The word “yoga” essentially means, “that which brings you to reality”. Literally, it means “union.” Yoga refers to union not as an idea, a philosophy or as a concept that you imbibe. Yoga means to move towards an experiential reality where one knows the ultimate nature of the existence, the way it is made. Inner Engineering, designed by Sadhguru, is a method, a tool to engineer a deep and lasting personal transformation based on the ancient science of yoga. It is a comprehensive system addressing every aspect of human wellbeing – from body, mind and emotion to the fundamental life energy within us. One can derive innumerable benefits in all areas of life from the process of Inner Engineering, including the following which may surprise you:
1 – Never Fear the Future or the Past.
Your fear is simply because you are not living with life. You are living in your mind. Your fear is always about what’s going to happen next. That means your fear is always about that which does not exist. If your fear is about the nonexistent, your fear is 100% imaginary. If you are suffering the non-existential, we call that insanity.
So, people may be in just socially accepted levels of insanity. But, if you’re afraid, or if you are suffering anything which does not exist, it amounts to insanity, isn’t it? People are always suffering, either what happened yesterday, or what may happen tomorrow. So your suffering is always about that which does not exist. Simply because you are not rooted in reality. You are always rooted in your mind. Mind is one part of it is memory, another part is imagination. Both of them are in one way imagination. Because both of them don’t exist right now.
You are lost in your imagination, that is the basis of your fear. If you are rooted in reality, there would be no fear. Inner Engineering is a process to root you in this reality, removing the very basis of fear from your experience. Absence of fear naturally leads to a blissful existence.
2 – Everything around you will start responding to you.
In nature, everything is trying to dispense itself to the maximum extent – everything in nature is always trying to throw itself out to its fullest capability. But human beings are trying to save. Because they save so much of their joy, their love, and everything that is valuable to them, they have to do all kinds of other splurging activities. If human beings could just sit and be absolutely joyful, they wouldn’t spend time in preoccupation of an evening drink or dinner. If they were bursting with joy every moment, bursting with love, bursting with ecstasy – would they be preoccupied with dinner, drink, or anything? Such thoughts wouldn’t keep them engaged for a large part of their life. Don’t try to save it because you can’t take it anywhere. You can’t take this life anywhere. You have to allow it to go into its full blossom now, here, not somewhere else. Do not try to save the fragrance of life. Those who save will stink. Those who throw it out, you will see them as fragrant beings. The whole process of Inner Engineering is to make you receptive in deeper and deeper ways — ways that are not in your current experience of life; that is the only goal.
3 – Forget visiting doctors and hospitals!
Medical practitioners have long identified stress as a root cause of many of our ailments, which means that they are essentially generated from within. Stress is our body’s response whenever it senses any threat to our wellbeing. The body’s sympathetic system activates secretions of stress hormones which cause heightened awareness as well as raising the heart rate and muscle tone, preparing the body for intense activity, known as the “Fight or Flight Response” . Anxiety, fatigue, headache, insomnia and indigestion are some of the most common symptoms reported to physicians that are caused by increased stress. Nearly three quarters of Americans report stress-related symptoms in a given month. Chronic stress leads to more serious conditions such as high blood pressure, heart problems, asthma and irritable bowel.
Chronic ailments – like allergies, asthma, diabetes, gastrointestinal problems, hypertension, cardiac ailments, and even obesity, eating disorders, depression and anxiety – can be quelled from within if only we are willing to pay a certain level of attention to the innermost dimension of who we are. Inner Engineering is a technology, an ancient science of wellbeing for the whole system including body, mind, emotion, and energy.
4 – No one pushes your buttons anymore.
When you live in this world, there are various types of complex relationships happening. In everyone, there are some positive things and some negative things. With your understanding you can create situations where the other person would be able to understand you better. If you’re expecting the other to understand and comply with you all the time when you don’t understand the limitations, the possibilities, the needs and capabilities of that person, then conflict is all that will happen. You need to understand the limitations and the capabilities of people and do what you can. Only then will you have the power to move the situation the way you want it to go. If you embrace all this in your understanding, you can make the relationship the way you want it. Inner Engineering allows your life to become an expression of your joy, so that you are not in pursuit of happiness. When happiness becomes just natural for you, then relationships will also be naturally wonderful.
5 – No more sinking feeling within you, no matter what!
If you look at it, what every human being wants is to live peacefully and joyfully. And in terms of relationships, human beings want to be loving and affectionate. Or in other words, all that human beings are seeking is pleasantness within themselves, or pleasantness around them.
So once your mind gets organized, your emotions will get organized — the way you think is the way you feel. Once your thought and emotions are organized, your energies become organized in the same direction. Once your thought, emotion and energies are organized, your very body will get organized. Once these four are organized in one direction, your ability to create and manifest what you want is phenomenal.
Inner Engineering means giving you an experience, an inner state, where what is you and what is yours is separate. It brings an absolute clarity of perception; you see life just the way it is. Right now, your ability to go through this world is only to the extent that you clearly see it.
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