Leadership Swami

By Elysha

 You think you know this person, that you are so busy trying to be, but you hardly know it at all. All you know of it are limited bits - the name and shape of the body that you think you are, governed by an apparently endless running commentary of a mind.

Way back when manifestation began to sparkle out of the nothingness and emptiness that always is - who you are - you enjoyed the delight and play of entering this ’something’ that was arising out of and sustained by your true nature. You knew who you are. There was no loss with the obviousness of what was arising.

As you delighted in this play, of the manifest and the un-manifest that was unfolding, you never lost sight of who you are and have always been.

Over time manifestation took on more shape and more form.

Gradually, as you furthered out into this arising stuff of manifestation, without you even being aware of it, you began to get more and more caught up in the play of life that was arising around you. You slowly began to forget the qualities, subtleties, and clarity of who you are.

You danced, played, and thrilled in entering the very person that was forming. It was a delight. It was a joy. It was designed as such by the innate perfection of your true nature.

However, this forgetting of who you are had you missing out on so much richness and love. In many ways, it was good that you did not realise what you were missing out on, while you persisted in trying to be the person that you keep on trying to be.

In due course, the person continued to grow further and further out into the grossest parts of manifestation that were unfolding. Each new level of manifestation that was coming into being, was allowing for a greater individual expression of the person to be formed.

In other words, it gave the person a greater choice to be a unique individual.

The price to be paid for having this uniqueness was to forget even more of who you are. The cost of being in a place like planet Earth is very high, in terms of losing sight of just who you already are, have always been, and will always be.

This choice created the wonderful play of duality, where you can realise who you are while you are flowing through a person who has the gift for such uniqueness.

Such is the sheer beauty and innate wisdom of your true nature!

This wonderment of being able to realise who you are, had to grow through each stage of its own manifestation, step by step, for this to come about.

Your innate wisdom and ‘isness’ that gave birth to manifestation in the very first instance, allowed for all of this. After all, who you are wanted to realise itself at the most heightened point of uniqueness that it could.

And your “person” is precisely such a vehicle for this purpose.

Who you are has seasoned itself through the many unique individuals that populate this planet, and through the rest of the natural world that is here, with the joy that is itself.

Your ability to choose, which gives you such a distinctive flavour of uniqueness, allows the pain of trying to be something that is not who you are. This ability to choose, also allows you to realise who you truly are while you are still flowing through this person, as it continues to play the person out.

You are completely capable of waking up to the truth of you and living the expression of joy of this one.

Love has come to town.

We are at a point, in the evolution of humanity and this planet, where you can realise who you are without it taking decades or lifetimes. You can realise and live your true nature right now. You can continue realising who you are, right now, until that is what you do momentarily. Until you find yourself stably realising and living your true nature, and not mistaking yourself to be the person that who you are is flowing through ever again.

It does not have to take years for this stability to become your way of life. However, that would depend entirely on how willing you are in stopping and dropping your attempt to be this person. That would depend on how willing you are in staying attentive as who you are, instead of being distracted by the arisings of manifestation either from your inner-world or from the outer-world.

The major difference in the energies of today is the break-neck speed in which all on this planet is changing.

The balance to all of the dreadful behaviour that is happening on this planet, is the wonderful capacity to actually and truly stand free as who you already are. Standing free, without it having to take the time it took for our spiritual predecessors.

You can stand free of the prison of your own making, right now. Now, is the shortcut to realisation. Not the now of your mind, but the now that is right now, before manifestation even begins for you in the next second. The now that is without a second.

So, you can realise what it is that you truly are!

You can stop and drop what you are not, to see and be who you already are right now. This now, without a second.

When you find the aliveness of who you are, which has you free of this person that it is flowing through, you are to stop at and as this one. Instead of getting distracted by the next thought that comes along, which takes you back to believing yourself to be who you think you are.

You can realise what it is that you truly are.

This great matter of realisation is a momentary thing. It is not a one-off seeing, or even many one-off seeings.

It is for you to be, momentarily, from one moment to the next. And you can, because it is already true of you.

This stability of realisation does not need to take thirty or forty years. You can realise who you are and live as this one, while it continues to flow through this person that you would otherwise believe yourself to be.

And you must realise who you are, for this journey of true discovery to be lived and experienced through the mind-body package that you find yourself flowing through.

