by Mark Pitstick MA, DC
If you’ve not already, please read . . .
- ‘The Great News‘ (article #19 at SoulProof.com/Articles)
- ‘Eight Developments for Widespread Conscious Living Now’ (#125)
- Greater Reality LIVING Program: Integrating ‘The 8 Developments’ Into Your Daily Life (#72)
- Greater Reality HEALING Program: Journeying FROM Deeply Grieving TO Brightly Shining (#82)
The evidence-based information and holistic resources outlined in these articles will help you to:
- realize your true nature as an eternal being of consciousness / life-force / energy
- receive guidance and assistance from highly evolved energies and Source / The Light
- heal old wounds, release lower energies, and update erroneous teachings
- create the greatest life YOU have envisioned (YOU = your higher self / soul)
- help others by sharing your greatest gifts
- make our world a better place
As enough people do this, widespread personal and planetary change will naturally unfold.
Centering Practices
The philosopher Cicero said, “Only the person who is relaxed can create, and to that mind ideas flow like lightning.”
On an evolutionary timeline, your brain is a fairly new innovation. That computer has amazing abilities, but most people haven’t learned how to control it. Thus, the saying, ‘The brain is a wonderful servant but a horrible master.’ Many people suffer from incessant thinking, worrying, and reminiscing. Excessive mental activity blocks clear awareness and all the accompanying benefits.
The brain has been compared to a drunken monkey that thinks it’s the master of the house. It runs around, chatters constantly and acts like . . . well, like a monkey. This creates a lot of noise and may even be entertaining for a time. In the long run, though, the house becomes a mess and uninhabitable.
Another analogy compares the brain with a wild elephant that charges around at will and destroys everything in its path. The elephant / brain needs to be tamed and more available for doing useful work.
The brain is so active that you likely perceive life one or more thoughts away from the real experience. You think: “I’m eating now, I’m playing with the kids now, or I’m working now” instead of fully enjoying the moment. An overly active mind constantly labels and monitors experiences so that you may never fully enjoy the real event.
How can you quiet your brain and increasingly become the master of your life? Here’s a hint: watch children at play and observe their total involvement in the moment.
Many powerful centering practices can calm the brain and help you stay in the present moment. Simply take a little time each day to get quiet within. Do activities that you enjoy and help you feel clear and peaceful. The key is to enjoy just being for a while without worrying, analyzing, or otherwise dissecting the experience.
Well established ways to dampen your brain’s frenzied activity include: spend time in nature, listen to music, play with pets, enjoy the company of children, garden, read, make love, watch a great movie or play, soak in a hot tub, exercise, meditate, do yoga, spend time with loved ones, serving others, optimal self care, exercise, drumming, chanting, bodywork, energy movement practices such as tai chi and qi gong, experiential seminars, shamanic trance work, dance, study topics of interest, pray, cook, sew, sunbathe, and relax in a hammock.
Again, these are common ways to quiet your brain and enjoy life’s golden present moments.
You deserve to feel happy, peaceful, and enthusiastic and have those precious feelings carry over into other life activities. This helps counteract the feeling that life is a hectic, hopeless, and endless rat race.
See article #51 Meditation at SoulProof.com to learn more about this and other basic ways to relax, center, and remember who you are.
Meditation and prayer are paramount for clearer perception of the greater reality. William Blake said, “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” Of the importance of daily quieting the mind, Father Thomas Keating said: “Silence is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.” Paramahansa Yogananda said, “Why should you think He is not everywhere? The air is filled with music that is caught by the radio—music that otherwise you would not know about. And so it is with God. He is with you every minute of your existence, yet the only way to realize this is to meditate.”
Meditation and prayer temporarily turn down the brain’s chatter and help you realize how safely you are embedded in eternity. Regarding the importance of regularly turning your senses inward, Houston Smith PhD stated: “As bridges to the physical world they (your five senses) are invaluable, but the yogi is seeking something else. On the track of more interesting prey—the interior universe in which, according to reports, is to be found the final secret of life’s mystery—the yogi wants no sense bombardments. . . For the yogi is tracking the underpinning of life’s façade. Behind its physical front, where we experience the play of life and death, the yogi seeks a deeper life that knows no Death.”
