TECHNIQUES OF MEDITATION

For most people, the idea of meditation is related to such concepts as physical relaxation, stress reduction, and peace of mind. While these are worthwhile goals, the true purpose of meditation is something higher and more spiritual. After all, the yogis and seers who first recognized and refined the principles of meditation were already quite relaxed and stress- free in their mountain retreats. It was in order to discover their true selves that they undertook the practice and discipline of meditating. Their objective was not rest but enlightenment. The full experience of your inner self is the most important and transforming adventure you will ever have.

A VISION OF WHOLENESS AND LOVE

The mechanics of evolution are the mechanics of love. We were all conceived as a thought of love and desire that became bound into minute genetic matter. When we were newborns, the same love nurtured us, and our first conscious thoughts of ourselves were so entwined with our mother’s love that there was no awareness of separation. If the force of love can conceive life, nurture it, and give it identify, then it must be part of the intelligence that is us. The self- aware mind is simply one that continues to use its intelligence with love. It can at times even have experiences have an undeniable similarity. The description is always of a primal moving force, at once dynamic and all- pervasive that cannot be separate from “wholeness”. Those few who have sustained the experience of pure love are the guides of humanity.

RHYTHMS, REST, AND ACTIVITY

Nature functions in cycles of rest and activity. We live in a pulsating universe, and its pulsations are reflected in every level of existence. The wave nature of light, the immensely long life cycles of stars, the ebb and flow of the earth’s seas, and the breathing of living things are all variations of activity alternating with rest. An ancient Vedic text from India declares that the universes is the macrocosm and man the microcosm. Our cells pulse in rhythm whose timekeeper is the universe as a whole. The flow of intelligence that regulates mind and body in us attends to its own cycles and functions best when these cycles are closely heeded. The importance of biological rhythms will become more evident. For example, people who work night shifts and sleep during the day show changes in the daily rhythm of the adrenal hormone cortisol, as well as of certain pituitary hormones. Night workers can adjust their habits to their schedules, but if, as is thought, their cells cannot fully adapt, then the disruption of biological rhythms may be experienced as a vague sense of disorientation, a susceptibility to colds and infections, and an irritation of the stress response.

DIET AND DESTINY

A life begins as desire. Impulses of intelligence that we call love and desire are transformed through our parents into the fusion of minute amounts of genetic material that we call an embryo. So are conceived out of love and desire, and start life as genetic material. The raw material of DNA is sugar and complex chemical called nucleic acid. The complexity of nucleic acid is enough, when built up into DNA, to encode the complete intelligence that out of love and desire our parents bestowed upon the first conceived cell.

LIVING IN THE PRESENT

Have you ever heard someone say, “Worry causes aging”? There is tremendous truth to it. Everybody has seen people “turn gray overnight” when they underwent a financial or emotional crisis. What exactly is this pattern of thoughts we call worry? It seems to have a powerful ability to poison many hours of our existence; we could even say that worry causes aging because it speeds up time. Worry is obviously a certain habit of thought. It is fretting about something that has already happened in the past or about something that we fear will happen in the future. Worry does not deal in the present.

FROM MAN TO SUPERMAN

Man has evolved over eons of time from a single- celled organism to a creature of infinite potential. Today he stands on the thresholds of ever newer and bolder discoveries. But no discovery in nature takes place without a discovery that comes first in human mind. The quality of our minds leads directly to the quality of the world we make for ourselves. The technology of leisure comes from a desire to make the body comfortable. The technology of research comes from dissatisfaction with limited sight, hearing, and touch. Every desire has found a means of achieving its goal because desire and action arise at the same time.

LIVING AND LONGEVITY- THE PROBLEM OF AGING

Aging is the progressive deterioration of physical and mental functioning that occurs with time, ending with the cessation of all function, which is death. The mechanics of aging are not clear. Until recently, scientists had not shown much interest in aging process, and too much long- term research no it exists. However, the function of the separate organs in the body has been clearly studied, and there is only one way to describe how they age: they progressively decline over time. Hormones also have been studied, and researchers have found that interesting changes occur in the concentration of them in the blood, particularly the pituitary and adrenal hormones.