Understanding your Inner Engineering
Everything we conspire and plan to achieve is within us, freedom is the way in.
Life is all we have, and it is throbbing inside of us. In today's world, we rarely get in touch with that life and instead search for fulfillment in the outside world. Sadhguru a spiritual leader in his book inner engineering explains how we ourselves have the power to manifest things by turning inwards.
Key lessons that I have extracted and implemented in my daily life have made a profound change in me. By being aware of my own inner engineering I have cultivated joyfulness. In this article, I am going to share with you the lessons from the book and how I implemented them in my daily life that has brought amazing changes. With these lessons, you too can cultivate joyfulness.
Not the body, Not the mind
We are neither this body nor this mind. We do have a physical body and a mental body but deep within we also have an energy body that regulates both physical and mental body. This physical body is an accumulation of food we ate over the years and this intelligence is the information we gained during all these years. The energy body however has always been there regulating the physical and mental body.
Getting in touch with this energy body is getting in touch with our inner selves. Being able to separate yourself from the mind and creating a space between your mind and you are the way to get in touch with the energy body. Always remember, you are neither this body nor this mind.
Human body
This body we have is the most complex mechanism on this planet and we don’t even have a user’s manual to find out its complexities. Yet without truly discovering the possibilities of this body we have been navigating the outside world. Without really being aware of the possibilities of the body we try to move forward and without really learning to operate this machine how can we get fully efficient.
Our bodies carry memories larger than our minds ever could. One example of this is your grandmother's nose sitting in your face right now. Inner Engineering is about being aware of the body and how it functions. Being aware of one’s body can help in realizing true intelligence.
Be present at the moment, focus on walking when you walk, and focus on eating when you eat, instead of distracting yourself with thoughts and mobile phones. Being aware of your body by being present in this moment heightens your awareness and you will now start navigating life more consciously. Slowly cultivating this awareness my perception of life has totally changed for good.
Yoga and meditation
Yoga and meditation are tools for transformation.
Yoga literally means union, it is not just an exercise it is a tool for mind-body energy balance that creates transformation. Yoga is a collection of physical, mental, and spiritual activities or disciplines aimed at controlling and stilling the mind while identifying a detached witness consciousness that is unaffected by the mind.
Meditation is another tool for transformation. Simply being present at the moment and being aware of inner experiences is termed as being meditative. A meditative state is concentrating the mind on a single object, thought, or activity in order to improve attention and awareness to achieve a mentally clear, emotionally tranquil, and stable state.
I have been practicing yoga and meditation for a while now and have felt a tremendous difference in my energy levels and emotional well-being. Heightened energy levels throughout the day, peacefulness and calmness, and detachment from reaction to the outer world are some of the changes I have felt. Yoga and meditation have helped me cultivate joyfulness and I am sure they will help you too.
Inner Experiences
Everything we experience, we experience within. The image of any object you see is formed inside you, the light goes through your eyes and creates a picture in your mind. If someone holds your hand, you don’t feel their hand, you feel the sensations in your hand. Every single thing we experience is within us. Joy, sorrow, misery, blissfulness, love, anger every single thing is experienced within us.
If everything is experienced within us, we have the power to control what to cultivate, don’t we? Happiness, joyfulness, blissfulness, and calmness are all cultivated from within, there is nothing to seek outside, everything is within us and we must learn to cultivate happiness and joyfulness from within.
These are some of the key points from the book inner engineering. Becoming aware of myself and applying the tools of transformation I have become much calmer and I now cultivate joyfulness from within, joyful for just being alive. Understand your inner engineering because liberation is the way inside.
