The Heart of the Sakshibhav Meditation

Many of us are feeling a lot of anxiety surrounding the environmental climate crisis and the current state of political unrest in our world.  Through Sakshibhav Meditation, or witnessing meditation, we can learn to move past this fear and into space where we can center ourselves within and then be more helpful to the situation. Sakshi means the witnessing mind and Bhav means the feeling heart. We need both to transcend the material world and truly embrace a spiritual life. Sakshibhav Meditation: Mindfulness and Heartfulness for a Peaceful, Happy World     Nothing Happens in the World Accidentally Many of us are feeling a lot of anxiety surrounding the environmental climate crisis and the current state of political unrest in our world.  How do we move past this fear and into space where we can be helpful to the situation? Anything that happens in an individual or collective life at any point in time and space has its own purpose, which is ordained by a higher intelligence. Nothing happens in the world accidentally. If we read through the pages of the history of mankind and the world we will see that we have always passed through great upheavals and suffering, wars and bloodshed. There was never a time when everything was perfect. What is happening now globally is no exception to what happened in the past. However, what we see now more than ever is the most damaging influence of the human mind’s increasing greed and selfishness, the erosion of all moral and ethical values. This pollution of the collective mind of humanity is causing all the crises in the world. Political or environmental, whatever is causing the fear and anxieties to the sensitive populations of countries around the world needs to be addressed at the root.  It is collective…

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