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Neha Asthana Meena
OM SHANTI : ATMA NAMASTE : THIS IS NEHA ASTHANA MEENA : LOGGING IN AT 8:01 AM , MONDAY : 18TH MARCH 2024 : JAIPUR, INDIA
Welcome to my energy world.
This is my first conscious step to make notes of my spiritual journey , instead of writing with my hand i thought of typing it , must be a reason for the same,Today i did my scalar cultivation and it was great experience, i have realised one thing that sometimes we do take part in the cultivation but our focus is a bit here and there , once the cultivation is done with full focus it greatly helps change our energy body, however even if its done unconsciously at the subconscious level, since our zones have been programmed, the energy definitely changes and works for our good, so all in all its an amazing way to heal myself by working on my energy. The scalar zones are like doorways of portals to different dimensions , every portals has a special significance, that’s my intuitive understanding of it . like the Crown is for spiritual energy flow for our spiritual progress in life, however if we just keep concentrating on crown, our development in this earthly realm willl surely be affected if our purpose is to lead a materialistic and spiritual life balance. For this the main portal that needs to be looked after and treated well is the ……… special portal – this is the portal from where mouth of god , where he breathed the breath of life and man became alive. This is the main and the most important opening and a continuous flow of energies is significantly important , i need to do a little more research on it and find out more about it , it’s a perfect balance to bring the harmony to the lower and the upper chakras, and that is what all of us as humans are constantly striving for . Being a humble student of Master Choa Kok Sui who introduced me to the world of energy in this life time, scalar prana opened the door into world of scalar energy field. Being a student of energy medicine , i have realised one thing , EVERYTHING is ENEGRY and ENERGY IS EVERYTHING. It’s up to us if we would like to limit ourself to one kind of energy or explore more and more into this energy world.
Life is a journey and as said by so many its not the destination that matters its the journey that matters the most, did we journey well, did we travel well, did we do our best while travelling on Mother Earth during this particular incarnation. It’s all that matters, how much have we lived our life working on our soul purpose, lots of time soul purpose is not shown to the people, or we as souls are not aware. If any soul who needs to know his or her soul purpose should constantly ask his or her souls guides who are there around them always, assigned to them even before a soul is born on earth in a body made of five elements, and when the seeker seeks, the soul purpose is surely revealed to them in time. I was unable to understand my soul’s purpose for quite sometime , however these signs come in bits and pieces like a nice jig saw puzzle, and we have to put these pieces together for this puzzle.
As a student of energy medicine , i always felt why do we have to lift our hands to heal someone, u may call it laziness or my tardiness or my intuitive guidance . I am not sure, however my journey began from there in search of methods or ways to heal without use of my hand movements, come across various healers , mentors , psychics , preachers, priests, doctors, eats where i got to know that healing can happen through various modalities. A prayer can heal you , amulet 🧿 or tabeez can heal you , a thread of molly , the red kalawa can heal you , the chandan ka tikka can heal you , a trip to a temple can heal you, a pooja done for you can heal you, a medicine can heal you , a blessed food cooked with love can heal you , a candle’s aroma can heal you , the laying of hands can heal you, a mothers touch can heal you, a mothers voice over a phone call can heal you, a loved one can heal you , a child’s loving presence can heal you , the sun rays can heal you, the air around you can heal you , nature can heal you , water can heal you, fire can heal you, the earth can heal you, mud can heal you , a havan can heal you, a mantra can heal you , a rudraksh can heal you , a crystal can heal you , a particular space can heal you , a particular time can heal you , a blessed cloth can heal you , a photo of a god can heal you , a photo of or guru can heal you, a memory can heal you, a herb can heal you, a mixture of herbs can heal you , a music can heal you , a sound can heal you, a book can heal you , a yantra can heal you , a sigil can heal you , an affirmation can heal you , a script can heal you , a good news can heal you , a smell can heal you , a salt lamp can heal you, salt can heal you , a metal can heal you, a pet can heal you, a touch can heal you , a drishti can heal you, a tree van heal you , a hand mudra can heal you, a change of mental programming can heal you, a conscious thought can heal you , a subconscious thought can heal you, essential oils can heal you, the right breath can heal you, the right body posture can heal you , yoga can heal you , and the list is endless…….
