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The Ancient Science of Training the Mind ~ Ishan Shivanand

Name: The Ancient Science of Training the Mind ~ Ishan Shivanand
Uploaded: 2025-09-12T13:01:12+00:00
Duration: 51 s
Channel: Aarti Samani
Description: In this segment, the speaker explains a mental‑training practice that combines visualization with body awareness, rooted in traditional/native medicine…

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In this segment, the speaker explains a mental‑training practice that combines visualization with body awareness, rooted in traditional/native medicine. The method aims to embed the practiced state into "intracellular memory" by repeatedly linking the visualization to gratitude, positive thoughts, and relaxation. The speaker outlines four key parameters that guide the practice, emphasizing the importance of intention (the imagined light) and the integration of top‑down (visual) and bottom‑up (bodily) awareness. The process is described as initially challenging, but with perseverance it becomes a lasting internal pattern, akin to creating a painting that solidifies over time.

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We want to practice, we want to get better at it, and we want it to go into our intracellular memory. We want to correlate it with gratitude, with positive thought, with relaxation. It's like creating a painting. In the beginning, it's tough, but as you continue, as you persevere, it goes into intracellular memory, it gets better. And that's why I said the 4 parameters. The most important parameter is that that thought, that intention, that okay, you know, this light is there, it's coming down. But more importantly, what you'll see is we have combined the visualization with the body consciousness. And it's an old modality, there's nothing new with what I'm telling you. It's part of native medicine. So you're bringing the awareness down and then you are making it go up. So in a way, you are sort of giving direction to your mind that sort of goes everywhere.