From India Corespondent Divyaa Kummar…

What does the grandiose sounding concept of self-empowerment really mean? Like all universal truths, it can be understood at many levels, and peeled endlessly like a cosmic onion! To start with, self-empowerment is usually linked with a claiming of your Creatorhood- a state of being wherein you realize that you shape your reality, moment-to-moment, through your recurring thoughts and feelings. At deeper levels we understand that this power of manifestation is only it’s by-product, much like producing alcohol while manufacturing sugar!

True self-empowerment thus lays deeper, in the acknowledgment that your life plans, what you perhaps call karma or destiny, are willfully chosen by you for your highest good and growth. Towards certain experiences or learning, towards expansion of self and disempowerment of the limiting aspects within that self. No matter how challenging these may appear, it is indeed by your true free will that you choose your so-called destiny! However at its deepest level, complete self-empowerment means complete self-responsibility! Where you comprehend that everything outside of you, which you view as your life or world is but a reflection of the inner you; there is nothing in your exterior without it being in your interior; you are the cause and the outer is only its effect!

Thus true self-empowerment leads to the profound understanding that there is no other! There is no one other than you! And yes, most certainly this eureka has many ramifications in your day-to-day life! At first you go through a certain sense of consternation because there is no one to blame- no person, event or thing, nor fate, nor God that you can hold responsible for your life events, because everything comes back full circle to you. But it soon dawns on you that if you are wholly responsible for creating your life then you are completely empowered to enhance it too. You are not hostage to situations, people, and things outside your self; the point of power is within you and in the now! Blame, judgment, non-forgiveness, fluctuations between feeling the aggressor or victim all start to recede rapidly as you begin to view self as the source of everything outside you. You even understand what Christ meant when he said ‘the meek shall inherit the earth’ because with true self-empowerment there is no need for the false power of controlling the ‘outside’!

Which brings us to another layer of that cosmic onion and the realization that Self Empowerment is claiming you creator hood yes, but at tripartite levels- your personal realties (relationships, careers) the environment (country, political, educational systems) and your world! Thus to change, enhance or even understand any thing in your life, be it difficult mother in laws, betraying society, unclean politics or world terrorism, it is within you that you must look! Mahatma Gandhi’s words: “Be the change you want to see in the world” come alive in this context and are to be taken literally!

It is the single most effective way to change the world! A line of reasoning that works best in any such self endeavor is what we have coined as “Why why why till you reach the I”, which makes you look within as the source or cause of the effect outside! This also becomes a 24/7 meditation, because you are constantly brought back within, to self, and to the creator that you are!

The concept of Mirrors is a beautiful visual analogy towards the above understanding, and asks you to view your life and world as your reflection in the mirror! If you are joyous and loving it will reflect back; if you are filled with doubt and anger it is what you will meet in the mirror! And just like you cannot manipulate the relfection in the mirror, you cannot change your world from the outside. This helps you reinforce that all patterns and recurring situations need to be addressed within; otherwise the future is only a mishmash of the past, which you present to self in different ways so that you may handle the cause within.

At this point you may well be wondering how exactly do you manifest the people, events, things (or lack thereof) in your day-to-day life? You may even wonder where is this creator within you? And the answer of course is that the creator within you is in your belief system, because it is through your recurring thoughts and feelings and focus that you manifest physical life! You live in what is called a vibrational universe and everything you see (stone, plant, animal, human) and don’t see (space, thoughts, feelings) is energy vibrating at different frequencies. Thus visualize that the field of pure energy surrounding you is your raw material with your beliefs impinging on it moment to moment; and as critical mass is reached these beliefs become the physical tangibles you call your life or world! Energy is completely neutral and does not judge between positive or negative attention, and thus you create your limiting (doubts and lack) and positive beliefs.

With this understanding you can wholly claim your creator hood, and choose to think in ways that you wish to see outside you! Expand your beliefs and you will enhance your day-to-day life! How? Start by Knowing Thyself, what energy signatures do you emit moment-to-moment? Have you taken responsibility for your life and world? If you still blame the outside it is what you will further create. Know that you create moment-to-moment through your feelings, at tripartite levels, and thus there is no one other than you! Your life and world is your mirror.

