MEDITATION STORY WITH NEURAL LINKING
After working relentlessly for the last three years, finally that moment came in my life. I was waiting for the last 1000 days, to get a visa for to come into the United States of America. I had an appointment at 1 PM on March 13, 1990. It was with the visa officer at American Consulate in Kolkata, India.
Even though I was prepared, but truth be told, I was also scared to death. The peer of the unknown was virtually eating me up. But because I was meditating on the subject and visualizing for this moment, all alone, I kept on telling myself that everything will be all right. When Micah & came in, they called my name, and I went to the officer. He interviewed me for a prolonged amount of time. After being, totally satisfied, he picked up the visa stamp, and with a Big Bang, stamped on my passport. While he was doing it, I feel like from a distant last invoice was coming to my ear, and saying, Okay, Mr. Mitra, I'm giving you a visa for the next six months. Welcome aboard to the United States of America. Even though, after that, also, he was saying some thing like please come back at 4 PM and collect your passport and visa and all that, I couldn't hear him properly. Because at that moment of Epiphanny, I feel like my feet were elevated by 6 inches from the ground, and as if I was floating in the air. It was a state beyond happiness, I was in a zone. I was in a state of BLISS. It has been 33 years ever since that moment. But I still get goosebumps thinking about that day and moment.
Fast forward 18 years. In July 2008, I had just started a new EXECUTIVE office, and my business was doing good. But I wanted to make it better. Then I came across a book, which was talking about a special kind of visualisation called Neural Linking. It was like this:
If you can, create an emotional anchor for neural, linking, and re-live my previous moment of success (of getting US visa), I can virtually get into the same flow zone once again. It's kind of virtual reality. And while I'm in that zone, I'm full of happiness, emotion, and feelings. At that moment of ecstasy, if I ask for getting an immediate goal, it will manifest faster than you can imagine.
So, on a Sunday evening, I applied this theory. Sat down in my meditation and started visualizing that afternoon at Kolkata US consulate office. I reran the whole occurrence in my mind, and all of a sudden, I was full of joy and happiness, and tears started rolling down my cheek. At that moment of ecstasy, I said to myself, “I’ll make $10,000 tomorrow.” And guess what happened next day at my office? You guessed it. I made exact $10,000. My doubting mind said, is it for real, then it said OK try it again. So Monday evening I said down and visualized the same scenario and use my visa process as an emotional anchor, and connected with my next goal. I chanted, I make $10,000 tomorrow. And guess what? I did on Tuesday. Then my monkey mind said no no no it's a fluke. Show me again. So on Thursday evening I went through my neural linking process again, but nothing happened on Wednesday. I was relieved and happy, that this kind of thing was not happening in my life. Can you believe that? I was happy for not making money. Anyway, I thought maybe third time will be at Charm. So I did my meditation again on Wednesday night, and to my surprise, Thursday I made $10,000 again. From that day, I could never ever doubt THE SYSTEM.
The Best Time to Meditate
Health Meditation for 20 after bed.
Wealth Meditation for 20 before bed.
Just do it twice a day for 20 minutes each and see the magic.
You need health and energy both to achieve any worthwhile goal.
So, just focusing on wealth and success is not enough, you need health before that.
Ask for Health in the morning: It will supply you with enough energy throughout the day.
Ask for Wealth in the morning: Your subconscious mind will work on it, for the whole night.
22 Modes of Meditation
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- My 3-step: Centering, Vipassana and Neural Linking.
- Workshop of Mind (WOM) by Jim Fortin
- The butterfly method – Karin Saroyan
- Dina-Psych by Joe Karbo
- The Sedona method
- The Silva method
- Visualization by Shakti Gawain
- Spirituality and inner growth by Brian Tracy
- Trans CD by Paul McCanna.
- Trans CD by JOHN ASSARAF
- 100 Best Meditation/Visualization – iTunes library
- Image Streaming
- EFT tapping
- Paul Scheele – iTunes Library
- Affirmations by Louise Hay
- BDH Focus and Meditation – iTunes Library.
