Oh Arjuna ! Become a Yogi !

Question: By Isha (name changed), US via email

I had been loving a guy in fact we had an affair. There are few things which I was not liking in that guy .......... I got ready to marry one guy which my parents decided and I got married to him. Now the problem is I can't not forget the first guy. I made a big mistake to go ahead with my parents and marry that guy. Now I don't want to live with him. I made a big mistake in my life it seems. Now I am regretting like anything. I am feeling guilty because my desire of getting better ruined my life.
Now I am thinking to go back to the guy whom I love after getting divorce.
One day I talked to my parents that I am not happy with my marriage. They said If you don't want to leave with him commit suicide. So far two times I had thought of doing that .....
Do you think because of family and all I should not break the marriage and forget the guy whom I love?
I hate my self by doing all of this mess. How could I play with my life. like this?
Please help me else would get mad. want to come out from all the mess ASAP and also want to find some respect for myself

Answer:

Generally people send me questions related to meditation. Anyway I will guide you on this personal issue also although my focus is on meditation.

Now coming to you. I will answer you now even though I dont know much about you. I will tell you the truth.

First of all understand this that even if you would have married the guy of your choice you would not have been happy. You will be in the same situation more or less. Then you would be thinking that why didnt I leave this guy as I knew his weak points and married a guy of my parents choice.

The reason is that the term "HAPPINESS" OR "SATISFACTION" has been misunderstood throughout the history. But if you are really a para-scientific thinker you can understand what I am telling you now very rare and secret thing.

When we were born we were with brain but without the mind. Just understand the mind is an artificial bundle of thoughts, conditions you learn in his society. It can be shattered with meditation. Mind is not a real thing.

Hence as you or most of the people who are inside mind thinks that by achieving something or by getting this or that they will get happiness. Inside the mind the Happiness is like a mirage. You spend you whole life thinking that yes now I will get happiness...now I have boy friend and have little sex..i will be happy ...now i am graduated ..i will be happy ..now i get a job..i willl be happy ..now i am married ..i will be happy ..now i have children i will be happy ...now i have new house...more money i will be happy ...now my children married and have their children..i will be happy .... haha ..and this goes like this and we never gets to that extreme of happiness which is driving us throughout the life and we die consciously without knowing the secret.

Got my point? Actually till we are inside the mind we can never reach that deep happiness and satisfaction which consciously or unconsciously we are looking for.

As now I understand the nuts and bolts of all of our body, organs , brain, mind and beyond mind , soul. I can tell you we are actually unconsciously searching for something else.

Few people due to this as they suppress their desires to get to that happiness become mad or become violent or murderer. As they have lost their consciousness and conscious part of thinking.

So the people who understand this whole process ......actually start their life in a different way. Those people are called "Yogis". Sri Krishna says in Geeta ..some people do pooja... some people do rituals ..some do donations ...but the biggest is the path of Yoga (read karmayoga) hence oh Arjuna BE A YOGI !

Once you understand this whole process and become and thinks and lives like a Yogi. Then you start your life in REVERSE ORDER.

As our mind cannot give us that DEEP HAPPINESS and as a YOGI now you know that actually that extreme happiness is not inside but outside the MIND.

So be a yogi and go beyond the mind. But also taking care of all small happiness in your mind and fulfilling them like tasty food, friends, drinking or whatever small happiness your mind wants. Once as a yogi you will fullfill these small desires you will leave them for whole life and they will not bother you in your mind.

Now comes the question, How to go Beyond the MIND? and is there really some way to go out of mind and have feeling of that EXTREME and DEEP HAPPINESS which will transform your life forever.

Yes, ancient Yogis and Rishis have found ways to go beyond mind and these techniques are called MEDITATIONS OR DHYAN OR YOGA.

Shiva was the GREATEST of all YOGIS alongwith KRISHNA.

Hence if you want you can learn these techniques which can include many different types of yogas, meditations, love expressions, aerobics etc.

Now the question is who is a Yogi and why I need to become a yogi to do all these beyond mind experiences?

