The essence of Spirituality

👑Divine Version 24.8.25 - Original dated 30.11.2006

*The 🌼essence of spirituality* *1. What are the signs of spirituality?* The sign of whether you have accumulated anything or not is: being an embodiment of 🌹contentment with everyone and with yourself, always having 🪷good wishes and pure feelings for everyone and always experiencing the stage of 😇cheerfulness and having the fortune of 💛happiness. So, check: do you experience these signs. *2. How do I experience the treasures of spirituality?* The *key* to accumulating all of these treasures is to be an 🧚‍♂️instrument (of God), humble and selfless. Continue to check. Then, do you know the number of the key? The number of the key is three dots, three dots. 1. The dot of the 💫soul.(self conscious) 2. The dot of God, the 🌟Father. (Conscious/remembrance of Divine virtues) 3. The dot of the fullstop of the 🌍drama.(finding solutions for problems and not keep worrying) All of you have this key, do you not? You open your treasures and continue to look at them, do you not? The way to increase all of these treasures is to have ❤️*determination*. When you have determination, then, in any task, you will not think about whether it will happen or not. It has already been accomplished. It has already become that. *3. What is the practice for spirituality?* Whenever you say the word ‘I’, do not just say, ‘I’, but say, “I, the 💫soul (consciousness)”. Say the words together. ‘I’ sometimes brings ego: the ‘I’ of body consciousness, not the ‘I’ of the soul. It sometimes brings ego, sometimes the feeling of being insulted and it sometimes makes you completely disheartened. Therefore, do not let the ‘I’ of body consciousness even enter your dreams. So, now burn this tail of “I". In order to burn it, you need intense, 💥volcanic tapasya, not ordinary remembrance (of self and Divine). Volcanic🔥 remembrance is needed. This is why there is the memorial of the Goddess of the Volcano. Powerful remembrance. So, did you hear what you have to do? While walking and moving along, continue to give God,the Father’s introduction through your 🧚faces and your activity. So, may you be such constant servers. Achcha. *Blessing:* May you be a bestower and a bestower of ✨️fortune and finish all your weaknesses by donating them. In order to finish any weakness, become a bestower and a bestower of fortune. If you become an 🧚‍♀️instrument to support others and give them the Father’s treasures (Divine virtues), weaknesses will then automatically move away. Let your powerful sanskars(nature) of a bestower and a bestower of fortune emerge and your weak sanskars will automatically finish.🧡

How to overcome Mental Disorders by Consciousness - a research article.

 How to overcome Mental Disorders by Consciousness - a research article.

Please visit the following link to read the complete article:
Dana, Azeem (2021): Consciousness and Cognitive Process - A Case Study on Rajyoga and its effect on Neuroses.. figshare. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16944064.v2

Abstract

“Eyes are windows of the Soul” (Shakespeare, 1609, Sonnet 46).  That which is seen in the eye, that is the Self (Sages, 1947, Chandogya Upanishad, p.124).  Self or Soul is the source of Consciousness and is Consciousness itself.  It is this Consciousness who experiences Awareness through the five senses by intention, attention, memory, attitude and behaviour.  A case study, the practice of an individual, deeply analysed, understood for more than 35years, applied to prevent and overcome neuroses is explained here with an attempt to know how Consciousness plays different roles in a human being’s cognitive process and how it affects Neurotic symptoms.  It is explained how Indian and Western Psychology understand consciousness and its application in real life.  The Case study proves that when the role of Consciousness and its physical location is understood, it would benefit enhancing the cognition capability of an individual in concentration, problem solving, creativity and modifying behaviour reducing anxiety, stress, depression and  protects from Non Communicable Life- style Diseases.

Keywords: Consciousness; Cognition; Neuroses; Rajyoga; Indian Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Science;

Dr. Abdul Kalam's Research and the proven Simple Secrets for Health Care

Tribute to former Indian President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on his 90th birth anniversary on October 15, 2021

Dr. Abdul Kalam's Research and the proven Simple Secrets for Health Care:

https://youtu.be/ZGp0sUQkLyg

http://abdulkalam.nic.in/SP220906-1.html

The main hypothesis was by adapting a healthy lifestyle of low fat high fibre vegetarian diet, moderate exercise and stress management through Rajyoga meditation, we can decrease load on the heart which in turn should reverse or halt the disease process. Similarly there are many types of meditation, which may suit certain groups of people. It has been recognized that keeping mind and body busy through good work is another way of Yoga.

Life Style Intervention

The life style given to these patients was very simple and rudimentary. In fact, they received a traditional Indian diet having lots of fibre, fruits and sprouts which I understand was a staple diet of every Indian family about five decades ago. The exercise given was simple; a brisk walk both in the morning and evening hours. The major component of the intervention was stress management through meditation. The main efforts were to empower patients with information and education on heart disease and how they themselves can control or reverse it.

Like any medical treatment a visibly marked improvement in cardiac health of these patients could be seen within seven days of the commencement of the intervention. Their requirement of drugs prescribed by their cardiologists decreased markedly. The symptoms of chest pain and uneasiness reduced. Their capacity to exercise improved dramatically. I understand that after six months of intervention some of the patients were even able to take to swimming. The so-called bad cholesterol, stress hormones profile improved noticeably. The psychological or mental health showed considerable improvement.

