Spirituality Simplified

You are welcome to my podcast Spirituality simplified. My name is Manisha Jain. By the grace of God, I am a spiritual writer, author, and a blogger. Before I start to talk I would like to thank you for giving me your time and tuning in at Spirituality simplified . Without your presence I would be talking to emptiness. So please accept my gratitude. I also hope you are doing well, and are at peace...

The most simple or the elemental way of starting to meditate is by visualizing the practice. Bring the picture of the object to your mind and then begin to connect with it. Practice with this simple exercise and see how easy it gets: Sit in a quiet place with yourself. Think about your favorite food. Bring the picture of the food to your mind. Visualize the color. Feel the texture. Touch to see th...

Meditation is considered a tool to build internal energy, develop compassion, love, patience, generosity, and forgiveness. Meditation often involves an internal effort to self-regulate the mind in some way. In Rajyoga meditation the key component is knowing self and working on improving self. Without knowing who one is in real- the meditation is in vain. Once, this clarity is achieved that this me...

During meditation, why is it important to talk to oneself? The basic reason is to detach yourself from all the other thoughts occurring during that time and detaching yourself from the surroundings as well. People, events, situations, happenings and all the incidents that took place, are insignificant during meditation so declutter your mind from all such thoughts and focus on your own self.  Then...

Our minds are excellent cameras!  We all create varied images in our minds daily. Which is called visualization. Visualizing is to imagine or remember someone or something by forming a picture in your mind. Visualizations make big and small pictures easier for the human brain to grasp and understand,  it also makes it easier to detect patterns, trends, and outliers of pictures.  Its main goal is t...

Meditation is considered a tool to build internal energy, develop compassion, love, patience, generosity, and forgiveness. Meditation often involves an internal effort to self-regulate the mind in some way. In Raj yoga meditation the key component is knowing self and working on improving self. Without knowing who one is in real- the meditation is in vain. Once, this clarity is achieved that this m...

Meditate comes from the Latin word ‘meditari’ which means to think, contemplate, or conceive.  In our daily life we use the term meditation to a broad variety of practices that includes techniques designed to promote relaxation like breathing exercises, hand gestures, which are a practice of 'Hatt Yoga'. Which are based on physical postures and are useful to the body. The other major pract...

Hypothetically speaking- Suppose I leave this body this very minute, my body still exists but is without a life. I cannot function in a dead body. All my belongings like my body, my family, my job, my house are still here but I am not here to use them, so who is this- I ? who vanished away leaving me a dead body  The answer would be the I- the soul or the spirit  residing in this body.  Indeed! I...

First of all God can only connect with us on a soul level. He does not have a body therefore he does not see human bodies.   He is not there to fulfill our wishes, he doesn't punish us, he is not the creator of nature. Nature is eternal, he is not holding us to any of our  wrongdoings, he is not even watching us, and most importantly he is not interfering in our lives at all. God is not a magi...

Before I begin today's  revelation I would like to announce a disclaimer. My point is not at all to shake your trust, faith or belief in God. I am also not asking to stop praying or keeping you away from any religious practice. My intentions are very clear on revealing who God is from the point of view of rajyog. I would like to remind you again I am not  asking anyone to change your beliefs,...

In Bhagavad gita in the 4the chapter God says: I am coming, I am coming, when there is a loss of religion, then I am coming, when the iniquity increases, then I am coming to protect the gentlemen, to destroy the wicked I am coming in to establish religion and I am born in the age of era. In simplified form God very clearly states in Bhagavad, that “I come on earth on the day of judgment. When all...

Every religion on the planet has any form of light while performing the religious ritual. In Hinduism diyas are lit for any prayer or religious performance. In Islam the main sacred stone in Mecca, has fire lit in front  which is called  the 'noor' and has been lit for ever for many many years. In Christianity the candle is commonly used in worship both for decoration and ambiance, and as...

