Skip to content
Heartfulness India
Meditation
  • About
    • About Heartfulness
    • Experience Heartfulness
    • Heartfulness Offerings
  • Learn
    • Masterclass
    • Masterclass Follow up
    • Learn the basics
  • Events
    • Heartfulness Retreats
    • Yoga Teacher Training
    • Upcoming Webinars
  • Resources
    • Humans Of Heartfulness
    • The Heartfulness Way – Book
  • Connect
    • Connect with us
    • Share Ideas
  • Subscribe
    • Heartfulness Magazine
    • One Beautiful Thought
  • FAQ
  • Donate now
INEN
  • ENGLISH – IN
  • हिंदी – IN
  • ENGLISH – US
  • Canada
  • Australia
  • Spain
  • Brazil
  • France
  • Russia
  • Latin-America
  • United Kingdom
  • Bulgarian
  • Croatian
  • Finnish
  • Japanese
  • Greek
  • Chinese
  • Portugal
  • Czech
  • Austrian
  • Denmark
  • Germany
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Romania
  • Swedish
  • Singapore
SignUp
  • About
    • About Heartfulness
    • Experience Heartfulness
    • Heartfulness Offerings
  • Learn
    • Masterclass
    • Masterclass Follow up
    • Learn the basics
  • Events
    • Heartfulness Retreats
    • Yoga Teacher Training
    • Upcoming Webinars
  • Resources
    • Humans Of Heartfulness
    • The Heartfulness Way – Book
  • Connect
    • Connect with us
    • Share Ideas
  • Subscribe
    • Heartfulness Magazine
    • One Beautiful Thought
  • FAQ
  • Donate now

The Art of Inner Connectedness

Articlesyoung girl explaining the art of inner peace

The Art of Inner Connectedness

Rashi Agarwal

Share this post
Share on FacebookShare on Facebook TweetShare on Twitter Share on WhatsAppShare on WhatsApp Pin itShare on Pinterest Share on LinkedInShare on LinkedIn

One of the most interesting and instructive courses I’ve taken as a graduate student was Arts of Communication. In the course, my professor noted that there were three golden rules:

  • Number 1: Resonate. Feel one with your audience.
  • Number 2: Be your natural self. Don’t try to be someone that you aren’t.
  • Number 3: Center yourself, especially before you speak.

Had someone offered me these insights when I was sixteen, I may have never bought them. My younger self was a nervous wreck – with a mind lost in a flurry of thoughts – about the past, the future, the things that never happened, and the things that should have happened.

With a mind which could never anchor itself, I could never understand these golden rules. What does it mean to center myself? How could I feel one with people I don’t know? And, amidst the newer aspects of myself that I was discovering, there was also the question of: who was my real and natural self.

I realized that the concept of communication was never about speaking well. It was about being well: feeling connected, feeling centered, and feeling authentic.

So what changed? At the age of seventeen, I was introduced to the beautiful art of meditation on the heart. From that point, I have never lived life the same way.

When I began to draw my attention to my heart, amidst the cloud of thoughts that seemed to cover it, there emerged like a ray of light the presence of a peace and compassion that I discovered was already present within my heart. When we discover such wonderful things within our heart, where else would we want to be, but centered? What else would we want to feel, but connected? And having gone past all those internal layers, how else could we feel but authentic?

I still remember what it felt like to stand backstage in an auditorium, just moments before I had to give a presentation to over two hundred faces. My heart was beating in my ears, loud and clear. If the “me” from six years ago was making this speech, she would have been a nervous wreck. This time, however, I knew where my anchor lay.

I reminded myself to center myself. Recalling the meditative state, I had cultivated just that morning, I began to feel the gentle meditative warmth tug at my heart. A magical feeling of silence and connectedness filled my heart. My being began to bask in the comfort my own heart was emanating. I know I wasn’t just centered, I was connected. But perhaps it wasn’t just me – the entire auditorium seemed to reverberate the same sense of comfort and warmth that my own heart was in resonance with. With this comfort, I stepped onto the stage to give my presentation, with many people later remarking that my presentation had radiated calm and peace.

Every since that graduate school course, I have come to understand that conversation is about being connected: connected outside oneself, connected within oneself, and connected beyond oneself, to a Source of something higher. When we embrace this connection, peace automatically flows.

Category: ArticlesSeptember 8, 2020
Share this post
Share on FacebookShare on Facebook TweetShare on Twitter Share on WhatsAppShare on WhatsApp Pin itShare on Pinterest Share on LinkedInShare on LinkedIn

Post navigation

PreviousPrevious post:The Importance of NothingNextNext post:Overcome Fear with Meditation

Related Posts

A Long-Distance Call of Love
February 1, 2021
What is your Attitude?
January 15, 2021
Celebrating Life – Way Easier than you Think
January 6, 2021
A Morning Routine for a Productive Day
December 11, 2020
Lessons from Jigsaw puzzle
10 Lessons from a Jigsaw Puzzle
November 6, 2020
woman doing heartfulness yoga at the river side
Bridging the Gap with Yoga
October 5, 2020

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Post comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Institute
Heartfulness Institute Education
Continual Medical Education
Yoga Teachers Training Certification

Heartfulness Research

Quick Links
Daaji
Kanha Shanti Vanam
Green Kanha

Sahaj Marg
Shri Ram Chandra Mission
Spirituality Foundation

Related Links
Publications
Digital Store

HFNLife online store

Heartfulness practices with a certified trainer are always free, whether in person or online.

Find us on:

Facebook page opens in new windowTwitter page opens in new windowYouTube page opens in new windowLinkedin page opens in new windowInstagram page opens in new windowTelegram page opens in new window
© Copyright 2020 Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation, All Rights Reserved
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy & Cookie Policy
Footer Menu
Go to Top
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We’ll assume you’re ok with this if you continue on this site.

Accept Privacy policy