Insights

Law of Attraction

16 November, 2011

The Law of Attraction “Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don’t want”. Abraham-Hicks, www.abraham-hicks.com

Energy Flow, good health & yoga.

Yoga and other forms of eastern medicine like acupuncture work on the principle of liberating life force energy and removing blockages so that energy can flow more freely through the body resulting in good health. It is very interesting to see how the ancient Chinese viewed good health, which can be seen in the following exert; “Acupuncture is the ancient Chinese art of preventative medicine – the initial idea being that people would go to the doc tor about once every quarter year and have their circuits balanced using acupuncture stimulation, and then they were not supposed to become ill. One would pay a doctor for this. If one ever became ill, then the doctor paid him by spending time free of charge to cure him.” taken from The Kirlian Aura, Stanely Krippner and Daniel Rubin,1973.

The Higher Mind

In yoga the understanding of the mind is different to western phsycology. Yoga dividies the mind into the lower and higher mind. The lower mind is preoccupied by the sensory world and constant chatter, whilst the higher mind is linked to our intuition and higher knowledge.

An interesting way to view this is explained by Swami Niranjananda Saraswati; “So the shift is to move from the lower mind into higher mind, and that is the concept of Patanjali yoga – the management of the mind”. Furthermore “…after managing the mind, we identify with the higher mind” and “…we become established in our true nature”. Swami Niranjananda further explains it as “…the lower mind discusses people, the intermediate mind – the middle mind – discusses events, and the higher mind develops ideas and performs”. “The lower mind discusses people such as ‘I like that person’, ‘I don’t like that person’ – criticism. The lower mind always discusses a person, or an object. The intermediate mind is more objective, it discusses events. The higher mind developes ideas and performs, and that is what we see in the lives of great people.”
Swami Niranjanda Saraswiti – Satsang 7th April 2001, Rocklyn,Victoria.