Gita's Blog

By Gita Saraydarian

I have studied the Teaching of the Ageless Wisdom formally for the last 34 years. Although I grew up in a household where the Wisdom Teachings were a part of daily life, I was never compelled to read, study, or practice formally. My parents gave me the example of how to be a good person, how to cultivate virtues, and how to give and serve others. They taught me how to be healthy and how to feel a deep sense of appreciation and responsibility for the Teachings of all great ones.

Today, it is a great joy for me to be surrounded on a daily basis by the Teaching. This includes the writings and creative works by my father Torkom, as well as the Teachings of many great men and women.

The Teaching changes our life. When we study it, it is one thing, for it expands our mind into a sphere that we do not otherwise engage in on a daily basis. It also uplifts us emotionally and we can heal ourselves on the emotional level. When we put into practice the ideals of the Teaching, that is when we truly experience change in our lives. This is sometimes called the “alchemical process” or “transmutation”.

On a daily basis, I realize how my life changes as I experience and practice the Teaching. It is not an easy process, but a sort of dying of the part of me that no longer works for the benefit of my growth, and the process of birthing a part of me that will serve the growth and expansion of my whole being.

This is what I experience from studying and practicing the very practical, down to earth, and sublime works by Torkom. His works uplift me mentally and expand my thought process into new levels; they uplift me emotionally so I am able to put my life into perspective; they compel me to follow healthy activities and practices in my physical life; they bring to me the Wisdom of the Great Ones from all nations and cultures and religions and help me appreciate the ocean of wisdom that is the legacy of humanity.

I wanted to share more of Torkom's works with the world, so I am launching today a special blog on and by Torkom. Please take a look and if you like it, you may subscribe to it.

Thank you for your continued support of our work.
Gita

Here is the link to Torkom's Blog

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- Gita Saraydarian is the Founder and President of TSG Foundation, an organization dedicated to the Ageless Wisdom Teachings. See the complete list of past blogs on the TSG Foundation website and also on Gita's new website http://www.gitasaraydarian.org/
-Copyright Notice: Gita’s Blog articles are copyrighted by The Creative Trust, 2009.

By Gita Saraydarian

Let your emotions run wild and you will find yourself like a little boat tossed about in a perpetual stormy sea!

Are you stressed, overwhelmed, anxious, over-reacting and blaming everyone else for your troubles? Are you unable to stay balanced and positive about life and find you are harboring negative feelings and frustrations? Are you loaded with “great ideas and visions” yet nothing in your life shows any practical result of these ideals? Is it difficult for you to maintain your faith and optimism despite all the spiritual work that you are doing? Your life is giving you plenty of evidence that something is going in the wrong direction.

Don’t ignore these signals; they are important.

Whenever you find yourself in an emotional upheaval, you need to stop and take notice. Emotions cannot be ignored; they need to be acknowledged, understood, and healed. The emotions are powerful and move quickly through our bodies and affect us either in a positive or negative way. Emotions alter physical health as well as brain chemistry. Even when we find we have resolved an emotional conflict, our physical body and our mind will still harbor the effects of the turmoil. So it is better to heal your emotions as quickly as you can!

On the path of becoming our True Self, we will eventually realize that we cannot blame others for how we feel; we alone are in charge of our emotions. We realize that if we do not clean up our emotional body, we will be susceptible to, and an attractive magnet for, every emotion around us; we will suffer physically, mentally, and spiritually. Our visions and plans in life will get stuck and go nowhere and we will not be able to pursue a healthy material nor healthy spiritual life. In fact, turbulent and unstable emotions will halt the flow of ideas and even cause the stagnation of the inspirations and visions that you do have. Stagnated pools can become festering pits where illusions and self-deceptions of all kinds grow and multiply and add to the complexity of our unhealthy state.

The Ageless Wisdom Teachings show us how our life can change when we heal emotionally: Our self esteem will grow, our relationships will improve, we will build better communication skills, our spiritual work will become mature, and our overall health will improve. We will be able to stay detached and balanced even in the most trying conditions. Our patience in the process of life will grow and we will be able to maintain our faith and trust.

The process of healing the emotions is not a process to teach us how to fight against our emotions but to help us learn to create conditions in which the birth of negative emotions will be an impossibility.

Healing the emotions means to purify the emotional body. There are three steps to purifying our emotions:

1.Clear observation of the emotion. Observe your emotion and identify it by saying exactly what it is. If it is jealously, don’t call it love! If it is hatred, don’t call it a protective instinct. Study it, and be honest with yourself and what you are feeling. Once you have a clear observation of the emotion, you can begin part two, non-identification.

