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Music and Yoga for Relaxation

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Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without.  ~Ymber Delecto

Yoga, the Sanskrit word means ‘union’, the way to unite the individual with the divine means. Practice of this 5000 year old science has been continuing for centuries which was actually originated from Hindu philosophy. According to Patanjali, the ancient compiler of the Yoga Sutras, Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. The sage also said, “In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.” Yoga helps to develop harmony between the mind, soul and body by uniting, yoking, joining and putting together these three elements of human being. Kundalini Yoga is a spiritual practice in the world of yoga, which awakes our senses to attain the ultimate peace in life. So proper yoga practice with exercise, meditation and asanas can help to relax the mind, body and soul.

Yoga, the greatest antidote to stress, ensures complete relaxation if practiced regularly. When paired with music, yoga becomes much more effective than ever. While performing yoga, Meditation music creates the right mood. Even relaxing yoga music and soothing sounds can be a great aid to sleep. Yoga helps to develop a peaceful mind. The soothing Yoga music helps to relax, calm the mind, and thus create a balance within. Many stress-relaxing techniques included in Yoga enforce relaxation in this stressful life of the present time. At the end of each Yoga session, corpse pose or Savasana is compulsory. This asana gets one back into the real or mundane world from the world of eternity, feeling more refreshed and relaxed, armed with the weapons to fight off the stress from the daily life.

Yoga helps to bring down stress and enhance relaxation. And music has the universal appeal to soothe the inner-self of anyone and everyone. Music creates a harmony in the mind which also leads to increased power of concentration. Nowadays, gradually, people can understand this aspect or benefit of Yoga practicing for which many spiritual music companies offer particular Yoga DVDs and CDs containing hymns and chants which soothe the mind by creating a calm atmosphere around. These enchanting hymns and mantras of Yoga music enter the deepest sense of human mind and blend with his or her original self.

Spirit Voyage is one such online record label company that guides you through the journey of a spiritual insight. With its huge collection of Meditation music, CDs and DVDs, the company helps to entice the feeling of ultimate relaxation to both your body and soul. So listen to this range of devotional music and dip into the river of melody. Experience the blissful calmness and delightful soothing inner self with the Kundalini Yoga Music offered by Spirit Voyage. Spirit Voyage Yoga DVDs are the greatest way of developing a deep spiritual connection with the divine power. To wipe away all the negative vibes and tensions from the mind which is very much common and normal in today’s perspective, Spirit Voyage is there ensuring you a relaxed and refreshed life.

Now, you can get peace with yoga, meditation and relaxing music. So heal the anxiety through the practice of Yoga. With this relaxing music let the tensions go away permanently from your life and regenerate your soul and rejuvenate the flow of energy with the soothing tunes.

The author writes of Spirit Voyage which is engaged in offering various kinds of yoga music and meditation music. The company offers different CDs and DVDs for practicing Kundalini Yoga and other yoga forms.

Yoga- the Extreme Satisfaction of Soul

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Yoga- the Extreme Satisfaction of Soul

Yoga, the extreme heights of peacefulness attained through the silencing of the soul.

Yoga, the oldest way of spiritual practice is one of the six schools in Hindu philosophy. Towards the end of twentieth century, yoga teachers moved to the West and travelers from the West to India led to the flourishing of Yoga in western countries. In the West, yoga gives stress on different postures associated with it. The Bhagavad Geetha, The Upanishads, The Yoga Sutras of Patajali, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Yoga Rahasya and many other Hindu texts holds writings based on Yoga.

Classification:

Karma yoga- Yoga of action

Jnana Yoga- Yoga of wisdom

Bhakti Yoga-Yoga of devotion

Raja Yoga- Yoga of meditation

Yoga, the science of liberation helps its disciples to reach the extreme point of liberation. Since Yoga has a basic therapeutic healing power, is practiced together with other medications. Ashtanga Yoga and Ayurveda is simply mixed in the practice of Yoga.

Yoga lay emphasis on the body, mind and the emotional area of a person. At the final stage the Yogi (one who practice Yoga) reaches the ‘moksha’ stage where there is no interruption of thoughts occurs. Concentration and meditation are indivisible parts of Yoga that infills the meditator with the extreme pleasures of peace and joy.

According to Hinduism, yoga is practiced to attain the union with the God and Buddhism says Yoga as a practice that deepens wisdom, thought and insight. Western countries give emphasis on individualism. Yoga is a practice to spiritual awareness and insight for a normal person.

