Re: Re: Addiction... learning about self-love

08-15-2005, 09:50 AM

Sat Sangeet Kaur shared something incredibly important.

Most people don't think they have it in them to do what she did. And most
of us who went through something like that had to do it alone for the most
part because we were creating a new way to handle our problems. Now there
are more people thinking along the same lines.

For instance:
Do not think about fixing a problem or a disease or an addiction, instead
think about where you'd like to be and support that which your soul is
inviting you to be.

Not only is it gentler but it also gives you something in the end !

That's the path to discover the soul's desire Sat Sangeet was talking
about as opposed to the option our culture suggests along the lines of:
"How to be thin again?" At the same time one needs to find the strength
and courage to stop giving energy to the fear, the addiction, the disease.
The Catholic priests who performed exorcisms already knew what to do: They
would recite prayers and focus only on God and whenever the "evil
manifestions" (whatever they were) appeared they would ignore them and
keep their focus on God through the prayers. Sat Sangeet's experience
sitting in a ball on her couch while experiencing the temptations of
eating are not so far from the experience of "evil temptations". I wonder
what "mantras" you kept coming back to Sat Sangeet in order to ignore the
cries for food.

We each have to do that in some ways in our life. People nowadays don't
like to talk about Satan and the devil and such... but they work very well
to express the feelings that we're experiencing in such situations.

In the end it is about learning self-love.

I prefer to focus on the soul's need so a meditation to stop addictions
maybe useful but a new supportive practice must be created to replace the
addiction otherwise we find ourself empty and exhausted.

So my suggestion is to combine a meditation to stop addictive behavior
with a meditation on self-love until one finds one's true desires that are
being avoided by the addictive behavior.

Blessings, Awtar S.
Rochester, NY

08-16-2005, 05:26 AM

"I wonder
what "mantras" you kept coming back to Sat Sangeet in order to ignore the
cries for food"....Awtar

Sat Sangeet writes:

I had just returned from my first summer solstice experience and had heard
Snatam's "Prem" album for the first time....so I sat down with my guitar and
tried to figure out, in the limited guitar experience I had, how to play her
version of "Gobinda Hari" (which translates to God my Sustainer).

Well, I never figured it out, but as I tried, something new emerged. In that
moment, the first song that I ever wrote came pouring out of me....I sang what
seemed like forever "Gobinda Gobinda Hari Hari..." Over and over
again...feeling God as the force that sustains me, rather than food etc.
Lifting me up and lifting me up!! And then english verse beagn to come to me as
well...and it turned out to be an 8 minute song in the end! Ha Ha! And I am
happy to report 4 years after the fact, I have just finished my first recording
experience and "Gobinda" was one of the songs that I recorded! So it's all come
full circle!

My other "all time favorite" 911 call is...

"Guru Guru Wahe Guru Guru Ram Das Guru"....I learnt my love of Guru Ram Das from
Guru Ganesha Singh...at my first summer solstice event, I had the privilege of
having my heart opened, while he sang a love song he had written about Guru Ram
Das to me in the "Ancient healing ways" trailer of all things! Ha Ha! And from
there, I have always found his love of Guru Ram Das contagious!

There is nothing that I'd rather do more than sing devotionally!

All Light,

Sat Sangeet Kaur

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08-18-2005, 01:47 PM

Sat Nam,

Thank you Sat Sangeet for sharing about how you connected with your deepest
urges to eat and how you used your will to break the cycle. It is very
important for everyone to know that we have to connect to yourselves and ALL
our feelings and instincts to shift patterns and rechannel our energy to
serve us, instead of sabotage us.

Often we think that if we just do yoga everything will be different. Well,
a daily KY practice certainly helps align our energies, but the inner work
of staying focused on ourselves to create shifts has to be part of our
regime.

Including baby pose in our daily practice offers a chance to physically be
cozy with ourselves. If this position is comfortable for you, then include
it and stay very present to your feelings and instincts at this time. This
can be a good position to "process" our emotions. (Not think about but to
actually feel the energies that move through our bodies.)

Sat Nam,

Gururattana

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sat Sangeet"
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Kundalini Yoga] Re: Addiction... learning about self-love

>
> "I wonder
> what "mantras" you kept coming back to Sat Sangeet in order to ignore the
> cries for food"....Awtar
>
> Sat Sangeet writes:
>
> I had just returned from my first summer solstice experience and had heard
> Snatam's "Prem" album for the first time....so I sat down with my guitar
> and tried to figure out, in the limited guitar experience I had, how to
> play her version of "Gobinda Hari" (which translates to God my
> Sustainer).
>
> Well, I never figured it out, but as I tried, something new emerged. In
> that moment, the first song that I ever wrote came pouring out of me....I
> sang what seemed like forever "Gobinda Gobinda Hari Hari..." Over and
> over again...feeling God as the force that sustains me, rather than food
> etc. Lifting me up and lifting me up!! And then english verse beagn to
> come to me as well...and it turned out to be an 8 minute song in the end!
> Ha Ha! And I am happy to report 4 years after the fact, I have just
> finished my first recording experience and "Gobinda" was one of the songs
> that I recorded! So it's all come full circle!
>
> My other "all time favorite" 911 call is...
>
> "Guru Guru Wahe Guru Guru Ram Das Guru"....I learnt my love of Guru Ram
> Das from Guru Ganesha Singh...at my first summer solstice event, I had the
> privilege of having my heart opened, while he sang a love song he had
> written about Guru Ram Das to me in the "Ancient healing ways" trailer of
> all things! Ha Ha! And from there, I have always found his love of Guru
> Ram Das contagious!
>
> There is nothing that I'd rather do more than sing devotionally!
>
> All Light,
>
> Sat Sangeet Kaur
>
>
>
>
>
>
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