In case you have missed it, what is being pointed to here is for you to realise and come to see just how wonderful what it is that you already are. It is for you to see how you automatically keep on being distracted from living the freedom that is always true of you moment by moment, and how you suffer that movement.

The journey of true discovery awaits your conscious participation. It waits for you to realise your true nature for yourself.

If you are serious about living the heart of what is already true of you, about freeing up from being distracted by what you find yourself flowing through, then do whatever it takes to learn this art.

Heart coming to life on this planet, can only come about through you realising what is always and already true of you.

Without this, the problems of humanity will only continue as they currently are.

You can make the difference. And you can start right now!

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Energy Healing 101: Pranic, Tantric And Reiki

By Roberto Garabell

 You have probably come across exotic-sounding terms such as chakra, prana, aura, and tantra in your course of reading books on spirituality, sex, and healing in the New Age literature section of the bookstore. But whats the real scoop behind these exotic vocabularies?

Are All Energy Healings the Same?

Chakra or energy center is a term used in Pranic healing, an ancient Hindu system of energy healing. Prana means life energy. Aura is another terminology traced to Pranic healing. Aura is a non-physical body that consists of energy, which exists along with our physical body. The aura that covers our body is said to have seven layers pertaining to the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of an individual as manifested by energy. Studying the color and thickness of auras give ideas on the state of health of individuals. Six colors are associated with aura and interpreted into six personalities. These colors are all present in an individual but one or two are more pronounced.

Green ambitious achiever

Blue spiritual peacemaker

White unconventional chameleon

Red activist

Orange creative communicator

Violet - psychic

Although Tantra is popularly associated with the peculiar practice of sex and spirituality, it is another method of energy healing. It comes from the word tan which means to spread or expand. The concept of connectedness is a recurring theme in Tantric writings on sex and spirituality. As a method of healing, spirituality and sex figure prominently. It is presupposed that the union of man and woman can reach spiritual levels during orgasm, which removes the body and mind off collected impurities. These impurities being negative energies can in turn manifest as physical illnesses.

Unlike Pranic and Tantric healings, which have Hindu origins, Reiki originated from Japan. It is relatively younger than Pranic and Tantric healings having been rediscovered in the early 1900s. Reiki stands for universal energy, an energy brought forth by higher intelligence. Students of Reiki are taught how to tap this energy to heal physical, emotional, and mental illnesses.

Although Pranic, Tantra, and Reiki are all systems of energy healing, they differ in the type of energy tapped for healing: life energy, sexual energy, and universal energy respectively.

The concepts of the connectedness of mind, body, and spirit; the connection of individuals to all living and nonliving things around them and to the universe; and how energy impacts physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being are some of the salient similarities of these three healing methods.

Why Do People Turn to Energy Healing?

Pranic, Tantric, and Reiki are considered alternative methods of healing. In spite of the availability and relative accessibility of modern medicine, how come more and more people are being drawned to them? Here are some possible reasons:

Energy healing worked where modern medicine failed.

For several reasons both explainable and unexplainable, modern medical treatment failed to heal ailments and conditions in several if not many persons. Research or data may not be able to support this statement. But for the families of the dying as well as for the dying patient, they would take the risk of using alternative methods ranging from herbals and organics, faith healers, witch doctors, and New Age healing techniques just to be get well.

People perceive modern medicine to be isolating.

Medical treatments are oftentimes focused on the disease and its causative agent, which can make a patient feel isolated and treated like a mere host of the disease. Although recent developments in hospital practice are gradually promoting the holistic treatment of a patient, the perception still persists. Unlike in energy healing, since energy and spirituality are intimately linked, the patient feels that all aspects of his health are being attended to.

Energy healing is non-obtrusive and natural thus it is safer.

Repeated surgical procedures are physically and emotionally traumatic for most patients. It is but a logical and attractive option to both patient and families to look for less stressful health interventions. Moreover, with the rising popularity of New Age religions, going natural is the way to go.

Energy healing is a good way of relieving stress.

Meditation is part and parcel of energy healing methods and this is an added come-on for highly stressed people. Moreover, sophisticated equipment is not required thus it becomes all the more convenient for students and future students of energy healing.

The battle between alternative healing and mainstream medicine continues as both present the benefits of their approach. But in the final analysis, what matters is the restoration of good health.

This article is submitted by Julius. He is an avid blogger who has written a lot of articles including Music Can Be a Happiness Drug and Maslows Hierarchy of Human Needs Visit Energy Healing 101: Pranic, Tantric And Reiki.

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