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*originally published in The Times of India

From India Corespondent Divyaa Kumaar…

Guided meditation works in many ways. I have spoken about it before, so a small reiteration… that through a guided meditation we are actually able to experience or become more experientially aware about intellectual truths and mental concepts. It works very much like seeing a movie. A lot of people who saw the movies The Secret or What the Bleep Do We Know were suddenly wowed in the understanding of what they may have been hearing or reading about for many years.  When we see concepts like these visually as in a movie  they somehow click, and we understand them at a much deeper level.

This is really what a guided meditation helps us to do, because we see it like a movie within us, and even more important we are taking part in the movie. the result is, at very deep subconscious levels our participation drives home our understanding more than intellectual truth. Also, once we close our eyes, our focus turns inwards. There is no outer activity for the mind to focus on and this helps us come into a alpha state of consciousness which and aids experience, rather than intellectual understanding.

What I’ve been doing with friends and students is holding groups, where I take them through guided medications on intellectual concepts. What we are really doing is using words to go beyond words, because words are only finite means of expression – and the finite cannot touch the infinite. So through guided medications we do use words, but only to touch the essence beyond words and each gets their own inner Eureka’s somewhere down the line as a result.

All of us have a lot of information, a lot of knowledge, a lot of gyan, but through guided meditation these universal truths resonate with our energy fields. Our truths must resonate, both internally and externally, and, in the end, that is really what wisdom means. Wisdom is not intellectual understanding; it’s when our energy fields are resonating with what we are hearing, each and every day.

Guided medications are also a beautiful way of raising our energies or maintaining already heightened energies. And this is simply because energy follows thought. What we are doing during meditation is developing a very clear, honed, and willful focus on our deeper aspects, our higher aspects – on our divinity.

Our very focus and awareness of these deeper aspects brings to life the the individual and unique Self within each of us. Awareness and focus are in and of themselves life forces, and we experience that which we know through words. If our energy fields are ‘raised’, we in fact follow the standard laws of energy. If we are vibrating at a higher and finer tune of frequency,  we are attracting the same, and more importantly, our energy fields and stronger to resist anything to the opposite. They resist the lower fields such as anger, judgment, or sorrow and does so automatically. They are in a state of resistance to anything but the joy of self!

Think of a camel that can traverse the desert more easily due to his store of water within him. Through regular meditation, we are actually creating and storing this strong and vital field of energy within us so we can traverse our days without it dissipating via the ups and downs of daily life. And why? Because we have a tank full of joy and blissful Self!

It is important to note that we don’t need to complete `meditation’ as a formal process. I can just connect instantly to my higher self, my deeper self, my Godself – whatever words you want to choose – but this is as quickly dissipated through the very next problem or stress that arises. Through mediation (guided or otherwise) we have to be in the right frame of mind, the right ‘space’ of our higher divine self for a longer period of time so our finer vibrations are actually filtering through our spiritual bodies our mental bodies, emotional bodies, physical bodies, cells, molecules… through all that ‘time’… They are actually going deeply into spiritual sub-conscious and activating the unconscious mind in the process. When the unconscious becomes conscious, we experience what is called supra-consciousness. This is why meditation makes us feel in as though we are in a heightened state of being. Raised energies are akin to moving from beta to alpha, theta, delta and even gamma states of being.

It will be different for each one of us, but through regular practice we all can touch our higher frequencies and train our bodies so to more easily access them, with less and less effort. Much like working out to first develop our muscles, we then continue to maintain them.  So, work out your mind today!

From India Correspondent Divyaa Kummar…

Detachment is not indifference, distancing, or remaining disconnected from people and events. Quite the opposite, it’s embracing all that surrounds us, without the labels of right or wrong; without the judgment of good or bad; without descriptions of happy or painful. And in this embracing… acceptance … witnessing… detachment happens!

Detachment ‘happens’ when we embrace acceptance and not in the denunciation or rejection of this that or the other!

Detachment is not in shunning, suppressing, or fighting desires. It in fact arises from the fulfillment or completion of our desires. Our ‘desires’ are the soul’s purpose and as you fulfill desires, or complete the deeper learning behind each desire, various soul purposes are being fulfilled. As this happens, as a soul’s plans are completed, desires which were only the propellers are transcended, and detachment happens. After all, our desires are only vehicles for the universal cosmic play to dance upon.

Detachment comes of its own accord, almost effortlessly and in the end, isn’t really detachment at all!  And indeed it cannot be wholly present when our roles in the cosmic game are still required, for then how, or why, or what would propel you? Our desires are in reality divine desires, the cosmic play being carried out through a ‘you’ – a version of your Self. And all that you may have learnt or read about detachment …or strived towards … culminates… and happens!

