Swami Mukundananda

Reprogramming The Subconscious Mind Part 1 Yahoo! Lecture By Swami Mukundananda

The kind of thoughts we harbor affects our actions and ultimately shapes our personality and our destiny. Therefore it is imperative that we empower ourselves to control our thoughts for the best possible future. The key lies in our ability to control the subconscious mind. Swami Mukundananda's lecture was delivered at Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale on reprogramming the subconscious mind. Swamiji begins by explaining that thoughts have the ability to increase our blood pressure or lowering it. Thoughts can make our hearts beat faster or slower. They can make us stay awake all night or sleep peacefully. As Lord Buddha said, "I have been harmed, I have been robbed, I have been cheated, I have been deceived" - misery never ceases for those who harbor such thoughts; on the other hand misery completely ceases for those who stop harboring such thoughts! Thoughts can lead us to success or can lead us to failure. Those who learned how to choose their thoughts properly became successful in their lives. If we can also learn this art - it can lead us to happiness, prosperity, and well-being. The mind is the factory that generates these thoughts. It is also the garden that harbors these thoughts. The Bhagavad Gita says - uplift yourself by the power of your mind - for the mind has the capacity to become your best friend and it can also be your worst enemy. The thoughts generated by the mind lead to images; images lead to emotions. Emotions lead to further thoughts which lead to more emotions. This entire chain can lift us upwards or it can make our mind into a toxic waste. That is why, sometime or other in our journey of life - we realize that for success, prosperity and fulfillment - we will need to learn the art of how to manage our mind. When we seriously learn to apply our self to it - we learn that mind has two aspects - one is the conscious mind; another is the subconscious aspect. Many of the sentiments, phobias etc. arise from the subconscious mind. Phobias like claustrophobia may also be coming from the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind has the ability to control our bodily processes for our benefit or harm. Some scientists have claimed that the subconscious mind works at 40,000 times the speed of the conscious mind. While the conscious mind is responsible for reason, logic, and thoughts; the subconscious is responsible for instincts, inspiration, attitude, fears, phobias and bodily processes. Those who realize it, understand that the subconscious can make us sick and the subconscious could also lead us. If somebody repeatedly thinks a particular thought, the subconscious does not logic it out, it just follows orders. This lecture series is a MUST LISTEN where Swami Ji explained several aspects of reprogramming the subconscious mind with real-life examples and practical techniques.

Training Your Mind To Feel Happy Everyday | Swami Mukundananda

I have a nice family and a job but still not happy - why? Listen to find the answer to this common question as Swami Mukundananda relates to us what will make us truly happy forever. Action item: Always Remember - To be truly happy in life, we need to search for Happiness from within and not tie it to external things or possessions. When we count all our blessings in life, we can find a million reasons to be happy. Develop this positive attitude today !!

Art Of Mind Management Part 10 | Where Should We Contemplate Happiness | Swami Mukundananda

Art of Mind Management Part10 - Swami Mukundananda - Where should we contemplate happiness? If contemplation is the source of all attachment then what is the source of contemplation? Buy the Art of Mind Management DVD here: https://www.jkyog.org/store/ Why do we seek bliss? It is intrinsic to our nature to seek happiness. We are tiny fragments of that ocean of bliss which is the vast reservoir of happiness that is why it is our soul nature to seek bliss. The thirst for happiness is not satiated till we get the bliss of God. We, embodied soul seek happiness in the material realm but the happiness that will satiate us is not in the world but in God. Soul by nature is blissful. Swamiji talks about the science of neuroplasticity, in which when we repeat a thought again and again it creates a channel of thoughts in the mind. Repeated contemplation over an object that this will give me joy or I will get happiness out of it creates a channel of thoughts in the mind which leads to attachment. This attachment leads to desire. How to channelize our desire in the right direction? Repeated contemplation of happiness in the objects of the world leads to worldly attachments. Worldly attachments binds us, while attachment in the divine realm elevates us. What will give us that happiness which our soul is seeking? Swamiji gives us a simple solution by Ved Vyas in Bhagavatam, what is that solution listen to the whole clip to know it. Make anger your friend, use it as an impetus to rise further. How?

Art Of Mind Management Part 7 | Desire Is The Mother Of Greed Anger | Swami Mukundananda

Art of Mind Management Part 7 - Swami Mukundananda - Desire is the mother of greed & anger Get "Art of Mind Management" DVD at: https://www.jkyog.org/store/ In this lecture Swamiji illustrates powerful analysis of the mind given by the Vedas. How the afflictions of the mind trouble us. What are the afflictions of the mind? The afflictions of the mind is anger, greed, desire and hatred. Vedas say these are manas rog or disease of the mind. Anger, greed and desire is a disease of the mind, motivated by greed people go on hoarding when they know they are going to leave everything behind after death. No matter how much we earn and hoard it is never enough to satisfy the greed. At the end it is only two yards of land that is used to bury and all that you earn, leave behind. Swamiji narrates with beautiful examples the disastrous consequence of anger and greed. ‘Duniya me khoob kamaya kya hira kya moti, par kya karu yaaro kafan me jeb nahi hoti’ But bigger than greed is desire because desire is the root cause of greed and anger. Fullfilment of desire leads to greed and non fulfillment of desire leads to anger. Desire can be in multitude form in terms of material comfort, emotional comfort or in terms of prestige and status. Any obstruction in the fulfillment of desire ignites anger. Anger has its seed in the non fulfillment of desire. These mental afflictions trouble our us more than the physical afflictions and many a times causes ‘Vyadhi’ or disease. How to overcome the disease of the mind? Listen to the full series for solutions.

