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Becoming Happy

Stuart Perrinwww.stuartperrin.com
Stuart Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda). "Becoming Happy" offers practical guidelines to master ourselves and the inner chaos to attain real and abiding inner happiness in a world of change.
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Episodes

Congestion In The Heart

Says Stuart: "No matter whom I work with so many of the problems that people have evolve around the heart center. Every time I touch someone between the shoulders they practically bounce across the room..."

Jan 26, 20118 min

Cycles Of Change

Says Stuart: "Generally when a cycle comes to an end there is going to be a lot of chaos inside you. There's going to be a lot of disruption and it's going to affect you deeply..."

Jan 26, 20114 min

Journey Through Oneself

Says Stuart: "The only reason that people are not enlightened in this lifetime is that they don't allow themselves to be enlightened. The real battle with becoming One with God is inside every human being..."

Jan 26, 20116 min

Life Is Going To Affect You

Says Stuart: "You're alive for God's sake, you go out in the world and you have a cab driver who's a lunatic, you have this, a person who tries to rip you off. It's life, what are you going to do? It's going to affect you..."

Jan 26, 20113 min

Going to Psychics

Says Stuart: "I know all these people do these readings based on the Akashic records and what your life is suppose to be, and frankly I would think that whatever you're told your life is suppose to be you better surrender it..."

Nov 17, 20102 min

Lightness of Being

Says Stuart: "Use that lightness of being, that opening in the heart, that consciousness that you don't have to plow your way through, you don't have to force your way through the situation. It's that refinement of energy that has a lightness about it..."

Nov 17, 20104 min

My First Experience With Kundalini

Says Stuart: "My first experience with kundalini was probably on an LSD trip. When I got finished with it, I said Stuart, unless you learn how to grow and find somebody who can teach you about this, this is going to kill you..."

Nov 17, 20103 min

Guest of God

Says Stuart: "Basically, we're born, we live, we die. We come here, we spend an alloted amount of time that we spend here, and we leave. We're guests. This planet is still here when we go. We come and we go. The terrible thing is, we come, and what a mess we make..."

Nov 17, 20106 min

Fueling Kundalini

Says Stuart: "Can I honestly tell you something? If you do this meditation deeply you will let go of so much garbage, you're not even going to know what you're going to let go of. But one day you're going to be walking around with a lightness of being..."

Nov 17, 20105 min

Tantra and Transformation

Says Stuart: "Transformation is tantric yoga. That's what tantric yoga is. It has to do with sexual energy, but that's where transformation takes place, in the sexual chakra. And by consciously drawing energy through that chakra you literally are transforming the human level of your life into a spiritual life...."

Nov 17, 20106 min

The Motivation

Says Stuart: "Look, this meditation defies everything. It would put half the therapists and doctors out of business, this meditation, if people would do it with great depth and properly, because it's a shortcut to get to your spiritual enlightenment..."

Nov 17, 20104 min

Living With Spirit

Says Stuart: "You can never know spirit. How do you know it? it's so far outside human comprehension that the very idea of knowing it is almost an impossibility. You can become, because you evolve to where your whole life is spirit. You know it, you're living it, you become a living manifestation of spiritual energy on the earth..."

Nov 17, 20106 min

Free Thyself

Says Stuart: "Yes, it's good to be aware of who you are, your limitations and problems. But at the same time you can work out many of the things that are blocking you inside without knowing what you are getting rid of by just drawing the energy inside, opening up, you can free yourself of a lot of stuff that you don't even know what it is, but it's there..."

Nov 17, 20103 min

Nothing Harder

Says Stuart: "You want a spiritual life, you've made a commitment on some level to do the most difficult thing there is to do on the earth. There is nothing harder than building a connection in yourself to God or Higher Energy in the Universe..."

Sep 06, 20103 min

Garbage As Fuel

Says Stuart: "All spiritual work is about cleaning up all the garbage inside us. And it's a lifetime's work. It's not just a couple of weeks. That's one of the problems with people today, everybody thinks I'll take a meditation class once every two weeks. And the amount of tension and the amount of garbage inside people, and to get rid of all that garbage is a lifetime's work..."

