Testimonials from the group

The Encounter

I was first introduced to Pyramid Meditation when I attended the talk by Brahmarshi Patriji in Sept 2010. There I was not exactly knowing what to expect except to listen with an open heart.

Patriji talked about the "Science and Art of Meditation", sharing benefits and the experiences. I was thinking to myself is this guy trying to "sell" anything to the audience. I was presently surprised when he said at the end "that's it, I have already taught you meditation. You are your own guru..." (or something to that effect) :) Wow.. this is different.

After the session I learnt that there is a group of local masters who selflessly organise weeekly group practice sessions, also for FREE. Its all by donation and sponsor. I began attending the Thursday evening sessions at Wasabi Yoga.

The Journey

It was not my first encounter with meditation. I was introduced to it years ago and met some great meditation teachers. However I never seriously get into doing it on a daily basis.

Last Sept, I attended a retreat led by the great teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, just the week before Patriji's Talk, somehow they both go back to the same thing. "The Breath". The sort of sealed it for me.

I always make an effort to go for the group meditation. It keeps my motivation up and encourages me to stretch myself to meditation for an hour. Its tougher to do that at home in the beginning.

The first few times are more difficult, however, after a while, going for the group sessions and practising at home becomes easier, more like a routine, a habit. Guess that is how we develop the discipline.

For me, meditation has help me in my "focus" in quietening the mind. That had help my Taiji practice as I was having challenges with my focus. It was also very rejuvenating to meditate and quiet the mind after a long day of running about. It had become a tool I have, its is there for me when ever I need.

So give it a try and find out for yourself. Its something that only we ourselves can do, no one else can do it for us :)

oh ya... meditating under the pyramid looks "funny" when I first seen it. However there really is more energy flow so do get under one for faster progress.

Be with the Breath!

Nixon

 

I got to understand about meditation during one of the Holistic Living Fair at Suntec. I was browsing around the many booths that were set up for the event and was attracted to the pyramids that were hung up in one of the booths by Pyramid Meditation Singapore. The master, Shashi, who was manning the booth, was introducing meditation. I’ve always been interested in meditation, especially after watching the movie “Eat, Pray, Love”:p, so I decided to stop by and explore further. Shashi invited me to try it out just for five minutes which I was hesitating initially as I was alone with my three young kids. However, with my curiosity got better of me and under the encouragement of Shashi telling me that my kids will be fine during the five minutes, I proceed to give it a try.

At the beginning of the meditation, I wasn’t really able to focus on my breathing but on what was happening around me externally rather. I found that my breathing was rapid and my mind kept wondering if my kids are running around the exhibition hall, which they are capable of doing when left unattended. Gradually, under Shashi’s guidance, I found my mind becoming calmer with my breathing slowing down as well. I could also feel all the surrounding noises fainting away. It was a pretty good experience I must say, though, it was just mere five minutes.

The following week after the fair, I started attending the weekly guided group meditation sessions organised by the Pyramid Meditation team and have been enjoying it thus far. I have also found meditating with a group and Pyramid much more effective and the post meditational experience sharing has been very educating and beneficial. I had also purchased a pyramid so that I can continue to practice at home and receive three times the energies. To date, I am really proud to share that I had persisted practicing daily meditation for more than 40 days!

All in all, I feel that my temperament is changing for the better. I feel peaceful, I am becoming less judgmental and demanding on others as well as on myself. Internally, I feel calmer and am able to handle issues more calmly and patiently. Before, I would get frustrated and agitated really fast. I spend quality time with my family.

Thanks to Shashi and all the Pyramid Masters out there for your selfless passion in reaching out and sharing the wellness of meditation through an extremely simple and easy to do technique and best of all its FREE. I have also shared my experience with some close friends as well as the Senior HR Executive of my company, to get management approval to introduce mediation to my company, so that my peers and bosses can benefit from it too.

At home, I am also trying to inculcate the practice of meditation to my children. Every evening, I will get them to sit still under the pyramid for five minutes. It was not successful every time though, children being children, they’ll start moving around and disturbing each other after 1 - 2 minutes. However, I trust constant practice makes better, perseverance is the key!

Angie

 

"If MM LKY meditates, so should you. If you don't trust me, at least trust MM LKY whos got greater wisdom than me right. " that's what I always tell my friends.

I picked up meditation with the thought of 'trying to curb the angst and impatience' in me. It was the last resort I thought I should go for, and since then, it's been life transformational.

What's my test result within 3 months?
- greater sense of SELF AWARENESS, that changed the way I looked at things over time
- angst went away towards some people
- improved relationships as I find more peace and calmness within me
- patient level has increased by more than 50% (if you need a measurable statistic)
- open my eyes to more profound knowledge and changes around me.

All took within 3 months effort of just sitting 'still' and 'focusing on my breathe'. Sometimes, I get to doze off into my nap too. So not complaining! (btw, the results differ on individuals. I did not mediatte everyday though I tried to when I first started)

So meditation is not something religious and only meant for certain groups of people. As we alll know and have read in our ST, doctors are learning and applying meditation to their patients!

So with this simple short sharing, I hope I can motivate and encourage you as reader to try meditating because the benefits it can bring to one's life is phenomenal. Afterall, what's there to loose.

If you're not sure whether meditation can help curb some issues that you are facing or queries, always reach out to any of us on meetup!

