Happy New Year

ELEVEN THINGS YOU CAN DO TO MAKE THIS THE BEST YEAR YET!

1. Think of what you can do to help others. Doing something good for others with no thought of reward or return is real service. If you help others from your spirit/your soul, it’s always a win-win situation. Make this a daily practice.

2. Consciously BREATHE.  If you can control your breath, you can control your mind. Taking long deep breaths throughout the day can change your mood and your attitude for the better.  You can take notice throughout the day of how many times you are NOT breathing.  We often hold our breath when we are nervous or have to make a decision.  If you have this awareness, try breathing deeply when you are under stress or have an important decision to make and see what happens.

3. Move the body.  Walk, dance, exercise, do yoga, do something.  If you don’t move the body, the energy will get stuck.  When the energy gets stuck, it causes discomfort, disease, and emotional issues.  In fact, if you feel “bad”, the best thing you can do is to move the body.

4. Think positive.  Start to track your thoughts.  Every time you have a negative thought, catch yourself and replace that thought with a positive thought.  It takes some practice but eventually you will find that you just might get happier.

5. Try not to indulge in negative demoting habits.  You can change your habits slowly and surely if you make an effort to indulge in positive promoting habits.

6. An Attitude of Gratitude will get you a lot of bang for your buck.  Try looking at your life from a perspective of being grateful for whatever comes your way.  This is a LIFE CHANGING tool.  There will always be problems, challenges, and obstacles but you can be more effective in how you handle them.  You can become more neutral, less reactive by raising your consciousness, taking a higher perspective, and having an attitude of gratitude. When you start to see whatever comes your way as an opportunity instead of a challenge, you will begin to experience REAL PROSPERITY and HAPPINESS.

7. Nourish your body with healthy food preferably organic and fresh.  If you are not a vegetarian, try to eat less animal products and more plant products. Try to eat to live, not live to eat.  Drink lots of clean water and when you eat, sit, enjoy, and relax.  “So there is no disease. It doesn’t matter if you give medicine; you can give food instead.  It will heal. You can give water. It will heal.  Some spiritual healers take a glass of water, put their hand on it, chant a mantra over it, and hand it to you. You can call it quackery, but it works.” – Yogi Bhajan

8.  Cultivate positive and healthy relationships.  Toxic relationships can literally make you sick.  Enjoy the company of people who bring out the best in you, not the worst.  Laugh, lighten up, enjoy yourself and the magical people in your life.

9. We need goals to have them happen.  Be clear about them.  Be sure of what you want and make sure you’ve got everything covered.  For example if you want a house, make sure the money to keep up the house is included in qualifying your goal.

10. Try injecting MANTRA into your life.  The sound current of a mantra can remove negative thoughts, clean the energy of your living or work space, improve your health, improve and change the dynamic in relationships, reset brain patterns, help to bring awareness and clarity to your life and many other wonderful things.  The mantra elevates consciousness through its meaning, the sound itself, by its rhythm, tone and the reflexology of the tongue.   

A simple mantra you can add to your breath is SAT NAM.  Chanting this mantra awakens the Soul and it means Truth is My Identity.  Try mentally chanting Sat on the inhale and Nam on the exhale when you are going about your day, when you are walking, working, being.   If you would like further information on mantra, please contact me at raghubirkk@gmail.com. You can also play recorded mantras in your home or at work all the time.  A superb recommended practice is to sleep to a recorded mantra throughout the night.  The volume doesn’t need to be loud, just audible.

11.  We are now in the Aquarian Age and we have new energies and frequencies to harmonize with.  In order to live our lives to the fullest we need a healthy body, strong nervous system, a powerful electromagnetic field, and balanced and open chakras.  We need mental and emotional flexibility, intelligent and compassionate detachment, and an open and activated heart center.  We need to be sensitive and intuitive and we need to be strong and clearheaded.  Kundalini Yoga and Meditation produces all of this in a relatively short amount of time.  When you are feeling powerful and in command, you are more capable of uplifting and helping others. 

Have a terrific 2013 and remember that YOU have the birthright to be HAPPY and HEALTHY and PROSPEROUS and that no one can take that away from you.  

LOVE and SAT NAM.  AND A REMINDER - CLASSES RESUME JAN 8 TUES NIGHT AT 7PM

Raghubir Kaur

The Wonderful Regeneration of YOU

Sat Nam Everyone,

This Tuesday night December 11 at 7pm, you'll have the opportunity to do a lot of good for yourself. If you are feeling overwhelmed and frustrated, or if you feel lately as if you're a hamster in a wheel...you're not alone.  FYI this class will work like a charm; helping you to relax and re-circulate your energy to give your body a new life.

How do we achieve this?  By working directly on the Pituitary Gland which will recharge you, deepen your energy reserve, and boost your intuitive powers.  You can exalt your own self with these ancient exercises and meditations...and leave the class feeling renewed and full of energy.

