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The Steps of Atman

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My Indian Guru gave me this practice in a past life. It is significant and effective, yet very easy to perform. It is versatile and accessible even to beginners on the path of Yoga.

The practice works in an unusual way. Using an outward mechanism that is deeply familiar, it acts like a great, powerful spring, directing immense inner strength and released energy towards fulfilling any wish.

It can help bring perfection, health, prosperity, paranormal abilities, knowledge, harmony in family relationships and much else you wish to improve, to one degree or another.

All you need is yourself. Nothing else is required.

Description of the Practice

  1. This practice is performed while walking. You must be moving on foot. I recommend setting aside time specifically for it, rather than combining it with shopping, a visit to a beauty salon or another errand. If you are so busy that you cannot simply walk in the street or, better still, in nature, and can only walk to work, home or the shops, use those circumstances. Ideally, however, walk without a particular destination, along city streets, through a park or forest, or wherever is available.
  2. You are walking: an ordinary activity deeply established in your subconscious. Yet walking is more than walking. It is movement that arises within and leads within. Recall yourself or someone else deeply worried, upset or frightened: often the first response is to begin pacing unconsciously.
  3. As you walk, try to think of nothing except the verbal formula I will give you. It can be expressed in different languages and vary slightly, but its essence is: “Every step I take now brings me closer to Perfection”. Replace “Perfection” with whatever you desire; it is only an example. You might say “brings me closer to health”, “to good fortune” or “to Truth”. Keep it brief: one or two words are enough. “Closer to health” is better than “closer to getting rid of acne, dandruff and greasy hair”. State the aim clearly and concisely. Into “health”, place whatever you wish: problems with individual organs, external conditions or developmental difficulties. Or simply hold the desire for perfect health, encompassing everything. This concerns yourself, but you can also practise for others: “brings me closer to my parents being healthy”, “to my husband's perfection” or “to my son's success at school”. Expand these brief phrases inwardly. For example, give “my husband's perfection” whatever meaning you intend. The wording remains short while its meaning is broad.
  4. Here is precisely how to practise. Say “Every step”, then take several firm, attentive steps. Particularly as the sole meets the ground, feel that this is a STEP, each individual step. Then say “I take now” and take several more steps, concentrating strongly on now: the steps are being taken at this very moment. Next say “brings me closer” and take more steps, deepening the awareness that it is me — you personally — who is being brought closer. Finally name your aim, for example “to Perfection”. Continue walking while holding the meaning of the whole formula in your consciousness.
  5. Do not stop walking at any point while saying the formula silently. Everything flows continuously with the movement.
  6. Repeat the formula whenever your concentration on its meaning weakens or disappears, following the sequence described in point 4.

Notes on the Practice

  1. It is best to walk for an hour or more. Thoughts naturally wander and concentration weakens, so remember to repeat the formula in point 4 throughout. The more you practise, the more effective this beautiful method becomes. As a rough guide, devote at least three days of one hour each to a particular wish.
  2. When practising for someone else, do not think about how the result might come about; there are many possibilities. Simply know that the practice activates hidden inner abilities that may manifest in different ways. An inner feeling might lead you to the place selling exactly the medicine that helps your parents recover, if their health was your aim. Or it may happen mystically, with the wish fulfilled without any material cause.
  3. It is quite likely that during the period of practice you will dream of someone visiting you, usually beautiful Beings in bright, radiant clothing, and giving you something valuable that you accept. You may also dream of reaching a cherished place, beautiful and full of light.
  4. After this practice, there is usually a clear sense that something within has truly switched on. It is a very pleasant feeling.
  5. Many people know how spiritual practice and aspiration towards the Divine can weaken over time. Something is lost, and the former desire to develop spiritually disappears. They understand its importance, but inner pessimism and melancholy prevent the shoots that began growing in youth, with fresh energy and an unburdened mind, from reaching the light. This practice can help them reactivate the invisible inner mechanisms that inspire aspiration and growth.
  6. Again, the practice is universal. Use it for health, developing the Third Eye, deepening spirituality and love, reading the Book of Life, astral projection, recalling past lives, healing loved ones, and so on.
  7. What can I suggest to disabled people unable to walk? Do not despair; you can also use this practice. If you have any way of moving independently, use it. With a wheelchair, for example, replace “step” with “turn of the wheel”. Perhaps what awakens within you will even allow you to regain your usual means of movement.

© Author: Sergey Veretennikov (Om Shanti)
Practice given on 14 May 2007.

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