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In this page I am sharing answers I have created for the questions that were asked to me and some questions I answered in Quora. You can see all the answers I have created in this link and I have been making more and more of them available also here. You can use the menu on the left (scroll to bottom on mobile) to quickly find related questions&answers aligned with your interests. I hope you benefit from these answers to these contemporary questions in your journey of growth. Enjoy.
What is the importance of deep meditation, and why do distractions come?
Is it possible to be successful without being mindful or meditating regularly, even if someone is too busy with their work schedule like CEOs of big companies?
Do advanced meditators experience less thoughts when they meditate vs. when they first began meditating?
When should you do your first meditation session? In the morning, afternoon, evening or night. Why?
Can you recover from brain damage through meditation and other spiritual practices, or does it always require medical intervention?
Can Brahmacharya Make Your Skin Glow?
Is the Book Autobiography of a Yogi Worth the Time?
Is it okay to use the back support of a chair while meditating? I’ve been meditating for almost 5 years now but this question is still on my mind. Does it matter what posture as long as I am comfortable?
The point is to learn to be aligned with what you truly desire. Whether you are meditating in an advanced yogic posture, or whether you are meditating while laying on the bed, or sitting on a chair, are you able to be in the meditative state? We practice staying as...
Been meditating for 2 years and manage to reach a peaceful level of connectivity and energy. I can sit for over an hour twice daily without following a certain method simply being… any recommendations on a method with fireworks I can explore?
Live from the meditative state of awareness throughout the day that you have practiced in sitting meditation. Your awareness will start to expand beyond your human self. You will start to become more aware of your deeper aspects, the aspects of your Higher Self. You...
In today’s time with excess information and false gurus and so on, where is it that we can learn and practice the true art of yoga and meditation (Kriyas, enlightenment)?
Two genuine sources that you can learn from are: Sadhguru: Homepage Lincoln Gergar: Higher Consciousness Spiritual Teachings & Guided Meditations Channel Higher Self Kriya means internal action. Both these teachers are enlightened and include kriya type...
What are some good ways to keep our kids focused now that they have to do their schoolwork from home?
Suppose you had a guru at home who did just what you are going to do in essence to your children. Suppose that the guru was using some good ways to keep you focused. How would you feel about that? It is actually you who needs to learn to focus because now you are...
What type of Pranayam should I do to lose my weight and mental illness; I have schizophrenia and I can’t do postures because I have rods in my both hands and I can’t sit down due to joint replacement in one leg?
I am practicing a teaching where posture is not of primary importance. We focus on the pure life force energy (prana in its purest form) in our spiritual hearts and stay as awareness. This energy which is us at the deepest level is intelligent. It knows how to heal us...
Should I continue with my meditation when a trauma and a blockage comes up to the surface during my meditation? Should I just observe it an go on with my meditation? Or should I take that opportunity and use my power to heal it?
Go on with your meditation. Genuine meditation will result in the arising of the state of awareness. Remaining in awareness, in full acceptance with whatever comes up, letting it arise and then return to silence while maintaining focus on the object of the meditation...
What are some good meditation apps? Why do people pay for apps as there is meditation content on YouTube/etc? How frequently and how long should I meditate? What can I expect from meditation?
This is a direct answer that doesn’t soften the topic, because the sooner you connect with the facts, the better, in my opinion. Here is a page of apps from Sadhguru, who is a truly wise enlightened person: Sadhguru & Isha Mobile Apps. Sadhguru was enlightened...
What kind of energy can stress and fear generate in us?
Stress is a constriction of one’s energies as a result of one’s focus in the mental patterns generating stress. Fear is a type of energetic experience created when we focus on the belief that we can’t feel love, or that we can feel it in a very limited way. It is a...
Is it better to meditate after exercise or after showering?
When your body is calm after a mild shower, you can switch into meditation with more ease. You can also switch with relative ease after light exercise. After heavy exercise, first slowing the body down meditatively and then switching into sitting meditation would be...