Art Of Mind Management Part 5 | Utilize Intellect To Control The Mind | Swami Mukundananda

Art of Mind Management Part5 - Swami Mukundananda - Utilize Intellect to control the Mind Get Art of Mind Management DVD at: https://www.jkyog.org/store What is the tool to control the mind? How to bring the mind in a state of optimal performance? How to bridle and tap the potential of mind? Keeping the mind in negativity, is keeping it in a state of unproductive energy. Complaints and grudges keeps our mind in a negative state. Time and again all of us have felt the need to manage our mind, how to keep it at a positive paradigm is a challenge. ‘Mann ke jeete jeet hai mann ke hare har’ We win or lose in our mind first. But the question remains how to manage our mind and condition it to a state of positivity. It is in our interest to cultivate our mind with noble thoughts to bring it to a sublime level, because it is in the state of positivity that the performance is optimal. What does the mind do, it creates feelings, hankerings, likes and aversions. All the time mind is in a state of quagmire. Mind creates sentiments and desire and leaving us in a state of quandary. How to control our unbridled mind? How to manage our mind, is an art listen to some practical tools to implement in our daily life….listen to the full clip.

Art Of Mind Management Part 3 | Mind Attracts Circumstances | Swami Mukundananda

Art of Mind Management Part3 - Swami Mukundananda - How does our mind attract good or bad circumstances?? How does negative emotion poison our body ?? Get Art of Mind Management DVDs at: https://www.jkyog.org/store Our mind is veritably like a garden and we are the gardeners of our mind. Either we tend to our garden to generate sublime thoughts or let it run amok and grow weeds indiscriminately which would generate thoughts of negativity and misery. Our thoughts are the seeds and our action grows out of them. When we harbor thoughts of negativity like, anger, stress, anxiety tension, resentment, we are oblivious of its impact not just on our mind but our body, how it adversely affects the ‘annamaykosh’ or the gross body and it manifests itself in disease. Those who practice “Yogasanas” for health must also learn the art of mind management. Holistic health, today is defined not just as physical. Even the World Health Organization defines health as physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being of an individual. How we attract circumstances in our life through our thoughts. Listen to this video clip to know how.

Your Mind Should Always Be Your Best Friend | Art Of Mind Management By Swami Mukundananda Part 2

Art of Mind Management Part 2 by Swami Mukundananda Get Art of Mind Management DVDs at https://www.jkyog.org/store When we do not count our blessings and acknowledge things that God has graced us with we feel impoverished and miserable all the time. If we voluntarily reject our gross body by committing suicide we are committing a sin against God who has endowed us with the precious human birth. Our body is a temple where God resides. Are you aware when you commit suicide, you are not granted a gross body for some time and you become a ghost ? Elevate yourself by elevating the mind. Our thoughts are a little bundle of energy. Every thought that we generate impacts and shapes our personality and our destiny. The thought we harbor chisels our appearance like a sculptor, that is the power of thoughts. Your mind can be your worst enemy and your best friend. " The mind is a place of its own and in itself can make a heaven out of hell, a hell out of heaven". How to attain your full potential to succeed in life? Swamiji illustrates this with a real-life anecdote on how within seconds you can make or unmake your life. Listen to the full podcast to know.

How To Control Your Mind Art Of Mind Management By Swami Mukundananda Part 1

Some people have everything in the material world yet they feel miserable or fail miserably. Some people have little yet they lead a rich and successful life.....HOW??? A glaring example of this is Elvis Presely. He was an icon of a genre, King of rock and roll, blessed with exceptionally good looks, golden voice, a super celebrity, yet, listen to how his life was in the last four years. Contrast this with the life of Hellen Keller, despite handicaps had an eternally gratifying life. We all wish to succeed in life, to feel good, do good, that’s a universal common need. How do we attain it? How to use your mind to create what you want? How to control the mind? Listen to the full audio!

The Biggest Life Lesson On Happiness By Swami Mukundananda

In this podcast, Swami Mukundananda reveals this biggest life lesson with regards to our search for happiness. It's a truly life-changing podcast by Swami Mukundananda and a must-listen-to. What is the definition of happiness? How can we find everlasting happiness? To understand the answer to the above questions, we need to know the three essential attributes of happiness or bliss. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Action item: Convince your mind that the true happiness you are seeking is not in the mundane things of the world, but with the Supreme Divinity.

Turn Any Negative Situation To A Positive One By Remembering This | Swami Mukundananda

In this podcast, Swami Mukundananda discusses the one quality that defines our destiny in life. It is our attitude or how we respond to situations. In this world, we will inevitably face some challenging circumstances that can help us progress in our life. While we cannot control the situations, we have the power of choice on how to respond to them. When we cultivate a positive attitude and respond accordingly, it will define our future destiny in life. Watch more to find out. Action item: Make a resolve never to blame the situations or the external circumstances for your problems in life. Instead, use your power of choice to cultivate a proper attitude towards them and move forward in life. A positive attitude towards any situation will help you grow spiritually and succeed in life.