A Yogi is who understands all the phenomenon of this universe, earth, human beings, life and death and concept of god and lives in this world like it is a DRAMA and he is playing a role given to him by someone. Although he is doing his role but he is not attached to it and he is just Acting and doing it like it is his KARMA which he has to do. Otherwise he is totally happy even without it also. As he knows and have already tasted that fruit of extreme happiness possible in a life time by way of meditation methods. He is living his life and doing his activities just as in a Drama and Enjoying each of his role upto fullest but Being AWARE of what he is doing ALL THE TIME. As an actor is aware of all of his acting. A Yogi never do anything unconsciously. He is playing his role as conscious and aware all the time and never waste a moment to enjoy and laugh whenever some moments like that comes in life.
AS IN DEEPEST LEVEL OF HIS BODY AND MIND HE IS ALL THE TIME HAPPY.

By reading till now I hope you must have got answers to many of your questions.

But dont misunderstand me here. I never said you should not take divorce. If you really want to leave your husband then you can leave him whether you will again marry your old boy friend or you will search of a new man taking care of your children if you have.

But again the question is whether even after marrying your old or new boy friend WILL YOU BE HAPPY ?
You cannot know now. Hence better is that FIRST you get that taste of deep love and happiness and after that you can decide on your own what really you want and ready to do. And at that moment whatever you will decide you will be happy throughout your life by that decision and will never repent of it again.

Hence be a Yogi and Remain Happy Forever ! Start from right this moment that You are the most happiest girl of this world and whatever happened to you in past you are not carrying it any further. Live by moment to moment.... sucking the entire juice of that moment and Enjoying it upto fullest. This is the biggest meditation of all.

Meditate and Smile now,
Read osho books and learn more about his meditations here www.oshoworld.com, www.osho.com

love,
Noone

Music has neurological, physical, psychological benefits, Experiments says

Music a 'mega-vitamin' for the brain

• Story Highlights
• London choir is made up of sufferers of neurological conditions, friends and carers
  
• Growing evidence that music has neurological, physical, psychological benefits
  
• Music used to boost rehabilitation of stroke patients, improve motor function
  
• New approaches to music therapy could bring field into mainstream rehab practice
  

By Simon Hooper

LONDON, England (CNN) -- When Nina Temple was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2000, then aged 44, she quickly became depressed, barely venturing out of her house as she struggled to come to terms with living with the chronic condition.

Sing for Joy is a choir made up of sufferers of neurological conditions plus friends, family and carers.

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"I was thinking of all the things which I wished I'd done with my life and I wouldn't be able to do. And then I started thinking about all the things that I still actually could do and singing was one of those," Temple told CNN.

Along with a fellow Parkinson's sufferer, Temple decided, on a whim, to form a choir. The pair placed notices in doctor's surgeries inviting others to join them and advertised for a singing teacher.

By 2003, with the help of funding from the Parkinson's Disease Society, the resulting ensemble "Sing For Joy" was up and running, rehearsing weekly and soon graduating to public performances.

The group now consists of around two dozen singers, including sufferers of Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis, others recovering from conditions including stroke or cancer, plus their carers, family and friends. Led by acclaimed jazz performer Carol Grimes, the group's genre-defying repertoire ranges from Cole Porter classics to ethnic punk. Watch Sing for Joy perform »

"It's quite easy to get overwhelmed by the disease and having something that you do every week that makes you forget all your troubles and keeps you from feeling isolated is a great pleasure," says Temple.

But singing also has physical and neurological benefits for the choir's members. A common symptom of Parkinson's disease and similar conditions is voice loss and each week the group begins its rehearsals with vocal exercises worked out with speech therapists.

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"All neurological conditions affect the throat because it has so many muscles," says Sarah Benton, another choir member with multiple sclerosis. "So singing, which makes you lift up your body and expand your lungs, is perfect for neurological diseases."

While "Sing for Joy's" DIY-style music therapy has provided obvious social, mental and physical benefits for its members, there is a growing body of clinical evidence suggesting that music can play a key role in aiding recovery or helping sufferers cope with a broad range of brain-based conditions.

Doctor Wendy Magee, International Fellow in Music Therapy at London's Institute of Neuropalliative Rehabilitation, describes music as a "mega-vitamin for the brain," capable of influencing and improving motor function, communication and even cognition.

"When neural pathways are damaged for one particular function such as language, musical neural pathways are actually much more complex and much more widespread within the brain," Magee told CNN.