This time of year is always supercharged; with the winter solstice approaching, all the "holidays", and with the addition of 12-12-12, the super crystal activation date coming up in two days (watch my teacher Harijiwan's video below)...everything is intensified.  Also bear in mind that the Mayan Calendar "resets" after 12-21-12, the last day of the Mayan Calendar.  Many have thought of this date throughout history as the end of the world...and yes, it is the end of the world as we know it.  Big changes are in store for us all, and the changes are POSITIVE and consciousness-altering.  You can be a part of the positive transformation!!

We just left the Piscean Age. We are NOW in the Age of Aquarius; an age of higher consciousness, awareness, and heart-centered living.

“The time has come not to search for God, but to be God. Time is not to worship God, but to trust and dwell in the working God." ~Yogi Bhajan

1. Recognize that the other person is you.
2. There is a way through every block.
3. When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off.
4. Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times.
5. Vibrate the Cosmos. The Cosmos shall clear the path.

These are the 5 sutras to live by that Yogi Bhajan has given us for the Aquarian Age.

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Tomorrow's class is the LAST CLASS OF 2012. We will resume after the holidays on January 8th. 

Classes are by donation ($15 recommended). 7-8:30 pm and Yogi tea is served after class.  Bring  a mat, blanket or cushion for sitting and introduce a friend to Kundalini Yoga!  Take note of our NEW IMPROVED WEBSITE!

www.eaglerockkundalinicenter.webs.com

sat nam,

Raghubir

Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times.

"As a Buddhist monk, the cultivation of compassion is an important part of my daily practice. One aspect involves merely sitting quietly in my room, meditating. That can be very good and very comfortable, but the true aim of cultivation of compassion is to develop the courage to think of others and to do something for them." -The Dalai Lama

Thursday night January 12 at 7:00 pm is the last of the series of classes on the Aquarian Sutras of Yogi Bhajan. Tomorrow night's class will explore the sutra "Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times."

This sutra brings up two very important questions: 1) What is Compassion? and, 2) What are "the times"?

Compassion is the opening of our hearts to the feelings of others without allowing our judgments to get in the way. How do you start the opening of your heart? The Dalai Lama says "By removing the greatest hindrances to compassion: anger and hatred.

As we all know, these are extremely powerful emotions and they can overwhelm our entire mind. Nevertheless, they can be controlled. If, however, they are not, these negative emotions will plague us - with no extra effort on their part! - and impede our quest for the happiness of a loving mind."

"Compassion does not mean we do not see the mistakes others make; it means we have sympathy and understanding for their difficulties, knowing we are not really different from them. We are all born and live in this human realm in which ignorance and delusion strongly influences our lives."-Rev. Kinrei Bassis

When Yogi Bhajan came to the West with the message of the shifting from the Piscean to the Aquarian Age, he taught people how to prosper with the new flood of energy and cope with the changes in how human beings behaved with one another.This is a list of characteristics of the times that Yogi Bhajan compiled. You can see that there is a general shifting from the ME to the WE and this is where compassion comes in.

THE CHARACTER OF THE AQUARIAN AGE

• Change and learning is continuous and life-long. We must maintain mental. emotional. and physical flexibility.


• Intellect is not enough. We need a new relationship to intuition, emotion and instinct.


• Information is not enough. Neither is knowledge. We need wisdom.


• Learning is not enough. We must learn how to learn.


• Complexity is increasing as is our need to deal with it.


• Our sense of personal identity and its foundation is shifting.


• This is an age of paradox-more global and more individual. with fewer boundaries and more demand for political separations. Everything is faster and we have less time. We need far more love and unity, for we have more fear and tremendous insecurity.


• Stamina and constant peak performance are the common benchmarks to evaluate all people and their work, and the need is to go inward and regenerate.


• We require a reconciliation and integration of the spiritual side of life with the technological and material sides-a spiritual fitness to sense values and meaning.


• There is no isolation. Each action we take must be considered ecologically, and globally, because each person does affect, directly or indirectly, vast networks of people, and other living beings and places.

Thursday's class will root out anger and open the heart so that experiencing COMPASSION will be the natural result. We'll get rid of the major hindrances, anger and hatred ( that the Dalai Lama spoke about) so that you can start to feel the infinite connection with all you encounter. As the world changes and we are becoming more sensitive and aware, we need to open our hearts to put that sensitivity and awareness to good use. If you shut down your heart and ride the wave of mass fear and aggression ...the new age will be a mind-blowing challenge. If you open your heart and figure out the direction of the wind, you can sail your ship effortlessly towards your soul's purpose.

Bring a blanket, pillow, or mat. class is held on a donation basis ($15 rec). Yogi Tea is served after class. for more info visit www.eaglerockkundalinicenter.com

Sat Nam,

Raghubir Kaur

NO CLASS DECEMBER 29 - RESUME JANUARY 5

Sat Nam!

For those of you who are planning to come to the Thursday night class tonight, there WILL NOT be a class tonight on December 29. Classes will resume on January 5th at 7:00.

These 5 Sutras were given by Yogi Bhajan in order to help us navigate through the Aquarian Age.

