Dear friends,

Easter is a time of great inspiration for all of us as the great celebration of rebirth and renewal.

How can you be reborn and renewed and make rebirth and renewal happen in your life? That is, how can you make real change in yourself that is aligned with your soul, removes the distortions and pain in your being and takes you on the next step toward your purpose? And could this happen not just once and not just on Easter, but continually?

The answer is so simple that people just dismiss it - “It couldn’t be that easy.”

It doesn’t require membership in any organization and it’s not limited to any tradition. No matter what else you believe about spirit, life and the material world, you can still make it work for yourself.

It even works if you don’t believe it will work. But it works better if you understand how it works.
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My kundalini raised over a year ago and I have developed an extreme sensitivity to energy. I usually feel pressure in my head. Yesterday I tried a meditation technique in which I tried to go into a place of silence. I succeeded and stayed there for about ten minutes. During that time I felt no head pressure, but instead, a very thin, refined feeling. Eventually, I began to let thoughts return, and with them returned the head pressure, which feels like very uncomfortable bulges of mass going through my pituitary gland, crown, back of my skull, etc. What also arose was a feeling of general irritation and judgmentalism. I am just wondering if I am feeling the actual mass of thought, returning alpha brain waves, or what?
I am a student of a Course in Miracles, which states that thought and emotion is of the ego, which is itself a foreign invader. These experiences are raising all kinds of speculation about the nature of energy and whether it is of a divine nature or if it is egoic. I would appreciate your comments.
Majidah

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I found Heart Rhythm Meditation after overwhelming and disassociative experiences with so-called kundalini awakening from hatha yoga and meditative/contemplative practice in the early spring of this past year. the heart-based way was found both intuitively, on my own, and strongly reinforced by my serendipitous discovery of the IAM website. After many months i have come to a place where i have a much better sense of where my energy should go, and how to respond if it becomes imbalanced.
yet the other night, i foolishly allowed myself to become entranced in a sort of upward/inward flow (more…)

I signed up for the Webcourse 101 and I’m excited to begin. I have a couple of questions. How is this non-profit and why are there so many references to Jesus Christ? I have no problem with non-profit (economic) or Jesus Christ (religious), but I would like to understand the true significance.

Paul

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Dear Puran,
I read with great interest your posting and agree totally with your integration of the heart rhythm as the key to a more complete spiritual awakening. However, I have a dilemma, I am presenting a class this Saturday on The Soul’s Journey by Hazrat Inayat Khan.
The first half will go into the incoming soul and and is similar to re-birthing, I am quite comfortable with what I have to work with in that regard having worked with Murshida Vera Corda for over 25 years. The second half is on the outgoing soul. In my opinion, one of the important offerings we have, is to ameliorate our western cultures fear of death. It has been said often by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan that meditation is a rehearsal for death, and I was planning on structuring the meditation on the samadhi practice and thereby demonstrating that one doesn’t need the body to experience life. You seem to have strayed away from this method and I was wondering if you have any thoughts on the process of overcoming the fear of death in relation to the meditative process you have described in your posting.

“Live lives and death dies” — HIK

“The process of dying is so serious that the dying person is beyond the reach of the living person, so it is better to leave them to their own higher thoughts, what they are feeling at the moment.” — HIK

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I BELIEVE my Sister is having a premature KUNDALINI experience PLEASE HELP
Like i’ve said i believe my sister is going through a KUNDALINI experience. I HAVE done my research in the matter and found that she fits the profile. I am writing because i do not have the expertise to truly HELP her in this MATTER. WE were worried for her safety so we have put her in a psychiatric ward, but if they do not have the concept of a KUNDALINI experience then how can they help. they are treating her with a “Sigmund Freud” mentality, and not considering the “Carl Jung” possibility that the HUMAN is composed of both PHYSICAL and SPIRITUAL.
PLEASE if you or anyone you Know is in the field of KUNDALINI experiences

Leiva

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I have been practicing meditation via the Self Realization Fellowship techniques for about 10 years now. Every time I practice them consistently, after a few months, I begin to get depressed. It turns into numbness and severe depression. The last time this happened, I gave up meditation for three years and I bounced right back to my normal self. I have began trying again this month to return to my meditation and hatha yoga practice and to deepen my spiritual practice by folding meditation back into prayer, contemplation and more traditional spiritual practices, but once again, the numb, depressed, black feeling comes back. This time it came back less than a week after I began practicing again.
I’ve looked all over the web and through many spiritual books but can’t figure this out. Have you ever heard of this before? It literally feels like something descends on me when I try to meditate. The first few days of meditation I felt wonderful - relaxed, peaceful. Then the depression and negativity kicks in and bam, I feel sick all over. I get chills and sweats, get depressed and hopeless, and I start feeling numb during the day. Once again, when I stopped meditating, it went away. Immediately the feelings lifted and I am back to my old peppy self.
Any ideas? I have never heard of this before. Psychologically speaking, I’m fine. So what the heck is going on? Any guesses?

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Hi, this is David Burrows writing from last year’s conference and webcourse. Greetings.I am wondering what your take is on doing Heart Rhythm Meditation in a different way then you have prescribed. Today and yesterday I sat in meditation and just focused on the heart. In the cup of the heart I felt the presence we normally call God–the all compassionate One. I had the feeling the Heart was eclipsing my lesser self, sort of absorbing my personality into itself and taking up residence in the container of my heart. Is simply sitting and placing ones awareness in the heart enough then?

Second question, how does mixing this practice with other practices work? For example, having one session of Heart Rhythm Meditation, then later in the day a session of Buddhist meditation. I must mention that the type of Buddhist meditation I have been learning is “downward’ meditation into sensation; it comes from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

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I believe everyone’s heart is continually trying to develop its richness and make its greatness known. The heart tries to communicate to us its innate wisdom, for which it doesn’t have words. What the heart does have is an enormous magnetism by which it can attract people and situations into our lives to teach us what it knows. But people don’t like to be taught, and even less to surrender, preferring the way they know to the way they grow.
My prayer has been to be able to consciously assist the progress of my heart’s development. I want to develop that sweetness, kindness and generosity my father has finally come to, before my heart needs to resort to grief to get my attention. I want to grow and change quickly enough that I will have time to be of some use to others. I also want my heart’s healing so that its creativity and courage can emerge in my life. This is my work, and I hope this book helps others do the same.

Puran

Time Magazine recently featured an article on Mother Teresa, which included excerpts from a new book of her letters, which showed an astonishing 50-year drought in her experience of communion with God.

We admire Mother Teresa’s enormous contributions to humanity; she lived her faith and helped thousands of people with their most urgent need. It saddens us to learn that she did this for most of her life without the direct mystical experience of God that often motivates such selfless acts of beauty. It points to the need for a method of inner reflection that makes such experiences more reliable, which we have found in Heart Rhythm Meditation.

Puran & Susanna