Brenda

 

I am a highly intuitive person. I have also been trying to find my life's true purpose and calling for some time. In Sept 2010, I had a very strong feeling that I would find something on the 18th of Sept that would benefit me as well as something I could do to help others. So when I saw the advertisement for the Love & Light Festival scheduled for the 18th and 19th of Sept last year, I had very strong intuitive feelings telling me to go and visit this exhibition.

As I also went to this festival with the intention of looking for a form of meditation to learn, I was paying special attention to the meditation exhibitors' booths. When I came to the last booth, I was immediately drawn to it because I saw an Indian man there, who was manning the booth, dressed in a very beautiful Indian costume. I was really mesmerised by the beauty of that costume, and I must admit that I actually noticed that man's beautiful costume first before I noticed the pyramids.

That lovely man, Deepak, told me in great detail about all the benefits that people can expect to experience by meditating with a pyramid. I remember thinking that some of these benefits were exactly the ones I had been looking for. I decided there and then that I wanted to learn pyramid meditation, so I went to Wasabi Yoga very eagerly that first Thursday, after visiting the Love & Light Festival, to learn to meditate. And it was really lovely because that very first group meditation session which I attended happened to be a Full Moon Meditation Session. After learning to meditate, I was extremely amazed to find that I was beginning to experience the benefits almost immediately when I started to meditate daily at home.

The Life-Changing Benefits Which I Attribute To Meditating Regularly:

1. Inner Peace
Firstly, I started to feel a sense of inner peace and tranquillity, and I am in a constant joyful state of mind despite the usual stresses and problems of every-day life. Cosmic energy is a fantastic thing! You don't need to get high on drinks or drugs; you can get high on cosmic energy. And the best thing about it is that it's absolutely free and accessible to everyone who meditates.

2. Change in Perspective
I have noticed a change in my perspective almost right from the start, as soon as I started to meditate every day. And because my perspective has changed, I now see things from a fresh perspective, and I've also cultivated, without any conscious effort, an optimistic outlook. Nowadays, very effortlessly, I choose to look on the bright side of life and see problems as learning experiences for me to learn my life lessons.

3. Gained Self-Confidence and Boosted Self-Esteem
Before I started meditating regularly, I had been trying to stop being constantly preoccupied with trying to attain perfection in everything and pyramid meditation has succeeded in doing that for me. I used to think that everything that I did was not good enough. My mind had been conditioned to think that way because, being a very sensitive person, I had chosen to allow the few negative comments and criticisms from some people to hurt and upset me instead of choosing to believe the numerous compliments and appreciative comments I have received over the years. I've since realised that the people who criticised me were actually not good at anything themselves and, because of their own insecurities and inferiority complex, they constantly put other people down in order to make themselves feel better.

Now, when I think about all my natural abilities and about all my achievements so far, academic as well as other achievements, despite suffering from frequent migraines, I realise that I had been underestimating myself, had been over-critical of myself, and that I had not appreciated myself and my inborn talents enough. For example, when I was studying in the UK, I learned dancing and also danced competitively. I won lots of trophies in the many inter-university dance competitions I took part in and filled a big bag with the trophies collected over the few years I was there. And when I was teaching English Language, because it is always very important to me to do all work which I undertake competently, I made sure that I achieved a 100% pass rate for all the classes that I taught.

I have been blessed with linguistic ability, musical ability, dancing ability and other abilities. I also have a very good memory and also learn things very quickly. As I am writing this article, I am recalling a childhood memory. I remember learning to use the sewing machine by myself and started to make clothes for my dolls when I was seven. I have been blessed with so many natural abilities and talents, but my lack of self-confidence, limiting beliefs and fears have been holding me back and have been preventing me from achieving my full potential. Thankfully, I have qualities that have helped me to achieve what I have achieved up to this point in time: tremendous amounts of patience, tolerance, perseverance, determination, and tenacity (especially tenacity), etc.

My purpose in writing about the talents I have been endowed with is not to sound arrogant. I'm not an arrogant person; If I were, I wouldn't have lacked self-confidence. The purpose in my giving this background information is to explain, illustrate, and to proof that pyramid meditation has succeeded in clearing my mental blocks, has given me clarity of things and situations, and has helped me to gain strong self-belief, self-confidence and has boosted my self-esteem. I'm even hoping to discover some hidden talents now.

4. Have Learned To Trust My Intuition Completely
Even before I started to meditate with a pyramid, I was already aware of the fact that the Universe and also angels communicate with me very often in many different ways. These divine messages and also angelic messages which I often receive give me solutions to problems, answers to questions, and even inspiration and creative ideas, or even just comfort and reassurance, etc. The difference before I started practising pyramid meditation and now is that, nowadays, I have complete and total trust in my intuition, which has always been very strong, and always pay attention to it because it leads me to do the right things like going to a certain place, or calling someone, or even picking up a book or magazine in a bookstore that give me some helpful and beneficial signs and messages.

If you've not learned to meditate yet, I am recommending pyramid meditation very highly to you. Keep an open mind and try it for yourselves. I truly believe that it will change every aspect of your life - you will get tangible results and multiple benefits from this form of meditaion which I think is the easiest and most natural form of meditation in the whole world. Each individual will receive exactly what he needs by meditating.

Pyramid meditation has given me so much. Bless you, Shashi, for your very dedicated and selfless service to mankind. You are doing so much good for so many people, including myself, by devoting your time and energy to spreading meditation in Singapore. I strongly believe in and support your cause 100%. I feel just as passionate about your cause as you do, and would like to use my skills and talents to help you in every way I can to help you in your quest of spreading meditation.

BEE