Once upon a time, like millions of people, I was also a typical workaholic, aggressively pursuing a successful career. I believed that driven commitment to my career would to provide the essentials of life for my family and myself. As business career advanced, I had resources to enjoy a comfortable home and expensive lifestyle. The problem was that I was not devoting the quality time and energy to my personal life (family/social/physical) that it deserved. I was so busy being busy I started losing touch with a quality life.

Like many type A personality workaholics, eventually I became stressed and dissatisfied with world. Fortunately, I embarked on a journey of personal discovery.  
 

My very close friend suggested me to visit a Spiritual Guru Swami Satyanand - : His place was more than a half-hour away. I could just see myself driving all the way up there, getting some ridiculous charade of advice from a Indian Guru. Nonetheless, I decided to take the risk. I really felt like I needed a healing. I walked in the door and Swami Satyanand, the Guru I came to see, greeted me. He looked nothing like hIs photo. His almost-black hair was pulled back tight against his head. His skin was lightly freckled. His age didn't seem obvious, but probably he was older than me. And his eyes looked serious, almost skeptical. He didn't seem to care if I felt welcome, which surprised me. He just asked me some questions.
 

He looked me square in the eye and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
 

I thought this to be the standard question asked of any patient and began telling about myself. He stopped me short and said, "No, I mean what is wrong with you? You don't act like yourself."
 

Well, I mentioned I had been very tired lately, I always wanted to sleep and I was seldom hungry. He asked another question that I can't remember but when I answered her he said, "Do you think you could be depressed?"
 

I looked at him squarely and answered, "If you mean am I suicidal, NO! I don't have time for that!"
 

I began telling her about my life lately, cut me short and said, "No. I'm talking about this depression!" I never could at that point say when those feelings first began but Guru JI assured me I was severely stressed. That just didn't sound correct to me. Depressed people try to kill themselves or need to be in institutions with straight jackets. At least that was how I viewed them. I was not one of them. He began explaining to me how true depressed people act and feel. He seemed to be describing me completely. But ME - DEPRESSED! I just couldn't believe it. He talked with me for a long time about things I needed to do to help get me back to "normal" - whatever that is!
 

Then he told me about open soul meditation .The meditation would lasts for one hour and has four stages – 15 minutes each, three with music, and the last without. Remember that the last stage is in silence!
 

He demonstrated me the first and second stage and took me to a room . He repeated the process once again - Begin with shaking, then dancing, and end with stillness and silence, first standing or sitting, then lying. Let go of the accumulated stress.

"Are you ready to begin?" she asked. "Sure," I replied. Relaxing music started playing softly from the portable CD player in the room.

“Allow the shaking, don’t do it”, he whispered. The music changed after 15 minutes signaling the start of second stage. 

"Let the dance flow in its own way; don't force it. Rather, follow it; allow it to happen”. 

You are just playing, playing with your life energy, playing with your bio-energy, and allowing it to move in its own way. Just like the wind blows and the river flows, you are flowing and blowing. Feel it. 

I just kept following the instructions and lied down after fourth stage.

Within seconds I felt heat coming running along the spine warming my belly. I was a little confused wondering how I was feeling the warmth. At first, my guess was that it was because vigorous shaking up , my body was really heated up . But I knew logically that something extraordinary was happening, which I could explain. He asked me to open my eyes, slowly and gradually.
 

I felt relaxed, so I kept on going to him and did open soul meditation for next month or so.

Then it happened.

During one session, My entire abdomen lit up with heat. Like the size of a heating pad. It was incredibly vivid. My stomach began gurgling. The ball of anger began melting. "I'm feeling all this heat! I'm totally feeling this! I can't believe it."

"I can totally feel this. I've never felt a meditation working before.

"Oh my God! I'm really feeling that in my knees and legs and all over my chest!!"

I had so many questions after the session 

Can you tell me what's going on?"  
 
what I couldn't believe I was feeling. "Oh my God, now I'm feel all this joy," I said almost laughing from the happiness that was washing over my body.  
 
"That's good. That's your heart energy."  

"Unbelievable!! I can't believe this! Does everyone feel this with you?"  
 
"This is very powerful. Your body seems to take to it especially well though. Often people don't feel this much for a number of sessions." 
 

I kept on doing the Open Soul Mediation and then a strange thing happened .

The joy became a wave of sorrow. Enough to put a lump in my throat. I thought maybe something was going wrong. "Why am I feeling sorrow now?" I doubted he'd have an answer. "Because meditation is opening your heart chakra and joy and sorrow go together. That's good. That's what we want."  
 

The ball of anger that I'd felt jamming my system for months was gone. I took a deep look at the spiritual Guru that had just amazed me. This time I saw confidence and peace in his face.

For the first time in my life I knew that I really did have an energetic body I left feeling great. Literally, I could only assume that the last time my body felt so vibrant had to have been back in my teens. The feeling would last for days. It was an amazingly clear feeling.

I knew nothing in my life ever would be the same because of what I'd just experienced. Not only had I released something huge, but I'd experienced the mystical. Now I knew that everything --energy bodies, chakras, spirit guides and Master Teachers --was true. And I would be able to live from that truth without reservation.

The question popes up from nowhere – can I continue to feel clearer/lighter on the inside, which makes me more connected to those around me? 
 

It’s the energy that powers the body – I experienced it myself. You can feel your energetic body –the truth is that this was the first time in my life I experienced it. 
 

I was low on energy – but why?  
 

The Chakras – I need to know more about it. I want to experience it. 
 

I really did have an energetic body and that Chakras were real.  
 

So much is happening inside the body/mind/sprit.

 
Yes! Yes! It’s so crystal clear. 36 Years of my life and I have done everything to make my outside world beautiful.

My inside world is in turmoil, because I never cared about it.  
 

So low energy was not an accident – I was using large amount of energy to fulfill my dreams in outside world.  
 

Guru Ji told me that all of us are living in both the material and spiritual worlds at the same time. We have a physical body with its needs, but we are spiritual in essence. We have to take care of material needs and desires, and we have the needs and desire of the spirit. In order to live a balanced life, we have to take care of both the material and spiritual worlds. 
 

Money, possessions, power and success make life comfortable, but are not enough for a happy and satisfying life. Happiness, peace of mind, freedom from worries and a growing awareness of our spiritual inner essence are of great importance.  
 

You are a blessed soul and pursue and achieve success in both worlds.  

I found a new mission  
 

To spread the word about open soul meditation technique. I found the two more team members, who had gone through the same process .  
 

Spiritual Guru Swami Satyanand asked us to go and spread the open soul meditation to help millions of people to come out of miserable life and enjoy the life to fullest.