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In this ebook, I share how kundalini yoga has helped me heal and how I was able to get through grief and many other challenges Enjoy!!

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Feeling insecure,this Meditation Excel, excel fearless will help

Many of us are feeling insecure or have a lack of confidence and therefore are feeling fearful and unable to try things and give our dreams ago. All through my life I have always had a lack of confidence, always felt I was not good enough, but somehow I always had the courage to give things a go and follow my heart...yet I always felt that I failed in all my undertakings. I was never good enough, never able to achieve what was expected of me or what I expected of myself. Somehow I always compared myself with other people and always felt I was just not as good as them. I have been walking through life trying to achieve something, to be good at something only to find out that really I was not that good at anything at all. I guess when it came down to, how others and myself would measure how good I am, was how much money I could make....and of course, all my career choices are the once I do not make money with.

So every time I have an idea I want to do this or that and I put my heart and soul into this new idea....at the end it would fail as I could not make any money from it, why because of my lack of confidence, the fear that, what I was doing, would not be good enough, the fear of promoting myself because I was not good enough, it all set me up to fail.

What I realised is that I can not write like everyone else, I can not blog like everyone else, I can not paint like everyone else and somehow I do not want to do things like everyone else, I want to be me, but I am not good enough. When I look at my life I see everything has rules and there is a thing in how one suppose to do it. Like writing it should be done a certain way there are boundaries in how one should be doing things. When I started painting it all came from my heart and I just love it and it gives me a boost and the colours bring healing to me....but it's not how it is done! And so, what I do is not good enough.

Because everything we do comes with a bunch of rules and boundaries, for everything we want to do, we suppose to go and get a certificate to prove that we have actually learned it. Can we learn creativity? Can we learn to work from our hearts can we go and do a course for all those things...the answer is yes there is a course to learn absolutely everything. And it's to keep us under control, within boundaries and it stops us often to follow our dreams. I often ask myself who actually makes all these rules? Who decides how something should be done? I may keep on failing in the eyes of others, and maybe I will never make tonnes of money, but with the following meditation I have learned to accept myself  and to be excited by all the things I do, to value myself and the things I do, to live in the present moment and just fully enjoy my creativity in living my life my way, breaking through boundaries that others set for me or I have set for myself, and I have come to treasure and be in awe of my life and the things I do achieve...even if it is nothing in the eyes of others.

This is a very simple meditation that helps me to stay on top, to get through any insecurity I may feel. The wonderful thing is you can do this meditation for just a few minutes whenever you feel insecure or fearful or lack in confidence. Often I do this meditation a few times during the day and I have found that I go through phases where my lack of confidence comes back especially when I start a new project, but within a few minutes of practising this meditation, I am back on my track of following my dreams.

 Excel, excel fearless
Close your eyes with a straight back and inhale deeply hold your breath while in your mind you chant; I am bountiful, I am blissful, I am beautiful, then exhale and keep the breath out while chanting excel, excel, fearless. Do this for as long as you like relax at the end take a few extra deep breath and then follow your dream without boundaries and restrictions and expectations just be you!
What is right or wrong anyway?
What is a failure anyway?
All it is, it is just a point of view and for me, everyone is a success, everyone is creative!

Connecting, with the earth and universe at the heart

Dharti Hai Akash Hai Guru Ram Das Hai is a mantra that helps you connect with the earth and the universe at the heart centre.
For me, it is one of my favourite meditation while I am visualising being connected to the earth Dharti Hai and the universe Akash Hai and bringing it to the heart to project the light out into the world Guru Ram Das Hai. This meditation and mantra are helping me to stay grounded and connected. It takes away the feeling of loneliness, the feeling of being an outsider and not fitting in. When I do this meditation I can feel myself expanding and my aura expanding, it helps me to feel more positive and it helps me to draw abundance and prosperity into my life. I feel comforted and so much more secure.

