Would like advice from Gururattan : )

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Hi Gururattan,

 

Thanks so much for your website and your books. I'm new to KY and

found your website and ordered your book, " Transitions To a Heart

Centered World. " Been doing the routine every AM and a small routine

in the PM, so far I do:

 

The Tune In

Your Warm Up Series in the Book

Breathing from Hatha Yoga

The Meditation Exercise -- forget the name but mentally chant: SA NA

TA MA while focused at the third eye

The closing

 

Just started a PM routine I do

 

The short warm up

The above meditation

 

I've been practicing for a little over a month now and am seeing

fantastic results. I had an issue with negative energy that has been

a problem for about 9 years now, I tried as hard as I could to

overcome it or transmute it but it was so persistent, at times I

wasn't sure what was really happening, it seemed bizarre and extreme,

actually it had me to the point where my life has been very limited

for these past years. Anyway, I am quite happy to report that when I

do the above KY exercises, I can feel the energy and it goes through

the chakras replacing the negative energy!!! Yippie -- finally

something that is helping me that I can do for myself! Thank you so

very much. This may broaden my horizons. So far the negative energy

will come over me again at night? I am wondering after practicing for

a long time, will the positive energy take hold permanently?

 

Also wondering -- is there anything else I can do to raise my

vibration? Today I did the exercise set for 2 minutes each, prior to

this I could only manage 1 minute but my muscles etc. seem ready for

the longer set and I thought it did seem to raise my vibration and the

energy even higher.

 

I have studied something called Concept Therapy for many years, they

teach that thinking/acting/feeling positive is the big key to keeping

a person's vibration high. Do you have anything else that you may be

able to share with me?

 

Thanks so much! : ) Christine

[Guest guest]

Dear Christine:

 

I'll let Gururattana answer you more in depth, but in the mean time I

wanted to offer you my 2 cents regarding negative and positive energy.

 

This is a little longer than I like because I know that the length of

my response will scare away some people. I know some people will read

on just because they've gotten used to me! I want to take my time

because I have tried shorter versions and I know the concept is not

easy to grasp. It becomes easier with practice. So I'll first explain

and then I'll give an example.

 

The short of it is that yes, you will experience yourself more and

more with positive energy. My experience in the beginning was bliss

after each yoga class. It was incredible and I was wondering why the

negative stuff would set itself back in, why did my vibration go back

down after some time?

 

I did not know at the time and just kept going with Kundalini Yoga. A

partial answer I experienced was that my vibration never went back

down to the level it was prior to starting Kundalini Yoga. I know this

because if I ate a meal cooked with wine and the wine wasn't totally

cooked out, I felt my vibration coming down. I never felt that before

starting Kundalini Yoga. So my baseline was higher, yet some

negativity was still seeping in between yoga classes.

 

Today, I know that the negative energy isn't mine. If I feel it as a

part of me, it is because I took it on as if it were mine. You see, we

are each a perfect spiritual being, but we don't believe it, instead

we believe some of the negative stuff belongs to us. We believe we

have to defend ourselves when others appear to attack us and we have

to think certain ways and believe certain things, and to keep up all

that stuff takes energy and holds on to the negative energy. When we

do Kundalini Yoga we let go slowly of all of that but then we get

caught on by our lifestyle between classes we go back to what we know

from the past including our past hurt.

 

When we accept that negativity comes from something that is not our

pure spiritual self, there is nothing to fight against! We just

recognize it as not being ours and open ourself to who we might truly

be instead. There is nothing to let go, because the recognition that

it isn't ours never lets it in in the first place. Now this happens

more and more completely with experience.

 

I'll give you an example of what I experienced today. I went to the

office. I had lots of forms to file. Each client we have has a folder

and each time a client is visited by a home health aide, a form is

turned in to the office signed by the aide and the client to keep a

record for the State and for the company that what needed to be done

was actually done. I was filing these forms. They had been pre sorted.

A stack of forms for clients whose last name began with " A " were

followed at a 90 degree angle by a stack of forms for clients whose

last name began with " B " , and so on. I had a little table on wheels

(the same as the hospital table on which meals are placed for patients

to eat from their bed) to work from. In order to have enough space to

put the folders to the side of the stacks of forms so I could put the

form into them, I had the stacks of forms hang a little beyond the

left side of my table, but most of it was supported by the table and

everything worked well.

