Connect with your soul through yoga and meditation

There are many forms of yoga. Some deals with controlling bodily functions. In our body, we have two currents: Motor currents and sensory currents. The motor currents keep us alive by controlling involuntary functions, such as the growth of nails and hair, breathing, and blood circulation.

In meditation, one does not practice the control of your motor currents. The motor currents are allowed to go on by themselves so that the process by which we survive is not tampered with. Instead, we withdraw the sensory currents. The sensory currents give us sensation in the body. It is the sensory currents that make us aware of the sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. If we withdraw our sensory currents from the outside world, we will be able to travel to the realms within ourselves.

Meditation is, in reality, a process of concentration. It is so simple and natural that it can be practised by a young child or the elderly, by a healthy person or someone with a physical disability. Meditation does not require any rigorous physical activity. It is a non-denominational technique that has been practised as a science by people of all religions and faiths, cultures and back grounds. It is open to one and all, and has been offered as a free gift by the spiritual masters who have come to us through the ages. It is up to us whether we wish to merely read about the realms beyond, or experience them. The saints tell us that the body deteriorates, decays, and is finally destroyed. But our true self, which is our spirit or soul, is eternal. It lives. By connecting with our soul, we will have access to the answers of what awaits us in the great beyond.

In matters of trust, you need to be highly choosy

We all have to go through situations of trust and distrust. That is as inevitable as love and hate periods in life. Trust and distrust create scenarios that make the best use of. History tells us that trust and distrust have equally been used or misused to one's advantage.

Just as trust helps bridging gaps of misunderstanding between individuals, distrust makes one feel lonely and dejected. You distrust someone and a chain reaction sets in. As a result, life's journey and its noble purposes go haywire.

George Eliot, in her study of life's vicissitudes in the case of two principal characters in her novel, Middlemarch, portrays this inevitably sad story of life: "He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is lonelier than distrust?"

True, distrust can't be taken as a negative trait all the time. At times, it becomes important that one gets to understand the turns of life when distrust could be the only weapon of protection for survival and for leading a peaceful life. You may be quite positive and even meaning well for the rest of the world, but that does not mean that you won't be taken for a ride.

You have to be positively discriminating to safeguard yourself. Shakespeare's wisdom, in 'All is well that ends well ', says, "Love all, but trust a few." There is no possibility of any harm coming your way when it comes to your loving even the whole world, but blind trust could lead to horrible consequences one could have never thought of. As someone said, trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it broken, but the cracks will be staring at you, to torment you until your last breath.