THE TEACHINGS OF YOGI BHAJAN

Establish Your Relationship

from impurities in the blood to cancer. If you start to get a bad signal from there, change your diet and exercise. Meditate and calm your reactive mind, reduce your stress. But that solution requires you to act, to have a discipline, to sense your own condition. It means you take responsibility and use your gifts and the temple of the body. Periodic fasting is well known to clear the mind and to adjust our relationship to many of our emotions and impulses. Take the example of Mahatma Ghandi. He fasted, lived simply, and when he died the entire world acknowledged him. Right or wrong, his mind was coherent and his mind awakened the acknowledgement of the psyche of the entire globe. When you need energy and want to make the mind alert, you do not need to take drugs. Just take kaalee cholay (black gramsa kind of garbanzo bean). It is a delicious food, commonly available, cheap, and beautifully holistic. Prepare these black garbanzos with black pepper, black salt, onions, ginger, garlic, and a little green chilies or jalepeos. Eat them every day. In 40 days they clean your system, and they give you so much energy you feel you can leap over walls. Even nature knows these little beans have a special power. You can identify which fields grow them. Just as the plants reach the middle of their ripeness, when the seedlings turn to flowers and then to a pod, the rain comes and lightning begins to play all over the field. It is a spectacular dance between heaven and earth and it marks that field. There is some secret there between that electricity and this food. There are many techniques to develop the mind and establish your relationship to it. The psychology of human totality and excellence, Humanology, has classified the approaches to evoke, balance, and use each aspect and projection of your mind and its mechanisms. Food, breath, sound, concentration, and exercise are all tools you can use. I will elaborate many of these techniques and show you how they relate to your mind a little later. The Age is shifting. We had the Industrial Age, then the Information Revolution, and now we are crossing into the Aquarian Age. This will be the Age of Awareness. We will be overloaded with information and our psyches will become more sensitive. It will be essential for each of us to know our mind and command it with our meditative mind. Without control of those many facets, the undirected mind will create depressions, delusions, identity splits, and a deep core feeling of emptiness. It will be our duty, and a fundamental requirement of our future lives, to meditate and to command the mind. That is why I just want to talk to you right from my heart. I want to share what I know and have experienced. I want to share with you the beauty, the wonders of the human mind. I want you to understand that your mental * 9

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THE MIND: ITS PROJECTIONS AND MULTIPLE FACETS

That is why I tell you to meditate, to do sadhana, to conquer your mind, and all its facets and projections. As a human being, by nature, you have the capacity for a very deep understanding and sensitivity. Your mind has the faculty to analyze everything in the shortest possible time, so short it can't even be measured. This faculty is called intuition. Normally, your mind doesn't work that well. You forget to develop the meditative mind and your awareness. You forget to care for this body as a temple and as a most sophisticated creation and instrument. Your brain cannot compute well because your hormonal and neurochemical base is poor. Then your power, which is in your basic structure and brain, is not facilitated to understand, to analyze in depth, to compute, and reconstruct the thought forms of your entire psyche. Further, you are not trained to use your mind to synchronize your own magnetic field with the cosmic magnetic field, which has a complete interconnection with all other humans, other existences, and realms of material existence. That synchronization gives you guidance and pathways through every problem. Did you know that? Do you know that as an experience, as a practical skill? You, through your meditative mind, should be in the position to control your projection, attitude, and acknowledgement towards the entire globe. Equally you should be sensitive and in control of the entire global acknowledgement projected towards you. You and your mind are that sophisticated and rich in design! Without meditation, and without a relationship to your mind, you fail to use the power of the mind. You fail to rely on your self. You complicate your approach. You do not use the beautiful designs given to you by birthright in this body, that link the effectiveness of body, mind, soul, and you. If you are pure and your food is pure, your mind can act well and your entire life can be well. You often do things that stop your built-in cleansing and support functions. You do not know or appreciate how well designed your body and mind are. Take an area of your body you feel is very lowly, and you think does not affect your mind: the area we call the armpit. Normally you worry that that area will create a bad odor. You cover it in layers of chemicals and stop it from sweating. Unfortunately, this diffuses the accurate release of hormones into your bloodstream, which impairs the top functioning of your brain and mind! You block a window that God created and never designed to be blocked. The armpit is one of the most sensitive areas in the body. The balance in the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems depends on the signals from that little area. Is it sweating? Is it moving? What are the chemical signals from circulation, skin, lymph, etc? You read your body from those signals. The normal release from that area helps prevent many medical problems,