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One solution to many problems ~ Shambhavi


Radha Manohari, an Inner Engineering participant, shares her experience:
Inner Engineering has benefited me in many ways! I participated in Sadhguru’s program last June 2012 and learned the Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya. Wow!
After a week of experience and practicing Shambhavi, I noticed a silence inside. Nothing disturbed me. I had no reaction to anything, in that external disturbances didn’t affect me. It’s smoothed out even my breath!
It’s very beneficial to me. Surprisingly it’s stopped my mind’s chatter! Now I enjoy the calmness and quietness. It eventually quieted down my thoughts so much that they seem like a low static in the background. I feel so protected, and there is an inner peace that I enjoy even if I’m in a crowd. It took away some kind of ”insecure” feeling in me! It bundled every thought, emotion, and desire into a deep wish to grow spiritually.

Before Shambhavi, I had severe back-aches. I couldn’t sit on hard surfaces for more than 5 minutes- but now I can sit all through the day! I had a knee problem as well – I wasn’t able to take stairs in one go. I had to take them one by one – step my left leg first and then put my right leg next to left – now I am cured of that too! I can take stairs like others. Even while running up the stairs my heart beats are smooth, and I really don’t get my heart pumping fast!
Most importantly, just a month before I took Shambhavi, I had started taking anti-depressants . I was depressed and anxious and was suffering insomnia. After a week of Shambhavi, I noticed all the changes happening in me. For the past 5 months I’m not under any medications. I got cured! Otherwise I might have continued medications all through my life!
Just so I would not miss these blissful moments that I’m experiencing, I would not stop my practice, ever!
I blindly came to Isha with a restless mind, not knowing what to expect, but with lots of questions – what will I experience? What can this do for me? But now I have no questions, as I’m experiencing the answers.
My heartful thanks to Sadhguru and Isha

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