The heartbeat became very rhythmic and natural. The brain waves especially the Alpha that I understand are an indicator of mental tranquility increased dramatically. In fact, the increased Alpha waves could be recorded both during eye closed and eye open conditions suggesting that while they were doing their routine work mental tranquility was well maintained.

When their angiographies were repeated the control group showed an increase in artery blockage whereas the group, which received life style intervention, showed a substantial decrease in artery blockage. Thus, this experiment clearly gives us ample evidence to confirm our hypothesis about the efficacy of lifestyle intervention in promoting sustainable healthy hearts.

Replication of Experiments

However, I would suggest that the specialists gathered at this Congress should extend this experiment to their establishments in their countries so that what benefit a limited number of people have got today can be shared by the entire universe. This will definitely lead to savings in billions of dollars of expenditure as a large number of diseases are now well recognized to be due to faulty lifestyles. Also, the savings added to the well being of the people can result in faster development due to enhanced availability of healthy human resource and additional funds.

Now I would like to address all the doctors. When a patient comes to a doctor, he considers and accepts doctor as Godly person. He accepts that. Now imagine, when you treat that person, when you are treating a person, he get number of people from his family and friends to see the patient. As a doctor you spread the information, you tell his friends, you tell his relatives, how your relative got a heart problem because of the following reasons. So I will suggest these are the schedule of three dimensional schedules he should follow. If you spread this information, that will be the best teaching. You will become a teacher, not only a doctor, you should be a teacher also. They will believe you because you are treating the man or women. You agree? Yes or no?

On this occasion let me wish you success in your mission of removing the pain of the people by adapting the preventive strategy and giving a simple solution of healthy life style to the ailing humanity.

May God bless you.

Research, Applied and Proven Techniques for Healing, Depression and Self Management with Raja Yoga

Research, Applied and Proven Techniques for Healing, Depression and Self Management with Raja Yoga

1. Dana, Azeem (2021): Back to Science of Consciousness: Science of Raja Yoga and the need for reversal of Psychological Paradigm.. figshare. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14572845.v2 

2. Dana, Azeem (2021): Psychology of Depression and Emotional Healing.. figshare. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14566284.v2 

3. Dana, Azeem (2021): Emotional Abuse. figshare. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14572095.v1 

4. Dana, Azeem (2021): Third Eye Meditation. figshare. Media. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14572788.v1 

5. Yoga Sutras of Sage Patanjali (English) by Psychologist Azeem Dana:

https://youtu.be/6XN4icrj4iY

Elevating Consciousness for Healing by being a Detached Observer - "How and Why" as spoken by J.Krishnamurti

Elevating Consciousness for Healing by being a Detached Observer - "How and Why" as spoken by J.Krishnamurti

How being an observer overcomes fear, anxiety, addictions and strong emotions: Is it ok to quarrel, have strong emotions and accept it as part of life ? Emotions and attachment are me, not separate from me. I cannot act on it/me but observe. When I act, there is suppression or interference. When I observe, there is full attention and there is no attachment or action or diversion of energy: https://youtu.be/5YIwmdXfxe4

Is it that we are afraid of Loneliness - being a detached observer?: https://youtu.be/MS9r2_fUtWM

Difference between thinking and observing - Looking at the world without words but with full attention - beyond time : https://youtu.be/kswDO60A3h8

What is meditation? Why do we do meditation? Is it for parapsychological experience or superconscious experience or to repeat mantra or to experience illusions or neuroses or natural self awareness free of chattering or corrupt spiritually by listening to others for being silent? Or is it listening without resistance on self discovery to become naturally quiet being a self-scientist (self-observer) with self-interest (motivation) : https://youtu.be/s9IS1zW6In4

What is Raja Yoga? To lead a high moral life - true ethical life. Balanced life, Clear thinking, doing right things with active mind. Yoga is not breathing or exercises. None of them have awakened Kundalini but had some experiences. The different kind of energy, keeping the mind young and fresh come when there is no sense of self of inner conflicts. When there is no struggle, there is a different kind of energy : https://youtu.be/chPBmSzvStQ

Detached Observer: Observer is the Observed. Observer is always active when there is a difference. When both are same, there is no action or fear. There is awareness, there is a quality of attention when listener and listening is same, there is a newness, fresh quality for the mind. The close observation is the meditation. Thought creates time and time that creates fear. When there is end of psychological time (not real time), there is newness. Free the mind from fear to deal with the complex situations. What is mind? Mind is a response to memory and Mind is an alert state of awareness - discovery - freedom (Consciousness) when there is no memory. Religious mind is that which is no longer seeking, no longer demanding experiences, not caught in visions and it is active in totally different dimension which thought can never possibly reach. When one realizes this, thought never has a place at all freed from ugly little sentiments and emotions to function normally, healthily, sanely with the mind that is not cluttered up by thoughts.