2.Cultivate dispassion and non-identification. You can become a happier person if you are able to see that you are not your emotions; there is a true and genuine person inside of you who can stand apart from that nasty emotion. Practice “watching” your emotions as they act out and see all the threads that are connected to that particular emotion. See where it came from, how it got magnified, what fed into it, how it made you feel, think, and act. Visualize what is the real you inside and how you are not your emotions. Do this step for five minutes every day until you are able to see all the threads of an emotion. Then go to step three.

3.Transmutation. This is the true alchemical process that helps you change the energetic patterns in your emotional and mental bodies. You learn how to take deliberate and conscious action to replace every unwanted emotion with the higher and more positive counterpart. To do this, once you have identified the emotion, consider what the opposite of it would be, what is the higher counterpart? Then, visualize yourself feeling the higher emotion, speaking and thinking and acting with that higher emotion. See yourself in every life situation utilizing this positive emotion. Repeat this process of transmutation for five minutes daily until the nasty emotion no longer has a hold on you.

Then move on to the next emotion using the same three step process.

Here is a brief YouTube clip from my most recent lecture on healing the emotional body excerpted from the 12-part series on the Process of Becoming Your True Self.



Yes, this can take a lifetime of work. The end result is well worth the effort. If you are serious about healing yourself and finding your True Self, I recommend the book The Science of Becoming Oneself by Torkom Saraydarian. For more advanced work, utilize one of the meditation courses that is designed specifically to guide you through the work in the book:

1. The 12-part process of becoming your True Self is a 12 month study course using the book and lectures recorded on CD/DVD.

2. The 3-5 year Meditation Course is a more intensive meditation/visualization course using the text and seed thought and visualization techniques.

Gita
http://www.gitasaraydarian.org/
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- Gita Saraydarian is the Founder and President of TSG Foundation, an organization dedicated to the Ageless Wisdom Teachings. See the complete list of past blogs on the TSG Foundation website and also on Gita's new website http://www.gitasaraydarian.org/-Copyright Notice: Gita’s Blog articles are copyrighted by The Creative Trust, 2009.
- What are the Ageless Wisdom Teachings?
- See the complete Gita's Blogs list on TSG Foundation site and Gita's Blogs page.
- Meditations and spiritual guidance provided on Gita’s Blogs and are not intended to take the place of medical or psychological advice. If you are feeling depressed and anxious and are not able to deal with these feelings, it is very important that you see a medical doctor or a clinically trained psychologist for professional evaluation. Depression affects many people all over the world and it is important that you heed professional advice. See Dr. Amen’s blog for information on brain chemistry and emotions.

Part 1: The Power of the Heart

By Gita Saraydarian

Our psychic immune system is composed of the health of our etheric body (energetic component of our physical body), emotional, and mental bodies, as well as the strength of our connection to the higher values of our soul. It is a complex system that is build by our spiritual striving, the values that we hold dear to our hearts, and the life choices we make on a daily basis. Seemingly simple choices such as the right foods, spending time in nature, and having heartfelt relationships help us in building a strong shield.

It is just as important to have a strong spiritual immune system as it is to have a strong physical immune system. A strong immune system protects us against infections and illnesses. A strong spiritual or psychic immune system protects us from psychic attacks, emotional illnesses, and all kinds of self defeating behaviors. When we change our inner patterns to higher values, we attract the same to us. When we dwell in ugliness and nastiness, we also attract the same to us.

I would like to post a series of writings specifically on the topic of building, strengthening, and maintaining a strong psychic shield. This is the focus for the Annual Conference at TSG at Wesak and certainly a topic that is very close to my heart.

In part one, the focus is on the power of the heart and how the heart helps us to reach to the Fiery Worlds — subtle levels of existence beyond the emotional worlds. I have also included a beautiful meditation on unfolding the power of compassion in our hearts.

With Valentine’s Day coming just around the corner, it is important that we understand the power of our heart as a protective shield. An ancient mantram says: “Love to all beings, north, south, east, west, above, below…love to all beings.”


Building Your Psychic Immune System: Part 1


Gita
http://www.gitasaraydarian.org/
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Gita Saraydarian is the founder and president of TSG Foundation, the publishing and distributing foundation for the books and creative works of Torkom Saraydarian. More information on her work to build bridges to happiness, joy, and bliss and complete list of past blogs can be found on her new website, http://www.gitasaraydarian.org/.
Meditations provided here are for spiritual guidance and are not meant to replace medical or psychological advice.
For more information about the protective shield, please see Aura, Shield of Protection and Glory.