Leadership Swami

By Tenzin Pemo

 There are all sorts of spiritual, mystical things that we do not really understand. For instance, there are some people who are diagnosed with cancer who get treated in the far East and come back cancer-free.

There are others who have rare diseases that the doctors diagnose will kill them in six months and who manage to live for ten years or more. It is painfully obvious that we have not even come close to understanding all of the things we are able to accomplish.

If you are looking to increase your spiritual abilities and master your inner self, you may want to learn a bit about mandalas and yantras and how to use them to tune your body and spirit.

1) Mandalas

Mandala is from the Sanskrit language and means circle. There may be squares and triangles in a mandala, but the entire mandala should have a concentric structure.

Everything in the mandala should be balanced, and should give an air of harmony. The point of a mandala is to help one travel on their spiritual journey easily.

There are a number of ways to use a mandala, and each way is just a bit different than the one before. There are, however, some basics about a mandala that can help you when you are just starting to use a mandala.

The first thing you need to do before you meditate is to decide what your intention of meditation is. If you are intending to calm your mind, you will want a mandala that is for calming.

If you are looking to find your beginning, you may want a Native American labyrinth mandala. Set the mandala in front of you and begin your meditation. Look at the mandala and allow your mind to swirl around the beauty of the designs in the mandala.

During your meditation, if you mind begins to wander and you start thinking about the everyday, mundane things, focus your attention back on the mandala. Pretend that your mind is swimming in the mandala, and let the colors and designs swirl around you.

As you slowly sink into the designs, your body and mind will begin to feel lighter. You can start to float and your thoughts will come to, more pure and more enlightened.

Remember, every time you start to think about the everyday things, re-focus back on the mandala and allow yourself to sink into it. The better you get at meditating with the mandala, the more pure your thoughts will be. You may even find that you start seeing things in the future or understanding yourself in a way that you never have before.

2) Yantra

In some ways, a yantra is very similar to a mandala. Yantra translates to support and is, again, about helping you to achieve the highest level of meditation that you can.

Many believe that a yantra is the tool that allows you to find the window into the absolute. And again, like a mandala, you use focusing on the yantra to stop your mind from wandering to the mundane and everyday during your meditation cycle.

Some believe, however, that when you meditate with a yantra, it is possible to connect directly with God.

Most yantras are focused on a specific deity, which means that if you are looking to connect so a specific deity, you should seek out the yantra that will help you to do that. Some yantras are drawn on cloth or paper, while others are made with wood and can even be three dimensional.

When you meditate, focus on the yantra and the form energy that swirls around the yantra. Each yantra begins in the center of the design and does not end until the outer most square. You can turn a yantra upside down if you like, but you need to understand that a yantra changes depending on which way you turn it.

When you start to focus on a yantra, make sure that you are relaxed. Focus your mind and your energy into the yantra. A yantra alone is worth nothing, but a yantra partnered with your psychic energy can create some amazing things. Instead of being focused on the microcosm, you will be able to access the macrocosm, and, quite possibly, the deity that you have been trying to connect to.

Meditating can be difficult, especially with all of the things we have to worry about in the normal world. There are tons of things that can enter into your mind, so a helping hand is sometimes necessary.

A mandala or a yantra can help you to focus your thoughts and can help you to connect to things that are outside of your everyday understanding.

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Freedom from Fear Begins Here and Now
By Tom Stine

 Everyone has experienced fear. We know exactly what it feels like, whether it is in the form of anxiety or an extreme terror. But we rarely if ever stop to ask questions about our fears. We have a lot to learn from fear, and asking questions of it will lead us to some interesting observations that can be amazingly helpful. And first and foremost is the that fear is never about the here and now.

It’s true. Fear is always about the future. Without a future, there can be no fear. Fear is the feeling we have when we are anticipating something bad happening. Our minds conjure up a possible future event, and then our nervous system reacts to these thoughts by stimulating our bodies in that familiar group of sensations we call fear. It really is as simple as that.

By knowing that fear is always about the future, we can use this simple fact to start to undo it and become free of it for good. If you will notice, you are not living in the future. Or the past. You are living right now. Here, in this spot and at this moment. And be honest, can you ever know what is actually going to happen in the future? Can you know what will happen tomorrow or next week? No, you can’t. And that is how you begin to undo fear. You recognize that it is about a future that you can never know. This recognition is the beginning of your freedom.

Let’s look at an example. Suppose you are like many people and are worried about your finances. The grocery bill is getting larger each month, gas prices are up, but you are not earning any more money. You start to feel a nagging worry, a sense of anxiety, a fear about what will happen a year from now. “Will I run out of money?” you ask yourself.

To gain your freedom from this fear, begin by noticing what is here right now. Do you have plenty of food to eat? Do you have gas for the car? A job? Some savings? Take a brief look at the reality of your life now. Not a year from now. Now.

Then, ask yourself, “Do I know what the future will be like? Can I honestly say I know?” Of course not. You can never know. Then allow that realization to sink into your system. Let it settle into your body.

The first thing you will notice from doing a simple process like this one is that you feel lighter, freer, more open. The fear has lifted some (or completely vanished). You feel more alive and capable of dealing with life and it’s situations.

The second thing you notice is that your creativity and intuition increase exponentially. Your ability to solve problems improves, and your sense of the best solution grows more accurate. If your concerns were about money, you start to see interesting ways you can save money. You gain a new insight into how to earn more, get a raise at your current job, or find better employment.

Freeing yourself from fear is both simple to do and beneficial. Plus, you feel good, too. While there are many other techniques that can help you find lasting freedom, this simple one of recognizing the here and now will work wonders.

Tom Stine is a life coach for spiritual people.

He works with a wide variety of people and issues,

always seeking to help his clients go beyond their

limitations. Find out how to live a freer, fuller

life at tomstine.com.

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