Imagine it's a cold winter night and you are shivering a lot.
The only way you can keep yourself warm is by lighting up a fire.
Now you have two things that you can light up.
On one side,
There is a bundle of dry wooden sticks and on the other side,
There is a pile of garbage.
Now,
Which one of these would you light up to keep yourself warm?
The wooden sticks or the pile of garbage?
Wooden sticks,
Right?
What else?
But why not the pile of garbage?
Both would keep you warm,
Right?
So why specifically the wooden sticks?
Because if you burn garbage,
It would create foul smell.
It would generate a lot of toxic gases into the air.
And even though the fire might keep you warm,
But you can't really sit around it for a long time because inhaling those poisonous gases can make you sick and it pollutes the environment as well.
So the idea of burning the pile of garbage instead of the wooden sticks sounds completely absurd.
You'd never do that,
Right?
Now similarly,
We can also draw our energy from two sources inside us.
Both would give us a lot of energy,
But one would make us sick and the other won't make us sick.
Our dreams,
Our vision,
Our motivation,
Our goodness are like a bundle of wooden sticks.
And if we draw our energy from these,
It will help us achieve our fullest potential.
These things are our inner strength and our inner strength is infinite.
Drawing energy from this inner strength will keep us strong,
Calm and comforted.
On the other hand,
Greed,
Anger,
Jealousy,
Hatred is like a pile of garbage.
We can draw energy from these,
But ultimately it will make us sicker,
Weaker and always anxious.
And we would always feel lonely because no one wants to sit around a pile of burning garbage,
Right?
Literally and figuratively.
It's very much like our superhero movie.
The superhero draws his energy from his intentions of helping the world.
He draws his energy from love,
From kindness,
From friendship,
From his good heart.
And the villain on the other hand,
He draws his energy from his desire to cause suffering.
He draws his energy from anger,
Greed,
Hatred and so on.
And ultimately the villain loses because that kind of energy can't sustain anyone for long.
So without realizing,
The villain was making himself weaker by creating piles of garbage and burning it to fuel himself.
So always draw your energy from your inner strength.
Not from your worries,
Not from your ego,
Not from your greed.
Because these things might fuel you,
Might give you energy for a short while,
But these things,
This energy won't sustain for a long period of time.
And ultimately make you sicker in the process.
So in this meditation,
We will learn to connect to our inner strength and draw massive amount of,
Tremendous amount of energy from this inner strength.
Start by breathing nicely and deeply into the body.
Inhale to expand the belly,
Exhale to contract the belly.
Inhale to expand the belly,
Exhale to contract the belly.
Letting the breath enter you gently,
Smoothly.
Letting the breath exit gently,
Smoothly.
Letting the breath entering you,
Feeling yourself expanding with the breath.
Inhaling to expand with the breath,
Exhaling to relax and settle down.
Inhaling to expand with the breath,
Exhaling to relax and settle down.
Now visualizing a spot inside you that is the source of all your power and the source of all your strength.
Visualize this spot between your chest and your abdomen and visualize all the power and strength that it contains.
All our energy,
All our strength comes from this spot.
Feeling this spot inside you,
Feeling the power it contains,
Feeling the strength it possesses.
Visualize it glowing like a fireball,
Ball of fire and feeling the warmth in your body around this spot,
Feeling the potential that this spot has and see it inside you,
Inside your body,
Expanding with it and breathing to this spot.
Let your breath reach this spot inside you.
Let your breath reach the source of your power,
The source of your strength and with every breath,
Feel the source,
Feel this spot expanding,
Increasing in its intensity,
Increasing in its glow,
Radiating warmth in your whole body and right now your whole body is able to feel the intensity of this power,
Intensity of the strength that you have inside you.
Letting every cell in your body feel that strength,
Feel that power,
Feel that infinite energy that you have inside you.
Letting your whole body expand with this power,
Expand with this strength.
And now visualize a direct line connecting the source of your strength and your mind.
Draw a line between this spot and your mind.
Letting the mind become aware of the source of strength inside you.
Letting the mind see how much strength,
How much power,
How much potential you have inside you.
Letting the mind visualize this ball of fire inside you and letting the mind continuously draw its energy from this spot.
Letting the mind feel the complete strength inside you.
Letting the mind see the power that you have,
Breathing in this strength,
Breathing in this power,
Feeling it in every cell of your body,
Feeling it in your mind,
Witnessing the immense strength that you have,
The source of your power,
The source of your strength.
Let it expand with every breath.
And as it expands,
Let it become even bigger than you.
So now you are right inside that fireball.
Right now you are glowing like that fireball.
Right now you can feel the warmth of this fire inside you.
Right now you have become pure strength,
Pure power,
Pure potential.
Your essence is strength.
Your essence is everything that comes from this strength.
It is this strength that gives you the courage to love,
The courage to fall,
The courage to go beyond your limitations.
Your capabilities exist beyond all your limitations and you are infinite.
Your power is infinite.
Your strength is infinite.
Stay in that strength,
Letting your mind draw energy from the strength that you have,
Visualizing the mind also getting stronger,
Visualizing the mind becoming powerful.
And now that the mind has become strength,
The body has become strength.
And you have that source of strength inside you,
Visualizing how the strength has tripled and everything about you is strength in this moment.
Everything about you is this blissful strength that will always look after you,
That will always help you in every situation,
That is always by your side.
Stay in that strength,
Stay in that pure power and let everything that is not strength,
Let everything that is the opposite of strength simply go away.
Let everything that makes you weak,
Let it simply go away.
As the strength inside you expands more,
More,
More,
Everything that is weak goes away and you feel the complete light of the strength inside you.
There is only this light.
All the darkness goes away as the light shines more inside you.
Your entire body is illuminated with this light.
Your mind is feeling that strength and everything has come in the harmony of this strength.
Breathing in,
Breathing out,
Breathing in,
Breathing out.
Inhale and exhale.
Rubbing your palms in Namaste at the center of your heart.
Bow your head down,
Surrendering to the strength inside you.
Taking a nice look at this strength that is inside you.
Slowly lifting your head up,
Rubbing your palms,
Placing it on your eyes,
Massaging the face.
And whenever you are ready,
Open your eyes.