"Music seems to find re-routed paths and that is why it is such a useful tool in terms of helping people with different kinds of brain damage because it can help to find new pathways in terms of brain functioning."

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Researchers in Finland have demonstrated that listening to music for several hours a day can enhance the rehabilitation of stroke patients.

In another study, stroke patients who were taught to play the piano or drums made speedier progress in their general recovery than patients who received only traditional therapy.

At Colorado State University, researchers have used musical and rhythmic cues as an effective tool to improve the movement and balance of Parkinson's disease sufferers and those with other degenerative diseases.

Melodic Intonation Therapy, in which musical exercises are used to improve speech, has proved an effective treatment for patients with aphasia, a disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain responsible for language.

Musical memories also seem to be more resilient to neural degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and dementia, enabling therapists to use familiar tunes to cue memories which might otherwise have been lost.

One American World War II veteran whose dementia was so severe he couldn't remember his own name and would barely acknowledge his own wife was brought alive through ballroom dancing and the music of Frank Sinatra, the sufferer still able to lead his wife through the foxtrot as if it was the 1940s.

The power of music to enhance moods and emotions has long been harnessed by psychologists, but, as Dr. Lauren Stewart, director of a recently established course in Music, Mind and Brain at Goldsmiths University of London told CNN, "recent advances in neuroscience and brain imaging technology are now radically transforming conventional music therapy into a more rigorous and research-based clinical practice."

Professor Michael Thaut of Colorado State University's Center for Biomedical Research in Music, who has helped pioneer a new research-based approach known as Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT), says recent developments amount to a "paradigm shift."

"Therapists in all fields have been doing things for decades; now they're trying to figure out the research to support their work," Thaut told CNN. "NMT started as a science and now it's turning into a clinical field. And that's very exciting."

For now NMT remains on the fringes of standard neurological rehabilitation. But Magee believes its application and a general move away from psychoanalytical approaches dominant in the past, could bring music therapy towards the mainstream and make it an ever more effective tool.

"We are now starting to see the evidence for why we see things work. That also means we can fine tune what we do because we understand more about the neurological processing behind it," she said.

"But we're still at the point where we need to build the evidence base and translate that evidence base into practice so we can convince funders that music therapy is an important part of rehab practice."  

  

For the members of Sing For Joy however, the proof of the therapeutic power of music is already self-evident. "There is something about coming together and making a communal sound," said Sarah Benton. "There is nothing like it and it's wonderful."

Sing For Joy perform at London's TUC Congress Centre on Saturday, June 6. For more details see the group's Web site or MySpace page.   

 

 

Source:- CNN - Music Therapy Cures many neurological, Psychological and Physical diseases

Words of Wisdom

01. Your whole life is cyclone of change, of changing scenes, changing colors; but just in the middle of the cyclone there is a silent center. That is you.

02. The mind should be trained to be servant of the heart. Logic should serve love. And then life can become a festival of lights.

03. In the existence of the tree there is no division, no judgment. The flower is not favored, the thorn is not just tolerated; they are both accepted totally. And this should be our approach in our own life.

04. The real adventure begins only when you start moving deeper into your being and also higher into your consciousness, and the processes are two sides of the same coin.

05. Life is an opportunity, an opportunity to realize yourself. One can miss it, many miss it, only a few rare people fulfill i

06. Wisdom is by product of meditation. It doesn't come trough learning; on the contrary it comes through unlearning.

07. The only problem is being in mind. And only solution is to get beyond mind. I call it meditation.

08. You are always given a single moment. You are not given two moments together. If you know how to live one moment you know the whole secret of life.

- Words of Osho

Activating Evolution

"Mohinder" Quotes in a TV serial "Heroes"

• Man is a narcissistic species by nature. We have colonized the four corners of our tiny planet. But we are not the pinnacle of so-called evolution. That honor belongs to the lowly cockroach. Capable of living for months without food. Remaining alive headless for weeks at a time. Resistant to radiation. If God has indeed created himself in his own image, then I submit to you that God is a cockroach. They say that man uses only a tenth of his brain power. Another percent, and we might actually be worthy of God's image. Unless, of course, that day has already arrived. The human genome project has discovered that tiny variations in man's genetic code are taking place at increasingly rapid rates. Teleportation, levitation, tissue regeneration. Is this outside the realm of possibility? Or is man entering a new gateway to evolution? Is he finally standing at the threshold to true human potential?