 

Revolution in self will bring in a better society. As long as one is dependent (of LSD or doing something) one is in despair. Discover the process of knowing one's self which is the end of all misery. : https://youtu.be/_3FnVT_bOKY

 

AN INEXPENSIVE SUBSTITUTE FOR OXYGEN THERAPY

AN INEXPENSIVE SUBSTITUTE FOR OXYGEN THERAPY

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Crewe JE. BRINGING OUTSIDE AIR INSIDE: AN INEXPENSIVE SUBSTITUTE FOR OXYGEN THERAPY. JAMA. 1936;107(14):1125. doi:10.1001/jama.1936.92770400001011

Abstract

For many years, in cases of pneumonia or tuberculosis, and in a few cases of advanced cardiac diseases, I have used with excellent results the apparatus that is here described. The apparatus consists essentially of a small blower and a pipe about 2 inches in diameter. The blower is attached to an aperture in a board of adjustable length, so made that it can be fitted beneath a raised window. The pipe extends from the blower to near the patient's face. The middle portion of the pipe is rigid but can be made of adjustable length. To this portion of the pipe is attached a cord and counterweight. The cord runs through a hook or pulley that can be screwed into the ceiling or into an overhead frame. The ends of the pipe are flexible. Thus, the pipe can be hung in any convenient position.

The purpose of the apparatus, obviously is to supply gently moving outdoor air directly to the patient. In extremely cold weather, the patient chest is adequately protected and sometimes a woollen cap is worn. but it is rare for patients to complain of the cold air. They obtain so much relief from it that they object to having the air supply discontinued.

The chief advantage of the apparatus is that it can be used where oxygen is not available because of problem of transportation or of expense. The other advantage is that the atmosphere in the patient's room can be kept in a comfortable temperature and he lies or sits with his movements unhampered. by heavy bed clothes or a tent. Moreover it is sad to say that in many dwellings of our country the patient does not have a room to himself. In fact a large family must live in  one or two rooms. In such cases the atmosphere of the room must be kept warm in winter and is vitiated by heating stoves and by the breathing of other members of the family.

Those physicians those who practice in rural districts which have been hard hit in recent years will appreciate the circumstances which first suggested me an apparatus of the sort that has been described. I was called to see a child aged 5 years, who had pneumonia. The child was cyanotic and the air in the small, tightly closed home was very bad because of the crowded condition of the house and the  fumes from a kerosene stove. The outdoor temperature was 20F. I asked the father to find , if possible , a piece of 3 or 4 inch pipe. He was fortunate in finding an old boiler flue about 7 feet long. A hole, large enough to admit the pipe, was cut in  a board and the board was fitted snugly into a partly opened window. The cold air was rushed in and almost at once the cyanosis disappeared. The simple apparatus was used until the child recovered.

Since then, on occasions, I have reverted to this crude apparatus. For instance, in homes where electricity has not been available to operate the blower, I have used rain spout or any other pipe that could be procured and have fitted elbows to the external end of the pipe to catch the prevailing wind.

In one case, during an extremely hot spell, a patient aged 75 years, who had pneumonia, was experiencing great difficulty in breathing. With all windows open and several fans running, he was not relieved. The pipe was attached to a window, all other windows were closed, and as spray from a garden hose was directed past the inlet of the pipe. At once the breeze of cool, moist, outdoor air that was directed near the patient's face gave much relief from air hunger. After that experience I attached to the inlet of the pipe an automobile hot water heater and caused cold water to circulate through it.

Considerable experience over many years has convinced me that, by the methods described, most patients can be given all the oxygen they require, in nature's own mixture. Recently the apparatus was exhibited at the meeting of the Minnesota State Medical Association and attracted favourable interest, particularly among rural practitioners.

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The Story of Attention & Suffering - the Principles of Healing with Attention by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The Story of Attention & Suffering - the Principles of Healing with Attention by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Link: https://youtu.be/-WksoSu29zQ

Coordination between mind and body results in health.

Abnormality of function is due to abnormal coordination. When soul leaves the body there is no 100% coordination and hence the body decay.

Partial or lack of coordination leads to disease.

When there is attention, the coordination increases, there is more life energy and hence abnormality is eliminated.

If Executive never attends office or shop, the business begins to decay. Attention in all aspects improves whole business.

For the factory of the body, when the soul never gives attention, the organ starts crying.

When there is no attention, there is suffering to pull attention. When mind/soul starts giving attention, healing happens.

Attention of the mother strengthening the spirit of the child.

Bring the attention to the suffering organ to eliminate the abnormal function.

When we are meditating, we bring the attention from gross to subtle to transcendental to omnipresent.

Through meditation, When there is attention in all types of personality (gross and subtle nervous system), all gross and subtle layers will fuction very effectively. This is more than coordination between mind and body.

In meditation, there is not just attention, we create a situation that all gross and subtle organ system start fuctioning effectively. When we meditate, there is no need to focus on body but infinite.

When there is infinite(unlimited) awareness, the attention flows to all levels of body. The body opens to infinite spontaneously bringing attention to affected parts of the body.

Allowing the whole system function efficiently happens in meditation.

If a leaf begins to dry, it is a signal for the decay of whole tree, like petal to flower. When the Gardener starts attending to each leaf, it becomes impossible to bring life energy to every parts of tree or flower. There should be a method to connect with all organs.

If there is weakness in a limb, it is also associated with every part of the body. For such cases, Yoga Asanas-simple postures will help coupled with meditation which energizes the system from within.

We need to take care of body from physical, mental and gain energy from spiritual.

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The Deep Secrets of Spiritual Effort by Dadi Gulzar and Dadi Janki.