 

Suddenly the person I report to raised her voice " WHAT ARE YOU DOING? "

I responded calmly that I was filing the forms. She interrupted,

agitated, and pointing at my stacks of paper not fully supported by

the table I was working on and told me quite sternly to get those

stacks fully supported. She is not my supervisor, but she does hold a

position of supervisor in that office. I did what she asked. But I

looked shocked. Back to work I watched my mind arguing. I was feeling

treated like a child as if in her mind I did not know what I was

doing. I was shocked partly because I have gotten quite a good

reputation where I work and this felt like a breach of what I

expected: a little more trust for my ability to do my work correctly.

So I felt like telling her: I know what I am doing!

 

Then I caught myself in my inner drama and accepted my feelings and

stopped arguing with what had happened. I realized I was taking it all

personally. What if instead I was simply not taking it personally?

What if I accepted that it wasn't about me? I let the energy

associated with the event go its own course. And it occurred to me

that there was tension between the supervisor and me because of what

had just happened. She wasn't talking to me when she passed by to do

her work. It also occurred to me that whatever I presented her with

scared her and that she cared enough to say something to make the

situation less scary for her.

 

So the next time she passed by I thanked her for caring enough to say

something earlier. Then she said that yes she cared because when she

moves she's on a mission, moves quickly, and when she saw how I was

working she got scared that in her mission mode she might bring my

stacks of forms all over the floor.

 

By the time I left work there was no tension between us. She was

laughing at the situation.

 

The tension between us was just a symptom of what it feels like when

negative energy is held in. I helped her release her side when I told

her something that helped her see I was not holding on to any grudge

toward her. And it helped her describe her fear, so she was taking

responsibility for her reaction instead of holding on to the tone of

her voice and her pointed finger at the way I was working. I did not

have to ask her to take responsibility for her feelings. That just

happened naturally because I did not take it personally.

 

So in conclusion, Kundalini Yoga will bring you to the positive state

you are looking for but then it is your responsibility to keep your

space clean!

 

Blessings,

Awtar Singh

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Sat Nam,

 

God Bless you Awtar Singh,

 

What a blessing it is that you are a member of this forum. You truely

are an inspiration, as are a lot of others.

 

Love and Light

 

.

[Guest guest]

Dear Christine and Everyone!

 

Thanks so much for your website and your books.

 

* You are most welcome.

 

I'm new to KY and found your website

 

* Did you find the free on line lessons on www.kundaliniyoga.org ? These will

direct your exploration of self and KY.

 

and ordered your book, " Transitions To a Heart

Centered World. "

 

* Good choice. This was my first and still my favorite.

 

* Your routine sounds fine to get started.

 

I've been practicing for a little over a month now and am seeing fantastic

results. I had an issue with negative energy -- when I do the above KY

exercises, I can feel the energy and it goes through the chakras replacing the

negative energy!!! Yippie -- finally something that is helping me that I can do

for myself!

 

* This is great progress in such a short period of time. Andl it is great that

you are so aware of what is happening.

 

Thank you so very much. This may broaden my horizons.

 

* That is what KY is about -- expanding our awareness.

 

So far the negative energy will come over me again at night?

 

* The subconscious is active at night and especially active 2 1/2 hours before

sunrise. That is why we recommend doing Ky and meditation before sunrise. I

know this is not always possible, but monitor when you experience these energies

and do your best to get up earlier and do KY before Sunrise. You can experience

dramatic shifts this way.

 

I am wondering after practicing for a long time, will the positive energy take

hold permanently?

 

* The longer you practice the more you will shift your consciousness. To say

they we will never experience negative energy again would not be realistic. But

the more conscious we get and the more we clear our subconscious negativity and

programming, the more our emotional energy will be authentic indicators,

directives or communications from our soul. We will have less and less

programmed responses. Or at least we will be able to identify them and respond

differently. Like Awatar's experience.

 

Also wondering -- is there anything else I can do to raise my vibration?

 

* The more you practice and the longer you practice KY more you will raise your

vibration. Enjoy the process and the progress.

 

Today I did the exercise set for 2 minutes each, prior to this I could only

manage 1 minute but my muscles etc. seem ready for the longer set and I thought

it did seem to raise my vibration and the energy even higher.

 

* There you go. You are already answering your own questions. In fact you are

listening and following your internal guidance. Good job.

 

I have studied something called Concept Therapy for many years, they teach that

thinking/acting/feeling positive is the big key to keeping a person's vibration

high. Do you have anything else that you may be able to share with me?

 

* Try staying neutral.

 

* Also start reading my past newsletters New Millennium Being which can be

accessed on www.yogatech.com ezine button. The one on Libra #139 gives a good

sequence at the end on acessing our neutral channel and then bringing that

consciousness into our body. It also refers you to the previous Libra issue

where I discuss the neutral mind.

 

* Always remember -- our goal is a non-verbal experience of Self not an

explanation.

 

Blessings,

 

Guru Rattana :+)