Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 1 Issue 4, (I October 2016) | Page 10

demand compliance for the most part and, few people can resist being drawn in. The lucky few remain rebels till their mid 30’s to 40’s when thoughts about mortality and spirituality begin to occur. That is when we go searching for gurus and end up getting straight jacketed by spiritual teachers. This is perhaps the most ironical because ‘gurus’ are meant to set one’s mind free to realise its potential; instead most gurus tend to narrow one’s spiritual imagination. Many spiritual teachers are largely feudal in their approach and seek to draw the pranic energy from their students. Since they are themselves not free and unable to transcend to higher levels of thought, they bog down others with their limited thinking. (However there are those rare one's too who go on to say "if my teachings limit you. You must drop them and grow on as you are the truth within".) This is where we as rebels should hold fast and believe that the answer lies within and keep increasing our energy level for next step's teacher to find us in order to help us along the way. Why do I say teachers? Have you ever heard who Buddha’s teacher was? Or Jesus Christ’s teacher? Both these spiritual masters went through a phase of learning and exploring the world around them and were bound to be influenced by religious and philosophical thought and traditions. So who influenced their thinking? Perhaps we haven’t heard of one because they had many teachers. Also think of your learning process in school and college… just as we learnt from multiple teachers (representing different disciplines), distilled the learning, and figured out on our own what our chosen profession should be, so must we do in our spiritual journey as well. We should use our intuition to guide us and keep the quest alive to find spiritual teachers. One can learn meditation from one, Pranic healing from another, gain insight about the scriptures from yet another and so on. Once we have begun our journey of learning, we begin to create our very own belief system synthesised from the wisdom of many different traditions and theories. Behind all inventions right out from the gift of wheel, discovery of use of fire to aeroplane, to new methods, invention in every thing in every era there is an original mind, a person who thinks differently - A Rebel Lets find this rebel within, by asking questions, who am I? what is my purpose? and why am I here?, to understand that unique reason for what, we choose to be here. And,to get that information Hypnotherapy is a beautiful tool however, to realise it meditation prevails. We have the answers to all our questions, frustrations and issues within us. We have the power to shape the rebel within us. What we need to do is to meditate on oneself and go within and we will be enlightened and in doing so one can find the Buddha within. Varun Talwar Coach Email: [email protected] www.varuntalwar.com