The Deep Secrets of Spiritual Effort

The Deep Secret of Spiritual Effort: https://youtu.be/jUoGbHb3Wt0

1. The Stages of Spiritual Effort:

Beginning Soul Conscious stage is to experience peace, love and bliss.

At present (later stage) is to have the stage of world Benefactor in addition to Soul conscious stage.

2. Jwalamukhi stage is to transform the sanskars of self and others with the stage of light and might house.

3. Seed Stage is to be in essence without going into expansion.

To perform action being in Seed Stage to make the action powerful. If we dont remain in seed stage, we go into expansion.

Jwala mukhi stage pulls others attention towards it.

The main effort is to become soul conscious. 

4. Body-less stage is to get lost in deep sweet silence combined with God's love.

First, the soul become silent, there is power to detach and withdraw. In body-less stage, we are at home (paramdham).

In sweet and deep silence, we dont realize how much time had  elapsed and we become free from body. This create a good influence - vibration. It will help people forget sorrow.

Even just a minute/second of silence will spread its effect  for a long time and  throughout the day it would keep pulling you.

I am not mind. Mind belongs to me. I am the master of the mind.

5. Four Types of Thoughts: Positive, Negative, Waste and Ordinary.

The speed of waste thoughts is fast. Negative thoughts is poison and it needs to be transformed immediately.

There are 1. Positive and 2. Negative thoughts. 3. Waste thoughts depletes lot of energy. 

You receive energy when you never have waste thoughts. Positive thinking generates power.

Never remember own body or any other person.

Even 4. Ordinary thoughts by listening or speaking never make you great. The greatness become far distant. Ordinary thoughts lead you to waste thoughts.

6. Language of Eyes:

Our stage, vibration, feelings and attitude reflect in our language of eyes.

Rishis and Munis calm down even wild animals with drishti and our eyes with God's attainments and powers create wonders.

7. Power of Silence:

There is a difference between silence of subtle world and silence of Paramdham.

We need to taste-experience the silence of paramdham being here, to find the path of Home (soul world).

The power - current comes from soul world. Lightness comes from meeting Baba in subtle world.

There should not be leniency in my spiritual effort at any point of time. There should be constant attention.

Without the experience of deep silence of soul world, it is difficult to experience company of God (Baba) in subtle world and help others to come closer to Baba.

We become subtle by experiencing deep silence and by having company of God (Baba) in subtle world, then it becomes natural nature.

We have to do it. Not that we will do it or see about it. 

Research on Raja Yoga Practice

The History or Personal Research on Raja Yoga. The everyday self observation details are available here in the following links: 

Oct 2019 to May 2020: https://murlii.blogspot.com/2020/07/tryst-with-god-book-of-spiritual.html 

From 2018 Upto Oct 2019: 

https://murlii.blogspot.com/2019/11/secret-of-spiritual-experience-go_64.html July 2019: https://murlii.blogspot.com/2019/07/volcanic-intense-meditation-beyond-body.html June 2019: https://murlii.blogspot.com/2019/06/are-you-angel-or-human-being.html Up to June 2019: https://murlii.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-only-real-and-true-spiritual-effort.html Mar 2019: https://murlii.blogspot.com/2019/03/spiritual-attainment-unexplained-by-any.html Upto Feb 2019: https://murlii.blogspot.com/2019/02/towards-soul-consciousness-from-mind.html up to Dec 2018: https://murlii.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-path-towards-sat-chit-anand.html 2015 to 2018: https://murlii.blogspot.com/2018/08/bitter-truths-of-spiritual-journey.html Complete blog with personal 

Complete Blog link to search for the Experience from 2011 to 2018: 

https://www.blogger.com/u/4/blog/posts/8135203237287067965

The Observations before 2011 are available on request by email to Azeem Dana: azeemdana@gmail.com

Spirituality and Health (Videos in Tamil with English Subtitles)

Spirituality and Health (Aanmigamum Arokyamum) Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpuJhAJ69raFDDbgTu80aTNnJwN7JtbM3

Episode No.1: With English Subtitles, This video is about the Causes of Diseases and importance of Rajyoga Meditation in curing diseases.

Link: https://youtu.be/k7jIdxiXMlM

Episode No.2: With English subtitles, this episode is about Self Awareness and Self Realization. 

Self Awareness is to understand the Psychological, biological and social factors which affect our mind and health. It is to understand our own life history from childhood till date.

Once we apply full stop to the causes of mental and physical illness by self awareness, we experience peace, love and bliss which is known as Self Realization.

Self Awareness and Self Realization: https://youtu.be/NRRqIDeYCco

Episode No. 3: With English Subtitles,in this episode on Mind, it is explained that mind is a bundle of thoughts.

The consciousness carryout all action through thoughts and these thoughts together or function of thoughts is called as mind.

And any person can change his behaviour or attitude just by changing or understanding the earlier recorded thoughts.

Rajyoga practice helps us to understand the scientific discovery that I, the consciousness (located near pineal gland) is different from physical body and thinking mind.

Mind and Rajyoga: https://youtu.be/xMFZXnNZalI

The series of video on Spirituality and Health is based on the Counseling and Spiritual Health Diploma and P.g.Diploma Annamalai University Courses introduced by Brahma Kumaris Educational wing. Those who are interested to join these University courses may kindly visit: 

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Video recordings of Science and Spirituality - Counseling and Healing Topics

Psychology and Spirituality

Link for the following list of videos:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqiO7RIyaBouD13fJ4xm2L65lo-l_xUa-

Understand the Basics for Counseling and Healing.

