Meditate To Feel More Love In Your Life

by Tina T Willer

My yogic journey began with the study of hatha yoga. I studied it and eventually became a teacher of hatha yoga, for over 3 years. During this time I became a picture of health and my flexibility and concentration improved immensely.

The hatha yoga path I was on was somewhat austere. Many people on this path eventually took a vow of celibacy, much like a priest, and outwardly renounced the physical “enjoyments” in this world such as money, clothes, fancy cars and families. I didn’t want to renounce outward so I began searching for another yogic path, I felt more comfortable with. I found Surat Shabd Yoga, a path of inward renunciation. It was a path that I came to realize was teaching me how to truly “Love.”

This “Royal Path” or Surat Shabd Yoga was, for me, heavenly. The Teachers had families, jobs, houses, cars and contributed to society like others. The renunciation was more inward, thus some royalty in the past chose to follow this path so that they could retain their kingdoms.

Surat Shabd Yoga is not a complicated yoga and feels very normal. It is a yoga that is a meditation of the Inner Sound and Light. The Sound and Light is comforting, warm and melodic. When we practice Surat Shabd Yoga properly, we feel calm and stress free.

Any practice of Yoga requires one to conquer the mind. This is not the easiest thing to do. The individual mind is part of the ego and it wants to remain in control. The mind for most of us, controls our Soul. The goal is to have the Soul be in control and have the mind follow it, not the other way around. Surat Shabd Yoga give us a natural way to give the mind something to do, by focusing it on the Inner Sound and Light.

Slowing down the mind is like slowing dow a speeding train. Difficult but not impossible. As we practice, Surat Shabd Yoga gradually we get more and more control over it until one day, it becomes the servant to our Soul it was always meant to be.

There are a couple different ways you can practice Surat Shabd Yoga. The first way is to close your eyes and give yourself some words, a mantra, to repeat. They could be any words you choose and feel comfortable with. You can choose love, love, love or peace, peace, peace. You can repeat whatever you want. The second is to focus totally on the Sound and Light within.

We have to give the mind something to do or as usual it will take over. When we are repeating and a thought comes in, we should not beat up the mind and get angry at it. We should lovingly bring it back to the repetition. Eventually it becomes more and more one-pointed.

I love meditation. People ask me how can I sit and meditate. It gives me a break from all that’s going on. It is very peaceful, very warm, inviting and loving. I personally don’t feel anything hectic, fast or mean when I am in meditation. Because it feels so warm and inviting, and I feel so much love, I enjoy it.

“Love” increases in our life when we meditate. We begin finding it hard to hurt other living things because we began realizing that the source of “Love” within us, manifested in the form of Light and Sound is within everything else. Once we have this realization, we find ourselves relating to others in a closer, much more loving way.

About the Author:

Tina T Willer, MBA is the author of Articles and E-books on Love, Meditation, Health, and Personal Finances. Great health includes all areas of our lives. Claim your FREE Ebook “Keep Your Love Alive”, Here. Claim your FREE Financial Advice Newsletter Here.

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