Bhopal: ‘The Heartfulness Way’, a book on Heartfulness techniques and principles was launched by Joshua Pollock here on Thursday. The book, co-authored by Kamlesh Patel and Joshua Pollock, centres on Heartfulness, a meditative process that is accessible and effective in helping any person to find and identify himself on an inward journey.
Joshua Pollock is a Heartfulness trainer and practitioner from the United States. An accomplished Western classical violinist, Pollock has performed and taught throughout the world, including numerous collaborations with composer A R Rahman. His violin solos can be heard in numerous AR Rahman’s original soundtrack such as Ghajini, Delhi-6, Raavan, Yuvvraj and Blue.
Talking to Free Press, Joshua threw light on various aspects of the book and the Heartfulness way of meditation. He said the book reflects the essence of prayer and yogic transmission. Heartfulness meditation is a set of practices for self-development that help us find inner calm and stillness in our extremely fast-paced world.
The meditation training can be found at thousands of schools and colleges and over 1 lakh professionals are meditating as its followers. ‘Heartfulness is a way of the East meeting the West’. More than 5000 Heartfulness Centres, known as HeartSpots, are supported by many thousands of certified volunteer trainers in 130 countries. The meditation practice is offered free across the globe.
Joshua recalling his first encounter with Heartfulness meditation said, it was in 2002 when he came in contact with Kamlesh D. Patel, who is widely known as ‘Daaji. He recalls, ‘I was not a good meditator and tried out different meditation practices back home in America, but to no avail. Joshua said, ‘I was destined to come to India and meet ‘Daaji’ who guided him for Heartfulness meditation’.
He said his practicing of Heartfulness meditation is similar to his music. “Music deals with feelings and feelings originate from heart. Heartfulness meditation is about meditating on your heart,’’ says Joshua. Elaborating on the meditation technique, he says, “ Meditation helps you clearly perceive the inner guidance.” According to Joshua, an important feature of Heartfulness is Pranahuti or yogic transmission. Yogic transmission helps us in connecting with our source.
Elaborating the process of Heartfulness meditation, he explained that it has three rituals. First is relaxation, then meditation and the last one is cleaning. Further explaining the ritual of cleaning, he said it helps in purifying our heart and mind, which are the two important organs of our body.
Joshua intends to extend the benefits of Heartfulness meditation to the humanity and wishes for a happy and peaceful world. Joshua also holds a bachelor of musical arts degree from Indiana University and two master’s degrees from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He currently resides in India with his family.