When we see the above mentioned list , and this is the list of things that I have personally experienced my self and used them to heal my life and i am still in the process of it , and so many of us are already using it, so what exactly does it all boil down to be , It’s just one word FAITH and the second word is HOPE.
- Faith in your creator – call it GOD, spiritual father , Ishwar, Bhagwaan , Allaha,
- Hope to be healed .
When we have these two , everything is possible my friend . So at the end of the day it’s mind , and the way it operates. Let us take a moment to understand what kinds of thoughts we have through out the day, with this homework for me and for you i take your leave until next time….
“The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.” — David Goggins
“Look outside and you will see yourself. Look inside and you will find yourself.” — Drew Gerald
This morning, when I woke up, I followed my usual ritual of praying to God, then expressing my gratitude, and finally, praying to the rising sun. I could feel the golden energy right from the start of the day; it was beautiful and bright. Despite this, my anger management could have been much better. After my Twin Heart meditation, which made me happy, my mood swiftly changed due to a constrained emotion, leading me to behave in a way I regret. My elder son got up, ready and dressed for school, but my younger son was still in bed. When I tried waking him up, he started crying. I dislike beginning my day with such energy, so I said things to my younger son that I shouldn’t have – in an effort to encourage him to start his day on a happy note. I believe in the power of a good start to the day, but regardless, my reaction wasn’t appropriate.
I could have remained calm and composed; I know that. But in the moment, I used a tone and said things that could have been avoided. This makes me reflect on my actions, realizing that what I said did not truly reflect who I am; yet, I couldn’t control myself. I unknowingly contributed to the negativity, and for that, I sincerely apologize and seek forgiveness from both my sons. Something triggered me, though I’m not sure what, but I am aware that such reactions don’t represent me. This awareness itself is a positive start. Even knowing that I wasn’t acting rightly, and understanding that letting go of the moment would resolve everything, I couldn’t do it.
It felt like I was experiencing a continuous flow of emotions that didn’t belong to me. Perhaps I picked up these feelings from my environment. Yes, indeed. I understand that a soul, by its nature peaceful, should not behave like this.
As now I am aware that the soul, whose nature is to be peaceful, cannot behave in such a manner. However, my body is sensitive enough to pick up information; yet, at the same time, it needs to be sensitive enough to turn on and off that switch once I realize that these emotions don’t belong to me. I am not the body. I am not the mind. I am not the thoughts. I am not the emotions. The mind is just an instrument of the soul, and I am a soul—a peaceful, powerful, loving soul.
I came back after dropping my kids off and started crying. I felt sad. I felt bad about how I behaved. After so long, I should have had more control and should have chosen my words more carefully.
This blog writing is happening because I was crying and I wanted to vent it out, and I know writing helps. But today, I made it public because I realized there are so many who keep blaming themselves for what they did. I think having an awareness of what we do is very important, and then taking steps to improve in a positive manner is the key.
I love you all. Thank you for reading this. Love, Neha. Please forgive me. I am sorry, please forgive me. I thank you. I love you—Ho’oponopono.
Today is My Mother’s Birthday, and I take this opportunity and this day of 2nd September 2020 to thank my mother, Mrs. Rekha Asthana @ Rekha Srivastav; who has led by example to teach me the true meaning of contentment and the happiness that comes along with it.
Living the six decades of her life successfully, I see her being happy and contented with what she has in her life. I would like to correlate here with one of the yogic principles from the second limb of yoga, the Niyamas which are the virtuous habits or the observances (the Do’s) – And It is SANTOSHA – which means contentment, satisfaction, acceptance of others, acceptance of one’s circumstance as they are to get past them, optimism for self.
Sometimes as her daughter, when I became financially independent, and I could give her so much, she would always say that she doesn’t need anything in life, all she wishes is that everyone is happy and peaceful. At times, I would wonder that even though I can buy so many things, she is unwilling to accept it. So I started gifting her stuff without asking her; it was so much so that we planned her 60th birthday party last year without asking if she would want us to do it or not because I very well knew the answer would have been a BIG NO. I would share some pictures of that party that we threw to pay a time-honored ode to a beautiful person, a devoted wife, a loving mother, and an adorable grandmother.
