. ~Terri Guillemets
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire
If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. ~Maurice Setter
Grow antennae, not horns. ~James Angell
Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain; unless we resist it, then it becomes torment. ~I Ching
Your positivity can become a castle around you which will protect you from the arrow of negativity. ~Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown
Count your joys instead of your woes;
Count your friends instead of your foes.
~Irish Saying
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. ~Arab Proverb
Negative thinking destroys your brain cells and causes global warming. Source: The Scientific Institute of GetOverIt! ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway o
