Pondering the New Year Using the 5 Fundamental Elements of Evolution
Looking for something different to New Years Resolutions? This year, I used the 5 Fundamental Elements of Evolution as the basis for my New Year pondering.
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Daily Global Vedic Meditation Sessions
The below is from Thom Knoles’ email to Vedic Meditators 16/10/23 following recent escalation in terror attacks and violence in the Middle East.
Thom's wish is that we do our part as Vedic Meditators to help settle the collective into a less-excited state and create greater worldwide coherence. Meditating together as a global family encourages orderliness and can aid in the cooling effect. As such, we can make no greater contribution to peace in the collective consciousness than to come together as a community to coordinate the timing of our meditation sittings.
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Releasing the clenched fist
Only four or so decades ago, it was popular for wealthy travellers to leave India with a pet monkey. Monkey catchers would dig a small pit, pop in some fruits and nuts and covered it with a heavy slab that had a tiny hole, big enough to fit a monkey’s arm. The monkey would come along, stick their hand in, grasp a delicious snack only to realise that their fist would not fit through the tiny hole. In would swoop the monkey catcher and voila! Another monkey to be sold. Had the monkey simply let go of the food before the monkey catcher swooped in, it would be free.
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Understanding the need of the time.
It has been quite a month, both locally here in Australia and globally. At times it has heartbreaking and at other times, has motivated change. It is clear that we have been called to interact with each other and with our daily demands with more compassion, love and adaptation.
The world needs a harmonising and cooling force to counter the excess heat we are currently witnessing. In particular, the excessive heat in the climate and the excessive heat that creates division and war.
Vedic Meditation creates greater coherence in the brain and this enhances stability and order in our thinking and action. This is achieved through allowing the mind and body to settle into its least excited state. Making contact with this state creates more harmony in our inner and outer environments, flushing the system with bliss chemistry and releasing stress from the body…
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A self sufficient practice that leads to a life of self sufficiency
Vedic meditation is a self sufficient practice meaning we are not reliant on anything external to us (app, class, guiding voice) to practice it. All we need is some back support and somewhere to safely close our eyes. Noise is no barrier, movement around us is no barrier.
Vedic Meditators are not reliant on focusing or emptying the mind to experience deep inner contentedness during our practice.
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Mind Reset
Practicing Vedic Meditation gives the mind the chance to reset, twice a day.
It allows us to move beyond the layer of beliefs and stories that loop through our mind each day. The stories about who we are, the things we think we need to acquire to feel satisfied and the people or things that stand in our way of acquiring those things.
My worth as a man
My worth as a man, is not measured by dollar signs, Nor is it measured in finish lines or pick up lines, It is measured in the depth of my being, the depth of my presence, I felt it in my spine, Strong full of courage, integrity and resilience; And in my heart; Soft and open in loving compassion; My worth as a man does not happen in isolation; And is strengthened when in community; So when I come together with a group of men…
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Staying Grounded When The Ground Keeps Moving
I heard Esther Perel use this saying on a podcast recently. It summed up the challenges of the past two years so well. The solution is much more simple than you might think, provided we can access the quieter states of the mind and step beyond the thinking processes.
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Lockdown has brought about another test of our resilience. Does the uncertainty of it all makes us question how little we control externally or, is it highlighting our capacity to change and expand our internal narrative and personal agency?
Is your locus of control focused externally, believing that everything is happening to you? Do you often internalise things as devastating, shocking and/or have feelings of helplessness?
Or is your locus of control focused internally, embracing challenges as opportunities for growth and understanding your power in making things happen?
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It is inherent within us that we want to achieve things as humans.
We have jobs to do, families to raise and legacies to leave. There is no question that we have a great deal of skills, capabilities, motivation, love and passion that help us to achieve any of the things we set our hearts to.
However, our ability to achieve these things is often not a question of skills and capabilities, but rather a question of state. State of Consciousness. Put simply, the degree to which we are aware of our internal and external experience.
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Nivartatvam
Transcend where you are
and go where you are not
Surrender to the mind’s yearning to expand
Beyond the limiting beliefs and rigid attachments that cause suffering
For when we step beyond the thinking layer of the mind
We go to the source of thought
The source of pure creative intelligence
Of pure potentiality
And enliven our true nature
Our inner fulfilment
And the more we establish ourselves with inner fulfilment
The more life flows frictionlessly
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The One Reason You Shouldn’t Meditate
The benefits of Vedic Meditation are countless:
greater physical health
accessing your full mental potential
increased happiness
releasing accumulated stress from the body
developing a deep inner contentment regardless of the demands you face
The list goes on..
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However, there is one reason why you shouldn’t learn to meditate:
Masculinity - Creating A New Narrative
Most men know in their hearts and minds that it is time to create a new narrative for strong and positive masculinity. Most women have known this for a while now (thank you for your patience ladies!) It is pretty obvious, that the exaggerated and warped expressions of traditional masculine traits that characterise toxic masculinity are not relevant nor serving men anymore.
Sure, men were taught that to be successful in a patriarchal society, they needed to align with the ‘be a man’, ‘toughen up’ ‘grow some balls’ narrative. They were encouraged to be stoic and unemotional and at the same time were judged as weak for showing vulnerability and sensitivity. Certainly men have lacked positive role models due to the tens of millions of men that died in the many 20th Century wars. Or as an example, that over 40% of all births in the U.S.A in 2015 were born to single mothers.
As with all natural cycles, when things are no longer sustainable, they disintegrate leading to new creations and innovations.
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Happy New Year
The earth has made one more revolution around the sun and as my friend Cindy recently said, we are reminded again to be happy. Be happy. How do we ‘be happy’? What is the source of our happiness and how do we stay happy? The source of our happiness is either external to us, which is called Object Referral Happiness, or it is internal, called (Self Referral) Baseline Happiness.
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So much of the world's attention is focused on the result of the US election and there is not doubt, it has big ramifications worldwide. The thing is, we place such a great emphasis on these so called world leaders and sometimes we forget our role in the big picture of evolution.
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7 Years Ago Today
I learnt Vedic Meditation.
I had never meditated before but always had a sense there was something more to my experience of life. At the time, I didn’t know if meditation was going to unlock that ‘something’ but gave it a try nonetheless.
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A Precious Human Life
“Everyday , think as you wake up,
Today I am fortunate to have woken up,
I am alive, I have a precious human life…
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The Real News
The constant bombardment of news updates and social media rabbit holes can leave the head spinning. Not only can it sound like the same cycle of news over and over (the ever repeating known), it can be overwhelming trying to decipher what is a credible source of information and how much emphasis to place on this information.
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