session 1

Visioning

 

Perception is Creation

 


Practice Of Generating a Sankalpa

Step 1: Bring it out - Perspective and Contemplation

  1. This step is what we did on session 1

Step 2: What stands out?

  1. I want you to see from your diary, from everything that you wrote, what stands out for you?
  2. Where there is more energy? 
  3. What is most significant, meaningful, or painful?

Step 3: Highest will or Ego-desire, joyful or bitter?

  1. What is the emotion behind it? joyful, aspirational or painful, conflicted? (you will se this process in minute 35 of the video)
    1. If it's joyful then you can write your intention by moving to point (4)
    2. If it's painful, you are still processing and need to digest some information by entering in to a process of deeper contemplation on the Samskara or the trauma stored from the past that is creating the stress on the present moment.
      1. Think of an incident where you experienced the most stress regarding this issue that is bothering you.
      2. RECALL THE MEMORY as if it is happening right now - relieve the experience
        1. Got to the most stressful moment
        2. Tap in to the emotion and how it manifest in your body
        3. Where in your past you have felt that same feeling/emotion/sensation?
      3. RECALL THE MEMORY as if it is happening right now - relieve the experience
        1. Tap in to the emotion and how it manifest in your body
      4. What is common in both situations that you have relived?
        1. What elements are repeating itself in both situations? that will give you a clue on what information is stored up in you
        2. Notice the thoughts you tell to yourself when you are experiencing the traumatic event or what is being told to you by some one else, there lies the clue to why the situation becomes traumatic, it is not what happened that constitutes the trauma, but actually your interpretation of the events, how we define/think of ourselves in that moment, and how we define/think of others or even life.
      5. Remember a moment where you experienced the opposite of the stressful situation, for example: When you experienced love, protection, fullness, etc
        1. Notice how it feels to experience Love in your body
        2. Go back to the last stressful experience and revisit it being anchored in the experience of love
        3. how does that changes your perception of the experience
      6. Where in your family can you see that same information enacting itself out?
      7. What needs to be recognized, acknowledge, accepted?
      8. Write the new understanding about yourself

Step 4: Create a Sankalpa

  1. Is a Sanskrit word, composed by two syllables: San-Kalpa 
  2. Kalpa forming something for a purpose or letting it coalesce kalpa means vow, or “the rule to be followed above all other rules.”
  3. San means strong clear effective, San, ha connection with the highest truth.
  4. San-kalpa means: A focusing of your thoughts, hopes and best wishes an intensification to your commitment at whatever you have given manifestation in your own mind. Sankalpa, then, is a vow and commitment we make to support our highest truth.

An effective Sankalpa has these qualities:

  1. It is authentic, it is what you really want, that is, it is not a superficial whim or desire, but rather, it is something that arises from your heart, that your whole being longs for, something that you want to experience, to be or to have.
  2. It is clear, simple, free of ambiguities
  3. It is short, concise, easy to remember.
  4. It is written as a positive affirmation, that is, we do not write what we want to leave behind but what we want to achieve, for example: If one of your desires is to "live free from stress," it is not convenient to write your Sankalpa in that way, given that whenever you read it, you will continually be reaffirming that you are a "stressed" person, in any case, it is better to turn around the word stress and write the idea as for example:  "I´m full of confidence!".
  5. The Sankalpa is a goal, it is not the process of reaching this goal. Sankalpa is what we want and not the "how" we are going to get it. Often when people write their intention they use words like: I want to learn to be happy, I want to find happiness, or I cultivate the patience to be happy. In all of these statements, you are stating the method you're planning to use to achieve what you want, rather, we want to state the goal, "I am happy!"

Write down your Sankalpa distilled from the information you got in step 2 and 3

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