Brain training for inner states

Sahaj Marg/Heartfulness does not need intellectual understanding. It's as simple as that.

It also doesn't need stress or coercion.

It does need one's own validation. That can be stressful if one is not used to it or prefers to rely on others' guidance.

The language in Heartfulness is silence.

Vibrational silence.

The human brain can understand the difference in vibrations of different mental states, but it takes training - repetition, depth, and breadth of those states.

Many things can throw off the brain and mind while this training is going on.

The simplest problem is trying to verbalise and conceptualise too quickly. That is a higher level  --well-nigh impossible-- activity for animal brains, but a lower level activity for human brains with respect to subtler states.

From Babuji's "Can a crane pick up a needle?" comes an elegant, consistent explanation for how silence and words fit together, but at different vibratory levels.

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[Aside on attention, especially outer attention]

Attention is used as a technique and topic of discussion in Sufism.

Taking it, asking for it, rejecting it, refusing it, giving it. 

On top of simple attention 

is layered 

one's ego, 

one's emotions, 

one's words, words, and more words.

A silent hug is first and foremost simple physical attention, appeasing and soothing a stressed brain and heart. When the hugger's heart is open to the silent flow from within of love, peace, and joy, and the hugger allows them to manifest through the physical contact, there is even more compassion and spiritual progress.
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Abhyasis are requested to be simple, honest, to respond from the heart. Moment by moment. Staying in the present.

What may be unsaid or not understood is the opposite - letting go of the past, the emotional and egoic patterns and activities that maintain the false and artificial images of oneself and of others.

How to let go?

Meditation, cleaning, prayer, sittings, satsanghs. 

All inner and silent work, mind you.

Why is Daaji so serious about the daily practice of abhyasis?

These simple techniques remove many lifetimes of mind and brain training in misunderstanding - avidyā. And they have to be done quickly because the outside world is careening to outer destruction due to our inner chaos.

But the techniques have to be applied first, 

not  understood first. Why? See above for brain training.

One's own brain training by subtle vibrations at one level 

allows for one's own conceptualising - of a lower level of vibrations. Till that training is reasonably complete, 

one must simply practise and feel without words. [1]

All of the heart region levels (p1-p5) must be transcended before the mind and brain can even think about them properly. Again, simply do and practise and do so trustfully, happily, repeatedly.

Brain and heart training in inner vibrations require different physical contexts - solo context, paired context, and group context. The three are complementary and mandatory.

Too serious?

The problem is not 

the difficulty of the techniques, 

but the lack of priority given to them 

because they are 

too simple, 

too easy to get distracted away from, and 

have too little outside coercion. 

And until sensitivity develops,

from training or repeated immersion 

in subtler states, 

the effects are boring 

compared to 

the usual outside inputs.

And how would 

brain learning or training work 

when there is 

no inner input data, and

no subtler vibrational states?

avidyā or misunderstanding, unwisdom, 

is one's own, not anyone else's. 

The lack of training of one's own brain.

vidyā is also one's own understanding, 

one's own sensitised and transformed brain. 

How can that happen 

without one's own practice?

Prioritising your practice 

is your own problem.

Nobody else can 

do it for you or 

make you do it 

without mental or physical coercion.

And would outside coercion gel 

with inner opening up?

Heartfulness practice 

must be done 

peacefully, 

carefully and 

tenderly, even affectionately,

respectfully, 

joyously,

of one's own free will.

And with increasing understanding from 

more and more inner peace,

subtler and subtler 

vibratory levels of 

inner silence.

And what's the alternative to "too serious"?

Continuing to 

train the brain and 

mind to look outward, 

at others, 

at inputs from outside,

at outer inputs.

That may still be OK 

if the brain is

subjected not to words, 

just to sensations.

Once layers of 

words and concepts and 

emotions and physical appearances 

start flooding in, 

guess what happens to brain training 

for silence and inner vibrations?

NOTES

[1] How about diary writing or journalling? 

Aren't words necessary there from the beginning? 

True. 

But imply note down - using words that comes up immediately and without editing - all the details you remember, without interpretation or analysis. It will show very clearly how limiting words, even thoughts, can be when trying to describe inner experiences.