I feel blessed and proud that she is my mother, from whom I have a lot to learn and a lot to imbibe, I think that I had been leading a shallow life for the past three decades, and off lately, I have begun my journey to follow her footsteps bit by bit. I am trying to imbibe the values carried by her in my life, but how soon I will reach her level is a complicated answer to give right now.
There are times when I will be so occupied with the work that I don’t pick up her calls, and at times I have a conversation for 20 seconds, where she would just give me her blessings and then we would disconnect the phone, but I don’t see her getting angry or annoyed any single time. All she does is shower her blessings for my family and me. At times, and during my pregnancy when she took care of me, I would get so irritable and be rude to her, but all she would do is bestow her love and kindness towards me. I seek your forgiveness mom, for being such a brat. The level of tolerance and patience that she has is mind-blowing. I guess that is a quality of a highly pure soul because even as a mother, I get annoyed when my son doesn’t talk to me or behaves rudely with me.
I genuinely wish that I am able to instill these similar values in my little ones and me.
“Being satisfied with what you have in your life is the biggest gift you can give yourself, as this way, you are gifting yourself the true happiness in life.”
The definition of happiness in our life is very different; we feel happy when someone says something good to us, or good about us, when we get financial gains, when we buy a new house, a new pair of clothes, the latest smartphones, or a new car, etc. The happiness now days is characterized by the joy that we feel upon attaining worldly pleasures and gains. We need to ask ourselves a question: Is it happiness in the real sense, or is it just making us lead such a shallow life that diving deeper doesn’t remain an option anymore?
Roy Baumeister writes about happiness as something that gets in the way of a meaningful life. Happiness is about decreasing stress and conflict and taking rather than giving. In a forthcoming paper about the difference between a happy life and a meaningful life the author writes:-
“Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow self-absorbed or even selfish life in which things go well, needs and are easily satisfied, and difficult or taxing entanglements are avoided.”
In the end, I would like to clarify here that by being satisfied, I don’t mean you stop striving for a better life or a better home or a better job. But first, you need to be happy with what you have currently, and with an open and balanced mindset, one should move forward while doing your karma with honesty. During this journey, one should also ensure that your hunger to do more or achieve more should not convert into a thirst. And one should put his/ her best foot forward but without any ill feelings towards anyone or anything.
As Mrs. F says: “Root them out, get them gone. All the little bunnies in the fields of corn. Envy, Jealousy, Malice, Pride, they must never in my heart abide”.
A simple example of that would be – ‘Oh my, She has a big beautiful house, it is just like a mansion. Admiring it is absolutely fine. I wish I could have it, aspiring for it is also fine, but the moment you start feeling jealous of her is where the problem begins.’
Love & Regards
Neha Asthana Meena
The Perspective of a New Age Yogin
13th Death Anniversary of My Nani. It took me three decades to understand you and the life energies within you.
NANI – My grandmother, my mother’s mom, the mother of my entire extended family I would say, who gave me a beautiful big family by having seven kids, and those seven kids created our generation which includes 19 of us who are now in the age of 30s & 40s … and who next, in turn, got married … and became mothers and fathers of this current generation of kids, which till date are 12 in total the newest member being few months old. … which includes two of my sons as well one being 3 and one being 5 years old.
A lady who created so many life energies and had an aura that cannot be forgotten by any person who has witnessed her personally. Imagine this whole existence would not have been possible without her…
So it’s safe to say a Mother is the Shakti / basic foundation of any life energy in this universe. As it has been said Shiva was shava (dead) until Shakti met him. The supreme by itself is inert or zero, it is the Shakti that pulsates with life. She is the infinity of forms; it is only at her touch that Shiva can come alive and became the enjoyer of all forms.