At what point can I start to visualise things while meditating?
Wherever you put your attention to, there your energy flows. Visualization happens in the mind. When you direct your attention to the part of the mind that visualization happens, and when you connect with your intention within, you can visualize the forms that you...
Can following a thought during meditation be helpful?
It can be useful, if you consciously select or follow the thought. In breath counting meditation for example, we count after each breath, and this is used as a support for active minds to remember they are meditating and track their meditation. Here the count is a...
What are some habits I could do every day that could replace social media? And have a real impact on well-being?
Educating yourself with teachings from genuinely enlightened people Meditation Living consciously from your spiritual heart, your deepest intelligence. Intermittent fasting Living with a sense of responsibility that encompasses the whole world, even whole existence...
Is there any scientific evidence that very short (e.g., 1 minute) meditation sessions have positive outcomes (e.g., improved focus)?
The mechanism is like this: Wherever you place your attention to, your energy flows. So, if you sit and genuinely meditate for 1 minutes, for 1 minute you will direct your energy towards your awakening. But, if the rest of the day you revert to letting your focus go...
Can meditation and mindfulness be the secret weapon against coronavirus anxiety?
Yes, we can evolve to the point that we don’t have a fear for our own health from the virus. This has been my experience from the beginning of March, when I began to understand and thought that it would inevitably come to my country and would be everywhere sooner or...
How do I decode the sign of the universe? There are lot of things which I am unable to comprehend while meditating and while connecting with nature.
To give an analogy: Consider the fact that the number PI has not been calculated yet by the most powerful supercomputers in the world. As of 2019, Google says 31.4 trillion digits of PI have been calculated. (3.14 contains two digits) If you ask me, these...
How does art relieve stress?
It depends on where you are looking from. If art for you is an activity that you take a step back from the stress generating patterns in your mind and engage with the art from a deeper sense of peace and/or happiness within yourself, then this will relieve stress. The...
Is proper breathing during meditation long and deep or short and shallow breathing?
The breath will have developed its own tempo already because it is associated with the activity of the mind. Simply being aware of the breath is enough for the mind to start to return to peace. As peace begins to be created, you will be able to recognize your deepest...
When is the best time to meditate, very early in the morning, before my family wakes up and I am still tired, or late at night after they went to sleep and I am longing to sleep?
Why wait for the best time? Create your best time. Like.. rest as best as you can.. sleep well.. find a secluded place if it is too distracting for you otherwise. If you are tired.. support your body, rest your back somewhere, but sit upright, it doesn’t have to be...
I’d like to do counting meditation. I want to count by 1s starting at 0. What number should I count to if I want it to take 5-10 minutes?
In the breath counting meditation I practiced, the count starts from 1 and goes up to 10. After every breath (inhalation and exhalation together), the count goes up by 1. If the attention wanders from the breath, when we become aware of this, we start counting from 1...
Why should I do yoga and Patanjali’s view?
The word yoga means union. You are life, and when ‘yoga’, you know this, you are in the experience of this. Yoga is living as your true self. You don’t have to follow anybody’s view including Patanjali’s. You are free to create your life as you desire. You are free to...
What is the difference between “watching the breath” and “focusing on the breath”?
Focusing is an action where you are more or less in the mind. Focusing on the breath will bring into your experience your deepest aspect, the awareness. Watching is an action where you are experiencing the awareness and staying as the awareness, where the object of...
What is the best method for a spiritual seeker?
Sincerity. Why? You actually have the knowledge of yourself and how you desire to find it within. Be sincere and live. Make sincerity the very act of living. Not for someone else’s approval, not for nothing. Truth must become your experience for its own sake. Live...
I feel super stressed and I’ve once had an amazing Kundalini Kriya spontaneous movements but couldn’t get it to happen again. What can I do?
Practice meditation and staying meditative throughout the day as best as you can. As the mind comes to relative peace, the energy will start to come into your awareness again. Do not try to increase or decrease the energies during meditation. Treat them just as you...
