My first meditation with Deepak Chopra's chakra meditation CDs

We were sitting in a lightly dimmed room, where Deepak Chopra's chakra meditation CD was playing behind the scene. There were 7 of us meditating effortlessly guided by the soothing musical. It was a 40 minutes meditation but it feels like 15 minutes.

My first thought come in for a few seconds and then it dissipated. Then, the second thought comes in and it disappeared again. Then the third, fourth, fifth so on and so forth. Each time my thoughts come and go. I recognized them and just stayed focus again and aware of the existence of the thoughts that came in. But during the meditation, one thing struck my mind, how come my goals, dreams and the things I want to achieve did not even once come into or across my mind.

I was thinking at that time, why didn't such thoughts ever crossed my mind in 40 minutes!! Why?? Why?? When I was thinking about this, I was still fully aware of the fact that I'm thinking about this. After the 40 minutes meditation, I'm still thinking what is the possible reasons that could explain why my immediate goals, dreams and things I wished to achieve did not bother me during the meditation.

Is it because my lack of desire? Or, is because, I'm too confident of its achievement. Or, is it because the goals did not bother me at all? Or... perhaps, is it because there are no pressure to achieve these goals and dreams? Could it be the fact that dreams are not time driven, not communicated or because of my lack of focus?

I'm still searching for the elusive answers. Or.. maybe there are no answers to the question.

Just thoughts. :)

We all gathered together to watch a powerful touching movie called "You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise Hay. To share with everyone, here are the 5 things I've learned from the movie in a nutshell:

1) To change your life, you must first change your thinking

If you start to change your surrounding by changing the mechanics, it won't works. Then the host bring in a good point, that if you keep cleaning the table that is always piled up, even if you clean it 10 times or 100 times, it will still piled up after few days or few weeks. The key is to first change the thinking, then, things around will start to change)

2) To change your thinking, you starts with affirmation

Affirmation could help us in life to break through FEAR, hatred, jealousy and even depression. But it's not mere affirmation that will bring results. Many people bang on "words" affirmation to bring results, but it's not the word or phrase itself that would attract results. It's the affirmation with emotion and feeling that sends out the vibration to the universe. Affirm with strong beliefs and conviction as there are power inside our body which sends the molecules of emotions to the universe to support us. Here are few affirmation that could helps:

a. I forgive and I set myself free
b. I'm safe, it's only change
c. Life support me
d. I'm a YES man
e. I'm doing the work I love
f. I'm passionate about life
g. I trust my inner wisdom
[Note: It will be more effective if you practice the selective affirmations in front of a mirror. It may takes 300-400 times a day or just a few affirmation to send out the vibration.]

If during the dry season a farmer try to pray for rain. Rain won't happens. The farmer instead feel the muddy ground, smell the rains and show gratitude for what had happen... and rains will keep pouring like cats and dogs.

3. Guard Your Thoughts 24 hours a day

What if you were drinking a cup of coffee and your friends accidentally drop a few poison pills into your coffee? You'll die, my friend!! So, we should be careful when our mind wonders around or what people (especially our close friends) tell us or response to us. When we face with negative statements or thoughts, first acknowledge it. Then replaced it with positive affirmation immediately. It's like planting a seed and you'll never know when it will grow.

4. Belief in your affirmation

It easy to say to build in emotions in your affirmation. But if something is against your belief system, you'll resist it no matter what. So, you have to find the grounds that support you. You have to find the evidence to support your new belief system.

If your belief system is you will never be successful in whatever you do in life, then you can replaced that with positive affirmation like I'm successful in whatever I do. To support the latter affirmation, you have to take action and do something, like sweeping the floor, cleaning up your desk, set small goal and achieve it. Once you get enough support, you'll have a stronger foundation to support your new belief system. Got it? But it's not enough... we have to do it, experience it and internalize it.

5. Follow Your Inner Wisdom

Action starts a flow of positive energy but even if we do the right things and do the things right, will it guarantees that we get everything that we want? The answer is obviously no, because even if we are doing everything in the right direction, the universe will test the depth of our commitment. Only through persistence that the red carpet will be laid out for us.

But if you don't know what you want in life..... it's still okay... (to me) because, if you are doing the right things in the right direction, the universe will give you baby steps, small steps, one at a time, moving you toward the direction and slowly revealed your ultimate destiny. Oprah Winfrey would never imagine herself to be a multi-billionaire 20 years ago when she started her talk show, so does Louise Hay did not know that her little book distribute to churches will turn into an international best seller!!

So, for those who still struggling to find out what is your purpose in life, or what is your ultimate destiny or simply what you want to do.... it's okay... because it's a process of searching. That's why sometimes, we have to follow our inner wisdom.

Hope you enjoy the 5 lessons I learned over the weekend. If you think it had benefited you in someway or if you have other things or reflection that you made from this blog, feel free to leave your comment.

Regards,
Ken Tan