“In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam – it is very powerful and healing can happen.” - Sri Sri Ravishankar

Only a healthy bud can blossom. In the same way, only a healthy being can succeed.

So, what's it to be healthy?

To attain a perfect state of health, one has to remain mentally calm, steady and emotionally stable. 
Swasthya means health. It also means being in one's self. Swasthya or health is not just confined to the body and the mind; it has come to you as a gift from the cosmic mind or the 'Indra'.

Meditation increases prana (life energy)

Prana (the vital life energy) is the very basis of health and well being, for both body and mind. You can gain prana through meditation.

When your body is alive with prana, you feel alert, energetic, and full of good humor. A lack of prana results in lethargy, dullness, and poor enthusiasm.

Dealing with illness - through meditation

There are three causes for illness:

• Violation of natural law: such as over-eating
• Imposed by nature: such as common cold, an epidemic…
• Release of past impressions or Karma

Nature itself provides a cure for these illnesses. There could be some conflicts in the consciousness, in the mind. The solution is to meditate, let go of the conflicts and have proper food. When illness is detected early, all these things come to the rescue.

Health and illness are a part of physical nature. You should not worry too much about it. When you worry about illness, you are giving more power to the illness. You are a combination of health and illness. When you keep that in mind and have a positive state of mind, then illnesses change.  

Heal the mind – through meditation

Meditation sharpens the mind through focus, and expands the mind through relaxation.

A sharp mind without expansion causes tension, anger, and frustration.

An expanded mind without sharpness cannot bring holistic development.

The balance of a focused mind and an expanded consciousness brings perfection.

Meditation prevents stresses from getting into the body system, and also releases accumulated stress. You become happier, and tend to discover beauty in everything.

Practice of meditation brings such coolness to the brain, that it’s like servicing or overhauling the whole body-mind complex.

Clear emotional pollution – with meditation

A time may come in the future, when people will be fined for being depressed, because they are creating emotional pollution!

The words that you hear from people around you, affect your state of mind. They either give you peace and joy, or create disturbance (such as jealously, anger, frustration or sadness). You’re affected because the mind is not in its Self; it is not centered.

Meditation is the key to control ‘emotional pollution’.

Blossom with meditation

Meditation can bring about a spiritual transformation.

As you learn more about life, the mystery of the whole Creation unfolds. Then the questions that arise in the mind are - What is the meaning of Life? What is its purpose? What is this world, what is love, what is knowledge...? 
Once these questions arise in you, know that you are very fortunate. These questions need to be understood; you cannot find the answers in books. You have to live through them and witness the transformation. That is perfect health; you are transformed from within. And the bud becomes a totally blossomed flower.

Heal the world through meditation

Meditation purifies the environment.

Meditation and Sudarshan Kriya have transformed aggression and violence in people - to compassion, love, and care.

When you enter a place, where a very disturbed and stressed person has spent some time, you start feeling disturbed for no reason, even if the stressed person is not around any longer. You experience the same feelings, same thoughts, and same emotions.

Similarly, when there is a harmonious vibration, you feel good – you’ll experience this at a place where a Satsang is happening. You may wonder why.

Feelings are not isolated in one's body - they are all around. So is breath, so also the mind. It is in the whole environment, because the mind is subtler than the five elements (the earth, the water, the fire, the air, and the ether). If there is a fire somewhere, the heat is not just in the fire, it is also radiating throughout the place.

Note: If you are unhappy or depressed, you are not the only one who is feeling it; you are spreading it to the whole environment.

In the current global situation of conflicts and disease, it’s important that everyone meditates a little bit every day. Through meditation, you can nullify the negative vibrations, thereby creating a more harmonious environment.

The Healing Breath and Meditation

A jewel in the Art of living is the healing breath, known as the Sudarshan Kriya.

This unique breathing practice is a potent energizer:

• Every cell becomes fully oxygenated and flooded with new life
• It flushes out negative emotions in the body
• It releases tensions, frustrations and anger
• It clears anxiety, depression and lethargy
• It gives relief to both the mind and body

After the practice, one is left calm and centered with a clearer vision of the world and of oneself. A sense of joy in the moment prevails, and you’re able to smile from your heart. And when you feel good about yourself, love flows naturally in all your relationships.

"Do the Healing Breath and meditate. These practices completely transform you, and kindle the love deep inside."