Do you find more benefits from a group meditation or from an individual meditation?
Until a person learns to meditate, guidance by enlightened people, or experienced meditators will be beneficial, because with this guidance the person will be gaining experiences that help them realize what meditation is. Once they understand, they can start...
What are the best groups and forums related to meditation and other relaxing practices?
One group is coming up for 2020. This one is where you can register online for live satsangs with an enlightened teacher which will be also shared online and in which you can ask questions. You can think of this as an online ashram with an alive guru leading.
How do I meditate for 10 minutes without any reaction to the thoughts that are coming from my mind?
The first step is to understand how to meditate. Please read this article for that. The rest of this answer builds on top of the core info in the article. To most fully experience the state of awareness, you need to most fully maintain your focus on the object of...
What is it like to be a full-time meditation teacher (paid or unpaid)?
Here is an interview with one of the most prolific teachers of our time, Lincoln Gergar. He has been providing one on one sessions for thousands of people per year, each one hour session a powerful channeling that a person can use for a long time even afterwards the...
How did you begin meditation? What are the steps in terms of pose, eyes, sounds, chants, brightness in surrounding do you follow for meditating? How has it helped you?
At some point, I became consciously interested in meditation. Up to this point, there was a seeking, and many activities where I was also building up the ability to concentrate and/or the ability to stay consciously aware, such as martial arts, simple schooling/study,...
Has meditation become a business here in the West? Because you don’t really need an app, guided meditations, sitting pillows, and more stuff to buy. A yogi in India doesn’t need anything to meditate, not even clothing.
I am not objecting to your point, here are some thoughts on this: -Sometimes guided meditations can be helpful, I benefited immensely from the guidance of an enlightened person, many times watching some of his videos, containing meditative guidance as a built in...
Can Reiki be used as a relaxation technique?
I am not coming from the Japanese lineage of learning Reiki. I arrived at the experience of the energy of Reiki from a different path. I will share my understanding so that you can understand more the mechanics of how Reiki helps you when you are studying Reiki. Feel...
Why is it necessary to set your goals realistically?
Setting goals realistically, is not a requirement for one to exist. One will always exist as their true self. Setting goals realistically, will keep your investment of your energies within what you think is real. Once you achieve such a goal, you may temporarily feel...
How do you manage people without burning out?
This answer aims to layout the principles to be a manager who has captured large amounts of life. Be selfless like the Sun. Love them unconditionally. Your light can reach billions, but you won’t be burning out. How does the Sun do it? It must be selfish, too, if you...
To help me develop a powerful meditation practice, should I study a course, read a guide, use an app, use a singing bowl, or all of the above?
You can learn how to meditate first from a guide/article/course/workshop/etc.. Then all that is required is you keep practicing. As you practice, you will become aware of more and more of life. You will be capturing more and more of life. While this happens, all kinds...
Is it effective if I only do meditation for 15 minutes?
Yes, the more you practice genuine meditation, the more you will progress. You can think of it like.. You are the light, and as you meditate, you are touching more and more of creation, increasing your awareness of it, and also you are becoming more and more aware of...
What is the one meditation book I should give someone I want to get interested in meditating? She’s very intelligent, skeptic and is now going through the big loss in her life.
Hmm.. As a person who has been for many years advising people about their problems and writing answers which include how meditation can help them and accurate resources about meditation, I paused for a while reading this question. Perhaps she would feel interested in...
Are you aware of how much time is passing while meditating?
Earlier, I used to have more thoughts about time, and sometimes looking at the cell phone clock somewhere during meditation, or near the end, ‘is the time up yet’? Lately, I don’t care much about the time, since I am working to stay meditative all the time. There are...
How do you express your faith in God? My mind is so preoccupied with chanting his name that it takes a toll on my productivity. How do you escape that fear and reaffirm your faith without the need to chant all the time?
You can learn meditation. Practicing sitting meditation teaches us how to remain in a state where we are aware of the awareness that all life appears in, and we are aware of the creative energy that is one with this awareness, and we are in tune with the intelligence...
