Kundalini Yoga: Build Inner Strength, Project Outer Peace with Shiv Charan Singh

In this introduction to 'Build Inner Strength, Project Outer Peace', Shiv talks about the pressure of the times we live in, and how the kriyas and meditations he shares in this program can help you help build inner strength and stamina to withstand the pressures of the times, become less reactive to external events, and create inner peace to radiate outer peace in your environments.

To gain the strength needed for tolerance and humility, navel centre needs to be strengthened. This kriya works on the abdomen, stimulating the navel energy to rise to the higher centers and then integrating it with the whole aura. This set will help you connect with tolerant and compassionate part of your heart. It also is a good preparation for meditation.

The spleen is a very important organ which serves to cleanse and regenerate the blood. Spleen also stores emotions of pain, fear, and grief. It is important to maintain healthy functioning of the spleen for building inner strength of the self. In this class, we will use pressure to stimulate and strengthen the function of the spleen. This will lead to a deeply rejuvenating relaxation.

In order to keep up with the times and truly "live for each other" as Yogi Bhajan said, we must transcend our individual consciousness and expand into a collective and Infinite Consciousness.This meditation uses the mantra Har Har Har Har Gobinday which is a mantra of prosperity and happiness.

"Compare your stamina from when you started and your stamina now. See how your life is nothing but stamina. Your knowledge, body, mind, and spirit are of no use if you do not have a hold on your stamina, yogic endurance. People who cannot endure cannot cure their bad habits. God is infinite, you are infinite - but you deal with God through limited endurance..." -Yogi Bhajan

''This meditation is given to you because you are going to have a rough time ahead. It is very effective in opening up the fourth, fifth, and sixth lotuses... The secret of this is that it balances the distribution of the red and white blood cells. That's the most difficult to control. It is the area that defends your total health.'' -Yogi Bhajan

This short pranayam meditation is great for bringing a deep relaxation and relief from anxiety and stress. Do this meditation when you feel anxious, when you have a crisis or when you don't know what to do and it will stabilize you.

"We have some little faculty to stimulate in us our 'Thou-ness.' In this kriya we can clarify our subtle body-the body which attracts opportunities to us; the body which brings us good news; the body which collects the Universe for us." This kriya also strengthens the arc line: "You will be so shiny and bright that people will not be in a position to look at your face." -Yogi Bhajan

This meditation is great when you think you are getting burned out. The posture of this meditation helps balance your electromagnetic field so you can contain your own energy and manage your pranic resources. The meditation helps create baseline energy so that you can prevent overworking and feeling the stress of burnout, or recuperate from exhaustion.

This meditation helps clear away old patterns of grief and fear, and release haunting thoughts. "This meditation takes care of phobias, fears and neurosis. It can remove unsettling thoughts from the past that surface into the present. It can take difficult situations in the present and release them into the hands of Infinity. All this can be done in just 40 seconds!" -Yogi Bhajan