- Power of subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy
- 100 best affirmations – iTunes Library
- LOA/Chanting Mantras
- NeuroGym by John Assaraf
- LOA/Miscellaneous MVA
- MVA/Hypnosis
Chapter 5
Daily Meditation
The best way to meditate is two-fold:
(1) Health Meditation in the morning for 20 minutes
(2)
Wealth Meditation in the evening for 20 minutes
3-Step Meditation Session
My meditation in 3 Steps:
(1) Centering
(2) Vipassana &
(3) Neural Linking
First, I should do a quick one minute centering
Then I get into Vipassana Meditation for 20 min
Then I close my meditation session with neural linking.
Centering – Script
I’m releasing all thoughts and images from the past.
I’m releasing all thoughts and images about the future.
I’ve created a wall between the past and future.
I’m anchoring my mind into the present.
I’m in a sanctuary, it’s safe, it feels like a vacation.
I’m curious and interested that how much I’ll be accomplishing.
I appreciate the cooperation of my mind and body, my conscious and sub-conscious mind.
I can feel that the left and right hemisphere of my brain is working together now.
I’m focused on one thing now for the next 15 minutes. It’s uninterrupted, quality time.
It’s legitimate, because I’ve quality play time scheduled in my calendar.
I’m centered now. I believe it and it’s true. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Vipassana Meditation
Meditation
suppresses negative feelings, but…
Vipassana
eradicates negative feelings by just watching them objectively (Equanimity)
Two steps to Vipassana –
Anapana (Notice the breath)
Vipassana (Watch objectively)
How to practice Vipassana –
Watch any sensations in the body!
Watch cravings (desire) in the body!
Watch any aversion (anger) in the body! Scan the whole body.
PS: Goenkajee discovered Vipassana, which means “Insight.”
What to do in a Vipassana Session?
Whenever you want to pay a visit to the land of dreams, start scanning your body from head to toe. Instead of stopping your mind from thinking, give it something specific to do. Here’s a step-by-step guide:
- With your eyes closed, take a few breaths, and try to feel the air coming in and going out. Don’t label it in any way. Just observe the sensations around your nostrils and on the area above your upper lip.
- Then, move your attention from your breath to the top of your head, and observe any sensations that arise there. It can be anything — itching, pressure, numbness, pain, or tingling, to name a few.
- As soon as you feel anything at the top of your head, pick another patch on your scalp to examine.
- This way,progress down your entire body, one small patch at a time.From your scalp to your face (eyes, nose, cheekbones, etc.), and then down to your neck.
- Next, start with one arm, and observe the sensations in your shoulder, upper arm, elbow, lower arm, wrist, palm, and finally, your fingers. After you’re done with one arm, move on to the other one, and so on until you have scanned your entire body. Unless you fall asleep before you even get to your neck, like I do.
A few things to keep in mind:
At first, as you scan your body, you’ll come across many blind spots. When that happens, sit with those areas a moment, and then move on. You’re not doing anything wrong. Just keep practicing. The more you do it, the more subtle sensations you’ll feel.
But don’t make this your goal. If you start craving sensations and start looking for them on purpose, you’re doing the exact opposite of what the technique is all about. Relax, observe the sensations, and don’t label them.
Also, it’s ok if sometimes your mind goes somewhere else. It will happen a lot, especially in the beginning. Just bring your attention back to your body and pick up where you left off.
Lastly, there’s no right speed so, do it at your own pace. And try to follow the same order every time because it will be easier to remember, and there are fewer chances you’ll miss some areas.
Why it works?
The main reason why practicing Vipassana meditation will help you focus and concentrate faster is because it brings you to the present moment.
If your body is tired, but your mind keeps on spinning, you’re going to stay awake for hours. However, if you focus on the sensations in your body, you can’t think of anything, so you are fully aware.
Once you stop thinking, your mind sends a signal to your body that it’s time to sleep.
