Affirmations

Introduction

Affirmations work well when it done in a proper manner. So what is the proper way affirming, to know this we should understand, what affirmations are.

Affirmations are forceful thoughts that are incorporated in our mind to get desired results.

How does this work, basic thing that we have to understand is that our mind is capable of doing wonderful things given that we channel our thoughts in a proper way. We can a have a stress free day just by affirming the same.

Important points on affirmation

• Intensity of our affirmation plays a vital role in the manifestation of the same.
• Regularity of affirmation also plays vital role
• No second thought about the affirmation should be there, i.e. when affirming on sometime at the back of our mind we should not think it is not going to happen.
• Finally the way we think also plays a vital role
• Gratitude to the higher self after affirming is done

Example

Suppose you are travelling to your office and want a smooth way to reach your office.

What we have to do is that we have to calm our mind first and with full intensity we should put a thought in our mind that “I will have a smooth and safe journey to my work place”, what we can observe is that most of the time we will have a smooth journey (like less traffic, easy ride etc)

When Affirmations do not work

If one is supposed to endure something, Karma will not work, meaning one’s Karma always supersedes any affirmations, but it doesn’t mean that we should not affirm, it is at the time of despair that we need to affirm positively as this will mitigate the effect to a certain extent.

What type of Affirmation is Good

Affirmations that are done for the wellbeing of self and others are always good, should not be used for bad purposes as it will create bad Karma and is very dangerous for oneself.

Source my Guruji

Steps in Affirmations

Step 1 Having a clear mental picture of what you want
Step 2 Write it down with specific details - write it in present tense
Step 3 Visualization - add as much details as possible
Step 4 Act and feel as if you have already  - vacuum give away old so that it will be filled by new

Step 5 Action - Inspired action (trust your gut, intuition)

Source youtube

About Self Realization

Our practice towards self realization is a path with many questions and confusions. Firstly when we are sure that the divinity is within us and we are supposed to find that divinity in us.

Then what is stopping us from realizing the self?

This is the fundamental question will come up in our mind, before coming to this point first let us try to understand what is meant by self realization?

With my limited knowledge what I can infer is that, it is the purest form of awareness that one can experience.

Now what is this purest form of awareness, let us break this down, first awareness in general sense is the situation where a person perceives an external object and identifies the object to himself. meaning if I see an apple, I become conscious of the presence of apple in front of me.

This awareness to subjective and impure as whatever we perceive happens only in our mind. This awareness is out of collecting information from different sources, processing the same in our mind and finally perceive the object. The quality of our perception limited to the quality of input. If the input is faulty then our perception and awareness also becomes faulty.

Knowledge plays an important role at this time, in dark we can be misled that a rope is a snake, but when light appears our ignorance is washed away by seeing the rope. Similarly once we understand that our perception/awareness of the external world is always limited and it our mind which creates these imprints/awareness, we can understand that our awareness is impure.

Now is what is pure awareness, this is the opposite of the previous.

When we perceive something that is never changing, which is absolute and beyond any reproach, then it becomes pure.

Further we need to understand what is this pure consciousness/awareness and how to experience such awareness.

Pure awareness is a state where one has no thoughts (since thoughts create false/incomplete awareness), when there is no thought then he just becomes a silent observer of what is happening to him internally. Meaning when there no thought there is existence but this existence is free from any afflictions. So ideally in this state we should experience a type of awareness which beyond anything. How this experience will be for a person cannot be explained as I do not know how it would be to feel sure consciousness.

So experience such awareness is Self realization (according to my understanding).

Next step is to find out a way to achieve this awareness. This is possible by meditation. Meditation is a process of exploring ourselves internally.

Ideally we should start with focusing our attention to on single point within our body, best point of focus is Ajna chakra (as per my Guruji) as this is connected to Pineal Gland and Pituitary Gland, which triggers trans easily (Let bother about trans later).

When we focus our attention and concentration on a single point within our body, slowly over a period of time we start exploring that space, various thoughts keep popping up in our mind but we should trying ignore those thoughts and concentrate on that point. To avoid thoughts we should practice Nadi Shodhana Pranayama. Perfection in this breathing technique should stop thoughts during meditation.

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