A few days ago I have just started doing this meditation again as over the past month or so I have felt alone, and I felt an outsider again. Feeling insecure in everything I do and this has caused me to only get negative feelings in any of my undertakings and it felt as I was about to fail again. This meditation just came to me as in the past when I did this meditation it had helped me in so many ways. And again just doing this meditation for eleven to twenty-one minutes a day makes all the difference. It is a feeling of being loved and nurtured and that everything will be fine. The connecting to the earth and universe feels like I am expanding, and I feel like there is no boundary between me and the world it gives me the feeling of oneness, finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
I use Gurunam Singh's YouTube music for the meditation as I love his version. I have been doing this two-three x a day at the moment and it really has been picking me up again in a very short time. I just love this meditation. With this meditation, you can experience that I call "A touch of gold" at the heart centre and this painting I created during a time I did this meditation over a period of forty days.

There are so many meditations and mantras out there that now I just use my intuition and I know that I get guided, to what I need to work on in each moment. I follow my inner guidance in how often to do a meditation a day and for how many days I need to do it. I meditate daily and I always flow from one meditation to the next. Learning to let go and be guided really works for me so long I stay in awareness.

40 Day Global Sadhana letting go of Stress

This 40 Day Global Sadhana; Letting go of Stress, through Spirit Voyage is so powerful and wonderful. For instruction and for joining the Global Sadhana go HERE

The Instruction is wonderful and for me, it's always great when a Global Sadhana happens and I can confirm if I have been doing meditation, pranayama or kriya correctly. As I live out in the country in a small village I do not have access to a Kundalini Yoga Teacher and so I have taught myself all the sadhanas through all the wonderful books and video I had purchased through Spirit Voyage.

I have written about this Pranayama on my pranayama blog, Pranayama for stress relief.

This Pranayama I have been practising since March this year as I had been going through a very stressful time. It has been so helpful as it made me be able to deal with any stress in a calm manner. It has helped me to turn stress around into opportunity, to learn and grow. It has helped me to look at stress as a sign to make changes in my life, to let go of should's, can't and resistance. It has helped me to look at situations more deeply and to also learn to let go and to take time, to rest and re-assess situations.

Doing this Pranayama in the evening helps with calming the mind, in clearing the mind and in letting go of all the chatter in the mind. It actually also gives me energy and clarity and I feel I sleep better and when I wake I am refreshed and ready to go.

What I have noticed with this Pranayama, it is important to sit straight so that you can really fill your body with the eight-stroke breath. When exhale, pull the navel in so you exhale completely this often makes me a bit light headed when I exhale completely with the navel pulled in. As you need to count the eight strokes it means you need to focus, this helps in letting go of other intruding thoughts. As we are moving into cooler weather here in New Zealand, I find it important that the room is warm where you are sitting and doing your Pranayama because I have experienced if I breathe in cool air, it hurts my lungs. This is a Pranayama you will need to stay focused but relaxed. Just focus on the breath and on relaxing.

I have noticed that my shoulders relax and that the knots in my shoulders soften and often in the morning there are no knots left in my shoulders and neck.

It's only for eleven minutes and I feel to do this eleven-minute Pranayama every evening is certainly worth it. Try it and do it with us for the next 40 days!