When there is no ‘you, ’when your personal consciousness merges with universal Self/consciousness, there is no personal attachment or detachment. All is part of the cosmic play.

 And this play, this gurgle, this all embracing “Ah so it is!” moves you away from ‘concepts’ of attachment-detachment.

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics”  -  Albert Einstein

Are you aware that we live in a vibrational universe? That everything we see (and don’t) is energy vibrating at different frequencies?  Whether it’s an immovable rock, a pet cat, our best friend or our designer purse – it’s all energy. Plus, all the fresh air we go out into the hills to find – this is all is energy!  And if we could don those glasses that quantum physics views the world through, we would see everything as the atoms and molecules they are! Not a difference amongst them!

Wait… there is one tiny difference. All that we see – the physical characteristics of people, events and things in our lives – is energy shaped and molded by our thoughts and feelings and they become our beliefs.  And that seemingly empty space stretching out in between is the same energy, but as yet not imprinted by you. And thus raw material is everywhere awaiting our instructions through our thinking!

Come, conjure this vast field of energy around you, your moment-to-moment thoughts and feelings pinging against it,  and view how – as they hit critical mass -  your raw material is shaped into the material manifestations of exactly what they have fashioned. This makes us the boss, with all the energy that surrounds us at our command! And like any good boss, if we understand our resources, we may indeed turn out a better final product – our lives!

Energy functions according to certain universal laws and a master key is the principle – like attracts like.

Conjure yourself like a dish antenna, drawing your way whatever channel you have tuned your thoughts to. So if you are feeling joyful and loving, that’s what will play out on the outer screen of life. If you are constantly tuned into the channels of anger and hate, that’s what what you will indeed invite!

Energy (unlike our court rooms) is impartial and immediate. Goals, desires, aspirations and fears are thus matched with equal aplomb. If we wish to change the movie of our lives, switch the channel, focus on positive feel-good factors, and tip the balance of your day-to-day thinking. That’s all we need to do to start with – tip the balance from a lacking consciousness and its negative attention (I don’t have this, that doesn’t work, he is so mean, life is so unfair) to abundant consciousness and its positive attention. And as the gladdening tangible results play out into our lives, we will create more and more to feel positive about.

One quick way to keep our scales tipped in the right direction is to maintain an attitude of gratitude. Thankfulness has great drawing power due to its heartfelt energy signature – indeed enough to send a spacecraft to the moon! Close your eyes for a moment and think about someone or something you love, and feel your energy fields surge. Next, think about something or someone you are thankful to have in your life – and view the more expansive surge!

If we make a habit of placing our focus on all that we feel good about – what works rather than what doesn’t, what you have instead of what you don’t – we can use all this free power without the exorbitant costs of our electricity bills! Consistently appreciate the smaller and larger gifts of life – the beauty a flower brings into our day, the sanctuary our home gives us, our health, the care of those around us and more.

In situations that bring about a depleting, “Oh my! What a large petrol bill,” zero in on something constructive instead. Perhaps the joy of mobility at your disposal? In place of bemoaning an uncooperative boss, observe thankfully where the positive does exist in your life. Perhaps in cooperative friends? Tilt the balance within you and view an enhanced outer life. Set into motion a chain of moments to be increasingly thankful about. Try it – it’s a lot easier than you think.

Introspective exercise for today: Write a list of all there is to appreciate in your life. Feel thankfulness fill you up as you write or read it – do not make it a purely mental exercise! Tap into this a few times a day – especially first thing in the morning and as your last thought before sleeping. You may also observe your fret list! Which is longer? What are you shaping energy into? Where does the balance tilt? In the end, make sure to tip the scales in the right direction!

From Divyaa Kummar…

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Born in Bombay, India, RELATIVITY OnLine’s own resident guru, Divyaa Kummar is a spiritual facilitator and fellow traveler for all those on the journey towards Self. She does not consider herself an academic, describing all she expresses as intuitive, rising from somewhere within her. Using words to take her readers beyond words, Kummar’s goal is to reach out with open arms through discourse, channeling, meditation and writing. Constantly awakening to her own infinite nature and sharing it with ‘other’ aspects of Self, Kummar works towards discovery and awakening, each and every day. A graduate of Bombay’s Xavier College, Kummar runs her spiritual blog at www.divyaakummar.com