OPTIMUMMEDITATION.COM
Welcome to Optimum Meditation.com. To accomplish the optimum means to achieve "the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end"* It is obvious that in any undertaking, achieving the optimum result is the driving reason to do anything. It is no less the case here and it is with this intent that this website and the programs it offers have been set up. This will become abundantly clear and more importantly, expressly enjoyed by anyone who participates in any of the programs.
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*Websters Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary"
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Janani (Jane) Cleary teaches classes and practices and conducts meditation sessions based upon the teaching of Vedanta. She completed an intensive instruction in India to obtain her teaching certification and has shared this knowledge and insights with students for several decades.
Vedanta is knowledge based - like chemistry, physics or biology - and is universal in nature. In it's view, the practitioner first needs to know who and what is the very nature of the meditator. Janani's sessions draw on this ageless, yet always relevant teaching to help you reach a greater understanding and vision into the nature of your mind and your own essential nature.
ABOUT ME
Upon completion of an accredited 2.5 year course of study at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya in Mumbai, India, I was certified in the practice and teaching of Vedanta and Vedic subjects. I studied under Swami Dayananda Saraswati, a renowned teacher and scholar in Advaita Vedanta and Sanskrit. Since my return to the United States I have been teaching Vedanta and meditation for those who realize that being truly fulfilled and empowered comes through the pursuit of self knowledge, meditation and mindfullness.
A Life of Balance
WHY KNOW AND PRACTICE?
Everyday life is filled with activities that require our immediate or extended attention. Sensory pursuits outside of your Self that involve relationships, situations, events and places leave little time to attend to YOU. Based on learning about Your "inner self", you then navigate the outside world yet focus inwardly through the practice of informed meditation to strengthen your understanding which may also enhance your mental and physical health. Other benefits:
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Greater Mental Agility
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Increased Focus and Alertness
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Abiding Serenity
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Self-Discovery and Recognition
THE DESCRIPTIONS BELOW FURTHER REVEAL HOW YOU BENEFIT FROM THESE SESSIONS.
PARTICIPATION INTRODUCES YOU TO A LIFE AFFIRMING YET FREEING BASED PORTRAIT OF YOURSELF.
ADVAITA VEDANTA
Recognize Your Inner Fullness
We all seek to move beyond our limitations. Yet often the more we struggle with circumstances of the physical, mental or relational, the more engulfed we become. Like fighting the strong current of an undertow, efforts to resist the water's power pull us even deeper.
Vedanta can relieve this human conflict by unfolding a unique, bigger picture view. It is a non-sectarian, spiritually based knowledge that has no cultural, spiritual or geographic borders. It can get you through the undertows, by revealing your inner and aware fullness which is ever available to you.
MEDITATION
Managing the Mind and Beyond
Meditation and informed mindfulness provide the way to steer your mind in the right direction. Developing an aware, mindful state of being has many benefits that flow into your life. By discovering that you are able to be an impartial witness to your thoughts, your mind becomes more objective, dispassionate, and responsive instead of reactive. This gives rise to more positive interactions that result in better outcomes, deeper, stronger connections, and ultimately by knowledge and understanding, frees you from any sense of limitation.
"May one lift oneself up by oneself, may one not destroy oneself. For, the self alone is one's benefactor (and) the self alone is one's enemy." Chapter 6 -Verse 5
BHAGAVAD GITA
The Bhagavad Gita is a conversation based on the story of Arjuna, a man faced with fighting a war against those near and dear to him in order to defend and protect society. Fraught with grief and confusion, he turns to Lord Krsna for guidance and inspiration as he has lost all motivation and ability to fight.
Krsna teaches him, unfolding a vision of how to do what must be done while rising above it all. Their dialogue is insightful and inspiring and by revealing the underlying nature of ourselves, the world and the ultimate source of it all to us, shows how we too can rise above our own internal and external conflicts as we carry out the tasks that we cannot and should not avoid. In the process, we discover our own inner abiding sense of well-being not affected or displaced by the twists and turns in our lives.
AND FOR THOSE INTENT ON EXPLORING FURTHER...
The Bhagavad Gita, known for its non-secterian straight forward practical approach to resolving all types of challenges, has inspired many well-known respected people from diverse backgrounds, such as Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Henry David Thoroau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Carl Jung - just to name a few.
CONTACT ME
My goal is to offer teaching and meditation programs that address the challenges everyone faces. By right understanding and self-discovery, you can develop a perspective that allows you to navigate through life’s constant changes, move past them and abide in your own centered Self no matter what you are up against. Please contact me to find out more and about how to participate in these programs.
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