Following topics are explained with 5 minutes video recordings. The missing topics will be uploaded soon:

1. Psychology - Application of Science and Spirituality

2. Attention - Consciousness and Self Awareness

3. Perception 

4. Learning

5. Memory - See no evil, hear no evil.

5a.     Mnemonics - Memory Techniques

6. Thinking 

7. Problem solving 

8. Decision making

9. Intelligence 

10. Creativity - Create and Live in every newly created moment.

11. Personality 

12. Motivation - Understand and motivate yourself

13. Emotions 

14. Frustration and Conflict - It is a great opportunity - Listen how?

15. Stress

16. Human Development - We develop to live on our own ideas of Universal truths

17. Nervous System - There is a way to control stress by a very simple technique worth million.

18. Endocrinal Glands - Control switches for physical body.

19.     Chakra Balance - Control switches for spiritual body.

20. Genetics - Know the genies and manipulate their influence for good health.

21. Psychotherapies 

22. Psychological Assessment and Testing

Practice and Share your experience

To practice and report your experience:

Once in a PLR session a 13yr old boy mentioned that he had come from the world where people have only One eye, to save humankind during destruction.

When we study or solve mathematical problems, there is total attention/ consciousness. In fact we become aware of 3rd eye when there is total attention.

It is difficult to have total attention and feel the third eye. But *it is easy to feel 3rd eye and remain concentrated totally throughout the day.* 

From now on, *practice seeing, thinking, hearing, eating, walking - doing everything through 3rd eye*. It is not 3rd eye. It's me, my real consciousness. *I am that point of 3rd eye.*

*Note:* pls visit 3rd eye meditation video once again, if you had lost 3rd eye awareness. 

Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqiO7RIyaBotZOkUrL1TKvyQ9Dqm9S4_F

Power of Science and Silence – Psychology and Spirituality

 Power of Science and Silence – Psychology and Spirituality

Foundation Topics for Counseling and Healing

      1.   Psychology
2.      Attention
3.      Perception
4.      Learning
5.      Memory
6.      Thinking
7.      Problem solving
8.      Decision making
9.      Intelligence
10.  Creativity
11.  Personality
12.  Motivation
13.  Emotions
14.  Frustration and Conflict
15.  Stress
16.  Human Development
17.  Nervous System
18.  Endocrinal Glands
19.  Genetics
20.  Psychotherapies
21.  Psychological Assessment and Testing

1.      Psychology
Science: Original meaning of Psychology is “Science of Soul”. In Greek “Psyche” means “Soul”. Now, Psychology is known as a Science of behavior.

      Spirituality: Western Psychology is generally used to understand and get rid of past thoughts, feelings, emotions that are present in our consciousness, that affect individuals from expressing their full potential. Spirituality gives more importance to control over Consciousness to easily gain control over thoughts, feelings and emotions. Both Western and Eastern Psychology help in changing our attitude and behavior.

       Application: To transform unhealthy behavior to healthy behavior.

2.      Attention
Science: According to William James, Father of American Psychology, “Attention is focusing of consciousness on a particular object”. Attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things.
 
Spirituality: Attention is the basis of Self Awareness. We become unconsciously attentive by external factors, whereas when we become attentive consciously then that is known as spiritual effort. By meditation we can develop attention and able to focus on any action for any amount of time without interference of other thoughts.
 
Application: Anxiety, Stress and other mental disorders have one of the common symptoms as distraction of thoughts, not able to focus on day to day activities or job in hand. Attention or Concentration is one of the important requirements of healthy individual especially for students and professionals.
 
3.      Perception
Science: The psychological process responsible for our interpretation of the world is known as perception.  The process of perception involves three steps when it encounters stimuli viz. (i) selection, (ii) organization and, (iii) interpretation.
 
Spirituality: Perception is influenced by psychological, biological and social factors. But to perceive things as it is without preconceived notions requires effort. And this happens only when we are able to detach ourselves from our programs of thoughts that we had inherited from childhood days till date. Many of our beliefs which we had inherited stop us from moving forward in our life and doing what we are interested in our life.
 
Spirituality helps us to keep our consciousness clean and clear, keep it plain whilst making a new plan or setting up a new goal so that my perception is not hindered by my past limited beliefs and ideas but remains filled up with zeal, hope and enthusiasm.
 
Application: We should be able to understand our perceptions of people, things, objects and situations so that I make modifications wherever necessary for my own development.
 
4.      Learning
Science: Learning is a “relatively permanent change in behavior (or behavior potential) resulting from experience” (Baron, 2001).

     Spirituality: Learning happens by association, reinforcement and insights. So to develop good habits, we need to associate or surround with such people and environment that would reinforce healthy, productive and useful habits. And this surrounding and environment is more important for children. As parents we should see that children are brought up in a healthy environment to develop a healthy body and personality. For this parents should imbibe values in their life and lead a healthy, virtuous and active life setting up an example for their kids to follow.

    Application: Any new development or improvement or transformation is only possible by learning something new and applying them in real life. Otherwise, we remain where we are.

