Life Energy taken in your breath energizes everything inside you!

When we breathe in it is not just air, it is the life energy. It gives life to whatever is inside you. It gives life energy to each and every cell in your system. It gives life energy to everything in you -- good and bad.
This is a basic concept many of us never thought about. Life energy is giving life to everything. Which means that if you are depressed, as you breath, you give more life to your depression.

Nithya Yoga is conceptualized keeping this aspect of breathing in mind. Hence, before breathing techniques are done in Nithya Yoga a cleansing of mind-body system is done using dynamic meditation.

Just relax and stop connecting thoughts

Sit down for ten minutes with a pen and paper. Now, just start jotting down whatever comes in your mind. Please do not edit your thoughts; write them down as it is. Do not judge yourself and try to control what comes in your mind. If you try to judge, you are playing a hypocritical game with yourself, that’s all. Just write down whatever comes.
Now, read whatever you have written. You can see for yourself how unconnected, illogical your thoughts are!
For example, if you see a dog in the street, suddenly you remember your pet you used to play with as a child. Then you will remember your teacher you studied with as a child, then, where your teacher used to stay.
If you look at your thoughts, you will see logically that the dog in street and the teacher are not connected. There is no logical connection, but simply your mind flows. If you look a little deeper you will understand your thoughts are illogical, independent, unconnected.
Constantly you are connecting all your thoughts and creating shafts in your mind. For example, the headache that happened 10 years ago, the headache that happened 9 years ago, the headache that happened 8 years ago, the headache that happened yesterday, they are all independent experiences that happened in your life.
For the sake of easy reference, you categorize all these experiences in your mind into one category of headache. It is archived just for utility purpose, to serve as reference. Just like how you file documents in your office in various categories, in various files. But, what happens? By and by, you start believing that all these experiences are connected. When you start believing they are connected you create a shaft.
If you connect all the painful memories, you create a pain shaft: ‘My life is pain.’ You start believing your whole life is a chain of suffering, a long chain of suffering.
Whatever you believe, you expand it. If you believe something, you will again and again see that in your life. That is why ancient sages said in Vedas that you create what you want. You create what you desire. What ever you believe you will create it, you will expand it.
Once you start believing your life is pain, you are waiting unconsciously for painful incidents to strengthen that belief, to strengthen that judgment.

Our mind should not be regarded as a dilemma. It should be regarded as a pure inner space, free from negativity and full of awareness. Let thoughts rise and fall naturally, like bubbles in a fish tank, not one connected to another. Destroy the false notion of connectivity of thoughts and reach the state of the present moment, the state of no mind, and the state of dropping thoughts.

Just relax and stop connecting and suddenly you will see such a deep inner healing happening in you, such a deep peace happening in you. Suddenly you will see you have dropped out of the war, the constant running. Just relax.
When you become a drop out, when you drop out of this war, when you drop from this whole game, suddenly you realize the whole thing is just a psychodrama happening. Because you are constantly supporting it, you are creating these shafts.

Some people would say, ‘I fail when I try to be in present’. Why are you connecting your past failure with your present failure? When you connect all the past failures, you create one more word, ‘failure’. The failure that happened 9 years ago, the failure that happened 8 years ago, the failure that happened yesterday are independent incidents. Why do you connect all of them and create the next experience also?

Try this simple meditation:
Just close your eyes. Whatever words are rising in you just let them rise. Just do not connect them with any other thought. Just don’t create a shaft.
If you feel bored, or if your mind asks what to do, do not even connect with that thought. Do not create, maintain, or destroy thoughts.
Try this for a few minutes and you can see the effect for yourself.

From the teachings of Paramahamsa Nithyananda, The great enlightened Master.

We are the creator, sustainer and destroyer of our body – Learn the Nithya Yoga way!

‘We are what our perceptions are; as are our perceptions, so become our actions; as are our actions, so becomes our destiny.’
This quote is from Dr Bruce Lipton’s classic ‘Biology of Beliefs.’ Bruce Lipton is a celebrated molecular cellular biologist who has rewritten the basic tenets of how cells behave. We have all been taught that we behave the way our genes are designed. Dr Lipton disagrees. He declares that the design of our genes is determined by the way we behave.

We are the creators of our own reality. Whatever is repeated in our mind is projected as our reality. Whatever we believe we are, that is what we are. If we believe that we are depressed, we will be depressed. If we believe that we are wonderful, we will be wonderful.

We ultimately have the power to reprogram and rewire ourselves, to transform a cellular structure, to redesign our genes, our body and therefore, our lives. This is a truth that the Eastern sages and mystics who practiced the inner science knew tens of thousands of years ago and they recorded it in the scriptures. What may have been heresy to scientists a decade ago is now the truth that is being slowly accepted.

