Achieve Your Goals

Achieve your goals with these powerful tips from Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda. From the Expanding Light Retreat's Ananda School of Yoga and Meditation.

This transformative practice, rooted in the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda, harnesses the potent force of magnetism to propel you towards your aspirations. Through a series of energizing breath and focused visualization, you will cultivate and direct this magnetic energy towards your desired goal. With each inhalation, you draw in revitalizing energy, while exhaling releases tension and invites relaxation.

As you ascend into inner stillness, you shift your gaze to the spiritual eye, the seat of willpower, and infuse it with the awakened energy. With each affirmation, you summon divine assistance to amplify your will and align it with the cosmic force. Visualizing a radiance emanating from your heart to the spiritual eye and beyond, you project your desire into the universe with unwavering determination.

Transcript

Nayaswami Gyandev:

Everything happens through the power of magnetism. In this technique from Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda, you'll use that power to help achieve a personal goal. I've used it often, and it really helps.

Energizing the Body

Let's begin by bringing more energy into the body to strengthen your magnetism.

Double inhale short, long through the nose. Double exhale short, long through the mouth and nose. This energizes the body. Do it again.

Now, double inhale, hold the breath, and tense the entire body. Squeeze strongly. Double exhale and relax. This energizes the body even more. Do it again. Double inhale, hold, and squeeze. Vibrate with energy. Double exhale and relax. One more time, charge the body with energy and relax.

Energy to the Spiritual Eye

Now, sit tall, close your eyes. Behind closed eyelids, lift your gaze up to the point between the eyebrows, the spiritual eye. Inhale slowly and feel that you're bringing that awakened energy up to the spiritual eye, the center of willpower. Hold the breath and hold that energy there. Let it vitalize your will. Slowly exhale.

And again, inhale, lifting even more energy to the spiritual eye. Hold and let it supercharge your will. Slowly exhale. Keep your gaze upturned and keep the energy at the point between the eyebrows.

Harnessing Willpower: Affirm

And affirm after me with a lot of energy, "Oh Spirit, teach me to exert my will unceasingly until the little light of my will burns as the cosmic blaze of Thine all-powerful will." Now a little softer but with more energy, "Oh Spirit, teach me to exert my will unceasingly until the little light of my will burns as the cosmic blaze of Thine all-powerful will."

Now, in a whisper with even more energy, "Oh Spirit, teach me to exert my will unceasingly until the little light of my will burns as the cosmic blaze of Thine all-powerful will." Now, silently repeat it at the spiritual eye, "Oh Spirit, teach me to exert my will unceasingly until the little light of my will burns as the cosmic blaze of Thine all-powerful will."

Now, let go of the affirmation and sit with a gaze uplifted and feel divine power coursing through you. Let's use that power. Bring to mind a desire, a worthy goal that's important to you and that you're willing to work for. Feel that desire in your heart as a powerful focused ray of energy bursting upward from the heart to the spiritual eye and out into the universe.

Creating a Magnetic Field

Keep projecting that ray continuously from the heart, up and out into the universe as a loving demand upon the universe, like electricity flowing through a wire. That ray generates a magnetic field that rotates around it. Visualize that magnetic field. See it rotating. According to the strength of its magnetism, it will draw you toward your goal.

Working with Divine Energy

So with relaxed willpower, begin to rotate that magnetic field more strongly around the ray. Feel the magnetism growing even stronger. Feel God joining you in this worthy effort, helping to rotate that magnetic field even more strongly. Together with Spirit, shake the universe with the power of that rotating magnetic field to fulfill your desire.

Keep sending that focused ray upward from your heart and out from the spiritual eye. Together with the divine, keep rotating that magnetic field with dynamic, joyful will. The magnetism grows stronger every moment, and so does its power to help you reach your goal.

Now inhale, exhale, and let go of all striving, all exertion of will.

Trusting in the Manifestation Process

Sit quietly in the knowledge that even now, you and your goal are coming together, and offer thanks to your Divine partner.

Now, prepare the mind to come back to outward awareness and slowly open your eyes once again.

This inward practice can be a valuable complement to all your outward efforts to achieve your goal. May all your efforts be blessed with success. Joy to you.