• There are many ways to define our fragile existence; many ways to give it meaning. But it is our memories that shape its purpose and give it context. The private assortment of images: fears, loves, regrets… for it's the cruel irony of life that we are destined to hold the dark with the light, the good with the evil, success with disappointment… this is what separates us, what makes us human. And in the end, we must fight to hold on to.

• When confronted by our worst nightmares, the choices are few; Fight or flight. We hope to find the strength to stand against our fears but sometimes, despite ourselves, we run. What if the nightmare gives chase? Where can we hide then?

• The Earth is large. Large enough that you think you can hide from anything. From Fate. From God. If only you found a place far enough away. So you run. To the edge of the Earth. Where all is safe again. Quiet, and warm. The solace of salt air. The peace of danger left behind. The luxury of grief. And maybe, for a moment, you believe you have escaped.

• You do not choose your destiny, it chooses you. And those that knew you before Fate took you by the hand cannot understand the depth of the changes inside. They cannot fathom how much you stand to lose in failure...that you are the instrument of flawless Design. And all of life may hang in the balance. The hero learns quickly who can comprehend and who merely stands in your way.

• When a change comes, some species feel the urge to migrate, they call it zugunruhe. "A pull of the soul to a far off place," following a scent in the wind, a star in the sky. The ancient message comes calling the kindred to take flight and gather together. Only then they can hope to survive the cruel season to come.

• It is man's ability to remember that sets us apart. We are the only species concerned with past. Our memories give us voice and bear witness to history, so that others might learn; so they might celebrate our triumphs and be warned of our failures

• Sometimes questions are more powerful than answers. How is this happening? What are they? Why them and not others? Why now? What does it all mean?

• This force, evolution, is not sentimental. Like the earth itself, it knows only the hard facts of life's struggle with death. All you can do is hope and trust that when you have served its needs faithfully, there may still remain some glimmer of the life you once knew.

• For all his bluster, it is the sad province of Man that he cannot choose his triumph. He can only choose how he will stand when the call of destiny comes. Hoping that he'll have the courage to answer.

• Some individuals, it is true, are more special. This is natural selection. It begins as a single individual born or hatched like every other member of their species. Anonymous. Seemingly ordinary. Except they're not. They carry inside them the genetic code that will take their species to the next evolutionary rung. It's destiny.

• To survive in this world, we hold close to us those on whom we depend. We trust in them our hopes, our fears... But what happens when trust is lost? Where do we run, when things we believe in vanish before our eyes? When all seems lost, the future unknowable, our very existence in peril... All we can do is run.

• When we embrace what lies within, our potential knows no limit. The future is filled with promise. The present, rife with expectation. But when we deny our instinct, and struggle against our deepest urges... Uncertainty begins. Where does this path lead? When will the changes end? Is this transformation a gift... or a curse? And for those that fear what lies ahead... The most important question of all... Can we ever change what we really are?

• We dream of hope. We dream of change. Of fire, of love, of death. And then it happens. The dream becomes real. And the answer to this quest, this need to solve life's mysteries finally shows itself. Like the glowing light of a new dawn.? So much struggle for meaning, for purpose. And in the end, we find it only in each other. Our shared experience of the fantastic. And the mundane. The simple human need to find a kindred, to connect. And to know in our hearts... that we are not alone.

• When we embrace what lies within, our potential has no limit. The future is filled with promise; the present rife with expectation. When we deny our instinct, and struggle against our deepest urges, uncertainty begins. Where does this path lead? When will the changes end? Is this transformation a gift or a curse? For those who fear what lies ahead, the most important question of all - can we ever really change what we are?

• Where does it come from, this quest? This need to solve life's mysteries, when the simplest of questions can never be answered. Why are we here? What is the soul? Why do we dream? Perhaps we'd be better off not looking at all. Not doubting, not yearning. That's not human nature. Not the human heart. That is not why we are here.

• This quest. This need to solve life's mysteries. In the end, what does it matter when the human heart can only find meaning in the smallest of moments? They're here. Among us. In the shadows. In the light. Everywhere. Do they even know yet?

Source: TV Serial Heroes on NBC and http://activatingevolution.org/