Maharishi Mahesh Yogi & 12 ways to access soul

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced the world to transcendental meditation techniques. You may choose to explore them. Fundamentally, you my ask, why meditate? What does it do? Consider these 12 ways to access deeper parts of yourself;

1) Nurture mindfulness. As you acknowledge how you think, you learn the power of pausing in your life, wherever you are.

2) Strengthen attentiveness. As you become more aware of what you think and feel, you begin to uncover hidden reasons.

3) Promote detachment. As you identify strong emotions, you lower the intensity and minimizes their hold over you.

4) Settle the mind.  As you address reasons for feelings, you consciously learn to calm down and respond differently.

5) Lower stress.  As you grow more conscious of your mood, you shift and change how you channel your energy flow.

6) Develop greater acceptance. As you attune to the nature and flow of energy, you move to accept your perceived pain or other circumstances as they are. 

6) Become less judgmental.  As you deliberately accept more, you project less criticism and quash impulses to judge.

7) Cultivate senses.  As you quiet the inner judge, you open yourself to senses and abilities you had quietly disregarded.

8) Expand faculties. As you open your senses, you awaken faculties had been dormant alongside.

9) Reframe well-being.  As you access senses and faculties you had forgotten, you reframe well-being around those experiences of simplicity, patience and love.

10) Build harmony. As you reframe well-being, you build new levels of harmony in relationships and life perspectives.

11) Extend world peace. As you extend the reach of harmony within and without, you actively contribute to world peace.

12) Access answers. As you contribute to more widespread serenity, you begin to realize that everything you need already exists and comes into the physical from where it is right now.

Comments

[Davina]

Hi Liara. I've been there and done that -- and this all sounds... ahhhhh.

What would you say about a person who is "blocked" from entering that door... blocked from embracing that meditative space? I know it's a choice, yet there are times when I simply can't embrace that space. It's a curious thing.

[Giovanna Garcia]

I really like the 12 ways to access deeper parts of ourselves. They are all very good and important. The most valueable item on the list for me is detachment.
Thank you,
Giovanna Garcia
Imperfect Action is better than No Action

[rummuser]

Way back in 1978 I was on the fast track and burning the candle on both ends. A very good friend of mine suggested that I should learn TM and put me in touch with an initiator. Both my wife and I learnt TM and practiced for many years. This also enabled me to get interested in spriritualism and I started reading about it. That is how my own journey started.

In 1984 however I was dared to go through a Vipassana camp and I accepted the challenge and got hooked. I have attended many camps and was getting ready for the long retreats to start the process of my becoming a teacher when fate decided otherwise and I had to stop attending camps. I however continue to meditate regularly and can honestly say that, it is that, that has helped me get on with my quite turbulent life.

[Mark]

These are all great reasons to meditate. Many people use meditation as a vehicle for others meditation is an outcropping of being.

[Alik Levin | PracticeThis.com]

My favorite here is "Become less judgmental."
I think there is a reason to everything. Even for very unreasonable things. Instead of spending my energy on judging i try to learn the reason, the root cause. It helps predicting next time when similar pattern shows.

[Liara Covert]

Davina, a person only ever creates his or her own mental blocks. To recognize them is the first step to dissolving them. Meditation techniques offer various ways you can explore areas of your deeper self. Other means also exist, including things like journaling, hypnosis, regression or past life therapy, dream analysis, and books on related topics. When your unconscious is ready to open up, the sources of fear will surface to levels of more conscious awareness. In the meantime, part of your soul has decided on other learning. Every step is very useful to you as it is.

[Liara Covert]

Giovanna, detachment can be interpreted as aloofness or indifference. Spiritual detachment is not a place you choose to go but rather, something a person can only ever find inside the self. It sometimes baffles human beings that they feel most alive regardless of what is unfolding when they develop the capacity to let go and fully live.

[Liara Covert]

rummuser, the motivation to meditate varies widely. Some people are encouraged to learn techniques as part of health advice or a self-initiated stress reduction program. Whatever one's reasons, everything happens exactly as planned. People learn they do not have to permit fear to stop them from doing what they feel they must do at a given moment. Choices are part of a growing process.

[Liara Covert]

Mark, some people also view meditation as a useful practice while seated in a dentist's chair or on a doctor's examination table. The nature and depth of meditation vary widely. Some people engage in this practice as part of a process of permanent transformation of sensory and cognitive experiences. One's whole life experience can expand in ways that defy words and silence. Instances of concentration may be set aside before or during any activity. You determine your level of awareness and set aside occasion to instill new mental habits. Learn new ways to receive and grasp sensation. Develop new methods of discerning conscious thought, and managing emotions. Meditation helps teach people to let go of fear.

[Liara Covert]

Alik, you highlight that some people actually meditate to raise awareness of destructive behavioural patterns. Bringing inner-knowing to the surface enables you to become an astute observer. You decide what to change.

[anne partain]

Hi Liara, These are all very lovely aspects of growth, whether one comes to them from this meditation or from other ways. It's a beautiful list of ideas. As one who has not come the their understanding from meditation like this; it helps me understand how meditation brings people to themselves. Thank you for sharing.

And...thanks for coming by my blog, it was so nice to hear from you!

[Davina]

Thank you Liara for your response -- "part of your soul has decided on other learning" -- I like the sound of that.

have been journalling over the last week and seen the positive effects from this. I was even able to get up early this morning and do yoga. Feels great! Thanks again.

[Liara Covert]

Davina, when your breathing is calm and deep, your mental state shifts your conscious awareness. As an experiment, when you are in a relaxed yoga state, ask your inner self a direct question. You may be astonished at how you suddenly reconnect with your core and feel, visualize or experience the answer right in front of you. Additional courses can be taken in psychic development, self-growth and energy healing, yet this basic test can be done to train your mind to sharpen alertness.

[Liara Covert]

Anne, meditation enables a person can come into a deeper peace and understanding about existence. You come to recall how everything and everyone interconnects. Each person can learn to attune to and differentiate their own energies, make life changes and strengthen inner healing.

[anne partain]

Yes, I can see that there are many ways to come to the same letting go of the unwanted so that we may embrace the wanted.

[Davina]

Thank you Liara. I will practice this.