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Contemplations from the 8 th lesson on the Shiva Sutras The story so far;  Sutra 1 – Optimise your energy (with sadhana, clean living and right thinking) Sutra 2 – Always maintain a beginner's mind. Sutra 3 – Remember that your body is a temple; treasure it. Sutra 4 – Focus on the frequency you are emitting. Sutra 5 – Give yourself fully to everything you do and be satisfied. Sutra 6 –Make the switch from thinking to feeling. And now... Sutra 7: Vismayo Yogabhumihi ‘The basis of union is wonder’ Shiva says "Live in wonder of all that is. Practice yoga and meditation and revive the child within yourself everyday so that you can see this world with fresh eyes. Look out at life from your heart rather than your brain. Be curious. Live in respectful awe of the great power that is creating everything you see. Stop pretending it’s all normal and mundane and acknowledge its magnificence. Don’t say ‘So what!’, say ‘Wow!’, and be humbled into quiet, joy...

Contemplations from the 7 th lesson of the Shiva Sutras Sutra 6:   Shakti Chakra Sandhane Vishvasamharah ‘When you become conscious of your energy centres, the world you have created disappears’. Perhaps the way I am seeing the world in this moment is not necessarily how it really is. Maybe with a little enquiry I might find that in truth I am actually making most of it up. You see, the way I see the world right now, is greatly dependent on what I am looking through and I am often looking through a drunken haze of my own emotions, hormones and past experiences. As it turns out, I am regularly ‘under the influence’! If I feel low, I am influenced to see the world as an impossible mountain to climb. If I feel fearful, I am influenced to see the world and everyone in it as a threat. If I feel insecure, I am influenced to see the world as something that I need to control. If I feel worried and anxious, I am influenced to see the world as a proble...

Contemplations from the 6 th Lesson of the Shiva Sutras Sutra 5:   Udyamao Bhairavah ‘If you wish to experience fullness, give yourself fully’. The Shiva Sutras are so magnificently direct, practical and down to earth. Shiva fully understands the mechanism that underpins our egos and maintains our separate sense of self. With each sutra he is playfully tugging on the pin of our grenade, challenging our resistance to life and joyfully beckoning us into the unbounded aliveness of egoless awareness. When do we feel most whole? When we are giving the whole of ourselves to whatever it is we are doing. When do we feel most alive? When we are giving our life energy 100% to the task before us. When do we feel most satisfied and content? When we have given everything we have to give.          Now on the flip-side;  When do we feel most anxious and tense? When we are focused on the results of our actions. When do we feel most d...

Contemplations from the 5 th Lesson on the Shiva Sutras Sutra 4: Jnanadristham matrika 'Find the root of the matrix and become the source of your own creation'. If we are serious about consciously creating our own lives, in accordance with our highest aspirations, we will need to position ourselves at the root of the creative process itself. In this sutra Shiva urges us to make a profound but simple switch in our focus. He says, ‘ Don’t focus on what is coming at you, focus on what is coming from you’ , b ecause the frequency that we are emitting right now, will in time, become our future. You see, we tend to think that what we are experiencing outside of ourselves in this moment is something called the present, but this is not so. What we are experiencing outside of ourselves right now is what we ourselves have generated from the past. So what we call the present is not really the present at all, it’s actually the past. The spiritual injunction we have all he...