Sri Ramakrishna, a great saint from India, was asked: “Do you believe in God, sir?” “Yes,” he replied. “Can you prove it?” “Yes.” “How?” “Because I see Him just as I see you here, only more intensely.”
I had a multi-sensory experience of G.O.D. / Life Source in 1997 during a long yoga and meditation session at 5:30 in the morning.
While silently repeating the mantra OM, a louder and deeper chorus of that sound spontaneously resounded within and all around me. It was so real that I thought I would see a huge choir if I opened my eyes. Then I smelled fresh flowers even though it was winter and there was no source for the fragrance. Next, even though my eyes were shut, I saw a radiant golden-white light in my mind’s eye. Then I felt what seemed to be Divine love, acceptance, and understanding. Finally, a mild electrical current coursed throughout my body.
All this was so overwhelming that tears welled up in my eyes. It seemed that information and energy were being transmitted to me. The power and splendor were so great that, after just a few minutes, I felt I couldn’t handle the current. I murmured aloud, “Oh my God!” and started laughing. Then the experience was over. But that sweet memory helps carry me through life’s challenges and reminds me I’m always Home and one with the One, no matter what the external circumstances.
One teaching from that event is that I was not prepared to directly experience higher energies for very long. That level of power blew my mind and circuit breakers. I felt that my nervous system wasn’t strong enough to handle the current. That experience still motivates me to live a healthy and refined life so I can serve as a conduit for those higher energies.
That’s the main reason for centering practices: not to work yourself toward the Light, for It is your truest nature and thus always available. Centering techniques upgrade the power and clarity of your perception so you can comprehend reality more accurately. Your true and unending nature is energy, love, light, intelligence, peace, beauty, creativity, and joy. Regular centering practices help you remember and live out that truth.
Breathwork is an ancient and cross-cultural way to more deeply know and show your eternal nature firsthand. In the Aramaic and Hebrew languages, the words spirit and breath were used interchangeably. The Chinese word chi and Japanese ki variously mean life force, spirit and breath. Breathing techniques are simple and powerful keys to optimal living. You can experience the Holistic Breathing Technique with my audio product at SoulProof.com/Shop.
Perhaps you’ve seen Oriental art depicting a wise sage standing on a bridge, impassively watching the river flow below. Regular use of centering techniques enables a firsthand experience of the fullness of life. From this watcher state, you can calmly yet passionately participate in all life’s changes while deeply remembering your magnificent nature and potential.
Consider these quotes about the importance of centering practices:
- Pascal: All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
- Pythagoras: Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
- John Donne: Wilt thou love God, as he Thee? Then digest, My Soul, this wholesome meditation: How God, the Spirit, by Angels waited on in heaven, doth make his Temple in thy breast.
- Rumi: Secretly we spoke, that wise one and me. I said, ‘Tell me the secrets of the world.’ He said, ‘Ssssh, let silence tell you the secrets of the world.’
I hope this article helps you better realize who you are, why you are here, Who walks beside / within you always, and how wonderful life can be.
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Hugs, love, blessings, and let it shine!
Mark
Mark Pitstick, MA, DC
author, lecturer, counselor, and holistic chiropractic physician; spokesperson, research assistant, and strategic planner for the SoulPhone Project; founder of Greater Reality Living, Healing, Helping, and Sharing Programs
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Mark Pitstick, MA, DC is a master’s clinical psychologist, holistic chiropractic physician, and clinical nutritionist. He has also helped others in pastoral counseling and suicide prevention / education settings. His goal is to help you know and show that this earthly experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst eternity.
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I created this article while ‘wearing the hat’ of a clinician, counselor, and educator. My statements are based upon some scientific research; much clinical and experiential evidence; my personal experiences; and my best current understandings. This program does not reflect my roles with the SoulPhone Project since those require solid scientific data for all statements.