40 Day sadhana for Gratitude

Now on www.spiritvoyage.com a 40-day sadhana for Gratitude is happening, join us it is just wonderful. Doing this meditation for the first time this morning after my usual sadhana, I could feel the power of Gratitude make my whole sadhana more effective and powerful, as I have been working on many issues, subconscious issues, I felt after this new sadhana it had lifted me up and given me a powerful feeling of gratitude to be able to heal on such a deep level. The feeling came over me of just being so blessed, to be alive, to be filled with joy and gratitude for everything in my life. being able to see the positive even in the negative, being able to turn around the negative seeing what I am learning from it and being so grateful for the lesson. Come and join us and share the experience with us! We are a day ahead here in NZ, this means for anyone else around the world get yourself ready the sadhana starts on the 26th of September!
Day seven!
Having done this sadhana for seven days now, it is interesting that all throughout the day I have become aware of the things I am grateful for and I say to myself "oh I am so grateful!" Being thankful for everything in my life in my day. Focusing on the things I am grateful for throughout the day makes me realise how blessed I am. It is a wonderful feeling to be so positive and grateful.
Day 20!
Halfway through the 40-day sadhana, keep it up. Sometimes it is hard to find something we are grateful for especially when we are struggling or when things have gone bad for us. Over the past few days I had many challenges, but by doing this meditation I have been able to see that even in the middle of struggles there were things I could be grateful for, and by being grateful it made it easier to get through the struggles. We can be grateful for being able to learn from our struggles, we can be grateful to be alive. Be grateful for being able to wiggle your toes, your fingers, that your body is moving, that you can see and hear, be grateful for the fact that you can do this 40-day sadhana, for having a tool to help you through the challenges. Be grateful that you can grow from your challenges! There are so many things we can be grateful for, even the little things in life. Keep it up!
Day 40; well already day forty it is amazing how great it feels to be grateful every day. To find something to be grateful about, and every day is bringing such a positive feeling. It takes away all the negativity and helps in being so much more positive. This positive energy attracts more positive energy, things fall into place, opportunities come along. So, even so, the 40 days are over don't forget to be grateful for the things you have and for being alive find something to be grateful for, every day, say thank you and be aware of all the good in your life.

To sooth the Heart Ong SoHung Peace is in me...

Sit in easy pose or on a chair with a straight spine. Bring your left hand to your heart centre but not touching. The right hand in Gyan mudra resting on your knee. Eyes 1/10 open focus on tip of the nose. Chant the mantra ong sohung the ong is chanted from the back of your throat, nose. And allow the sohung to vibrate in your heart chakra. You can find this mantra on YouTube, Ong So Hung by Snatam Kaur. I am peace and peace is within me chant at the end of meditation.
You can find a more advanced version of Ong Sohung meditation in Transition to a heart centred world by Gururattan Kaur Khalsa PhD and Ann Marie Maxwell which works really well on soothing the heart too.

I have been doing the easier meditation, left hand in front of the heart centre and right hand in Gyan mudra resting on the knee, for quite a while now and find it so soothing, it calms the heart, it makes me peaceful and from my left hand I can feel the healing energy flowing through my heart.

In this meditation compared to the Sat Kartar meditation, I feel that it is so soothing and peaceful. I find I often do this after the Sat Kartar meditation and it is as if it just finishes off the healing I feel like Sat Kartar meditation helps to open the heart centre and to heal deep grief, deep disappointment and Ong Sohung brings peace into the heart, it protects the heart it soothes the heart and allows the heart centre to be open vulnerable but peaceful and a feeling of being connected to the divine.
I love both of these meditations and I have found so much healing from them both. I need to add that this meditation just feels so snugly it feels warm and caring.

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meditation to surrounding yourself with protection "Chii-a" kriya

Chii-a Kriya can be found in the book; reaching me in me. Kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan.

Using the mantra Har Haray Haree Wah Hay Guru has been one of my favourite Kriya. It has made me feel so good, so protected and when I start doing this Kriya I just want to go on and on it is hard to stop. To surround yourself with protection is wonderful and what I have felt is that it is protecting me from myself, from my self-sabotaging tendency, from my putting myself down, it is protecting me from being so hard on myself, it just makes me feel good and positive.

Yogi Bhajan said; if nothing else in your life works, do this meditation. When the enemies overcome, do this meditation.
We have the saying; we are our own worst enemy and it is so true. We punish ourselves, we get angry at ourselves, we put ourselves down, we don't like ourselves, everything we do is not good enough, we are never satisfied. This is the meditation to protect ourselves from ourselves.
Since I have been doing this meditation, I have felt more positive and when I start to say I am not good enough I straight away say yes I am, I can do this, I can be this.

What has amazed me is that this is one of these meditations I am hooked on I just love it and want to do it and it just feels good.
It changes the negative into positive. It is protection from all four directions and from up and down. Chii-a means six protection from all six directions.
It is a meditation to protect you from bullies, from being bullied at schools or at your workplace.
Since I have been doing this meditation I have noticed that people around me are changing in the way they behave toward me. Or my feeling of how they behave toward me is changing. I do not feel used anymore and I also do not feel so small or inferior to others.