Yoga Therapy:

Yoga Therapy is an extensive healer that promotes positive health. Anxiety, hypertension, heart problems, asthma, diabetes, etc are some of the conditions in which Yoga is applicable. Yoga therapy is approved by the Medical Researchers as it is found to be effective in most of the ailments. Yoga therapy is an effective stress manager. It includes physical postures, breathing techniques and other relaxation methods.

Sri Ramakrishna Parama Hamsa, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Sivananda, Parama Hamsa Yoga Nanda, Mira Bhai from Bhakti tradition, Sankaracharya from jnana tradition, etc are some of the celebrated yogis of the ancient India.

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What is Yoga? James Traverse and Yoga

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What is Yoga?

Yoga is more art than science as it cannot be understood with your thinking, conscious mind. In other words yogic understanding is experiential and is more of the heart than the head.

Yogas chitta vritti nirodha
Yoga is the cessation of mental fragmentation
(yoga is the cessation of the wrong turning of the mind).
(yoga is establishing the mind in stillness)

Yogas: Oneness, yoga, couple, union, integration, intercourse
Chitta: mind, the mental ocean of perception and reflection
Vritti: wave, the action of rolling/whirling, modification, fluctuations, way of being
Nirodha: cessation, ending

‘What is yoga?’ is experientially answered with the understanding of these four words; the process defines both the ‘discipline’ and the ‘practice’ of yoga as the living answer of this question is being yoga.

Yoga: Patanjali defines ‘Yoga’ as a way of being in his first four Yoga Sutras as follows:

  1. Now-Yoga.
  2. Yoga is the cessation of mental fragmentation;
  3. Then the seer abides in and as its true nature;
  4. Otherwise the seer is regarded as a mental formulation.

Like being in Love…

The great challenge to experientially understanding the definition of yoga that Patanjali provides is to engage your thinking mind appropriately without limiting the definition to its optic (in other words the means is the end as the way of experiential understanding is itself Yoga).

Patanjali, the father of yoga, does this skillfully with the words ‘chitta vritti nirodha’ where chitta is the ‘ocean’ or field of all possibilities, vritti is a ‘wave’ of mental activity/motion/fragmentation, and nirodha is that which flowers when fragmentation has ended – it is silence that is not broken by sound.

Three relationships that give the taste of the experiential understanding of this question are:

a) Shakespeare and Hamlet;

b) the Ocean and a Wave;

c) Dancer and Dance;

a) Shakespeare and Hamlet – Hamlet is Shakespeare’s mental creation;

Hamlet and other characters are the means by which Shakespeare expressed himself and without them Shakespeare could not be as he is known today. Thus Shakespeare cannot be/express himself without Hamlet and Hamlet cannot be without Shakespeare. Since Shakespeare created Hamlet it follows that Hamlet is of the same kind as his Source, Shakespeare, yet it is obviously preposterous for Hamlet, a fragment, to think of or regard himself as being identical to Shakespeare.

b) Ocean and Wave
There has to be an ocean (chitta) for a wave (vritti) to appear.

A wave (vritti) is the means whereby the ocean (chitta) expresses itself. Thus a wave is in the ocean and the ocean is in the wave. The wave is distinct yet not separate or different from the ocean; the ocean is distinct yet not separate from the wave as the wave is its means of expression.

c) Dancer and Dance
The Dancer IS the Dance; the Dance IS the Dancer.

A dancer is by dancing; without the dancer there can be no dance. A dance is the means whereby a dancer expresses her/himself; without a dance there can be no dancer.

The binary nature or ‘withness‘ that all three of the relationships given above have in common are:

1) chitta

2) vritti

3) nirodha

where:

1) ‘chitta’ is the mental field/ocean with its ‘subject and object’ or ‘ocean and wave’ duality described/regarded from the perspective of the ocean;

2) ‘vritti’ is the wave of mental fragmentation of ‘subject and object’ regarded from the perspective of the wave; this fragmentation is both the fundamental process of thinking and the separation that is a consequence of thinking (for example the mental activity of describing/regarding things like ‘chitta-ocean’ and ‘vritti-wave’ is ‘vritti’ as the process of separation whereby each thing is rendered distinct by mentally describing/thinking of it in terms of the other; thus vritti is thinking and it is also the separation that happens as a consequence of thinking).