        5. Memory

     Science: Memory process is the ability to encode, store and retrieve the information received by our five senses. And the stored information is called as memory. Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) equated working of human memory to the working of computers. They proposed that similar to computers, we also possess different forms of memory systems, described as follows: a) Sensory memory, b) STM (Short Term Memory) and c) LTM (Long Term Memory).

    Spirituality: See no evil, think no evil, listen no evil, read no evil, speak no evil, act no evil because whatever we do, it is stored as memory and will affect our thinking, perception and behavior. The most important here is the Eyes. It is the eyes that deceive the most. It is through the eyes the virus creeps inside our consciousness and corrupt our program.
Application: without the help of memory, we cannot retain information to carry out the newly learned behavior. And the memory – program has to be pure and satopradhan. Otherwise Rajo and Sato memories create stress affecting our body and mind causing illness.

6.      Thinking
Science: Thinking is a process by which a new mental representation is formed through change, reorganization and transformation of information stored in the memory. Thinking is divided into Perceptual, Conceptual, Reflective, Creative and Critical thinking.
Spirituality: We human beings used to have thoughts like negative, waste. And these thoughts give rise to feelings and emotions leading to psychosomatic illnesses which is also known as stress. When we have positive and useful thoughts, then we remain free from stress. Spirituality helps to develop positive thoughts, feelings and emotions even if the situation tends to be negative.
Application: We need to identify the negative thoughts to replace with positive thoughts if we have to bring a positive change in our life.

7.      Problem solving
Science: Problem-solving can be defined as behavior of overcoming hindrances to achieve your goal. A typical problem-solving process follows seven steps: 1) Problem identification 2) Problem definition 3) Strategy formulation 4) Organization of information 5) Allocation of resources 6) Monitoring and 7) Evaluation
Spirituality: When we have hope and enthusiasm, we develop interest, motivation and determination to complete a task which is part of the problem solving. We never get stuck in the past failures or various mental attachment not letting go of the past. This happens when we are able to keep our consciousness filled with Spiritual power.
Application: As a counselor, one of the important roles is to help - facilitate aspirants to come out with solutions for their problem.

8.      Decision-making
Science: Decision Making Process involves the following six steps: Identifying the Problem, Generating Alternatives, Evaluating Alternatives, Choosing an Alternative, Implementing the Decision and Evaluating Decision Effectiveness.
Spirituality: When there is clarity in mind by regular meditation, it is easy to take a right decision. Clarity comes from peace of mind, positive thinking with good wishes for self and others. If this clarity is not there, there is over crowding of thoughts leading to confusion before making a decision and may lead to a wrong decision.
Application: To move forward, every step requires making a decision sometimes quickly without delay.

9.      Intelligence
Science: Alferd Binet (1905), the first psychologist who developed standardized intelligence test, defined intelligence as, “the ability to judge well, understand well, and reason well.” As per Wechsler (1944), “Intelligence is the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with his/her environment.”
Spirituality: Intelligent person in fact is the one who can tolerate, cooperate, accommodate, accept and live a peaceful and balanced life with self and others. An intelligent person lives a virtuous life and shares his virtues with others. An intelligent person has knowledge to maintain a balance in worldly life and spiritual life. Intelligent is the one who imbibes knowledge and maintains balance in all aspects of life whether it is family, friends, mental and physical health, profession, spirituality and life skills. In Ayurveda life style diseases are called as diseases caused by intellectual error. When our Intellect is clear with spiritual self identification, then we lead a balanced life with right knowledge of all aspects of life, leading to health, wealth and happiness.
Application: Intelligence is enhanced through Spirituality to lead a balanced life because health of mind and body depends upon the knowledge and application of psychological, biological and social factors of life.

10.  Creativity
Science: The act of creating an original and novel idea or object is known as creativity. It includes the process of preparation, incubation, illumination and verification.
Spirituality: It is said all new inventions are invented when a person goes into the depth of silence. It is called as incubation period in psychology. From the depth of ocean of silence, we come out with the treasures of creative ideas. More we practice silence in our day to day life, more creative and intuitive we become day by day.
Application: Human beings are the creators. The more we create new inventions more comfort one has in his/her life. We never get stuck in old way of thinking and living, every moment is fresh and new for a spiritually identified person and like a bird, he/she keeps flying not holding on to any single branch of the tree.

11.  Personality
Science: The word personality has been taken from the Latin word persona – the mask used by actors to represent characters during a theatrical play. As the character changes, so does the mask of the actor. Our behavior is not always constant or predictable. Sometimes we behave as predicted, sometimes we behave quite differently in a familiar situation, and sometimes our behavior becomes completely unpredictable. Due to our ever changing yet stagnant behaviour, there is a widespread confusion over the definition of personality.
According to APA, “Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.” It further states that “the study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One is: understanding individual differences in particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability. The other is: understanding how the various parts of a person come together as a whole.”
Spirituality: Although there are various ways to define a personality in psychology, all are based on the information that we have stored in our memory. And it is also said that human beings behave differently in different situations based on which part of the brain is active at that moment, in other words human beings are considered of multiple personalities in psychology. But Spirituality says that not only a single person has a single original personality but whole of mankind has a common individual original healthy personality. And this original personality is of peace, love, happiness, bliss and powers. The more we experience our natural original personality in our day-to-day life, we tend to remove the masks of various acquired personalities and become mentally and physically healthy.
Application: The only real help we can offer others is to help them come back to their original personality of self awareness with constantly alert and conscious of innate virtues and powers.

