Craig Krishna

You don__ need validation or approval from anyone but yourself. Even if the entire world goes against, disagrees with or attempts to crush you, stand up for what you believe in, and stand up alone if you have to! It__ better to die while living your own truth than to live in the truth of another. Lord Krishna in the holy Bhagavad Gita pointed this out when he said;__t is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else__ life with perfection._ Integrity is the key to freedom. It__ only your own truth that can __et you free._ It__ perfectly fine if your truth doesn__ match that of others because the experience of physical reality is a completely subjective one. It doesn__ make either of you wrong, as long as you__e both being true to yourselves, that__ all that matters.

Meditation has also been proven scientifically to untangle and rewire the neurological pathways in the brain that make up the conditioned personality. Buddhist monks, for example, have had their brains scanned by scientists as they sat still in deep altered states of consciousness invoked by transcendental meditation and the scientists were amazed at what they beheld. The frontal lobes of the monks lit up as bright as the sun! They were in states of peace and happiness the scientists had never seen before. Meditation invokes that which is known in neuroscience as neuroplasticity; which is the loosening of the old nerve cells or hardwiring in the brain, to make space for the new to emerge. Meditation, in this sense, is a fire that burns away the old or conditioned self, in the Bhagavad Gita, this is known as the Yajna;__ll karma or effects of actions are completely burned away from the liberated being who, free from attachment, with his physical mind enveloped in wisdom (the higher self), performs the true spiritual fire rite.

You integrate something by first of all accepting it. To resist any aspect of your past is to keep yourself fragmented, and to keep yourself fragmented is exactly what the built-in mechanisms of the negative beliefs in your unconscious mind are designed to do. To become whole within yourself, you must treat each and every experience that you have and ever will have as simply a stepping stone because there__ always a bigger picture. Something challenging may be happening to you right now, and you may have no conscious recognition or idea of why it__ happening, but let me assure you that you will know why one day. How many times have you said to yourself, __ow, so that__ why it happened?_ The issue isn__ really what__ going on in the present moment or what has happened back in the past, the issue is the way you__e defining or looking it_