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Semen Retention, Dreams & Astral Love : Take our Power Back !

Greetings Dear Ones ... :) It's been a while since I actually got writing something on this blog. It's been a long silence while I have been focusing on more dynamic activities here in Goa like Cycling ! A lot has changed in the last couple of years and I feel its time now for me to get back to sharing my thoughts, feelings with you guys in hope of bringing some light through my own personal meanderings in life. Dreams have started to become more vivid and clear. Instead of starting a dream journal, I thought it would be better to just start blogging again, so here I am sharing some of my deepest personal realisations with you folks !

Living an over stimulated life is the bane of our times, taking its toll on our physical health and mental well being. Everything seems to be normalised in our world today with a whole lot of lies and bullshit doing the rounds. Most of us are hopelessly dependant on a system which is built to enslave humanity without us realising it. We are given crumbs to feed on while the puppet masters run the megashow from behind the screens. As in the Matrix, once Neo wakes up to what's really going on, there is no going back to sleep. The red pill of truth takes one down the deep rabbit hole of endless discoveries and powerful realisations of our innate power.

Growing up in a heavily stimulated environment with fancy food, luxuries, alcohol, cigarettes, TV ... it all seems ok to give in to, what the world has normalised as 'living' until one wakes up one day to see how energy is the real currency in our world. What our minds acquiesce to is what controls us, subconsciously. All the overly sexualized images of women have been used to seduce the masses for a while now leading to all kinds of sexual perversions and deviations. The powerful orgasm which connects us to source energy is abused in our world today as many of us seek instant gratification from all our porn enforced fantasies. Throwing away the powerful energies of creation that shape our journeys on this earthly plane is hugely detrimental to our well being at all levels.

Living such a life in an unconscious manner is an easy way to pick up all kinds of different energies (spirits) along the way which can cause many unpleasant experiences for us as we continue to feed our overstimulated egos. No one really teaches us to learn to control our excessive drive for desire and lust as a result of which we start moving on this downward spiral called 'aging', both mentally and physically until one day when we can't continue the same way anymore and actually start listening to our inner guidance, our intuition. Taking our power back means turning within and finding answers to all the questions we have to make our lives more fulfilling.

After having lived an overstimulated adult life for most part I started to realise how powerful sex is and how it is being used against us, to keep us weak and easy to prey on. Believe it or not, there are negative entities who can easily latch onto us once we become a food source for them. I've seen and experienced this phenomena close enough to know how it works. Its been a few weeks, perhaps a month or more since I stopped this cycle of self abuse, consciously and have now started to feel the power of abstinence. The absence of a true loving connection with others in our waking world can lead us to sorrow and misery as we heavily depend on another to lean on for our most intimate desires and needs. Once we realise the power we hold, we can direct our lives in a way that's more grounding and nurturing for our soul. Our dreams then begin to guide us and show us signs as to what we've been missing out, if only we know how to interpret them well. A lack of physical intimacy in our waking world is somehow fulfilled by what some call "Astral Love" in lucid dream states, which are like sign posts for us to navigate this waking life a little better.

All the pain and suffering can become fuel to shape our lives for the better as we begin to live in the here and now, manifesting the life of our dreams while being guided by our intuition, our own inbuilt spiritual gps of sorts to help navigate through life ! Its time we stop feeling sorry for ourselves and others around us, realising how all that happens is our own creation, never otherwise. Taking responsibility of what happens in our lives and facing the extremities of life is what shapes our personality and builds character. True strength is hence realised and we orchestrate our lives as we want it to. We might have the knowledge that exists in our world from all the ancient scriptures etc but if we don't put this knowledge to good use in our lives, its pretty much useless. Like they say, knowledge is knowing something, wisdom is doing it .... We need more wisdom in action, we need to walk the talk ! Never mind others and the world around us falling to pieces as a result of their own karma. No one needs saving, who doesn't ask for it and you will know when its time to help someone and when its not as karma plays out in its own way for each one of us. To let go of all attachments is a continual theme, an ongoing lesson on the spiritual path. No father, no mother ... no relatives ... no lovers ... no others .... All is One ... all is nothing ... we learn to transcend the world of maya, the illusion of separation ! Living in the here and now following our intuition is the way forward as life begins to unravel all its magic and mysteries for us to see. How we spend our time, the people we meet and interact with all make us who we are .... choose wisely ! Sometimes our ego, our unfulfilled desires may seduce us in a way we might feel is justified, however its in these times we must make choices trusting our intuition and not our lower chakra energies which seek stimulation to our own detriment. Whether its an easily accessible porn fantasy or someone who you can slip in to bed with, you make that choice or not. If you've done it a certain way all this while, maybe its time to do something else which you haven't tried before and see how that works out ... trust me, with each passing day, the energy you don't throw away, builds up strength as your physical and moral character are enriched with the life force ! This very life force is the essence of life and nourishes us if we can learn to cultivate it. Many masters like Mantak Chia speak about this in their books as well. Every day is chance at improving the quality of the lives we lead. We have the power to shape our destiny and this sexual energy is our creative life force and is extremely powerful, not worth throwing away uselessly. If you can't find the right partner to explore the mysteries of life, its best to continue cultivating this energy until the universe manifests whats meant to be .... Our dreams guide us on our path ... pay attention :)

