Exploring mindfulness

https://vimeo.com/150241520 Chanted by Baba Muktananda and group, this recording is part of the now out-of-print Group Shiva Mahimnah Stotram, which was sung every evening in Baba's time. Recording © SYDA. Images generously donated from private collections. Early images of Baba by kind courtesy of the Gadekar family. Sadgurunath Maharaj ki Jai! I found this by chance on Pinterest this morning. Listening and looking at Muktananda sent me into the most ecstatic state immediately. I felt the Shakti pulsing though my whole body like electrical waves. I was permeated with the blue of Krishna, the blue of Consciousness. Then my dog called on me to go out so I took my energy out there with me. I found myself running with my wellingtons on up and down the park chanting Kare Krishna at the top of my voice and filled with joy. I have not run so much or so fast in many years. I could keep up with Oscar. How can Baba have this effect down forty years of being deceased? Krisna Das is the most w

I was asked to teach a meditation session on Lucy Pattinson's "Who am I?" course this week It was a meditation on the Heart Chakra. You can find more about it on my other weblog https://deepermindfulnessweblog.blogspot.com/ where I share the professional aspects of my work, while sharing personal experiences here. I am exploring mandalas at the moment. One of my teachers, CG Jung, when going through a hard time in his own spiritual development used to sit in mediation on a number of mandalas to settle his mind, which was generating all kinds of strange things. I find the image above powerful, though not technically a Heart Chakra image, as there are eight points at the centre and not two crossed triangles creating six points as in the Heart Chakra image below. I shared with the students that my own teacher, Muktananda, considered the consciousness of the individual soul, the Jiva or ego self is seated in the heart rather than the head, as we are taught by modern western p