It is not easy to remain unaffected by the thoughts flowing through mind. To get over this, train to keep your attention away from the thoughts chasing you by giving auto suggestions if necessary. Over a period of time, all inconsequential thoughts and feelings bothering you may leave. This is not to suggest that all thoughts and feelings would go out of reckoning during this process. Still, there may be many more left, parked at deeper layers of mind, yet to surface up. They will be attended to during the later issues. Yet, you may be relatively calmer as thoughts and feelings bothering you in immediate terms may no longer chase you from within.
To explain the concept underlying the above process, it becomes imperative to share a story related to Gautam Buddha. Once Buddha asked one of his disciples to fetch water from a nearby water stream. When the disciple approached the stream, he found that an animal was crossing. So, water had become muddy. Thinking that he cannot carry dirty water to his Guru, the disciple came back. After a while when Buddha asked him for water, the disciple informed that water was muddy and so he came back empty handed. Buddha pointed that the mud would have settled and sent him back. When the disciple approached the stream, he found that though a significant amount of mud had settled, but water was still not potable. Later, when he visited the water stream for the third time, water had become clean, and so he fetched it for his Guru.
The mind’s flow is almost similar to that of a running water stream. As you cross the water stream, the muck on the bed is stirred, following which, water becomes muddy. If you leave the water flow undisturbed for a while, all the muck will settle down and water will become clear once again. In mind, instead of water, thoughts keep continuously flowing. When unwanted and negative thoughts and feelings somehow intrude your thought plane, mind gets unnerved. If, however, you let the thoughts naturally flow in and out without paying attention to them, over a period of time they go out of reckoning.
The best part of the process is that mind gets trained to have its attention effortlessly turned inwards for a considerable period of time, and to a large extent also remain disengaged from thoughts knocking you from within.
Mind-Detoxification: Having thus created a favourable inner-climate, stage is set to move on to the Mind-Detoxification process. It is purposely so designed as to consciously invoke the thought-seeds parked in the deeper layers of the mind and resolve them. The method needs to be directly learnt from an expert. The broader principles, however, are being laid down for the sake of awareness. Here arises the role of Guru, who will give you a two syllable/words simple mantra. The mantra as such has to be individual specific, identified by the Guru, based on the callings of your inherent frame of mind.
A similar posture as adopted during the mind calming down process, is preferred during Mind-Detoxification also. One can do it in sitting position also, but the spinal-cord needs to be kept erect. Now close your eyes and turn your attention inwards. The focus has to be on the breath cycle — inhaling and exhaling. Slowly inhale deep (stomach should expand/come out with large air intake) and then slowly exhale (the stomach should go in as excessive air move out). Now begin reciting the mantra in your mind/silently, one syllable/word while inhaling and the other while exhaling, as directed by the Guru.
Mantra as such has no religious implication; it actually has its energy connotation. When you inhale deep, simultaneously reciting opening syllable of the mantra, one draws extra life-forces from nature. That triggers the inlaid memory imprints registered in energy-format — meaningful ones as positive energy and unseemly ones as negative energy. The churning that follows tries to expel negative imprints, bringing into focus host of distracting thoughts. The vibration of the second syllable helps drive away the negative energy. Continue this practice for at least 20 minutes.
One will be flooded with thoughts during this process. They, however are the ones parked at deeper layer of mind. These thoughts will reflect definite patterns, which may throw light on your inherent habit tendencies. Becoming aware thus, you could make amends through fresh educative inputs.
The writer is an astrologer, vastu consultant and spiritual counsellor. Connect with him at Tel: 91-11-9818037273/9871037272Email: bharatbhushanpadmadeo@gmail.com