1. Recognize that the other person is you

2. Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times

3. There is a way through every block

4. When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off

5. Vibrate the Cosmos, the Cosmos shall clear the path.

We will resume an exploration of these Five Aquarian Sutras by designating our next class on January 5th to "When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off".

There's no better time than the new year to get rolling on your resolutions, turning over a new leaf, out with the old and in with the new kind of thing. Many times we make promises to ourselves and then we find that we are stuck, or more often, we just can't get started. This class on January 5th will help you clear away your self-imposed road blocks and imagined disabilities that prevent you from "starting". Getting to you goal, whatever that may be, will be so much easier once you get going!

A body at rest tends to stay at rest and a body in motion tends to stay in motion...unless an outside force acts upon said body. The law of inertia is a powerful one and energy, no matter in what form, is affected by this "law". If you are stuck and you want to move and are not moving, you are going to stay there and feel all kinds of things like guilt, anger, repressed emotion, self-hatred, blame, and all kinds of pressure... until you do something.

I remember a time in the not so recent past when I was feeling particularly powerless and immobile about a certain issue in my life. I kept feeling like i was a truck stuck in the mud just spinning my wheels and going no where. The more I "spun my wheels", the less I went anywhere and the pressure continued to mount. I spoke with a dear friend of mine about my predicament and she said "Why don't you just get out of the truck and walk?"

This was a revelation to me. You mean...I had the power to change the location of my feelings by doing something different than the behavior I was accustomed to that wasn't working? WOW!

Spinning your wheels and going nowhere is a perfect metaphor for being stuck...and if you have something you need to do and you can't seem to make it happen, just start walking in the direction you want to go. The law of inertia will keep you moving in your chosen direction... and with your INTUITION, your own personal GPS device, the momentum you initiate by STARTING, will get you there!

See you on January 5th!

xoxo

Raghubir Kaur

for more info visit www.eaglerockkundalinicenter.com

Winter Solstice - From Darkness to Light

Tomorrow night, Thursday December 22 at 7:00pm we will celebrate the first Winter Solstice of the Aquarian Age by creating a healing vibratory field with Kundalini Yoga and Pranayam and chanting The First Sodhung Mantra for 31 minutes. This mantra aligns heaven and earth in you through the profound resonance of this mantra and visualization. A long gong meditation follows... so it will prove to be a powerful and elevating evening. Yogi Tea and cookies will be served afterwards. Class is on a donation basis ($15 recommended).

Winter Solstice is a powerful portal for transformation. The shortest day and longest night of the year opens the way for a gradual return of "the light". It's no accident that so many holidays and celebrations of every culture celebrate this time of year with ceremony. In the Kundalini Yoga Community, we celebrate both the winter and the summer solstices with a week-long celebration in Florida and New Mexico, respectively. As I am unable to attend this year's Winter Solstice Celebration in Lake Wales, Florida...I have decided to hold this special class so that others, like myself, could gather and meditate together.

Solstice rites are one of our oldest cultural celebrations dating back to the dawn of modern civilization 30,000 years ago. For ancient as well as modern people, the Winter Solstice was and still is an awesome and mysterious phenomenon.

Yule, or Jul is an old Anglo-Saxon word that means "wheel". The winter solstice is the turning point in the natural cycle of the year...and so it is a good time for spiritual work. Some neo-pagans believe that the dark nights of winter are when the veil between the spirit world and the living world is the thinnest and so are best used for self-examination and meditation. Yule traditions celebrate nature's renewal and our connection to the cosmos and earth.

In Scandinavian and Germanic countries, they celebrate Saint Lucia (lucia=light) by dressing a chosen girl in white robes with a blood-red sash and sending her around to work her healing miracles. In Poland, there is the festival of Gody at which time people forgive one another and share food. In Belgium, there is the Koleduvane festival which commemorates the birth of the sun. In China, the Dongzhi Festival (the "extreme of winter") celebrates the shifting of darkness to light which increases the flow of positive energy.

Traditionally, Indigenous People have always gone into ceremony to celebrate what is considered the longest night and greeted the New Sun on the next day with the utmost reverence. Pagans decorated inside their homes with plants and branches to bring in fertility and promote growth and this has evolved into the modern Christmas tree. In the Christian tradition, the birth of baby Jesus is celebrated around this time which signifies the coming of the one who brings the light. In Jewish tradition, Chanukah is called the "festival of lights" and the eight days of celebration involve the lighting of candles, ceremony and sharing food and gifts with loved ones.

The instant that the earth's axis stops tilting away from the sun and starts going back in the other direction is the actual moment of the Winter Solstice. However, the Winter Solstice is not just a metaphorical event. It is a significant astronomical event that has consequences for life here on this earth.

Please join me in celebration of this auspicious time. Bring a mat, blanket, or pillow if needed ...bring a friend....and come prepared to raise your consciousness with like minded souls. Please visit the website for more information and the address.

Sat Nam,

Raghubir