Drop Imaginations From Mind Creating Anxiety & Suffering

Talk & Practice.

The Joy of Conscious Living - Mindfulness || Drop Imaginations From Mind Creating Anxiety And Suffering | How does the program work? The program is experiential learning, engages participants to acquire knowledge of the principles of eastern wisdom, followed by small and easy practice, sharing of experiences.

Transcript

Close your eyes and you see there are a couple of very important points I will make today.

Close your eyes.

Make yourself comfortable and make yourself comfortable.

Yeah,

It's okay.

Yeah,

Make yourself comfortable.

Adjust and align every part of the body so that the body is comfortable.

Comfortable means that unease is not there and that unease first begins in the mind then it travels to the body.

So if the mind is alright,

Mind is clear and then the body also be comfortable but anyhow,

Look at the neck joint,

Adjust and align and adjust and align and feel sensation,

Being comfortable and steadiness.

Move the mind,

Move the mind on the shoulder joints,

Check are you aware of the shoulder joints,

Feel the sensation,

Being comfortable and steadiness.

Move the mind on the hip joint,

Be there,

Feel the sensation and comfortable and steadiness.

Knee joints,

Sensation,

Being comfortable and steadiness.

Now see,

My master used to say that does your mind go to France if you think of a France or the France comes to you?

Just become aware where the anxiety enters in our life.

My master used to say first thing,

Very important,

That this mind does not go anywhere.

We talk of that my mind went there,

My mind has gone there,

My mind does not go anywhere.

Now the second point,

That when I experience anxiety,

My mind imagines anxiety in thought.

When I experience pleasure,

My mind imagines through the thought that there is a pleasure.

Without imagination in the mind,

I can neither have pleasure,

I can never have pain.

Remember these two principles.

Now if the mind does not imagine,

There is no problem because the mind does not go anywhere.

So that is what brings us to the step which is known as being carefree.

What is being carefree?

Mind,

You continue to imagine,

Imagine any thought of anxiety,

Imagine any thought of pleasure,

Imagine any thought of satisfaction.

I'm not with you.

You continue to do it,

So you separate all your thoughts and feelings and imaginations,

They are already separate.

Third point my master says,

They are already separate,

I have to simply see to it that they are separate.

See that.

Three principles.

I'm repeating again,

Mind does not go anywhere.

Then why I feel that I'm in France?

Because I imagine.

First I know about France,

I imagine in my thought then I know that I'm talking and thinking of France,

Of Philippe,

Of Jacques,

Of me,

Of anyone.

So there we apply the second principle that is being carefree.

Now see that here my master clarifies imagination includes the thoughts,

Fancies,

Feeling.

So first we imagine,

Then we have a thought associated with a feeling,

So associated with one feeling,

We say it is anxiety.

Associated with second feeling,

We say pleasure.

Associated with the third feeling,

We say fear.

But one thing you have to be very clear in your head.

Remember all the time,

The mind does not go anywhere.

I invite friends in my mind,

I invite anxiety in my mind by thought and imagination,

I invite pleasure in my mind.

If you like pasta,

The pasta does not say come on,

I will give you the pleasure,

I'm moving towards you.

Pasta never says it.

Then what?

That is what we imagine.

And now another part,

We need to purify this mind.

So let us purify this mind,

A simple process,

Start breathing,

Quick,

Short,

Gentle breath from the chest.

Continue,

Quick,

Short,

Gentle breath,

Not very fast.

You should not do the fast breathing that will cause any reaction to the mind.

You should not be doing too slow the breathing that will cause the mind to fall prey to the repeated thoughts.

So that is why we are doing short,

Quick,

Gentle breath.

And continue to check that there is no thought when you are doing this breath or you may change the rhythm.

And continue to check that there is no thought when you are doing this breath or you may change the rhythm.

Continue to check that there is no thought when you are doing this breath or you may change the rhythm.

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And stop,

Stop this.

And it is good to do the Nyasa to release those impressions of anxiety.

How we do it?

Just start breathing little deep,

Silent and slow.

Not very deep breathing.

Why?

Because when you are doing the deep,

Silent,

Slow breathing,

You give a break to sleep.

Sleep is an unconscious process.

And you also relax because more oxygen is going by deep,

Silent and slow breathing.

But here we will go for Nyasa.

And today we will go for Nyasa in a little deeper way.

What is that?

First you are breathing deep,

Silent and slow.

So as you breathe in and out,

As you breathe in,

Move your mind inside the right arm.

From the shoulder to the fingertips and from the fingertips to the shoulder.

Where you are moving?

You are moving the mind in the space.

So three points are there.

Say as you start inhaling,

Move the mind from the right shoulder to the fingertips in the space.

Singing mentally.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti,

Imagine.

Again I say imagine you are in an infinite space.

That is all and you will find the calmness and relaxation comes.

You are doing inside the right arm at this moment.

Continue.

Your body is steady.

The body doesn't move.

You are aware and attentive.

You are breathing deep,

Silent and slow while the mind moving inside the right arm at this moment.

Body remains steady,

Comfortable at ease.

The mind is looking deep inside in the space and in that space you are dropping and seeing Shanti as peace.

You are singing Om Shanti.

Mentally you are singing while inhaling and while exhaling.

While inhaling and while exhaling.

And now move the mind inside the left arm from the shoulder to the fingertips looking inside into the space and saying,

Singing mentally.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

The breath is rhythmic.

Moving inside the left arm.

I'm speaking continuously so that the mind should not fall into unconsciousness.

The breath is rhythmic.

As you inhale,

The mind is moving inside the right arm from the right shoulder in the space,

In the emptiness.

That is the space while singing in your mind.

Om Shanti.

So when the mind is totally obsessed with the idea of fear and the anxiety through the imagination,

The mind falls into unconscious sleep.

Because mind says you are so much tired,

Leave this.

But here today we are doing the practice that helps us to maintain our awareness at the same time it induces a very deeper state of relaxation and calmness.

Body is steady.

You are aware.

Breath is as you inhale deep silence slow.

Mind moves inside the right left arm,

Looking into the space and singing.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

And now move the mind with the inhalation and exhalation inside the right leg.

So as you inhale,

Move the mind inside the right leg from the right side of the waist,

Going inside the thighs,

Knee,

Calf,

Ankle,

Toes,

Singing in your mind,

Looking into the space.

Om Shanti.

Breathing out,

When you exhale,

The mind moves from the toes to the right side of the waist,

Saying,

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

And now move the mind inside the left leg.

As you inhale,

The mind moves inside the left leg from the right side,

The left side of the waist to the toes.

And now as you see the space inside,

You're singing,

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

The mind is moving with a deep silent slow breath inside the left leg from the waist to the toes,

Singing in your mind.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

The mind moves and merges into the left leg into the space.

So when you are doing like this,

The mind moves and merges into the infinite space with the Shanti.

And that is what we are doing.

And now move the mind in the spine from the top of the crown of the head.

When you inhale,

The mind drops deep inside with feeling,

With singing,

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

From the tailbone,

As you exhale,

The mind rises reaches to the crown of the head inside the spine,

But singing continues.

Om Shanti.

Now leave this.

Move the mind from the top of the head to the toes.

Slowly,

As if the mind is touching every cell of the body and experience sensation,

Relaxation,

And stillness.

And then do nothing.

Remain as you are.

But the moment any thought comes,

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Om Shanti.

Bring your mind to the right hand,

Your mind to the left hand.

Lift your Buddha palms,

Place it on your eyes,

Open the eyes in sight.

Know your experiences,

Then bring the hands down.