3) nirodha is the silence that is always available and is when fragmentation has ceased; it is authentic silence that includes and transcends the silence that is mentally understood via ‘chitta’ and ‘vritti’ without self-contradiction; this is silence that like Om, music, authentic art, song and dance includes sound and motion without breaking silence (it is the peace beyond understanding as the spiritual heart that is the homeground of being… it expresses itself – it is breathing as it flows as spirit~heart~mind~body [it branches or 'waves' and its branches branch] and it flowers as body~mind~heart~spirit).

What is your most fundamental need?

Like Shakespeare, the ocean and a dancer…

your most fundamental need is to express yourself – to act!

Like Hamlet you are not identical to your source when you mentally regard that you are because that conclusion is ‘vritti’ which negates Oneness through its separation. And yet when you experientialy understand ‘What is yoga?’ you are Source because then mental fragmentation has ended and you are established in and as what you have always been which is your true nature by whatever name.

As Source you express yourself in the same manner that you have always expressed yourself – you breathe and act as this is how your true nature functions. And your actions do not arise out of your thinking mind which means that they are not the result of knowledge or of any need or of lack; instead your actions come out of the homeground of being which is the heart that uses instruments like your thinking mind, your senses and your body to express itself as all that is for its own sake.

In this light ‘What is Yoga?’
It is Love and Love is what it does!

Peace Now ~ Love Always
James

Energy Enhancement Meditation and the Bhagavad Gita CH11 V53 to 55 The Removal of Energy Blockages.

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Bhagavad Gita CH11 V53. The study of Sacred Scriptures, Practise of Austerities, Gifts of Charity and even Self Sacrifice will not earn anyone the power of Psychic Vision.

No, already you are perfect. Yet it is only those negative energy blockages which are corrupting your system which are preventing your psychic powers and your ability to perform.

All the therapies and spiritual techniques, some of which are named above and used successfully for thousands of years are only used to remove the veils of the selfish competitive ego which prevent the light of the psychic vision entering into your psychic eyes.

All spiritual techniques are for self refinement or removal of the selfish competitive ego, and the Opening of the Heart and thus for Soul Realisation.

Your Soul, Intuition, Higher Self is always there but usually blocked by Energy Blockages. Your Heart is always there but usually blocked by energy blockages.

Bhagavad Gita CH11 V54 Only by constant and steady devotion can God be seen and Realised in its most high and Cosmic Form, oh Arjuna.

Arjuna is the average guy.

The little or personal self, the corrupt mind containing negative and self sabotaging thoughts, psychic viruses, negative programming must be refined or de-bugged and not in a little way. ALL of the negative programming must be removed by a constant and steady devotion.

As it says in ¨The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali¨. ¨Enlightenment comes after spiritual practise, for a long time, constantly and with entheosiasm.¨

Bhagavad Gita CH11 V55 Whoever desires release from all pain and troubles through access to the highest energies and thus completely devotes himself to this task. Who offers all his actions to that higher task, who sheds all personal and selfish attachments and feelings of ill will towards any other person, creature or thing, Arjuna that person surely enters into me.

These are some of the tests or proofs of enlightenment so you can see how well you are doing. Seeing yourself clearly leads to humility.

Remember, you are 99% perfect, but seeing that one percent of imperfection clearly, can lead to the removal of that imperfection. There is no failure, only feedback!

Do not take anything personally. Remember you can expect and depend on people who are unenlightened to act in an unenlightened way unless by your skill, you can avoid that. And the Mastery of this low energy plane comes from the skill with which YOU work!

Put your trust in God but tether our camel!

Many people worship the instruction book. ¨Oh Holy spiritual text. Take me up to Heaven!¨

Yet who manages to, even after two thousand years of teaching, ¨Turn the other cheek.¨ as Jesus Christ said, when someone or even life itself beats on you? Remember, these are the tests of enlightenment.

When your clothes are dirty is the cloth any less white? Simply by removing the dirt by the use of soap, another piece of dirt or spiritual technique, the linen will be seen again as white. And this is the process of Spiritual Therapy and Energy Enhancement Meditation in Twenty Eight Initiations.

The Purification Process is a Process of Refinement which is easier than Life. The Alchemists say that the process of life is like the Normal Process of Purifying Gold Ore. How do you Purify the Gold? Well, you heat it up to 1000 degrees centigrade in the furnace. Then you take it out and put it on the Anvil. Then you BEAT the CRAP out of it!

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Remove the Tinted Glasses.

Become a Soul Infused Personality to See the Light of the Soul, the Light of Intuition.

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Ponder on this…

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