Meditation Techniques: The Survival Instinct!

We are all hard wired for self-preservation. Everything that we do is based upon one thing: our own personal survival. Through distinctions like these, the meditation techniques found in the Yoga Awakening Meditation Program will allow you to develop intuition, increase energy, improve memory concentration and focus, increase confidence and find natural stress relief.. Let’s look into it further……

Basic Survival
Imagine you filled a large pot of water with snails, began heating the pot, but forgot to put the cover on it. What would become of the snails, you ask? The snail has no idea that it’s in a pot of water and being prepared for the main course. After all they aren’t very sophisticated animals. But like all life on this planet they do have a very acute instinct to survive. In time these snails will find their way out of the pot and probably end up on your kitchen walls and ceiling. The snails will move away from the water as it heats up. This is a very basic survival instinct at work.
Humans also share this same instinct, albeit ours is much more sophisticated than the snail’s. Everything that we do is driven by this personal preservation drive!  Let’s look into it together.
Personal Preservation
1) Someone says, “I am going to punch you in the face” and then moves towards you in a threatening manner. You have several choices:  a) you will immediately move away, b) cover up, or c) defend yourself. This is quite obvious. You are protecting yourself from a physical threat. You react immediately to the threat of physical danger.
2) Someone says, “You have a disgusting and ugly face, please stop looking at me.” Now what will you do? When we are threatened or challenged emotionally, things change quite a bit. Again you have several choices: a) You can move away by saying nothing and avoiding this person in the future, b) You can cover up or start to walk with your head lowered so that no one will ever see how ugly you are, c) You can even defend yourself by saying, “I’m attractive, you’re ugly.”
The first example was quite straightforward, your response was immediate, you naturally reacted to the pending danger of being punched.
In the second example your feelings have been hurt. In spite of all the sophistication we possess, we really aren’t very good at dealing with intellectual threats. They are much more subtle and require much more attention so that our responses are balanced and of an equivalent nature. The results of these subtle attacks can snowball and lead to unimaginable complications and disorders.
If you move away and say nothing, it will likely bother you that you didn’t respond appropriately. If  you truly believe that you are ugly, you will be distraught and likely suffer severe self-confidence issues. Even if you defend yourself, you may still believe the insult and suffer from self-confidence issues.
This insult will lead to excessive thought and attention of this event to your life and waste precious energy, increase stress and reduce memory concentration and focus. Your mind will return to this incident over and over again in the future. It could have been a co-worker that complained about your work ethic, or a friend that commented on your weight, or a spouse that fell out of love with you or complained about your bad eating habits. All of these things have one thing in common: they all result in a personal confrontation and will result in the survival instinct taking over, thereby wasting energy, increasing stress and reducing memory concentration and focus. You will attempt to protect yourself in order to survive. If you are really honest and open about this, you will see that our selves are all that really matter to us. All of our actions are based upon our efforts to protect ourselves.
Think of all the energy wasted on such mundane activity. Think of all the stress these intellectual confrontations cause you. If your mind is constantly distracted by thoughts of survival and self protection, what do you think this does to your memory concentration and focus, to your ability to stay centered?
There are so many secrets Yoga and Meditation techniques will reveal to you. There are so many ways that Yoga and Meditation techniques can make your life easier and more fulfilling. The benefits of Yoga are numerous: you will increase energy, improve memory concentration and focus, increase confidence and achieve natural stress relief to name a few. So come and explore these meditation techniques with me now by visiting:  ==>>  http://tinyurl.com/yogaawakeningforyou  <<==
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