What activities can older people with limited mobility do that can keep them busy yet productive?
I feel it is not the activity but how you do it that will give you fulfillment. Fulfillment is a state of being, a state of realization. The desire to stay busy is because you don’t know how to remain still yet. The desire to be productive is related to the desire to...
How does self-awareness affect a person’s career planning?
Awareness of what you truly value in life brings also a clarity about how you would desire to live your life. Living in awareness teaches us more and more about our self. We gain first hand knowledge by living in awareness. Our understanding of life evolves as a...
What is your favorite stealth meditation that you practice during an ordinary busy day?
I practice one of these 3 during the day, depending on my heart’s inclination: (explained in detail in these articles: 1, 2) Breath Awareness Meditation Spiritual Heart Meditation Awareness focusing on Awareness Meditation Mainly, I strive to focus on the spiritual...
I have severely debilitating issues like OCD, depression, body distortion, agoraphobia, and anxiety. I suffer greatly because I can’t cope. What should I do?
You can educate yourself on the mechanics of how a human being works and practice the concepts you have learned to develop your mind’s understanding, growing beyond these patterns. This site contains extensive, highly accurate information about human nature that can...
Why do we face difficulties at work when I advance in meditation?
The difficulties sheep face when being herded by a shepherd are being shouted at and scared, being beaten with a stick in some cases.. but as long as they move along the way the shepherd desires, it will be OK for them, until the day they are sent to the butcher....
Why is the early morning the best moment to meditate?
The best moment to be meditative is now, the present moment. Normally, the first moment you are consciously aware of in the day is the early morning right after you wake up from sleep. When you become meditative at this earliest time, you start to proactively become...
How can I build a good career in management? How can I start? Whenever I look up job opportunities online related to my field, they often require some years of experience which I don’t have.
Don’t hurry up. First of all, learn to manage your own self, your own life. Learn to lead yourself. Live with integrity. You will start to grow as a person this way. You can start working in a company. Live with awareness, and do your job with as full involvement as...
What is the optimum room temperature for meditation?
You can select a temperature that is comfortable for your body but this is not a prerequisite for meditation. Blankets are good, too, in some cases. Do what works for you but don’t get attached to it. Meditation is about embracing all of life. If you get attached to a...
How do you meditate? Is there a guideline to follow, and what experience am I supposed to have?
We can follow a guideline until we evolve to an understanding where meditativeness becomes our natural state. Here is an article with such a guideline. Some meditation practices are designed to gradually evolve your understanding and state of existence so you are more...
Can a poet be successful in a sales or marketing career?
I have never seen something like that, but why not? Depends on how you create your expression. To make it more clear, my answer is YES!. If you make it such that within yourself, within your heart you are totally clear about your success, totally clear about how you...
Is it OK to leave the Kundalini in the cranium or should it be circulated out such as Taoist esoteric philosophy suggests?
You can open a medical book, too and see instructions for an operation. This doesn’t mean you must attempt it. Kundalini awakens by its own as the development of the individual naturally progresses. Even then, there will be many lessons of learning and they will arise...
Is the 10,000 hour rule of mastery achievable for a regular person?
You are falling into the trap of defining yourself. Regular person? What is it? In fact, there is no trap out there waiting for you, either. You are creating the trap. There simply aren’t any limitations whatsoever than what you place upon yourself. What is mastery?...
What surprises you about cows?
They are BIG :). Wonderful creatures, which can be friendly with humans. Milk.. a friendly cow will give milk to us, its creation which it transforms from what it gets from the earth. We can create conditions where cows can be treated well, as friends. I have limited...
How do you overcome developer/programmer burnout?
You can!. Love the burnout. There is no need to fight it. Imagine you are putting a thread through the eye of a needle. Would getting angry and hurrying up help you to put it through? Or would simply a relaxed alertness, and a patient pace more useful? It is the same...
How long is it normal to be looking for a sales job?