Neural Linking
There is a technique called Neural Linking that uses that same kind of emotional association to deepen the impact of any belief or affirmation you choose. You accomplish this by linking that new belief with powerful feelings that already exist in association with some other memory.
In other words, you wire (link) your brain with a very potent past memory (like, the day I got my US Visa). When you recall (re-connect) that memory, you re-live that experience (now), if you start chanting your affirmation (that you want to attain, now), they both get glued together. At this moment of “High,”
Here is what happens: when an event (whether real or in your mind) evokes strong emotion, protein is released along with neurotransmitters as the neurons fire across the synaptic gap, and that causes the event to bind to that neural pathway much more strongly than if it was simply a neural thought or memory. When you re-live that powerful event and bring back that old feeling, more of that protein is released all over again – and when you attach your new affirmation to that event, you are physically bonding that thought into existing neural pathway.
Long story short,
create emotional anchors for neural linking.
In other words…
create an emotional anchor first (My US Visa interview on 3/13/1990 @ 1 pm).
Re-live that emotion as in “now.”
Get that same “High’ that I got at the US Consulate office on that day (I was floating in the air).
Then, start chanting my affirmation (“I make $10k a week”).
Now, at this heightened sensation, your past and present gets ‘glued’ and your ‘wish’ [of making $10,000 a week] becomes a reality.
The Neural Reconditioning Process
There is a technique called Neural Linking that uses that same kind of emotional association to deepen the impact of any belief or affirmation you choose. You accomplish this by linking that new belief with powerful feelings that already exist in association with some other memory.
Neural linking happens to us all the time. How often have you come across a certain smell – the first cut grass in the springtime, the burning leaves in autumn, a wool sweater pulled out of a closet, a certain dish on the stove that you haven’t eaten in ages — and suddenly a full-fledged memory from the distant past came flooding back to you? This happens because memory is strongly associative by nature. Many of our strongest childhood memories, for example, are forever linked in our brains with a certain smell (your father’s pipe tobacco), sound (the next-door neighbor’s dog barking), or tactile feeling (the drying salt water, sand and sun on your skin at the shore in summertime).
You can put that associative trait to work for you by designing specific links for yourself. Here is how you do that.
First, search your memory banks for a positive event in your life that was especially empowering, a moment where you felt a thrill of accomplishment, excitement, or triumph. What you are looking for is an exciting neural pattern in your brain that has some “stickiness,” that is, some strong depth of feeling to which a thought can adhere.
Jot down (in the space here) a sentence or two that identifies this event, so you can return to it easily and quickly later on.
A powerfully positive emotional event
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Now, close your eyes and let yourself re-experience that event for a few moments, and examine what you are seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling, and experiencing.
When you are finished, jot down a few of the impressions you had; these don’t need to be full sentences, just words or phrases that will remind you of the feelings this experience evokes:
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Now, choose one of your affirmations. Choose a statement that is fairly short and that you strongly want to imprint as a new belief. In my case, I chose, “I’m a brilliant and savvy businessperson,” since this is definitely not a belief I grew up with, and yet it has been critical to my achieving success in my business visions.
Now, close your eyes again, and let yourself re-experience that powerful memory, evoking all the sensory impressions, feelings, and emotions involved – and while you are at the height of that feeling, repeat your new affirmation, either out loud or just in your mind.
Here is what happens: when an event (whether real or in your mind) evokes strong emotion, protein is released along with neurotransmitters as the neurons fire across the synaptic gap, and that causes the event to bind to that neural pathway much more strongly than if it was simply a neural thought or memory. When you re-live that powerful event and bring back that old feeling, more of that protein is released all over again – and when you attach your new affirmation to that event, you are physically bonding that thought into existing neural pathway.
I’ll share an example that I use for myself.
When I was 17, I received a scholarship to play basketball for Oregon State University. During one unforgettable game, I played the position of point guard and had the job of guarding an intimidating player by the name of Dan Brodeur. Dan was six feet eight inches, and I was only six feet three inches. I had a forty-eight-point game – and throughout the game I limited him to 16 points. I vividly remember that exhilarating rush of emotion of being able to hold him in check while scoring myself almost at will. It was one of the most emotional moments of my life, a feeling of being totally in the “flow.”
