Most of us don’t have the time to go into retreat for years, months, or even weeks to explore and uncover the self, meaning that practices such as those taught by Yogi Bhajan are precious in this time. Oh, that it were so easy! Kundalini Yoga meditation utilises a range of technologies for entering into the neutral mind space quickly and efficiently. There is a widespread perception that meditation is sitting in lotus, hands in gyan mudra, eyes closed, and the mind is still. The key here is that it is the process involved with reaching these outcomes, rather than the outcomes themselves. My definition of meditation is thus: a means of returning to one’s true nature-the space that resides behind our behaviours, behind our beliefs, behind the chatter and the noise.
But if you physically don’t move, the mind becomes still.” And sometimes they continue to bug you for about half an hour. It takes about three minutes to get those kinds of thoughts. This procedure of cleansing the mind of not dumping a lot of thoughts into your subconscious mind is called meditation. All those thoughts that can pass at that moment of your life can never enter your subconscious mind, and they will not bother you again.
If you let those thoughts pass by, this is meditation. At any time which is peaceful-the best is early morning time, before the dawn-you’ll be surprised, that in a couple of minutes, a lot of thoughts will start coming to you-those thoughts which you do not want to touch-the x-rated thoughts, the ugly, angry thoughts, all those kind of thoughts. When the dawn comes, the sun power, the ray energy, is more scattered and the mind is not controllable. In his lecture, ‘Meditation: a simple process’ he states the following: “Meditation is a process.
Yogi Bhajan describes meditation as “the art of breaking habits, to purify the mind and to take care of the day-to-day things”. In it, he said, ‘comprehension of Eastern thought is essential if Western psychology is to develop’. Another one of my heroes, Carl Jung, gave a lecture in 1932 called The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga, and in it he explains how Kundalini Yoga gave him a model for the development of consciousness. As I mentioned earlier, I get really excited because in my view, there is a great deal of crossover between the transpersonal and the Kundalini Yoga models. The word ‘transpersonal’ means ‘beyond the mask’, and in plain English it means to work with someone in a therapeutic way, beyond their ‘public face’ or the mask of their ego with the intention of ascribing greater meaning and purpose to the client’s experiences. In transpersonal theory, ASCs are either ergotropic (arousing or stimulating) or trophotropic (relaxing and quietening), and have a positive and negative expression. One of the pioneers of the transpersonal psychology movement, Charles Tart, was the first to coin the term ‘altered state of consciousness’ (ASC), for ‘any state different from our ordinary waking state (OWS)’, or beta state. Eastern meditation techniques have been adapted and increasingly practiced in Western culture. Different meditative disciplines encompass a wide range of spiritual or psychophysical practices that may emphasise different goals-from achievement of a higher state of consciousness, to greater focus, creativity or self-awareness, or simply a more relaxed and peaceful frame of mind. Meditation often involves turning attention to a single point of reference. I would like to share with you my understanding of the science of meditation, most specifically in the Kundalini tradition, but also drawing parallels to other branches of altered state technologies, such as shamanic practice and transpersonal psychology. I find it exciting that Western science has caught up with what yogic texts have been teaching for thousands of years. As a Kundalini Yoga teacher, and a transpersonal counsellor who uses meditation as a therapeutic intervention, I am continually amazed by how profoundly this range of interventions can bring about deep, lasting change.
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