Ready for a deep dive? This answer themed with your question touches the deepest truths, is aimed to provide an opportunity to explore these to create experiences of freedom, happiness and wisdom for you: Normal changes according to the society you are living in. And...
What do you do when you aren’t worth anything?
🙂 Well I will break your question because you are worth more than nothing for me, so I would like to write an answer. 😉 In fact you are worth more than the universe itself, because the universe is happening within you, literally. Your mind might believe you are not...
What is the “ABCDE” method of organizing one’s day?
Take a careful look. You don’t live day by day aren’t you? You live moment to moment. In fact there is only this moment. There is nothing else. You are always living in this moment. Whether you are remembering a memory, or whether you are imagining the future, or...
If you are really willing to work, is it inevitable you will find work?
This is also about how you define work. Suppose that I define work like this: “I will work on Elon Musk’s company or nowhere.” I may be really willing, but I may not find a job opportunity in that company for a long time, maybe never. This is like.. you may really...
Is Reiki pagan?
I haven’t received formal Reiki training. I will answer this question based on my understanding as a yogi. Life is one single entity, intelligent and aware. Therefore, nothing is not DIVINE. Everything is from God, everything is within God, everything is God. It is...
Should you learn how to be a Reiki practitioner online? Why or why not?
You can learn online from a good (awakened) teacher. I never met in person with my guru. All that I learned from him, I learned via Internet communication, watching his videos and personal practice (applying what I learned in my life). The only why not that I can...
I want to start a company. What is the quickest way to do this as a computer science student?
You go and register the company. You buy your furniture etc. And there you are. You have a company. Did anything change in your life? You bet. Now, you have some additional running costs and obligations. Did this add any value to your life? Nope.. See. Companies are...
What is a time where you had to steel your nerves and psyche yourself up to get a task done?
My nerves have always been organic. It is my state of being, how I experience myself as consciousness is what decides how much I experience those times of strong emotional balance. The human organism is a wonderfully capable machine. We only need to learn to use it...
Is basic meditation all it’s cracked up to be? Seriously, what’s the evidence?
You can explore three ways for the answer. One is, you can simply observe contemporary enlightened people keenly, and discern/see the difference with your own inner and outer senses. 4 examples I can immediately count are: Lincoln Gergar, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Osho,...
Why does my body go into shaking spasms during meditations and should I be scared?
I will give an example from my experience. When I maintain a meditative streak, and have been careful about my diet, my meditation at times deepens. When I am practicing Spiritual Heart Meditation (in a sitting posture) this way, sometimes the body can shake left and...
I am 20 and I have been smoking for three years. What are the risks I have gained till now, and will I overcome them if I quit now?
Here is how you can totally overcome it in my understanding: What you must actually give up is the idea that you can’t create perfect health. Don’t let ideas about having smoked diminish your life force energy. Ultimately, there are no risks, because there is no...
If some yogis claim to have seen God after enlightenment, then why don’t they show some proof to the ignorant minds of the world? We only read stories, even about the recent greats such as Swami Vivekananda, but there are no evidences. Why?
Because, YOU are God. Unless you truly want to know yourself, you won’t know yourself. God is everything. It is ignorance to look for isolated evidence, because wherever you look is God. There is also a formless aspect of God. This is also you. This is the container...
How do I know for absolute certainty that Siddharta Gautama is not in hell for not accepting Jesus Christ?
You don’t know with absolute certainty that hell exists, either. So why jump ahead to Siddharta Gautama? First admit what you already don’t know. Keep admitting (as an attitude with life) what you don’t know until only absolute certainty remains. I feel this is also...
Meditation isn’t helping me pick a university course. What should I do?
Suppose that you will buy a car tomorrow, and you don’t know much about cars. If you get up and meditate in the morning, you will have more clarity in your mind. but you still won’t know much about cars. You will perhaps need to go to a car gallery to browse them and...
How can someone kickstart their writing productivity?