Love Always .... Cosmic Oneness !

Yoga for Children : Being Awake & Aware

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Many in our world today are awakening to the true essence of Yoga and the benefits of practicing yoga regularly. The Truth, in many ways is emerging in our realities making concepts easier to grasp and put in motion. Starting Yoga at an early age has its own rewards and in this post we'll speak about some of these guidelines we could share with our children to help them build strength and endurance as they mature.

For beginners, Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Yuj' meaning 'to unite' or 'to integrate'. In other words, Yoga symbolizes the union of Human Consciousness with Universal or Cosmic Consciousness. In some ways, practicing Yoga helps us dissolve the illusions of the Ego (An illusion of a separate self) and helps us awaken to our true nature in a non-dualistic way. Just so beautifully true, isn't it ... :)

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Here is an interesting article by Marsha Wenig on 'Yoga for Kids'...

Our children live in a hurry-up world of busy parents, school pressures, incessant lessons, video games, malls, and competitive sports. We usually don't think of these influences as stressful for our kids, but often they are. The bustling pace of our children's lives can have a profound effect on their innate joy—and usually not for the better.

I have found that yoga can help counter these pressures. When children learn techniques for self-health, relaxation, and inner fulfillment, they can navigate life's challenges with a little more ease. Yoga at an early age encourages self-esteem and body awareness with a physical activity that's noncompetitive. Fostering cooperation and compassion—instead of opposition—is a great gift to give our children.

Children derive enormous benefits from yoga. Physically, it enhances their flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness. In addition, their concentration and sense of calmness and relaxation improves. Doing yoga, children exercise, play, connect more deeply with the inner self, and develop an intimate relationship with the natural world that surrounds them. Yoga brings that marvelous inner light that all children have to the surface.

When yogis developed the asanas many thousands of years ago, they still lived close to the natural world and used animals and plants for inspiration—the sting of a scorpion, the grace of a swan, the grounded stature of a tree. When children imitate the movements and sounds of nature, they have a chance to get inside another being and imagine taking on its qualities. When they assume the pose of the lion (Simhasana) for example, they experience not only the power and behavior of the lion, but also their own sense of power: when to be aggressive, when to retreat. The physical movements introduce kids to yoga's true meaning: union, expression, and honor for oneself and one's part in the delicate web of life.

A Child's Way

Yoga with children offers many possibilities to exchange wisdom, share good times, and lay the foundation for a lifelong practice that will continue to deepen. All that's needed is a little flexibility on the adult's part because, as I quickly found out when I first started teaching the practice to preschoolers, yoga for children is quite different than yoga for adults.

Six years ago, I had my first experience teaching yoga to kids at a local Montessori school. I looked forward to the opportunity with confidence—after all, I'd been teaching yoga to adults for quite a while, had two young children of my own, and had taught creative writing for several years in various Los Angeles schools. But after two classes with a group of 3 to 6-year-olds, I had to seriously reevaluate my approach. I needed to learn to let go (the very practice I had been preaching for years) of my agenda and my expectations of what yoga is and is not.

When I began to honor the children's innate intelligence and tune in to how they were instructing me to instruct them, we began to co-create our classes. We used the yoga asanas as a springboard for exploration of many other areas—animal adaptations and behavior, music and playing instruments, storytelling, drawing—and our time together became a truly interdisciplinary approach to learning. Together we wove stories with our bodies and minds in a flow that could only happen in child's play.

