Celebrating MARCH 2017 MINDFULNESS Heartfulness Self | Work | Relationships | Inspiration | Vitality | Nature | Children THE TERRAIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS Daaji on the ups and downs of ever-expanding consciousness HOW TO STUDY AWE? Professor Dacher Keltner’s findings on the science of awe and gratitude THE FRAGILE BALANCE OF ECOSYSTEMS Alanda Greene on snakes and strawberries HEALING THE WOUNDS OF THE HEART The final part of Dr James Doty’s interview on compassion www.heartfulnessmagazine.com 2 Heartfulness March 2017 3 Download Free Heartfulness Digital version for 12 months value $29.90 Through meditation, rejuvenation Celebrating MARCH 2017 MINDFULNESS Heartfulness Self | Work | Relationships | Inspiration | Vitality | Nature | Children THE TERRAIN OF Cleaning to Rejuvenate Yourself to CONSCIOUSNESS Daaji on the ups and downs of ever-expanding consciousness HOW TO STUDY AWE? Sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes and feel relaxed. Professor Dacher Keltner’s findings on the science of awe and gratitude Have the intention that all complexities and impurities you have accumulated THE FRAGILE BALANCE during the day are leaving your entire system. They are going out your back, OF ECOSYSTEMS Alanda Greene on snakes from the top of your head to your tailbone. Imagine that they are leaving your and strawberries system as smoke. HEALING THE WOUNDS OF THE HEART Remain alert during the entire process, like a witness to the clouds passing The final part of Dr James Doty’s interview on compassion in the sky. Gently accelerate this process with confidence and determination, applying your will as needed. If your attention drifts and other thoughts come Subscribe Subscribe HEARTFULNESS MAGAZINE HEARTFULNESS to mind, gently bring your focus back to the cleaning. As the impressions leave from your back you will start to feel light in your heart. 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Every cell single, 12 months subscription and of your body is emanating simplicity, lightness and purity. 24 months subscription - please go to: http://www.heartfulnessmagazine.com/subscriptions Email: [email protected] To experience Heartfulness, Printed copies will be available at selected stores, airports and newsstands, please contact one of our trainers at heartspots.heartfulness.org and at Heartfulness Centers and Ashrams. or via the website at www.heartfulness.org Toll free numbers: North America 1 844 879 4327 | India 1 800 103 7726 /practiceheartfulness /+Heartfulness /heartful_ness /practiceheartfulness 4 Heartfulness March 2017 5 A 21ST CENTURY APPROACH TO THE 57 Mind Mindfulness has created an awareness of meditation that is almost ubiquitous, especially across the developed world and the corporate environment. For many, Mindfulness is a gateway. It invites us to be present to whatever arises, accepting the ebb and flow of life. By simply being present, observing the breath, our physical sensations and mental activities, we slowly acclimate to the nature of life’s INSIDE variability. Mindfulness is a fusion of Eastern and Western approaches to the human mind. It is practical, 46 and hence has an international appeal. In this issue we feature interviews with two well-known 10 The evolution of Mindfulness Mindfulness proponents, both experts in their fields – Dr James Doty, the Director of the Center for Compassion & Altruism Research & Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, and Dr Dacher 12 The concept of surrender Keltner, the faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. 63 16 The principles of fencing The basic definition of meditation is to think of one thing continuously. As the mind learns to let 22 Between stimulus and response other thoughts float by, we are able to focus on one thought, one goal, in meditation – naturally and without forcing the mind. With so many people worldwide learning how to do this, people 26 Living with the new children are waking up to the possibility of self-acceptance and self-awareness and thus the possibility of 32 The science of awe and change. 