Live your life with awareness in every moment as best as you can. The more you be this way, the more you will gain clarity about life. When you can clearly see the world, the state of human beings and what is being needed, at times you can be naturally inclined to...
Do you believe there is a correlation between the number of books a person has read and their creative writing abilities?
I feel there is the slightest correlation between the number of books and a person’s creative writing abilities. The real increase of creative writing ability is related to how you are reading the books and how you are living your life. It is related to your state of...
Is answering questions an intrinsic motivation for writing?
Interesting question. I don’t remember writing the term ‘interesting question’ lately. For me, answering questions in Quora is a meeting of Love with form. I work to answer each question from a place of Love. I don’t answer all questions, because I am not a question...
Is it easy to get burned out in a sales job that is strictly performance-based?
When you remain long enough in a situation where your heart is not in whatever you are engaging with, you get burned out. If your work environment is based on giving up the Love for the money, and you remain subscribed to this approach, you are definitely walking on...
If I place awareness on the breath, is that meditation? Like can I meditate on the train just by being aware of the breath? Why or why not?
If I place awareness on the breath, is that meditation?: Yes. Can I meditate on the train just by being aware of the breath?: Yes. Why or why not?: Where we place our awareness changes the flow of creative energy accordingly. There are certain objects such as the...
Is it ethical to work as an employee while building your own?
The purpose of work must be to uplift both others and yourself. (Here I am using the word ethical in the context of serving the highest good of all): If building your own hurts your employer’s business, it is not ethical. If your employer’s business prevents you from...
How many days do you think is acceptable to miss from work per year (excused or unexcused)?
I think whatever I say, as long as you don’t look at your situation and take responsibility of everything in your experience, you won’t experience the freedom you seek. Just realize the impossibility of answering this question logically. To give you an exhaustive...
What impels you to write? Is it subject matter or the love of writing, your job, or the encouragement of others?
I see writing as part of the eternal process of creation. In this time within eternity, humanity can benefit from written works that can be used as a tool to support one’s awakening. Why awaken? To live life as it is of course.. Right now, humanity is not generally...
What does it mean to be aware of your awareness in meditation and how can you apply it in your daily meditation practice?
There is an article that excellently matches the answer to your question so I am posting the link here: Types of Higher Self Meditation Practices Note the 3. meditation in the article. For the Breath Awareness Meditation in the article, study this article for...
What are the best frequencies for meditation?
If we go by the ‘Meditation is a state of focused awareness’ approach, we can choose an object during our meditation. For spiritual enlightenment purposes, I have focused on one of 3 objects at different times during my meditation practices. They are the breath, the...
I just heard about the unexpected departure of some employees from my new company after my boss felt he had invested in them. My boss is unhappy with them. If you were my boss how would you have felt and handled such?
You can invest in people but they will still do what they truly want to do. To avoid disappointment simply don’t have unrealistic expectations. Investing in people does not guarantee that they will make choices based on your preferences. In fact this is a rather...
Why do employers keep on focusing on my last job and experience when I have gone out from a stagnant, depressing, toxic job and had been working very hard during the past year striving to gain ground and change in it?
This means those you have met with are focusing on the past for their decisions. (read on for supportive elaboration) Are you going to focus on these employers’ decisions or are you going to keep focusing on the new direction you have set for your life? Accept them as...
How does one dissolve ones chakras completely and permanently? This would eliminate the constant trouble of have to try to clear them and balance them and open them and close them and clean them and worse having pay someone else to do it for you.
What about your physical body? Don’t you need to consciously care for it? Only when you die, you don’t need to do anything about it any more. Your chakras are your responsibility, too. They are emotional organs. You don’t dissolve them, they are part of the human...
I feel the need to write creatively. Is there value in pursuing it even if I don’t get paid?
Absolutely. True value is not measured by money, it is measured by the happiness (or pure life energy) you experience. And who knows, someday you can even get paid for it. The world needs happiness, and many people like people who bring happiness to the world. (Many...
Who are some of the most productive and active business leaders, politicians or scientists that are older than 80 and still working every day?