12.  Motivation
Science: Motivation can be termed as a driving force or it can also be stated as a process that starts and drives various activities, whether physical or psychological (Gerrig and Zimbardo, 2006). Needs, drives and incentives contribute to motivation.
Spirituality: It is said, need, drive and incentives are the main factors of motivation and these factors also create various competitions leading to anxiety, stress, worry, fear and less efficient in performance. When a person becomes spiritual, his motivation becomes more intrinsic, natural, unconditional and service oriented with good wishes for own self and others. Even if there is competition, a spiritual person will focus on giving the best without any feeling of being competitive free from expectation because he enjoys every moment and every situation with hope and enthusiasm which is his natural personality. And this person has the possibility to reach greater heights because there is no anxiety, stress, tension, expectation that hinders his performance from giving the best.
Being spiritual, a person develops intrinsic natural motivation with constant zeal and enthusiasm without expectation for the result without the influence of need, drive and incentives.
Application: We need to identify what motivates a person based on motivational theories to improve the performance related to profession and studies.

13.  Emotions
Science: Emotions can also be termed as motivators of human behavior (Feist and Rosenberg, 2015) and as such behavior can be directed and activated by emotions as well (Nolen- Hoeksema et al, 2009).Feldman (2015, pg. 312) defined emotion as “feelings that generally have both physiological and cognitive elements and that influence behavior”.
 
Spirituality: Feist and Rosenberg (2015, pg. 418) defined emotions as “brief, acute changes in consciousness experience and physiology that occur in response to a personally meaningful situation”. When there is only experience in consciousness without physiological disturbance, it may be called as feelings. Feelings may be experienced either in pleasure or pain. Emotion disturbs the homeostasis (balance). Spirituality helps in experiencing more feelings and those who are never exposed to spirituality experience more emotional disturbances.
 
Application: The emotions what we had experienced since childhood are to be vented out with understanding to develop a healthy personality. The charged emotions of the past affect our present behavior if it is not neutralized by psychotherapies or self analysis.
 
14.  Frustration and Conflict
Science: Frustration or Anger is experienced when a desire to achieve a task is blocked by some reason. Conflict happens when we need to decide on only one task but we are in fact interested in two tasks at the same time. And there are also personal and role conflicts.
Spirituality: Frustration happens when we are not able to detach our thoughts from whatever we had expected or desired to experience or achieve.  Goal conflict happens when we are not able to let go one desire for another. Personal Conflict happens when we focus or expect too much on external values rather than internal spiritual values. The main reason for these is the attachment of our mind. When we know that it is the Consciousness that creates thoughts and when I develop the power over thoughts or desire to create and stop as per my intention, when I have the will power through spirituality by giving more importance to spiritual values, then I become free from frustration and conflict.
Application: Counseling others to identify the cause of frustration and conflict with techniques to overcome them will help a person give his full attention to the task at hand. Where there is total concentration, success is always guaranteed.

15.  Stress
Science: Stress may be defined as anything that disrupts or disturbs a normal person’s sense of equilibrium and well being. There are instances when people actually perform better during times of stress. This is because they are able to harness stress positively to improve outcomes.
Spirituality: Stress is known to be one of the main causes of Non-communicable diseases like Diabetes, Cancer, Stroke, Heart Diseases, Hyper Tension and Addictions. If we are spiritual, then we can live a stress free life protected from these life style diseases.
Application: In fact, we can do any action without experiencing stress. When we have love and good wishes for self, others and the actions we do which are beneficial for the human kind, even a big task seems to be small and easy. When there is no love and good wishes, even a small task creates a lot of stress within us. We need to develop unconditional love and unconditional motive if we want to live a stress free and healthy life.

16.  Human Development
Science: Human Development explains the development process of human being in all aspects – Psychological, biological and social. In psychology, Human development is explained by theories of Freud, Erikson, Maslow, Carl Roger, Pavlov and Skinner focusing on thoughts and behavior.
Spirituality: In fact the true development happens only when we identify ourselves as a spiritual conscious being who was an ideal self, is an ideal self and always an ideal self. All other forms of human development is like trying to fight our own shadow where we never gain victory, never overcome limitations to reach to the ideal self. When there is spiritual self awareness, the human growth reaches its full potential when all those learned ideas, beliefs, attitude, perception, emotions, motivation are replaced with original values and virtues. The real Human development or transformation happens with spiritual self awareness and not by transformation of unnatural ideas and behavior.
Application: As a Counselor, the current issue that is being experienced by a person has to be analyzed from overall (psycho-bio-social) human development - from childhood till date.

17.  Nervous System
Science: Descartes (1596-1650) introduced the concept of a separate mind and body. He believed that all mental functions were located in the pineal gland. Hippocrates quote is “From the brain and the brain alone arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains and grief’s”.
 
The nervous system is responsible for all our behaviors and thought processes. The nervous system of the humans has two major divisions, namely, the Central Nervous System (CNS) and the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS).
 
The central nervous system comprises of brain and the spinal cord that work together to make behavior possible. Peripheral nervous system is responsible for connecting CNS with rest of our body. The PNS is further subdivided into somatic nervous system (SNS) and autonomic nervous system(ANS).
 