There were lots of judgments being passed about her when she lived, because as usual human race/mind is of a nature that does not value what you have in hand till the time that is gone. And for few of us, we were so young or unaware as to why she is being judged for being a hardcore vegetarian, for being so ritualistic about her sadhana/ meditation every day – morning and evening, the world may shake, but her daily sadhana/ meditation ritual will not be missed, She was so humble, so peaceful, so forgiving, so lively, so amazing that words are so less for me to even describe her.
I am in my 30’s (as I cannot reveal my age in an open forum) and it took me almost 30 years to realize how she became such a powerful soul on this earth. My Nani became a widow at an exceedingly early age after having 7 kids, my youngest Mausi was so small that she couldnt understand that her father was no more. In spite of all hardships, She could put it all together, hold it all together, brought up each of her children in an amazing manner and also children of other families who needed her in that time, she was loving and caring for all of them irrespective of they being hers or they being of any extended family member, I am sure there are people who could not agree more with me as to how she felt for them all.
I used to wonder as a child, why she is so kind, caring, loving, harmonious, and still strong. Why she doesn’t eat non-veg, why she doesn’t take onion, why no garlic, why always her clothes used to shine like new ones, why her bed was always so clean, why she had such great social discipline, individual discipline, and so on so on, the list is endless.
Why she would forgive her child who misbehaved with her, or for whom she would become a burden at some point being a widow, why she would say it didn’t matter as to how anyone treats her because at the end they are her own loving children …. and I guess She believed more in her Karma, and left other persons’ attitude or behavior on their karma, and why amidst all the hustle and bustle of life, she maintained her peace, her calm and her beautiful unbiased soul for everyone.
I never looked into the depth of her life till the time I started on my spiritual journey, my sadhana, my meditation in a rightful manner… thanks to this lockdown, I could give time to my life energies apart from my physical health. I can so strongly relate to her now.
As a kid, I didn’t understand much what she would do when she would inhale and exhale so quickly, then she would modulate her breath and do some deep breathing, she would sit in silence for a long duration without being untouched by the outside world… I could never understand the whole sadhana process, all I knew as a child that Nani is doing sadhana and we should not disturb her… But now I can relate to every action of her and every reaction of her to any situation. And I have got the answers to all these why’s and how ‘s of her life, her achievement, her amazing attitude towards life, what made her just the PERFECT SOUL. A soul so perfect and beautiful that I have not come across any till date.
The answer is yoga — SHE was a hardcore YOGI, where at that age of mine, there was hardly any mention of yogic sciences in our generation, She followed all the eight branches of yoga ( ASHTANGA YOGA) religiously and lived a life full of bliss. The eight limbs of yoga are as follows: Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, and Samadhi …!!For all those who do not understand the typical Sanskrit words, I would briefly explain them in English, hoping that in case you are reading my post you would be able to understand the true essence of yoga which is much higher than just the physical health. And somewhere deep down I wish if this world is full of yogis what a beautiful place it would be to live in…!!
- 1. Yama is conduct towards others or social discipline.
- 2. Niyama is conduct towards oneself or individual discipline.
- 3. Asana is the practice of the postures for physical discipline.
- 4. Pranayama is breath- control for mental discipline.
- 5. Pratyahara is the withdrawal or discipline of the senses, it is a step of self-extraction and abstraction.
- 6. Dharana is concentration, introspective focus, and one-pointedness of mind.
- 7. Dhyana literally means “contemplation, reflection” and “profound, abstract meditation.
- 8. Samadhi is self-realization.SOURCE: Yoga A gem for women by Geeta S. Iyengar.
All the eight steps are interpenetrating and interdependent. They may appear to be different, but all lead to the same goal. As the rays of the sun are refracted to form the spectrum, so has yoga been divided into eight components which are all interwoven.
I would like to conclude it with a verse from Bhagavad Gita, where Lord Krishna advises Arjuna thus:
” tapasvibhyo ’dhiko yogī, jñānibhyo ’pi mato ’dhikaḥ, karmibhyaśh chādhiko yogī, tasmād yogī bhavārjuna”
[ The Yogi is greater than the ascetic, the learned, or the man of action; therefore, be a Yogi, Oh Arjuna.]
Bhagvad Gita
