Q) Why Does The Mind Create Self-Contradicting Thoughts?

A) To tell you honestly, I don't know why! I can help if you ask me how to go beyond it. I, too, wondered why we create conflicts but I cannot find an intellectual answer. How to go beyond it? The only answer is meditation. It worked in my life, so it will work in your life also; I can guarantee that. Practice the simple technique of creating ten minutes of time for yourself to sit and witness without judging, suppressing or analyzing your thoughts.

It is like watching a movie on television. Let your mind become a screen and watch it. The very witnessing will infuse intelligence in your thinking system. It can stop the selfcontradicting thoughts. We create self-contradicting thoughts as long as we are unconscious about our thinking system. The moment we become conscious, we stop creating

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self-contradicting thoughts. So just create awareness about your thinking system.

Just be a witness to your thinking and automatically, you will resolve the conflicts. As long as you are unconscious, your thoughts will contradict each other. The moment you become conscious, they will complement each other. Just infuse silence into your thinking system by being a witness. The moment you practice this, your whole life will be transformed. It's a small key but only small keys open big doors!

Q) Can you talk a little about the practice where people get their nourishment from other sources, such as sun, wind, etc. and how it enhances life?

A) In yoga, they believe that energy can be taken directly from ether and air, the two higher elements; you don't need it from Earth (i.e. food) or water. This technique is called Hatha Yoga or pranayam. There are many other technical terms for it. It is possible. I read about some research done by Wisconsin University scientists on Lamas who directly take energy from ether. They did research on them and they said that, if you take, say 200 grams of some food, some energy is created in your body, but, in the Lamas' bodies, the same 200 grams of food creates six times more energy! Their system is such that they produce more energy, and doctors don't know where that energy comes from. They conclude that they get energy from unknown sources beyond food and water. Lamas say they get energy directly from the sky and ether. It is perfectly possible by practicing appropriate techniques.

Witnessing your inhaling and exhaling process can infuse energy in you. The breathing cycle has four steps: inhaling, breath taking an outward turn, exhaling, and the breath taking an inward turn. You can't be aware of it all twenty four hours a day but take twenty minutes to sit with yourself and be aware of these four steps in your breathing process. You will be infusing energy and automatically, your food intake will reduce.

You can find specific meditation techniques . Depending on your need, be it physical health, mental health or spiritual growth, you can download the appropriate technique and practice it; it will surely transform you. I pray to that Ultimate Energy, to bless everyone with eternal bliss, nithyananda.

Thank you.