The kids began to call me Mrs. Yoga, and I called them Yoga Kids. We continued to work and play together until our creations bloomed into a program called YogaKids. The program combines yogic techniques designed especially for children using Dr. Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. Gardner, an author and professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, describes eight intelligences innate in all of us—linguistic, logical, visual, musical, kinesthetic, naturalistic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal—and emphasizes that children should be given the opportunity to develop and embody as many of these as possible.

In keeping with this theory, YogaKids integrates storytelling, games, music, language, and other arts into a complete curriculum that engages the "whole child." We employ ecology, anatomy, nutrition, and life lessons that echo yogic principles of interdependence, oneness, and fun. Most of all, our program engages the entire mind, body, and spirit in a way that honors all the ways children learn.

Taking the Practice Home

If you're planning to teach yoga to kids, there are a few general things to know that will enhance your experience. The greatest challenge with children is to hold their attention long enough to teach them the benefits of yoga: stillness, balance, flexibility, focus, peace, grace, connection, health, and well-being. Luckily, most children love to talk, and they love to move—both of which can happen in yoga. Children will jump at the chance to assume the role of animals, trees, flowers, warriors. Your role is to step back and allow them to bark in the dog pose, hiss in the cobra, and meow in cat stretch. They can also recite the ABCs or 123s as they are holding poses. Sound is a great release for children and adds an auditory dimension to the physical experience of yoga.

Children need to discover the world on their own. Telling them to think harder, do it better, or be a certain way because it's good for them is not the optimal way. Instead, provide a loving, responsive, creative environment for them to uncover their own truths. As they perform the various animal and nature asanas, engage their minds to deepen their awareness. When they're snakes (Bhujangasana), invite them to really imagine that they're just a long spine with no arms and legs. Could you still run or climb a tree? In Tree Pose (Vrksasana), ask them to imagine being a giant oak, with roots growing out of the bottoms of their feet. Could you stay in the same position for 100 years? If you were to be chopped down, would that be OK? Would it hurt?

When they stretch like a dog, balance like a flamingo, breathe like a bunny, or stand strong and tall like a tree, they are making a connection between the macrocosm of their environment and the microcosm of their bodies. The importance of reverence for all life and the principle of interdependence becomes apparent. Children begin to understand that we are all made of the same "stuff." We're just in different forms.

Think of yourself as a facilitator rather than a teacher. Guide your children while simultaneously opening your heart and letting them guide you. They'll no doubt invite you into a boundless world of wonder and exploration. If you choose to join them, the teaching/learning process will be continually reciprocal and provide an opportunity for everyone to create, express themselves, and grow together.

Reference : Yoga Journal

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Alex Grey at TEDx : Cosmic Creativity ~ How Art Evolves Consciousness

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In this featured video, Visionary Artist Alex Grey addresses a gathering at TEDx Maui on 'Cosmic Creativity - How Art Evolves Consciousness' ! He starts with a little about his journey and how it all started for him following a sincere prayer to God which led him to taking LSD for this first time at a party, where he also met the love of his life, Allyson Grey.

The color grey brings the opposites together hence Alex chose to keep his last name Grey, after he went through, what he describes as a 'Spiritual Re-birth" following his LSD trip. :)

Just in case you haven't heard of Alex Grey, you must watch this video which will give you some idea about his Visionary Art and the Evolution of Consciousness through the exploration of Art.

This essential twenty minutes offers a journey through Alex’s art, distinguishing phase shifts of awareness and showing how visionary icons of interconnectedness are transformative.

“Art is an echo of the creative force that birthed the galaxies. Creativity is a way that the Cosmos evolves and communicates with itself. The great uplifting of humanity beyond its self destruction is the redemptive mission of art.”

- Alex Grey

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From Sex to Super Consciousness : The Future of Love

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This February ... Evolver explores conscious love, sexuality and intimacy in its many forms...

Are you loving, and being loved, as deeply as you want?

Have you wondered how you can offer and receive love, through your body and your whole being, more and more unconditionally?

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Would you like to live as love rather than just visit it from time to time?

For this pathbreaking Evolver Intensives course, host Adam Gilad has assembled 7 leading experts on the ways that sensuality and intimacy provide an ecstatic path to profound spiritual experience: Annie Lalla, Alex Allman, Sera Beak, Michael Mirdad, Marc Gafni, Carol Queen and Reid Mihalko.