This feeling was so powerful, so vivid, that I can go back there and drop into the thrill of that game at a moment’s notice. So, that’s what I do: I go back to that moment and re-experience that feeling of being in complete control on the court, on top of the world – and then I think, “I’m a brilliant and savvy business person.”
I attach that exhilarated feeling to this new belief that I want to instill, using the emotion and the neural pathways that are already in place, thereby associating that 30-year-old feeling that is still so resonant in my mind with this new belief.
Examples of emotional anchors
Winning my first one-mile race. I felt proud, excited, elated and exhilarated. I remember the fresh, rich smell of spring turf and the feeling of my leg muscles still humming from the race, and I can see and hear the crowd cheering for me.
Finishing my degree. I felt fantastic, capable, and brilliant, on top of the world. I remember the look on my parents’ faces – They were both beaming with pride.
My first date with the love of my life. I felt indescribably happy, like I had suddenly found my way home for the first time. I can feel the warmth of her hand in mine, and smell the fragrance of her hair.
Long story short, create emotional anchors for neural linking.
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How to Work with Sensations to Fall Asleep Faster
Most of the time, we can’t fall asleep because our minds are wandering. You start thinking about the past or the future and before you know it, it’s 2 in the morning and you have to get up in less than 5 hours.
One or two nights might not be a big deal. But if you do this regularly, Houston, you have a problem.
Before you go on spending a month’s rent on magic devices and all sorts of supplements, as I did, try this simple but effective technique.
What to do
Whenever you want to pay a visit to the land of dreams, start scanning your body from head to toe. Instead of stopping your mind from thinking, give it something specific to do. Here’s a step-by-step guide:
With your eyes closed, take a few breaths, and try to feel the air coming in and going out. Don’t label it in any way. Just observe the sensations around your nostrils and in the area above your upper lip.
Then, move your attention from your breath to the top of your head, and observe any sensations that arise there. It can be anything — itching, pressure, numbness, pain, or tingling, to name a few.
As soon as you feel anything at the top of your head, pick another patch on your scalp to examine.
This way, progress down your entire body, one small patch at a time. From your scalp to your face (eyes, nose, cheekbones, etc.), and then down to your neck.
Next, start with one arm, and observe the sensations in your shoulder, upper arm, elbow, lower arm, wrist, palm, and finally, your fingers. After you’re done with one arm, move on to the other one, and so on until you have scanned your entire body. Unless you fall asleep before you even get to your neck, like I do.
A few things to keep in mind:
At first, as you scan your body, you’ll come across many blind spots. When that happens, sit with those areas a moment, and then move on. You’re not doing anything wrong. Just keep practicing. The more you do it, the more subtle sensations you’ll feel.
But don’t make this your goal. If you start craving sensations and start looking for them on purpose, you’re doing the exact opposite of what the technique is all about. Relax, observe the sensations, and don’t label them.
Also, it’s ok if sometimes your mind goes somewhere else. It will happen a lot, especially in the beginning. Just bring your attention back to your body, and pick up where you left off.
Lastly, there’s no right speed so do it at your own pace. And try to follow the same order every time because it will be easier to remember, and there are fewer chances you’ll miss some areas.
Why it works
The main reason why practicing Vipassana meditation will help you fall asleep faster is because it brings you to the present moment.
If your body is tired, but your mind keeps on spinning, you’re going to stay awake for hours. However, if you focus on the sensations in your body, you can’t think of anything, so you are fully aware.
Once you stop thinking, your mind sends a signal to your body that it’s time to sleep.
While you can have great results if you use this technique to fall asleep faster or to
ground yourself when you’re feeling anxious, Vipassana meditation is much more than that.
S.N. Goenka, the teacher who helped spread this Vipassana meditation technique worldwide, claimed that this is the true form of meditation taught by the Buddha himself. Although there are many different variations of the practice, this is the basis of Buddhism.