The reason we have this body is to achieve the ‘zone of intelligence’, which resides within. This is the goal. Our body is alive and functioning primarily to reach this space in which we can experience a deep and restful awareness, bliss. Although this is our birthright, we don’t experience that .Why?

We accumulate too many negative emotions in our system. Our body is not simply material as it appears to be; again, it is energy and has the capacity to hold thoughts and memories, both negative and positive.

We never think we are good enough physically; another major reason that postpones our enjoyment and expression of our true nature of bliss. We all have the idea that we are not enough unto ourselves. We are continuously made to believe by society that we are not beautiful. The moment we start actually believing that we are not beautiful, we start hiding behind cosmetics. At a more extreme level, some will try to alter their bodies through plastic surgery.

There is no scale of beauty; however, we all have an idea, a scale, a certain set of measurements we continuously believe we need to match. If God were an engineer, he would have created moulds of Miss World and Mister World and commenced a mass production. He would have simply made all of us the same, from the same mould. However, God is not an engineer, he is an artist. He carves every one of us. He paints every one of us. We are all unique. Be very clear, we are not equal but unique. The very idea that everyone is equal is totally wrong.

Whether we believe it or not, we are an expression of self-hypnosis. Whichever way we move the body with the faith that this or that will happen in us, simply it will start expressing in us. The way in which we choose to move our body is irrelevant. If we wish to practice yoga with the intention and belief that we are blissful, this is what will be inscribed in our system and start expressing.

In the practice of Nithya Yoga, the simple technique of visualizing our body as a ‘bliss bag’ is used. When we get up in the morning, we imagine that our body is a ‘bliss bag’ and simply we move our body for 10 minutes in whatever way we wish. Whether we bend this way or that way, practice a certain posture or stand on our head, the way in which you move isn’t important. What is important is our intention. Simply, we visualize our body as a bliss bag and move it in any fashion for just 10 minutes.
We will see that our body becomes matured and holds that intention, that bliss for a long time. We will remain in that same state of higher consciousness for a remarkably longer time; even ordinary sitting. If we choose to sit on a lounge chair and we believe that by sitting, we will have health and then we sit solely for health, simply we will see the health happening in us.

- From Nithyananda's teachings to a set of professionals in US

Wellness is not about torturing your body

How do you know when the struggle for fitness turns into signs of wellness? Or whether it results in body trauma?

If you are one of those to whom punishing the body is the surest path to making yourself well, then think again. Jogging like a fanatic causes trauma not fitness; medical evidence shows damage to your limbs and even to your heart. Lifting weights may make some of your muscles show off, and ok if you are training to be Mr. Universe, but if unbalanced can hurt you as many before you have discovered.

Your body needs to be respected, not tortured. Struggle for what you think as fitness cannot be the path of hurting yourself. That is the reason thousands of young women starve themselves and throw up what little they eat, and endure bulimia, in the quest to look thin and attractive. In the process they damage themselves, both in body and mind irretrievably.

Being thin or fat, or being short or tall, does not mean fitness, in as much as fitness reflects wellness. You can be thin and unwell, and fat and well. Some of it depends on how the body is maintained, but a lot of it depends on how the mind is maintained. Your body follows the mind, not the other way around. You can truly think your way into fitness.

Over the last few weeks I have been going through an amazing experience that has changed the way I think about my body. Without effort I have been able to do with my body I have not dared to do for years now. I have not been able to sit on the floor for many years now. I had an injury to my knee, and folding my knees created pain. As I went through this incredible program, I started sitting on the floor without even thinking about it. I was able to move my body in ways I would have never dared to earlier.

This program is called Nithya Yoga and is now being taught in Singapore. It has been developed by a great Master, who I met hardly a year ago and whose teachings had tremendously influenced me. Now this physical, or what I thought was physical, exercise enabled me to do things with my body based on how influenced my mind.

Nithya yoga is unlike any other yoga that I have done, read or watched. It has nothing do with torturing your body in complicated postures or practicing in high heat and sweating. There is no emphasis on controlling your breath in order to cure one illness or another.

Nithyananda, creator of Nithya Yoga says:

"Twisting body into pretzel-like poses is simply that. It is not yoga.
People often think that yoga is all about physical exercise and breath control. They can be concluding this from the poses that a Yogi, practitioner of Yoga, maintains. The expertise with which a yogi performs and maintains the positions appears to them as yet another kind of physical activity.

But this is the last thing Yoga was meant to be! It is a far cry from what yoga is all about. Yoga has many deeper levels. At every level, a marvelous and almost miraculous blending of the mind and the body takes place.

