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

ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE

Tonight's class is all about the POSITIVE MIND aka THE THIRD BODY. If you are new to this blog/class, just so you know, we are working on the TEN BODIES one by one. What are the ten bodies? The human body is made up of ten bodies---the physical body, three mental bodies (we're working on them right now) and six energy bodies.

"If you understand that you are Ten Bodies, and you are aware of those Ten Bodies, and you keep them in balance, the whole universe will be in balance with you." ~ Yogi Bhajan

If you want to turn on your THIRD BODY, the positive or projective mind, you need to eliminate the negative. We all have an easy time of it when it comes to negative thinking....having negative self imaging, excuses for why we CAN'T do something, and falling back into old self-sabotaging patterns of behavior. What is challenging is rewriting your script so that you have a hopeful and cheerful attitude about almost everything. It doesn't mean you're a blind optimist either. It means that you employ a sense of humor about your life and have a fearlessness about proceeding into the future. It means that you are calculating the risk of any given situation (thank you negative/protective mind!) and using your intuition and intelligence to guide you.

A strong third body will provide you with that sense of humor and hope. A weak third body will guide you into troublesome situations or throw you into the pit of despair and hopelessness. Either way, it's not a good place to be. Strengthening and balancing the THIRD BODY (POSITIVE/PROJECTIVE MIND) does double duty because it will, in turn, balance your second body (NEGATIVE/PROTECTIVE MIND).

The "key phrase" of the third body is DEVIL or DIVINE. What does that mean? The Devil part means that if you don't calculate the risks, you'll end up in trouble. If you are only seeing the PROs in a given situation and not the CONs...it means to look deeper. Be your own devil's advocate...especially when someone is trying to sell you a bill of goods. Whether its a product or in a personal relationship, be sure to pay attention to the red flags and to what is NOT being presented. The Divine part of the equation is when you PROJECT your will into the DIVINE will at the right place and at the right time, only good can come of it. And mastery of the third body will give you a strong will.

What are some ways we can balance and strengthen the Third Body? One way is to strengthen the navel center (third chakra). Another way is to use positive affirmations and replace negative thinking with positive thinking. If you positive mind is overdeveloped (can't see the whole picture, ignoring red flags, blind optimism) then you can work on strengthening the Negative Mind for balance.

So in tonight's class, we will be working primarily on an area of the brain that helps you to hold on to negative self imaging and over protectiveness. We're going to listen to mantras for protection that will lift your spirits and make you feel very light and positive. In our exercises, we'll be working a lot with the nervous system. We'll also be doing a short rebirthing meditation that will burn out negativity from the past.

Please come with a mat, a blanket or cushion and feel free to bring a friend! Our class is by donation only ($15 recommended). All proceeds go back into the teachings. Gong relaxation always....and yogi tea served afterwards. See you later at 7:00pm. For more information visit the website.

Sat Nam,

Raghubir