One question I am asked constantly is how to bring inner peace in life? I often answer by seeing the curiosity of the person because some are not serious about what they are asking . If I say spirituality is one aspect of understanding to bring in inner peace then the next obvious question is what is spirituality? Many of us connect this one word ‘spirituality’ with religion and start to practice...

The mind is the faculty of the soul when I, the soul, thinks it is called a mind. The mind is further divided into parts : conscious mind, subconscious mind or unconscious mind and the  preconscious mind,  The conscious mind is active when we are awake and alert, that is actively engaging in the present moment, including direct perception, thinking, and feeling. It facilitates our ability to think...

Crossing the Rubicon river’ would have been easier for Caesar in comparison to the author of this podcast, who chose to change her life a complete180 degrees. Failing more often than succeeding week after week, for adopting a lifestyle contradicting her old ways of living. Not giving up but firmly holding on to the last thread of hope. A strong affirmation, a belief-when many successfully did it,...

Every person thinks through three main factors of manufacturing thoughts. The first one is Information. Whatever one sees, reads or hears becomes the source of information and gets trapped in the memory. Memory is the second factor, when any similar situation arrives the previous 2 factors- information and memory get triggered by the Stimulus and a Thought is created. The original thoughts behind...

I shared with you how some vital organs of our body crave for some innate qualities of our souls. For instance, the brain craves for knowledge, lungs crave for peace, heart craves for love, five senses crave for purity, stomach for contentment, and kidney, liver for selflessness. Because psychosomatic disorders are related to mind and mind is a faculty of the soul. Therefore there are some simple...

Next major organ which helps our body run on a daily basis is our filtration system. Consisting of Kidneys, liver, bladder, ureter, parts of the urinary tract. The physiology of a few of the organs is as follows:  At the same time the liver plays the most significant role in cleansing the blood. The liver breaks down waste into relatively harmless substances that is then released from the body. No...

After lungs and heart the digestive system plays a vital role in our body. The digestive system is made up of the gastrointestinal tract—also called the digestive tract or GI tract. The main organs that make up the digestive system are the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum and anus. Helping them along the way are the pancreas, gallbladder and liver. The digestive...

Heart is the muscle at the center of our circulation system, pumping blood around our body as our heart beats. This blood sends oxygen and nutrients to all parts of our body, and carries away unwanted carbon dioxide and waste products. Heart is a tender organ and is most associated with love,care and self worth. Love is nothing but accepting self, then the other person, a given situation, any obje...

In my previous posts, I talked about the effect of emotions on the brain and five senses. Today, I am going to talk about lungs and what lungs crave for? The lungs are the center of the respiratory (breathing) system. Every cell of the body needs oxygen to stay alive and healthy. Our body also needs to get rid of carbon dioxide. This gas is a waste product that is made by the cells during their no...

After our brain comes the five senses of the body. These five senses are sight, smell, hear, touch, and taste. The body organs which are connected or  responsible for the five senses are eyes, nose, ears, mouth and hands. They not only make us look good and pretty but assist the body in seeing,hearing, touching, smelling and tasting. Despite the fact that they appear physically different from the...

Today, I will inform you how the brain , which is a powerhouse of our body, gets affected by our thoughts. Anger, fear, jealousy, rage all take a huge toll on our brains.  Many malfunctioning of the brain are directly related to such negative thoughts. How can one take charge of it, lets see. Brain is a physical organ which resides in our skulls and is mainly in the forehead area. It is  divided i...

When you are stressed, anxious, or upset, your body reacts physically. Within reasonable limits, emotions cause no disease or weakness in the body. However, when negative thoughts or emotions become so powerful that they become uncontrollable and overwhelming for a prolonged period, they can cause real injury to the internal organs and open the door to disease. When the negative thoughts hit us we...

When two souls interact the first thing which takes place is the exchange of thoughts. The mind builds an impression through its thought process – the intellect acts upon it by analyzing it, and a soul creates an image of another soul. Hence, the exchange happens and a relationship is built upon that exchange. After creating this image, the mind starts labeling the soul by calling the person “inte...