One of the many mechinisms I live by is reconnecting back to the Self, by controlled conscious breathing.
If you've ever tried meditation and felt you cannot concentrate, or don't understand the purpose or reason behind it, or don't have the discipline to clear the mind, try this method:
Start with a sea swim or ice baths.
We tend to not think or feel the body when going for a swim, or we rush out fighting the cold or “a swim now to keep the body warm.” With ice baths, it's running straight back into the sauna after 5–10 seconds, or maybe a 30-second ice bath session. That in itself is a self-created safety mechanism/procedure by your subconscious right before you've even gotten into the complex. You've planned what to do and how to deal/manage your situation when it gets too cold; instead, learn to implement breathwork to maintain a state of calmness, discipline with self-learning to avoid the chatter and safety mechanisms in the mind.
Instead, get a watch and plan to sit in the bath for a select period of time; this will overrule the plan you've implemented to escape.
This is where we will begin to go into our inner world and focus back onto our self. What the objective is: to learn to feel the body in these harsh/cold environments but disassociate from the cold water temperature. Through breath control techniques such as box breathing or the Wim Hof Method, we're going to calm the nervous system down and begin a brain-to-heart synchronization/coherence. This will take time, patience, and repetition.
This is teaching the subconscious and implementing the mechanism to disregard the external world—i.e., cold water, bath, sauna (Material World)—and force our mind to move into internal system control where you have no option but to force yourself to use your breath, even if we have to fight the mind, fight-or-flight, or the safety mechanism that tells you to “get the fuck out!”
This method is helpful as it teaches us that in a world full of difficult bosses, endless bills, and news cycles, reactivity is the normal. But you always have: your breath. Pausing to breathe breaks the panic loop and anchors you in a state of calm clarity. It reminds you that you have an infinite number of options—you don’t have to pick the first one out of fear. In that quiet gap, you reclaim your power to ask: "What do I truly want, and what serves me best right now?" Stop reacting to life. Breathe, step back, and take control.
Control your breath, Control your life.
Once we begin to master our mind in situations/environments we hold no control over, we begin to learn the Art of Surrendering.
“Once the mind becomes disciplined, then it can established solely on the inner Self. When it is free from longing for other things, only then, you are free.”
Art of Surrendering
During early stages, you will need to create good/positive/motivational dialogue. Your inner voice and thoughts are not the same thing. We tend to get it confused that we are our thoughts and end up believing in a very old, corrupt belief system.
A thought is something you perceive and inner dialogue you create.
Once we begin to realize we can let go of our thoughts, don't associate/attach to them, we can allow space for nothing to be there. This nothingness is called the Void; a state of deep, thoughtless awareness where the chatter of your everyday ego drops away.
Clouds; I think of our thoughts like clouds passing by. You can pick at a cloud and choose to attach to its story/narrative or sit back with peace and allow that cloud to pass by with love. Acknowledge that you hold the power to choose your story/narrative or simply surrender to the unknown.
The Ego likes to be part of a story because it makes the self feel safe and wanted—it seeks self-comfort, acceptance, recognition, and control. In the Void, your usual sense of "I" (your memories, labels, and worries) temporarily dissolves, leaving only the act of pure observing.
This void space is the objective of meditation. What Gurus would train to master and people would spend years trying to achieve. Every person on earth is the universe co-experiencing itself from different perspectives, we are one whole being. Your ignorance will become bliss along this journey.
After one learns to be in the void within meditative state, we can begin to do techniques like raising our energy from Root and Sacral up into the higher chakras i.e. Third eye, Crown.
This shift in consciousness will help increase intuition, self-awareness, imagination, remove limiting beliefs. When energy reaches these centers, it can trigger both profound spiritual experiences and intense physical reactions.
This energy is known as Kundalini energy. Kundalini sits at the root and sacral chakras (the centers of vitality and reproduction) and will lie dormant at the end of the spine. Energy always flows and it doesn't remain in the same form or place for long. It's important to raise this energy up the chakras, through meditation or breathing technique. Muladhara technique or breathwork (pranayama).
Pranayama is a Sanskrit term that breaks down into two core roots: prana (life force or vital energy) and ayama (control, expansion, or extension).
From my experience while traveling India and 1:1 sessions with a yoga teacher, I found Pranayama most beneficial and quickest for activation to override the system.
One's journey moves from the Muladhara (root) to the Sahasrara (crown). This journey is an evolution from one dimension to another; creating your Heaven on Earth.
Revelation 8:1: “And when he had opened the seventh seal, a silence was made in heaven, as half an hour.”
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born”