With humor, with infinite heart, and with compassion for the fear and pain we all experience, we are going to explore Eros, sexuality, consciousness and vision. Snuggling with the juiciest, sexiest core of our intertwining bodies, and with the most blissed-out dissolution of our small selves into the awakening of our fullest expression as conscious beings, we will discover what we can evolve into as individuals, as lovers and as a species…

Sex is play. Sex is surrender. Sex is profound and dangerous and an exhilarating discovery – of our truest selves and the selves of our lovers.

After all, the ancient Hebrew mystics didn’t say, “And Adam banged Eve.” They wrote, he “knew” her.

How can your sexual self be the crucible of knowing yourself anew? Of knowing your lover with both profundity and lightness, with both fierceness and the tenderness of a newborn’s touch?

Sex can be entertainment, distraction, obsession -- or it can be revelation of our truest selves, our most infinite consciousness. Through our bodies touching, we can touch the divine.

And we can feel – when we drop our anxieties, our bills, our status, our egos – what we can be as human in the act of “becoming.”

Few speak on this subject with Adam Gilad's remarkable insight and infectious enthusiasm. The 50,000 followers of Adam's dating and relationships newsletter already appreciate his unique mix of global wisdom traditions, spiritual cheekiness, advanced education and expansive practices. His legendary audio trainings and special programs cover topics like: learning the “language” of the other gender; cultivating a dance of the sexes rather than a battle; playing the spectrum of sexual polarity; and always, always, always, opening to fearlessness in self-awareness, self-evolution, compassion, forgiveness and really good wine.

Now you can join Adam and his guests for a 5-session live, interactive video course that will stoke your imagination and answer your questions. Each session will be a dialog between Adam and one or two featured guests. And you will be part of the discussion, able to ask your questions on camera, just like a Skype call.

Together with these extraordinary teachers, we will explore…

• How we can live our lives suffused by Eros – and what the impact can be for ourselves our lovers and the web of life into which we are woven
• How to embed our current experience of sexuality into a broader life of Eros
• How to transform shame into fuel for a profound erotic embrace of self and the other
• How to turn the passion of our intimate relationships into crucibles for awakening and co-evolution
• How to meld, through Eros, the dissolution of Eastern meditative wisdom with the Western tradition of dignified individualism
• How to transmute our unique stories of suffering and loneliness into a path of bliss, love, service and celebration
• How to embrace our own evolution and grow ever deeper into a life of love, intimacy, ecstasy and joy

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Spiritual Reality : Journey Within ~ A Meditation Guide

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"Spiritual Reality - Journey Within" is a brilliant video presentation on Meditation, a must see for all who seek to understand what Meditation is all about ...

Meditation

Meditation is the journey of our consciousness towards the Self. Sleep is unconscious Meditation and Meditation is conscious sleep.

We receive some amount of Cosmic Energy in sleep and in deep silence. We receive abundant Cosmic Energy in Meditation.

Meditation is the journey of our consciousness from :

Body to Mind, Mind to Intellect, Intellect to Self ... and beyond !

To Meditate, the first thing is Posture.
We may sit in any posture. Posture must be comfortable and stable.
We may sit either on the floor or on a chair.
Cross your legs clasp the fingers
Close your eyes gently
Relax relax

Then, Observe your normal Breath
Do not chant any Mantra do not think of any God
Just witness the Breath
If any thoughts come,
Do not go behind the thoughts do not negate the thoughts
Just come back observe the Breath
Witness the Breath
Be the Breath

Just Be.

This is the WAY. This is the Meditation Technique.
Then one reaches, No Thought and No Breath state.
This is the Meditative State.

By more and more Meditation, we receive abundant Cosmic Energy.
With this Meditation Technique, Our Energy body gets cleansed
Third Eye is activated, and further perfected, Astral Travel happens
We understand Life after Life and many more ...

Cosmic Energy

The Cosmic Energy exists everywhere in the Cosmos.
It is the Bond between the galaxies, the planets, humans and molecules.
It is the 'space' between each and everything.
It is the bond, which keeps the whole cosmos in order.
Cosmic Energy is the 'Life Force'.

This Cosmic Energy is essential to maintain the order of our life and to expand our Consciousness.

Cosmic Energy is the base for all our actions and functions.

We receive some amount of Cosmic Energy in deep Sleep and in total Silence. We are using this energy for our day-to-day activities of our Mind like seeing, speaking, hearing, thinking and all actions of our Body.