Sep 06, 20103 min

Being Nothing In The Moment

Says Stuart: "One of the difficulties in doing what we practice is that the rationale or reason of it is exactly opposite of whatever we've been taught from the day we were born. The reasoning in this work is that there is no reasoning..."

Sep 06, 20103 min

Just Do It

Says Stuart: "How can you sustain anything in life? You have to be doing it long enough to become a master at it. And this is no different. The way you sustain this kind of energy and keep it in your daily life is by doing it every day, building a system that's capable of sustaining it..."

Sep 06, 20103 min

Intelligent Use of Will

Says Stuart: "We all have will. And it depends on how you use your will. If you use your will to manipulaye other people, to get rich, power, all that stuff, then it all pours out of you. The substance, the essence of your being poured into maya, illusion..."

Sep 06, 20104 min

Divine Comedy

Says Stuart: "After meditation one day [Rudi] said 'I'm having a group of people upstairs if you want to come up", and I said 'Yeah!' He hugged me and invited me up to his apartment, and I think I had been studying with him for a month. And I went up there and everyone was sitting, and he was sitting on that chair, and he was sitting there in half-lotus position, and he was tossing shakti at everybody..."

Sep 06, 20106 min

Male-Female Principle

Says Stuart: "The feminine energy is the energy of receiving. It's the energy of the earth. It receives, and then it gives birth, it produces that way..."

Jul 29, 20103 min

Judgement & Forgiveness

Says Stuart: "For whatever reason I have a very innate capacity to let go of just about anything. Except my connection with God. And it works for me. I find that the real nourishment I get in my life comes from the openness in myself to the higher force of energy in the Universe..."

Jul 21, 20105 min

Using The Mind Properly

Says Stuart: "The first thing I use my mind for is to open the center of balance in myself, that's the first thing. I know when I'm not centered, there's no balance, it means my mind is not working properly..."

Jul 21, 20102 min

Getting Involved In Relationships

Says Stuart: "What's wrong with women? Love them and understand that once you get involved, you'll have to deal with women. Once they get involved with you, they're going to have to deal with you..."

Jul 21, 20103 min

Moving Energy Through The Sex

Says Stuart: "It's your responsibility in practicing this meditation to draw energy through the sexual area. One of the major problems in the evolution of inner consciousness is the congestion in the sexual area..."

Jul 21, 20106 min

Always Something Wrong

Says Stuart: "It's through the exercise of being centered that you can transform all the things that are happening on your physical and psychological into a spiritual life. That's what they are there for. There is always going to be something wrong with you. Don't walk around naive, thinking one day I'm going to be perfect...

Jun 27, 20102 min

Psychic Vampires

Says Stuart: "You can't be a psychic vampire if your heart is open. If you are allowing people's energy to come into you and there's gratitude, how are you a psychic vampire?, all you're doing is helping the people..."

Jun 27, 20104 min

Life As The Mirror

Says Stuart: "There are so many indiscretions in this world, and we're so complicated, we have so many little nooks and crannies that we hide out in you have got to learn, they send you another one to find out that you've been hiding out over here..."

Jun 18, 20103 min

Learning From Your Teachers

Says Stuart: "Everybody and everything, including your cat and dog, the rug, everything is a manifestation of spiritual energy..."

Jun 18, 20103 min

For the Healthcare Giver

Says Stuart: "Certainly in a profession like you're in where you work on people— chiropractic, massage, stuff like that— you're going to pick up negative energies. You have a responsibility, first to yourself, which is to take a minute to drop the negative psychic tension..."

Jun 18, 20106 min

Being Worked On

Says Stuart: "What's coming out of me now I'm totally aware that I'm being worked. I can't talk like this. I'm being used by the universe to bring this teaching to everyone in this room..."

Jun 08, 20101 min
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