Spiritual Awakening and Benefits of Sunlight

Spiritual Awakening and Benefits of Sunlight

The Core Teaching
Do not let your spiritual life become confined to a room, a screen, and more thinking. I ask you to step into open natural surroundings and experience daylight, fresh air, and space with attention. In my teaching, this contact with nature is part of nourishing the life you are trying to transform. The essential invitation is to expose yourself to life through regular, embodied participation, rather than remain withdrawn from the environment around you.

Part of my Kundalini Grounding and Integration guide · Teachings by Guru Sanju

Today in this discourse, I will be sharing with you all the benefits that you get from sunlight, and why you should take sunlight every day—compulsorily, wherever you are in the world. And it should not be an excuse—not to use or not to get exposed to sunlight.

First of all, you must know that if you’re not taking sunlight, then you are getting sick day by day. And also, your spiritual journey is stagnant. Sunlight is the prime source of prana—life force—and without sunlight, you cannot process any energy in your body.

So, some of the most important benefits of taking sunlight early in the morning, or during or before sunset:

When to Take Sunlight

45 minutes to 1 hour after sunrise, and
45 minutes to 1 hour before sunset
—this is the best time to take sunlight, to absorb sunlight.

And you should look at the sun, gaze at the sun.

For example, imagine the sun is in front of you in a certain direction. Position yourself so that your face is turned towards that direction.

How to Gaze at the Sun

You need to:

  1. Keep your eyes open.
  2. Look at the sun for maybe 15 to 30 seconds.
  3. Then gently close your eyes.

When you are closing your eyes, feel that you are absorbing all the energy of the sun in your body. Visualize it infusing into your energy channels, and throughout your body. When you do this, you will feel that a certain kind of rejuvenation has happened.

Immediate Benefits

Your brain and eyesight will improve. Your brain power will improve. And you will feel that difference immediately.

Apart from this, you can also lie down in the meadows, on the grass, in the park—wherever you can—and absorb the sunlight completely. If you are able to access such a facility where you are, even in the cities, go to a park, a garden, or anywhere where you get the sunlight directly.

And you must know this: you have to go out into the open space where the sunlight is available. Not from the windows, and not from the balcony.

Why Open Space Matters

The importance of space and this pranic energy is too much—especially where green trees are there, where the fresh air is there. That is the main benefit which you get only by exposing yourself to such a pranic atmosphere.

The sunlight has the power to burn away all the blockages in your energy channels and chakras.

Most Important Benefits of Sunlight

1. Increases Body Heat & Reduces Inflammation

It increases the heat in the body and reduces inflammation by working on the toxins directly. This benefit, you will not feel until and unless you try doing it. No medications, no facilities, no yoga practices or breath work—nothing can replace this importance of sunlight.

2. Boosts Dopamine

It increases the dopamine level in your body. It helps in making you feel happy, and gives a sense of achievement.

Dopamine is directly connected to your memory. If you’re facing Alzheimer-like issues, or dementia, or any mental health issues—then taking sunlight directly will improve your dopamine level. You will be able to work on yourself to reduce your depression, anxiety, and those depressive tendencies that are causing you problems.

3. Reduces Chronic Fatigue

If you are taking sunlight directly, you are getting prana directly through the absorption of sunlight into your ATP—that is, in your cells.

ATP functions well when it is exposed to sunlight, and that helps in producing energy in the body. Your cell rejuvenation is directly connected to sunlight.

4. Increases Longevity

Your longevity increases. You stay younger. You stay energetic. You stay alive. The life force is directly infused into your system.

5. Supports Kundalini Ascension

When you have lots of prana from sunlight, then your Kundalini energy is processed toward ascension. It moves up.

This happens because sunlight increases directly the ojas in your body.

6. Strengthens Aura & Immunity

Sunlight creates a protective field. It strengthens your aura. It strengthens the protective layer around your body and your cells. It acts directly to strengthen the cell wall, and also, from the energetic perspective, it strengthens your energy field.

It helps you become stronger and increases your immunity. So it works on your immunity level. It increases your strength.

7. Balances Hormones

Sunlight has a direct connection with your hormones.

  • If you are a man, it increases the testosterone level in your body.
  • If you are a female, it increases the estrogen level in your body.

These two hormones are very much required for you to feel like a human being—from the energy that you are.

If you are not feeling energetic, then the main reason could be that your testosterone or your masculine energy is not working well in you. And if you are a female, then your estrogen level or your feminine energy is not working well in you.

8. Heals the Brain

Sunlight has the benefits of making you primitive, instinctive, and heals your brain.

First of all, if you have any problems with your brain, then your brain is healed permanently if you are exposing yourself at least 10 to 15 minutes regularly to sunlight.

How to Absorb the Morning Sun

There are ways through which you can absorb sunlight.

For example, in the morning when the sun has just risen, position yourself so that you are looking directly at the sun. Look at the center of the sun.

Since it is morning, you will see the white light of the sun. As you keep looking or gazing at the sun, you will feel that a shift has happened in you.

That shift is important.

So 5 to 10 minutes of gazing—by blinking your eyes or looking directly into the sun—helps a lot.

Feel the Energetic Shift

Try to get access to the sunlight wherever you are in the world. Feel the benefits of the energetic shifts.

The bio-electricity in your body is recharged with sunlight. It increases the prana in the energy channels, in the nerve centers, in the brain—and you become a new individual. A brand new species. And you become healthy.

If you are sick for a longer duration of time, if you are having chronic illness, whatever illness you have—start exposing yourself to sunlight and you will feel that difference.

Spread Your Arms and Receive

Whenever you are out in the sunlight, try this:

  • Spread your arms.
  • Feel the openness.
  • Open your chest fully.
  • Face the sun.
  • Breathe in the fresh air and fresh prana.

All your cobwebs will be removed. All your mental problems will be removed. You will feel that rejuvenation—immediately.

Final Blessing

Expose yourself to life. And be free.

Thank you. Have a nice day!

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