Embracing Meditation to Combat Negative Thoughts and Improve Mental Wellness

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Reflecting on the current global situation and astrological transits, it’s clear that many feel overwhelmed by external events and news. This often leads to a barrage of negative thoughts, both from the outside world and our inner self-talk. It’s easy to get trapped in a cycle of negativity, projecting internal fears and doubts onto others and feeling stuck in a low vibrational state.

In today’s blog, we will tackle this issue head-on. We will explore strategies to break free from negative thoughts. Understanding and managing these thoughts is essential, as they can trigger emotions and feelings that may seem inescapable. Let’s delve into this transformative practice to help navigate these challenging times.

Using Thought Swapping to Raise Your Vibrational Frequency and Improve Your Reality

Our minds often create a sense of losing control, similar to a wave that engulfs us. When we dwell on negative thoughts, our vibrational frequency lowers, and we get stuck in a self-perpetuating loop of negativity. It’s important to remember that your personal vibration is pivotal in determining what you manifest in life. When stuck in low vibrational states and focusing on what we don’t want, we inadvertently align and manifest more of the undesired.

Raising our personal vibration to manifest a fulfilling life requires understanding what we wish to avoid. This is where a simple, yet transformative tool called thought swapping comes into play. This tool can switch negative thoughts to positive instantly and raise your vibrational frequency, acting like an energy amplifier.

Thought swapping involves using affirmations or mantras to change how you feel. Unlike reading a list of positive affirmations, this technique is more proactive and dynamic. When stuck in a negative thought loop, vocalize a positive affirmation that directly contradicts your negative thought. This action pulls the energy back from your active mind, deviating its course, effectively breaking the loop of negativity and redirecting your thoughts.

Thought swapping steers your mind in a direction that aligns with the person you aspire to be, and the life you wish to manifest. By instantly shifting your thoughts and focus, you’ll notice an immediate improvement in your emotional state. This is due to the fact that your thoughts majorly influence your feelings.

Thoughts stimulate emotions, emotions evoke feelings, and these feelings generate energy waves that shape your reality. The thought swapping technique, therefore, interrupts the cycle of negative feelings, prompting you to seek better and higher vibrational emotional energy waves that can transform your reality. Since your thoughts and emotions affect the behavior of your DNA, and the thoughts that you chose to think have a direct impact on which timelines you align with, the thought forms that you consume define your flight through time and the quality of your existence. Being able to generate healthy thoughts as a countermeasure to negative thoughts is a very important ability to affect the health of your mind, body and spirit.

This shift in energy can result in almost immediate manifestations reflecting the change. For instance, if you’re anxious about having sufficient money to pay a bill, disrupt your scarcity mindset by affirming, “I have more than enough money. The universe always provides for me.” This is the essence of thought swapping.

By affirming positive statements like “My world is looking after me”, “I am being taken care of”, “All is well in my world”, or “Just for today I have enough”, you start to feel better. This shift towards a higher vibration due to the change in energy can lead to unexpected benefits, like money coming your way from unforeseen sources.

Similarly, if you’re dissatisfied with your appearance, halt that negative self-talk instantly and replace it with affirmations such as “I love myself just the way I am”, “I am beautiful”, “I love and accept myself”, or “I am enough”. As a result, you’ll start feeling better and begin to discover more aspects of yourself to love and appreciate. Begin by focusing on specific parts of your body, and shower them with love.

Positive self-talk can lead to noticeable changes in your reality. You might start receiving unexpected compliments or see improvements in your appearance. If you find yourself caught in a negative thought loop, such as doubting your potential for success, immediately counteract that negativity with a positive affirmation like “I am capable of success,” “Success is my birthright,” or “I can achieve anything I put my mind to.”

As you start to incorporate positive affirmations, you’ll feel more empowered, initiating a thought pattern that aligns with your best self and the life you aim to create. Persist with this thought-swapping technique, even if you still feel out of alignment initially. It’s crucial to remember that you are not your thoughts or your mind; you are the observer of your thoughts, similar to the sky observing the passing clouds.

Pay attention to the chatter in your mind and understand that negative thoughts do not represent the truth. You are much more than your thoughts and emotions; you are the light that shines behind them.

Embracing Positive Affirmations and Meditation for a Mindful Living

Continually affirm positivity and strive to focus your thoughts and energy on the good you desire in your life. Remember, only you possess the power to change the course of your life at any given moment.

Meditation serves as a valuable tool for curbing an overactive mind and unwelcome thoughts. Incorporate five to ten minutes of daily meditation into your morning routine, even as simple as during your morning shower, to create a beneficial shift in your mindset and energy.

Visualize the water in your shower as a golden light sweeping over your body, and use those precious moments to recite positive affirmations. Whenever your mind reverts back to focusing on what you don’t want, swiftly replace those thoughts with affirmations stated aloud. Experience the shift in energy that accompanies this practice.

For more affirmations, specialized sacred mantras, or personalized coaching and mentoring, consider booking a discovery call with me. You’ll have the opportunity to discuss your specific needs and develop a custom program tailored just for you.

As for meditation, it’s a practice I learned from my guru and his guru, known as a Parampara Guru. The essence of meditation is to mentally concentrate all your sensory and motor organs to fully visualize, feel, and experience something pleasant and pleasing to oneself.

The object of focus during meditation can be anything, but it’s often more beneficial to choose something pleasant or interesting as the mind naturally gravitates towards such things. For instance, one of my yantras or an energized painting (available for download) can serve as your meditation focus. You can also commission personalized artwork or select from various prints and specialized yantras on my Instagram. These can be paired with specific mantras and affirmations during your meditation.