26 compassion Every practice has a particular point of focus, leading to differing effects in consciousness. In this issue, Daaji explores the terrain we cross as we journey through various stations of consciousness 36 Traversing the terrain of within the inner universe. Each station takes us deeper and deeper along the spectrum of the consciousness subconscious, conscious and superconscious. This journey takes us deep within to the ultimate, 12 absolute potential of all life. 40 Varanasi: purity in chaos This month we celebrate this universal 21st century approach to the human heart-mind field, from 46 An integrative foundation the outermost thinking faculty of the mind to the innermost potency of the heart. We also bring you to healing more from Terran Daily on why so many of our children are being diagnosed with ADHD, autism and other behavioral problems, and how to support them, and from Luke Coutinho and Samara 54 Redefining my life Mahindra on an holistic approach to healing dis-ease. Enjoy! 57 Caulifower, fennel & turmeric soup with beluga lentils & tofu topping The Editors 36 63 Why are mountains still sacred? 66 Lessons from the garden: snakes and strawberries FOR CHILDREN 70 Betsy the unicorn 71 Candles and fragrance 74 The three brothers 74 6 Heartfulness March 2017 7 CONTRIBUTIONS letters to the editors and guidelines CONTRIBUTORS [email protected] Dacher Keltner ADVERTISING James Doty [email protected] Dacher is a professor in UC Berkeley’s Psychology James is the author of SUBSCRIPTIONS Department and faculty Into The Magic Shop: A [email protected] director of the Greater Good Neurosurgeon’s Quest to http://www.heartfulnessmagazine.com/ Science Center. His research Discover the Mysteries of subscriptions focuses on the biological the Brain and the Secrets and evolutionary origins of of the Heart (Avery, 2016) ISSN 2455-7684 compassion, awe, love, beauty, and is co-founder of the and power, social class and Center for Compassion & PRINTED BY: inequality. He is the author of the Altruism Research & Education Sunil Kumar best-selling Born to Be Good: The Science of a (CCARE) at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Meaningful Life, The Compassionate Instinct, and California, USA. Kala Jyothi Process Pvt. Limited most recently The Power Paradox: How We Gain 1-1-60/5, RT C Cross Roads, Musheerabad, and Lose Influence. He has written for The New York Hyderabad-500 020, Telangana Times, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, SLATE, and Utne Reader, and received numerous EDITOR: national prizes and grants for his research. Rishabh Kothari Uma Maheswari He was a consultant on Pixar’s film Inside Out, has worked with Facebook to make the site more kind, PUBLISHER: Sunil Kumar and on projects at Google on altruism and emotion. Uma has been a web and Administrative Block, He collaborates with the Sierra Club to help EDITORIAL TEAM graphic designer by No. 3/246, Babuji Memorial Ashram, veterans and inner city kids outdoors. He is married Elizabeth Denley, Emma Ivaturi, profession since 2002, SRCM Road, Manapakkam, with two teenage daughters, and loves camping, Veronique Nicolai serving clients worldwide. Chennai - 600 125, Tamil Nadu. backpacking, Mexican food, Iggy Pop, African Music, She is one of our two chief Art Museums, Yoga and friends. DESIGN TEAM designers for Heartfulness © 2015 Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation Emma Ivaturi, Uma Maheswari, Nehal Singh Magazine since its ** Printing, publishing, distribution, sales, inception in 2015. 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Levin O’Riordan, Papiguy, Alkaline Smoothies, Juices, Marks and/or Trademarks of Sahaj Marg Kamlesh D Patel, Divna Shipovikj Soups and Desserts to show Spirituality Foundation. No part of this everyone just how easy it is magazine may be reproduced in any form or to stay healthy, rebuild your by any means without prior written permission from the Publisher. Volume 2 Issue 3, March 2017 body and improve your overall state. Simonne practices Heartfulness. The views expressed in the contributions in this publication do not always reflect those of the editors, the Heartfulness Institute, or the 8 Heartfulness Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation.March 2017 9 from European Romanticism, as well as eastern The functions of the mind – ego, intellect and practices and philosophy. In fact, when we thinking – all exist within this spectrum of examine the history, we see an ever-increasing consciousness, but to varying depths. All of them integration of West and East. Looking further work together. As we go deeper and deeper into the ahead to the 20th century, Thich Nhat Hanh’s heart, we move from thinking to feeling, and then Plum Village in the south-west of France is yet deeper still, beyond feeling to being, to becoming The Evolution of another example of the way this integration has and eventually unbecoming. Intellect evolves molded our modern approach to Mindfulness. to wisdom and eventually to higher ignorance or innocence.