How to be peaceful and happy in virtually any circumstance

The Self Salutation Newsletter

Greetings and Salutations!

For those of you who missed last week’s masterclass, I want to start this week’s message by sharing my BIG announcement…

I’m about to launch the Self Salutation App.

That’s right, a meditation app that includes all the Self Salutation meditations and all the accompanying teachings you need to integrate this meditation practice into your life.

For months I’ve been developing this as an online course that you could take but the shift to putting everything on an App that you can have on your phone is going to be both FAR more convenient and FAR less expensive.

PLUS, you’ll have the meditations at your fingertips whenever you need a lift.

There will be a 7-Day free trial and the base subscription cost will be just $9.99/month.

There will also be 2 options that include group coaching calls, which I highly recommend:

The Seeker Level: will be $24.99/month and include 1 group coaching call per month.

The Mastery Level will be $59.99/month and include access to 1 group coaching call per week.

The special offer I’m giving now is for you to become a Founding Member by pre-ordering your first month at the Mastery Level (for the discounted price of just $49.99) you will also receive a 1-hour individual coaching call. This offer is limited to the first 20 participants!

Okay, now onto today’s message…

The premise of the Self Salutation

It’s possible to be peaceful and happy in virtually any circumstance. That’s the premise and goal of the Self Salutation.

And I’m a person who was depressed and on Prozac for years—so I don’t say that lightly.

I spent many years as a Hindu monk before I discovered that you could use meditation to quickly resolve negative emotions rather than just lift above them momentarily.

You see, the meditation practice I teach in the Self Salutation App stands at the crossroads of meditation and personal transformation. 

It’s a way to enter your heart of hearts and heal the hard feelings there so you can bring the very best of yourself to each moment in life.

The idea that you can be in a fundamental state of joy may sound like a distant, theoretical idea—or even an impossibility—especially when a fog of negative feelings has descended upon you.

But nothing could be further from the truth. Happiness is your birthright, something every child enjoys.

I know, a lot of emotions often have an air of destiny about them, as if you’ve been sentenced to endure them.

With practice, however, you can learn to quickly resolve nearly all negative emotions.

That’s because most feelings that haunt us like frustration, anxiety, anger, worry, and self-doubt are symptoms of a deeper problem.

Because they are just symptoms, if you take them at face value as the real problem, you can try to combat them for days and weeks (and even years) without much luck.

But the minute you resolve the real problem (which is generally a deeper, vulnerable feeling, like a hurt or an insecurity) the negative fog will vanish into the thin air—precisely because it was never the real problem. 

It can happen so quickly it’s crazy to see!

I’ll give you one quick example which is, I think, one you’ve experienced at some time or another…

Have you ever been angry at someone only to discover after much probing that the anger you felt was really connected to a much deeper feeling, like being hurt, or a fear of abandonment?

And haven’t you seen that as soon as you encounter that deeper feeling, your anger dissipated?

Most of the negative emotions that plague us are exactly like that.

When you learn to get to the underlying emotion and tend to that, you can dissolve the negativity in your life. And not in some pseudo-spiritual, artificial assertion of positivity—or some cowboy control tactic, I’m talking about real, grounded joy.

Meditation for transformation

Meditation has gained a ton of popularity in recent years because of its effectiveness in helping people manage emotions.

But as none other than the Dalai Lama says in The Book of Joy, “Some forms of meditation… work like a painkiller, where fear and anger go away for a short moment but then come back when the meditation ends.”

When my life as a monk fell apart--largely because of this shortcoming in the way I approached emotions–I embarked on a study of all things transformational. 

It was largely through my study of a lesser-known teaching called the Pathwork that I learned how to use meditation to enter your heart of hearts and resolve the root cause of most of the negative feelings that plague us.

Over the course of time, not only was I able to quickly uproot feelings like frustration with the people around me or self-defeating thoughts that otherwise would have ruled me for days and weeks but I was also able to nip other feelings in the bud before they became external conflicts or bouts of depression.

This is why I call the Self Salutation a process for emotional mastery.

It’s very different from the old way of mastery, however!

The old way is a method of control and discipline that doesn’t recognize the deeper validity of what’s happening in your heart of hearts–and therefore doesn’t heal the heart, foster connection, or give you a deep abiding sense of peace.

It’s a form of mastery that ultimately cuts you off from your emotions and therefore diminishes your capacity for love.

And I think one thing we can all agree upon is that one thing the world needs now more than ever is an increase in love.

Until next week…

Peace,

Simon

P.S. Please consider my special offer to become a Founding Member by pre-paying for your first month of the Self Salutation at the Mastery Level (for the discounted price of just $49). When you do so now, you will also receive 1-hour individual coaching call: