The Significance of a 40 Day Discipline

We live in a world of endless diversity and global complexity, creating an often frenetic pace of life that is hard to maintain. Often there are a myriad of problems and challenges awaiting to be solved in our environments. Yet, all too often, we attempt to solve these problems by focusing on external results and by creating strategies from the past. As Einstein so clearly informed us, "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it". To empower ourselves and transcend our fears, problems and challenges we must instead focus on internal results (our state of consciousness) and with intuitive intelligence (instead of relying 100% on the conditioned, rational mind).

How can this be attained? We must embark upon a discipline of the mind in order to shift our most fundamental dysfunctional habits. Interestingly enough modern day psychologists and the ancient mystics agree on the time this takes, roughly 40 days. In the ancient Christian texts, it was represented by Jesus' initiation of fasting in the desert for 40 days and nights, a time for purification, focus and commitment. In the yogic tradition, 40 days of meditation brings about specific results (depending on the meditation) while erasing and transforming old programming.

For example, say you wish to stop smoking. You've been smoking for 10 years, so you have 10 years of accumulated energy behind that particular habit. You go cold turkey but in the days and weeks to come the temptation is great and you succumb to smoking once again. Obviously, the scales are tipped in the favor of the old habit/pattern re-asserting itself as it has 10 years of habitual energy behind it. This is where a spiritual technology, like meditation, comes into play. If, after going cold turkey, one also commits to a powerful 40 day meditation, then the power and energy released from the meditation can equal and often exceeds the energy behind the previous 10 years.

Why? Because all 'true' change must come about through a fundamental change in consciousness, which is the essence of meditation. Meditation addresses the internal and intuitive faculties for problem solving that so many people on Earth are oblivious to. In essence, a 40 day meditation discipline is a primer for evolving one's state of consciousness. Such a discipline can be applied to any number of issues that often plague people:

Physical Healing
Emotional Imbalance
Lack of Abundance & Prosperity
Enhanced Intuition, Intelligence & Clarity
Protection and Appropriate Boundaries
Transforming Relationships

In future posts on BroadcastSol we will delve into different practices for various issues that prevent us from living a heart centered life. Keep posted.

Truth, love & energy,
Deva


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