Find Your True Purpose of Life and Your Bliss

Part 2 of two parts of Interactive Blog – Find Your True Purpose of Life and Your Bliss

In our previous post we talked about what we could resolve to do in the New Year to find our true path and our Bliss.

You might be asking, “How do I do that?”

• Change your attitude
• Give unselfishly of yourself, count your blessings and meditate
• Turn your awareness toward spirituality and connect within

When you connect to your Inner–source within, life flows more easily and you find satisfaction and happiness in your daily life.

Inner source, God Source, The Universe, Higher Self, whatever you relate to, this understanding generates love for others which further generates constructive energy to serve others without seeking any in return. When you center your purpose on giving and not getting and align yourself with a cause greater than yourself, the Universe yields to help you achieve and expand your potential. There are no quick fixes in anything that can have a profound impact on your life. Continued practice and dedication reveals true transformation.

Performing the exercises below will guide you to tuning into the still small voice inside. Find your Bliss!

Do self–purification and self–transformation of the preconditioned mind and achieve serenity of mind through following seven steps:

1. Make the commitment to attain the supreme goal of life and maintain self–discipline (Focus on self–improvement and do not blame others).
2. Keep good company of people who have similar goals.
3. Perform every action selflessly as service to God.
4. Develop unconditional love for God and others (God’s creation) without any expectations.
5. Experience and realize own knowledge of God/Self.
6. Practice Meditation, Prayers, Pranayam (breathing discipline), and Asanas (physical postures).
7. Surrendering to God

As you practice, you will come closer and closer to your goal of life, become happier and happier person and be able to enjoy life to the fullest and finally attain your true nature “Sat (Truth) Chit (Consciousness) Ananda (Bliss).”

The Secret of Self-Transformation

The Secret of Self-Transformation

Have you ever tried to change your behavior or habit, and only to find yourself disappointed and dissatisfied? Do not worry, you are not alone. Most of the time changing a habit (self-transformation) is not a quick fix but it requires reprogramming of the mind which takes place at the subconscious part of the mind.  Therefore, it is important to understand the function and process of the mind and specially the subconscious mind.
Human mind has three parts: conscious mind, sub conscious mind and super conscious mind.

The conscious mind which is responsible for logic, reasoning and all the voluntary action with awareness such as reading, listening, writing, speaking etc. Anything we learn for first time is also an action of conscious mind.

The information we are getting from reading, listening and learning will be recorded in our subconscious mind, the second part of the mind.

Therefore, we must be very careful about our actions which will program our subconscious mind and also decide our attitude and the quality of your life.

Conscious mind is the gateway to subconscious mind.

The sub-conscious mind is an imagination mind. It is a storehouse of our learned behavior, beliefs, feelings and memories (disc with our old data/information-Sanskaras). It is responsible for all of our involuntary actions, heart beat or breathing rate etc. Based upon the information saved by previous actions, we automatically respond and do things without thinking about them (auto responses).

For example, when we first learned to drive a car, we had to consciously think where to put each foot and how to use each new control. As we develop our driving skills our subconscious mind takes it over and we become so proficient that we can drive, navigate, listen to music and also talk on the phone at the same time!
The language of the subconscious mind is feelings (pain, pleasure, hot, cold), emotions (anger, frustration, happiness, sorrow) and images. Our subconscious mind cannot distinguish between thoughts that are created by physical events or imaginary events. It doesn’t have the power to reason and analyze. It interprets our thoughts literally.

“Subconscious mind is the gateway to Super Conscious mind.”

Super-Conscious Mind is the third part of the mind. It is the spiritual part of the mind. It is also called Supreme Power/Energy, God, Almighty, Higher Mind, Higher Self, Higher Intelligence, Universal Intelligence, Universal Mind, Universal Consciousness, Supreme Consciousness, Brahman and more… The scientific community refers to it as “The Unified Field” or “Infinite Field of potential within.”

It does not matter what label it is given. What really matter is that this is the only force which both science and spirituality have acknowledged as the mastermind for all the creations in the universe. It holds the power to create any conceivable outcome.
It has no boundaries or limitations in its power to create – from the infinitely large to the infinitely small, from the microscopic to the greatest of the universe.

It is described following way:

• It consists of all things in the past, present and future.
• It is omniscient and omnipresent.
• It encompasses all things both the seen as well as the unseen.
• From the emotional perspective, the super conscious mind contains all feeling and emotion such as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control as well as fear, sadness, turmoil, anger, greed and resentment. It consists of all individual consciousness.

Both parts of the mind conscious and subconscious work together to establish the connection with the super conscious mind, which is the ultimate source of unlimited power.

When conscious and subconscious mind have any conflict or have problems then the super conscious mind resolves the conflict, brings the harmony and takes care of all good things in our life which we aim for.
Once we understand the function of the subconscious mind, we can also understand why we behave differently. Why we cannot change is because we are stuck in old ways and our subconscious mind doesn’t know how to change.

Process of change:

The process requires all the three parts of the mind. Therefore,

• Take action with awareness and conscious efforts. This is the function of conscious mind.
• Take action at subconscious mind with positive feelings: The change has to take place at the subconscious level with respect to one’s behavior or habits, unwanted emotions or feelings. It can be changed only through subconscious programming, through meditation, sending auto-suggestions and creative visualization to the subconscious mind. This must be done in a very relaxed state of mind.

7-Steps to make a change:

1. Know the change you want to make or habit you want to change (ask yourself what behavior, emotions and feelings I want to change or what I wish to do differently-Make a list). Make the commitment to change.
2. Put conscious efforts to change and support it with action and practice it during the day.
3. Relax your body (Yoga, Pranayama-Breathing exercises).
4. Relax your mind and Meditate
5. Give messages or affirmations to your subconscious mind for the change you want to make within yourself. Affirmations must be in positive not in negative e.g. I eat healthy food vs. I do not eat junk food, I will get up early in the morning instead of saying I will not sleep late,  I do yoga and meditation every morning and more…
6. Pray to Supreme Power and thank Him for His guidance and help, and let go…
7.  Self-introspection, self-evaluation and practice…

Continue to practice until you accomplished the change you want to make (A 30 days daily spiritual planner to help you with this process and keep you on track is available to down load from (www.pathtoanandam.org).

Performing actions with awareness at conscious level will bring some but slow and temporary change, however, combining with relaxation, meditation and affirmation (positive and motivational messages), and prayers will bring faster and everlasting change.
Here both parts of the mind, conscious and subconscious are the part of the body (science-matter) and Super-Consciousness is Supreme Energy (Spiritual Mind).
Change starts at Conscious mind (Logical-Left mind) — Subconscious mind (Feeling-Right mind) —Super Conscious mind (Spiritual mind)
Finally, have patience because transformation of habit is not a quick fix but a slow, steady and gradual process. As Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, “One attains peace and tranquility of mind little by little through practice. (Gita.6.25)

Change starts at Conscious mind (Logical-Left mind) — Subconscious mind
(Feeling-Right mind) —Super Conscious mind (Spiritual mind)

Finally, have patience because transformation of habit is not a quick fix but a slow, steady and gradual process. As Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, “One attains peace and tranquility of mind little by little through practice. (Gita.6.25)

MS. Satya Kalra
Danville, CA. 94506
satya@pathtoanandam.org
www.pathtoanandam.org