Moreover, meditating on a living object can be greatly beneficial. Consider observing a flower, a flowing lake, clouds in the sky, or waves in the ocean during a walk in nature. The goal of meditation is to engage in a peaceful, silent interaction with a living object.

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali outline four basic stages of meditation, guiding you on this serene journey of mindful interaction.

Understanding the Four Stages of Meditation: Withdrawal, Focus, Awareness, and Unification

The initial stage of meditation, as outlined in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, involves withdrawal from the external world. The second stage is about maintaining your focus or vision, known as “dharana” in Indian philosophy. The third stage involves achieving an unbroken, effortless stream of awareness, referred to as “dhyana”. Finally, you reach the internal stage of unification, the sacred union, also known as “Samadhi”. These stages, as imparted to me by my Guruji, guide you through the journey of meditation, beginning with the first step: withdrawal.

Before beginning meditation, you might find your mind darting between external and internal forms, often chaotically due to various sensory inputs from your environment triggering random thoughts. To tame this disorderly state, it’s essential to withdraw from these external stimuli, a process that can be aided by simply closing your eyes. Preparing your mind to be totally aware and function at its full potential is crucial to facilitate the creative visualization that forms the backbone of your meditation practice.

When meditating, your mind may often drift away from the object of concentration. This natural tendency, similar to the centrifugal force in physics, can initially be harnessed to discard any external stimuli. Close your eyes, listen to the sounds around and within you, and consciously feel different parts of your body in succession, from your feet to your crown. This practice relaxes your body, releases stress, and activates different parts of the brain, preparing it for meditation.

Creating a tranquil, peaceful, and powerful mood is another crucial step. This can be achieved through positive affirmations or chants, reinforcing feelings like, “I am peaceful,” “I am happy,” “I forgive myself and others,” and “I love my body.” Dedicate this time for yourself, not worrying about the past or future. Choose an object for meditation—be it sacred geometry, nature, or an artwork—and focus on it with all your senses.

The next stage, known as Dharana, involves holding onto the object of meditation, much like focusing on each bead in a Mala during prayer. Spend time with each aspect of the object, feeling its sound, touch, form, taste, or fragrance. Once you’ve fully connected with one aspect, move on to the next, gradually and methodically covering the entire object.

Unlike regular thought patterns, the thoughts during Dharana are not incoherent. They form a continuous link, like frames in a film or a cartoon strip, leading you towards a complete understanding of the object. The happiness found within each frame fuels your concentration, making the process enjoyable and rewarding.

Deepening Your Meditation Practice: Understanding Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi

When meditating on an object, say a picture, you might find yourself experiencing hidden emotions such as laughter, compassion, or grace. These are blissful aspects within you, and they aren’t just about pleasure. They could be deep feelings or fleeting emotions emanating from various facets of your being—be it erotic, heroic, compassionate, or even angry. All these aspects form the ‘innerversity’ of your self.

Even after withdrawing from the external world, outside stimuli might still filter into your consciousness, disrupting your meditation. It could be a phone ringing, a doorbell, or physical discomfort. In such instances, it’s best to return to a point in your meditation close to where you were interrupted.

As you near the end of Dharana, you might discover a particular spot or “rosary bead” where you wish to establish a mood and spend time. The mind naturally tends to drift away, much like the centrifugal force, but the effort to refocus it is the true essence of Dharana. Even if your mind strays, you bring it back to the center, leading you to the next phase, Dhyana, or the unbroken flowing awareness.

Dhyana represents a spontaneous concentration where your mind gets completely absorbed in the object of your meditation, losing itself and the force pushing it away. You’re deep diving into your chosen object and experiencing it with your senses. This effortless flow of awareness wraps around the object of your meditation.

However, it’s important to remember that the object is still separate from us. Even though we know everything about it and perceive its thoughts as our own, it’s as if we are looking at ourselves in a mirror. This reflects the threefold division of the seer knowing the seen as their own self.

If you persist in the state of Dhyana for roughly an additional 20 minutes, you can transition into the final stage of meditation known as Samadhi. In this state, the separation between the observer and the observed dissolves. There’s no distinct object of meditation; only the subject that concurrently embodies the object. For instance, if you’re meditating on a goddess, you become the goddess in the state of Samadhi. You start to perceive your existence in all beings, understanding that all bodies are, in essence, yours.

Understanding Samadhi and Practicing a Five-Minute Galaxy Meditation

In the final stage of meditation, Samadhi, you reach the realization that all is self, experiencing an internal unity reflective of your true nature. This state isn’t an emptiness, but a fullness. It transcends space, time, and life itself—existing beyond movement, birth, death, and growth. It embodies the sum of all possible experiences across all life forms, in all worlds, at all times. This completion of Samadhi deepens the understanding of meditation and can potentially set the foundation for open-eye meditations in later stages.

Now, let’s explore a brief, five-minute meditation. Close your eyes and envision your body as an entire universe of stars, trillions upon trillions, forming a galaxy that is you. As you move, imagine these stars sweeping through the air, streaming forth from your fingertips when you point at something. You are a flowing universe of stars.

Allow this lightness and brightness to expand your thoughts, ideas, and self-talk, illuminating more of what is possible for you and others. Feel your movements as fluid yet defined, leaving trails of stardust wherever you go. These stars can be bright or colored, carrying beautiful feelings, and they luminesce in your inner-verse. You may even dance in this meditation, moving more into the light of your essence.

Use this meditation as a quick pick-me-up whenever you need to lighten your load. Remember, you are the creator of your reality. You are the inner-verse of your universe. All is self. When ready to return to reality, rub your hands together, place them over your eyes, affirm that all is well in your world, and gently open your eyes with a smile.

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