Techniques are merely tools for initiating a beginner into the path of self exploration. Why do you think there are innumerable techniques for learning and doing something as basic as yoga and meditation out there in the world? Any guesses?
We have been endowed with five physical senses, eyesight, hearing, smelling, tasting and touch. As we go through our lives fully busy with all that is perceived with these five senses, we get completely engrossed with life and completely ignore the other dimension available to us. Elkhart calls it the Vertical dimension. Others have known it as Inward journey or Inner Engineering or Self-exploration or self-awareness and I refer to it as our Awareness Journey.
An intention to begin exploring into this dimension to experience a fuller life or a wholesome life is the first step. Once you intend to go on this path it is not necessary to stop or change whatever you are doing with your outward or materialistic life. They can go on, in parallel, in fact as you go deeper into your awareness and uncover the hidden aspects of you, your outward life transforms, heals and grows in unexpected and unimaginable ways.
When you integrate these two paths, you create your own unique techniques. That’s why there are innumerable techniques, each person on this path ahead, who has managed to learn and then integrate it with their lives have come up with their version of it to help others on the path. Until you integrate, you keep learning. Because it’s not the techniques that are being learnt, it is the transition of the effects into routine life that is seems to be the real goal.
I have seen people spend an hour or two every day for years practicing in learning and perfecting yoga and meditation. They may achieve a very flexible body and be able to sit still and meditate for long hours and even find peace during the practice. But their routine life may remain still stuck and stagnant. In terms of healthy relationships, wholesome physical health or material abundance or fulfilment or whatever it is that still remains missing in life. Learning to integrate is the real learning and it is a process of self learning or actually a process of unlearning that needs to be uncovered from within. There can be only pointers and guidance from others but one needs to find it out by themselves. In doing so, techniques get created.
One such set of techniques are available in my YouTube channel videos and SoundCloud channel audios. I invite you to explore your path using these.
Selvan Srinivasan
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