I know this is not exactly what you asked for, but I would still cheer for Sadguru Jaggī Vāsudeva here. He is 62 years old, and as far as I remember he has been working almost non-stop for the last (at least) 30 years, sleeping between 2.5 to 4.5 hours (and only...
Why do some corporations want part time employees to have open availability but then they only give them 15-20 hours a week when scheduling?
I am foreign to this way of working, so I can provide an outside observer perspective, with the intention to be supportive for this A2A. Open availability means, you give priority to the company for the time period you reserved for working except for emergencies. You...
What is an eye opening experience?
It is an experience which you live with awareness. It is an experience which you see the moment as it is, consciously staying in the moment, seeing. In fact, when you can be as such, you are one with the moment. This is not a doing. This is being. You can also do...
Why does “achievement” in meditation is to not have thoughts? Aren’t thoughts just another discrimination like any other perception within the field of awareness?
I think the idea is to have them when only you choose to have them, not as an automatic process and otherwise have a completely peaceful mind. You can check this one out for more information: Mind Mastery: Why Do We Have Thoughts? Follow-up Question: Is it not...
Can you give me a timetable for 24 hours? How can I manage my work, eat, and sleeping?
It doesn’t matter what timetable I give you. It will anyway happen in the way you create it from within yourself. It is happening the way it is happening right now because you are creating it from within this way. Remember any time where you tried to implement an idea...
What is the work you would do if you are, convinced that you won’t fail?
The only work of which the results are 100 percent guaranteed is working for your enlightenment. If you are sincerely working for this, the result is 100 percent guaranteed. Note that when it would happen is not mentioned here, but that the result is guaranteed. The...
Can meditation be done in the wrong way? After and during meditation I feel empty, like a glass waiting to be poured with emotions. The way I do it is focusing on my thoughts. Is there anything wrong or is this normal?
If you choose your thoughts to be the object of meditation, then, as a result of your meditation you will have empowered them more. You will have created yourself more as a being who focuses on your thoughts. Then, during meditation or when you revert to a state of...
Is it better to work 4 10 hour days or 5 8 hours days?
The ‘better’ you seek actually changes with your ability to be happy, not with how much you work. When you are truly happy, you won’t care a damn thing about how much you work. This doesn’t mean you will work yourself to death and this doesn’t mean you...
If I have no motivation to pursue anything, then do I have no career?
You can just live your life as you desire. Just do what comes from within you, from your heart. What if you have no career? Can you trust life enough that you can keep going having no career in the eyes of other people? What if you are experiencing your uniqueness...
Have you ever quit a job, without another lined up, for your mental health? How did it turn out?
Yes, I did. Eventually it turned out well. I quit because I valued life over money. Love over fear. My life opened towards more love and more liveliness. I am a more full fledged life now. Of course, to expand, we must go through the challenges. But life is about...
What do you think are the reasons why one should work efficiently and effectively?
If you would like to see a rather deep and profound answer, read on. There is ultimately no reason for anything. This entire existence is a container for infinite possibilities. You can find yourself thousands of reasons for whatever you choose to do. But even without...
What element in a motivational speech is the thing that inspires you?
Purity. The purer the mind of the speaker, the more purely unconditional love will be expressed through them. And for this purity to have happened, they must have had the purest intentions and honored them devotedly until it happened. So, I feel the inspiring element...
How do you manage your stress when sales are down ?
I live a lifestyle where I strive to live such a way that stress is not created in the first place. When we haven’t yet gained conscious mastery of how we create reality, our circumstances can seem to be responsible for our stress. However, living with awareness...
Can meditation be centered only on being aware of thoughts, and not necessarily on paying attention to the breath, which seems to only to be in place to facilitate more awareness of thoughts; the ultimate goal?
Where you place your attention your energy will flow. When we place our attention on the breath, which is a special focal point that is connected to the deepest parts of ourselves, we are creating an experience of becoming aware of more of ourselves as the awareness...