Let us watch our mind at work. It does not move in a linear progression. The thoughts are not connected to each other logically or sequentially. Thoughts jump from one idea to the next. One thought keeps us in the present, while the successive thought can be in future.

In an advanced yoga practitioner, the mind and the body are in balance and harmony. The regular practice of yoga leads us from the body into our mind. Intense practice of yoga leads us beyond the mind. It will lead us beyond the body and mind into a state of our spirit where we become aware of the truth of our Existence.

Yoga, a Sanskrit word, is understood to mean Union. This union refers to the melting of human self with the divine or the Cosmic Power. Truly speaking, Yoga does not mean Union, it means Uniting. Yoga is the process of Uniting, not the end result of Union.
The process of Uniting helps transcend one’s identification with the mind body system. A Yogi transcends the body and mind identification through a process of meditation, into a true awareness of his spiritual identity. His mind and body are perfectly in-tune with the vibrations and energies of the cosmos.

This awareness brings another welcome side effect—bliss! We now walk the path of bliss or Ananda while doing our Yoga. The ever blissful union of the cosmic energy with a human mind is Ananda Yoga.

The bliss that results from practice of Yoga is not a goal or end result that is aimed at. It is an experience of just walking the path of Yoga. When the path is right, the Yogi says, the destination you reach is always right, it is always blissful.
This is what is taught in Nithya Yoga programs."

It is not necessary for any one to understand the philosophy behind what this great Master says to derive the effects of Nithya Yoga. There are people in the class who had never heard of him before, and they experienced the same transformational experiences that I did.

One of the meditation techniques we use in Nithya Yoga is based on Vipassana, the Buddhist meditation. Here is how it is done.

Sit comfortably, either in a chair or cross legged on the floor, with your spine, neck and head in one line. Relax completely. Close your eyes. Now, watch your breath. Do not try to control, just witness your breath. Watch the way the breathe moves in and out, some times from one nostril, some times from another.

Focus on the upper lip and the breath. Witness the way the breath moves on the upper lip, over different parts. Note the flow, the temperature and the texture. Note the way it changes again and again.

Watch the breath and do nothing else for 20 minutes. You will find your attention moving inwards. What you may hear from outside will no longer bother you. You will be a witness. You will be centered.

written by Mr.Joseph Guan, PhD, Energy Psychologist after doing Nithya Yoga course.

A great system of yoga in Singapore

A new system of Yoga was introduced world wide in 2007 - the Nithya Yoga. Singapore is fortunate to have some Nithya Yoga teachers here dedicated to teaching aspirants this system. They have successfully produced 20 graduates in 2 months and people who learned this include Yoga teachers, psychologists, software engineers, housewives ... all have just one thing to say -- This is amazing.

"For a long time, I was a lost soul in Patanjali's 8 limbs of yoga, Nithya Yoga put everything in perspective for me" says Siew Yong, a yoga teacher for more than 6.5 years.

Nithya Yoga is designed by the living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda. No wonder this is so amazing....... things have all been amazing when it comes to him. Nithyananda founded his academy with the mission of spreading bliss in 2003 and in 3 years they have 1000 centers in 30 countries, 30 meditation academies, 8000 healers, thousands of teachers and hundred thousands of people who have been touched by his healing hands. It is a health and bliss storm he is creating worldwide!

Yoga was devised by the great sage Patanjali about 5000 years back based on the principle that mind controls the mind-body system and its well being. The focus of ancient yoga was therefore on the mind, and the healing energy that was released through this practice resulted naturally into postures and breathing patterns. It may be a shock to all of us who have been focusing on that 'perfect posture' to know that mere practice of posture cannot influence the wellbeing of mind-body system completely.

Nithyananda designed Nithya Yoga adapting the concepts of Patanjali's Ashtanga yoga making it relevant for today's lifestyle. In patanjali's age, when a human being was told to sit and focus his mind, he could do it in 5 minutes, but it is not easy for the modern man with the ever-changing busy and stressful environment. Electronic mails to be answered every minute, sms coming in, phone calls, online news, we are bombarded with information and entertainment every second.

Nithya Yoga helps in the wellbeing of Mind, Body and Spirit and keeps you in the state of bliss every moment. Nithya yoga teaches it through techniques like meditation, intention and visualization.

Nithya Yoga teaches you how you can make each and every movement in your daily life to yoga. You will have the correct postures and breathing pattern every minute and thereby, you are doing yoga not just those 30 minutes every day but every moment. In the architects own words " I am not here to add more movements to your life, but to add more life to your movements".

It is nothing like what you have been taught before, it is truly the Yoga of Eternity !

For those interested in learning contact Nithyananda Arpana @ 90098645/ email: lifebliss.singapore@gmail.com
Info on website: www.lifebliss.org/NY_introduction.asp