Heartfulness Meditation: Spirituality
as a Tool for Success
Clarity and balance are essential to
making successful decisions in our personal, professional, and business
dealings. Finding clarity eludes many of us in today’s over-stimulated
environment. Our senses are constantly bombarded by sights and sounds
trying to grab our attention. In fact, our attention has become prime
real estate for advertisers trying to make their way into our mind space.
This relentless assault through social media, tv, radio, advertisements is
diminishing our attention span. We are constantly told what to think by
the world around us. Along with the overstimulation, the frenetic pace of
our modern life leaves us no time for reflection on our decisions. With
an ever expanding email inbox, looming deadlines, social calendars, family
responsibilities, we feel pulled in many directions. How can we regain a
sense of balance and clarity?
Take a few minutes to perform this
thought exercise:
1) Sit in a quiet place with a pen,
paper, and timer nearby. You will need to be unplugged from all
distractions (no tv, no social contacts, no cell phone, etc).
2) Set your timer for 5 minutes.
3) Close your eyes and notice the
thoughts that are coming up.
4) Open your eyes after the timer goes
off.
5) Journal with total honesty all the
thoughts that you recall in this 5 minute time frame.
Now carefully review all the thoughts
that you had. How many of the thoughts you had were original to
you? How many were a byproduct of what you were influenced to
think? How many of your thoughts were productive, and how many were
incessant ruminations? How many of your thoughts were emotionally
toxic? How many of the thoughts did you intentionally think of in the 5
minutes? How much of the mental chatter did you enjoy? How many of
the thoughts were just random?
What if there was a way to regulate
your mind better? What if you tamed your mind to think thoughts that you
willed? How much more efficient would you be? How much more clarity
would you have in your personal, professional, and business dealings? How
do we take over the reins of our minds and control what we think?
Meditation is a tool that can help
clear the mental chatter in our brain. Meditation can help us get closer
to this clarity. Meditation can help us on our spiritual journey, a
journey that can guide us to our higher selves. People may have a fear
about starting meditation and taking a spiritual journey, as they may be afraid
of the changes that it brings along. Spirituality does not have to entail
renouncing your material life to wander the earth like a hermit in robes.
You do not have to seek refuge in a monastery to devote yourself to your
spiritual endeavours. You do not have to commit to a life of asceticism.
A meditation practice can be seamlessly integrated into your life, allowing you
to live a balanced material and spiritual life.
In my personal experience, a
heartfulness based meditation practice offered through the Sahaj Marg (NaturalPath) system offered by SRCM (Shri Ram Chandra Mission) is a very efficient way of integrating meditation into our busy
modern lives. After experimenting with some other systems, I was
overjoyed to find the Sahaj Marg system which I felt was a genuine grass roots
movement offering their training for free through a network of dedicated
volunteers. I found this system to be very effective method of training
in meditation and spirituality, which enables us to attain the highest
spiritual achievements possible in our lifetime. It allows for a balanced
existence of both our spiritual and material lives, without calling for any
renunciation or asceticism!
The training in heartfulness meditation
takes the focus and attention from our minds to our hearts. It increases
our capacity for empathy, joy, and love. It opens up the portal to
experience the mystical splendour that is latent in the stillness of our
hearts. We start to live life through the serenity of our hearts rather
than the mental clutter of our minds. As we delve deeper into our hearts,
we develop an extraordinary intuition that gives us the clarity to make more
efficient decisions in life. A heartfulness based meditation practice can
help us find the clarity and balance that we seek in our lives.
Radheshyam Miryala MD
The dearest brother Radheshyam Miryala MD in this text used the word "Meditation", but he did not tell that this is just 5-minute exersise presented before.
ReplyDeleteWonderfully explained. Thanks for sharing. I too experienced lot of changers in my life after practicing Heartfulness meditation.
ReplyDeleteThis is most important thing. Clarity and balance are essential to making successful decisions in our personal, professional, and business dealings. And how wonderfully can be achieved by Heartfulness Meditation
ReplyDeleteThis is most important thing. Clarity and balance are essential to making successful decisions in our personal, professional, and business dealings. And how wonderfully can be achieved by Heartfulness Meditation
ReplyDeleteI love this article.. I love especially the simple formula of clarity + balance = Harmony (H=C+B). I think the purpose of meditation is not reach thoughtlessness. It is to make sense of this process, whereby, when we close our eyes, other faculties are shut, thereby enabling a conscious evaporation of unwanted thoughts. This process of emptying our mind, makes the mind get in touch with our inner intuition and hence we begin to "see" or "hear" or "feel" or "recognize" our own inspired thoughts come to surface. That gives us the impetus for action. These actions based on inspired thoughts result in focused accomplishments. So, meditation is a tool to improving focus and clarity. Along with balance, we reach inner and outer harmony. Better understanding of our ideas, acceptance of our action and hence better cooperation and success!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteQuite practical. Tried it today during my flight and responded to 10 important emails requiring decisions on my part. Worked!!
ReplyDeleteVery nice approach. Definitely useful.
ReplyDeleteA young abhyasi as asked why she is meditating so young. She gave a very beautiful answer: "Why not? Most if the confusion and dilemma is when you are youth. Meditation allows the answer to those emerge from within. It helps calm the nerves and clears cobweb of confusion"
ReplyDeleteNice article!
ReplyDeleteMeditation is nothing but a technique which we undertake to train our mind, this all important tool that we use 24 hours of the day. The improvements in personal effectiveness can be far reaching, and is to be experienced to be believed.
Training in Heartfulness is a drop in the ocean... When effectively practised, it transforms the individuals life from within. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteTraining in Heartfulness is a drop in the ocean... When effectively practised, it transforms the individuals life from within. Thanks for sharing.
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