 The Autonomic Nervous system, another part of PNS, regulates emotional behavior, other organs and glands.  The somatic nervous system conducts all sensory and motor information to and from the CNS. It is responsible for voluntary movement.
 
ANS has two divisions, sympathetic division and parasympathetic division. These two divisions are very different from one another but work in conjunction with each other.
 
Sympathetic division is located primarily on the middle of the spinal column (top of the ribcage to the waist area that is thoracic and lumbar areas). The sympathetic division is responsible for "fight-or-flight" mechanism (fight : anger; flight : fear).It helps the person or animal to deal with stressful situation (sympathy with one's emotions). In stress, the sympathetic division becomes very active, and starts sending its impulses very rapidly to defend the body. It also stimulates the adrenal gland to produce epinephrine and norepinephrine which help to enhance heart rate, blood sugar level, and increase the blood flow to the skeletal muscles to deal with stress.
 
The parasympathetic division is active most of the time and controls various functions of the body in non-stressful situations or when everything is all right, that is in day-to-day functioning. The activities of sympathetic division are replaced by the parasympathetic division when the stress is over. It helps in repairing the body systems and bringing them back to a resting state and restoring the body to normal functioning after arousal. Parasympathetic division restores the
energy that is burned by the sympathetic division.
 
Spirituality: The pineal gland in the brain, we can say is the location of soul, the consciousness. And more we experience our original spiritual qualities of peace, love and happiness, we activate the parasympathetic system which keeps our body and the bodily functions relaxed and balanced. When we get disturbed, then the sympathetic system activates fight and flight stress response to bring our body to an emergency mode.
 
Application: We need to teach relaxation techniques from Science or Spirituality to calm down the nervous system by activating the Parasympathetic system. Stress (Sympathetic System) affects our nervous system and relaxation methods (activation of parasympathetic system) helps where knowledge or spiritual guidance never works. Especially it is more helpful for the people of old age.
 
18.  Endocrinal Glands
Science: The endocrine system along with the nervous system helps to maintain homeostasis. There are various endocrine glands in the body which secrete their hormones. A specific quantity of hormones is required for normal functioning of the body. There are two types of glands, namely, endocrine glands and exocrine glands. The glands that affect behavior are known as endocrine glands, whereas, there are glands that do not affect behavior, like salivary gland and sweat gland, which fall in the category of exocrine glands.
Hypothalamus /  Pituitary Glands controls the other endocrine glands known as Pineal Gland, Thyroid Gland, Parathyroid gland, Adrenal Gland, Pancreas and Gonads
Spirituality: Glands secrete hormones controlling the physical and mental health mechanism. A spiritual life style with practice of spiritual values in life enables our hormonal rhythm function effectively harmonizing the function of endocrinal glands.
Application: Early morning meditation activates the pineal gland (third eye) which controls the biological circadian rhythm and positive emotions with healthy life style balances the secretion of hormones in endocrinal glands.

19.  Genetics
Science: Genes play a major role in thinking and behavior of human being along with the influence of environmental factors. It is something like human beings are not really an independent being to live a life of his desire.
Spirituality: The main difference between human being and any other creature is the self awareness. Irrespective of whatever role a person performs in the world, he can be conscious of his true nature and express divinity, values and virtues in his interaction with self and others. Spirituality and its values are the main qualities that differentiate human being from a creature.
Application: To accept the genes or the destiny as it is but give our best with cheerfulness, self awareness and without expectation of the result having faith in self, God, people and situations.

20.  Psychotherapies
Science: Psychotherapies of different approaches like Psychoanalysis, Individual Psychology, Analytical psychology, Psychodynamic theories, Humanistic approaches and latest empirical models all contribute to the mental health of a human being in dealing with the emotional issues and developing life skills transforming thinking, perception, attitude, beliefs and external situations.
Spirituality: The real change, self transformation happens only with transformation in consciousness which is the creator or source of these thoughts, perception, attitude and situations. So, we need to work on retaining our Self awareness and its natural consciousness along with the application of Psychotherapies for mental and physical well-being.
Application: Psychotherapies helps to understand the thoughts, feelings, emotions, perceptions, attitude of past and present, whether they are positive or negative, helpful or harming, beneficial or losing, strength or weakness, health or illness. Unless we know something is wrong, we never take action to correct it. Awareness, Acceptance and Action is the rule for Healing.

21.  Psychological Assessment and Testing
Psychological assessment is a process that involves the integration of information from multiple sources, such as tests of normal and abnormal personality, tests of ability or intelligence, tests of interests or attitudes, as well as information from personal interviews. Collateral information is also collected about personal, occupational, or medical history, such as from records or from interviews with parents, spouses, teachers, or previous therapists or physicians.
A psychological test is one of the sources of data used within the process of assessment; usually more than one test is used. Psychological tests are used to assess a variety of mental abilities and attributes, including achievement and ability, personality, and neurological functioning. For children, academic achievement, ability, and intelligence tests may be used as tools in school placement, in determining the presence of a learning disability or a developmental delay, in identifying giftedness, or in tracking intellectual development. Intelligence testing may also be used with teens and young adults to determine vocational ability (e.g., in career counseling). There are tests to measure Emotional Intelligence and Spiritual Intelligence.
Example: When we do Case Study for Counseling and Healing, it is an Assessment and it also includes few Psychological tests.