mindfulness – Page 6

No time

Do we need time?

Time is just an illusion of the mind that a person uses as a guide in space. There is only the moment now, and the past and future are just figments of our imagination.

When we wake up, we are still in the now, and tomorrow never comes. The illusion of time is mainly used by people to speculate and force other people to act in a certain way by making them believe that time is limited.

We all know that matter has a lifespan and that everything material will inevitably collapse. Therefore, the world of people is in a constant rush in pursuit of desires, guided by the fear that they will not succeed in something in life.

Time is a very profitable commodity for traders. It was they who came up with the phrase “time is money,” forcing the masses to shift their focus in time and exchange their lives in the now for a tool with which we exchange material and intellectual goods.

Everything is alright. No matter if time is important or not. What has to happen, will happen for sure.

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Never rush

What are you trying to avoid in your daily life?

From the moment I open my eyes in the morning, I am convinced that everything is in perfect order, as it should be, no matter how sad or joyful reality may seem.

Maintaining inner peace, I begin my daily activities. What I do every day is do it in different ways to avoid repetition and the slightest hint of routine; that’s how I feel alive. No matter how urgent the matter is, I always avoid rushing.

Sometimes the mind, carried away by a problem, tries to force the body to speed up processes, which often leads to confusion and results in new problems that only add stress.

Under such circumstances, solving one problem in a hurry can create an even bigger problem or a series of problems for yourself.

My advice to someone would be: under any circumstances, do not rush into making decisions or taking actions.

It may turn out that nothing else is needed other than just being at that moment.

I overheard someone’s formula for a happy existence: first you need to be, and only then do it if there is a need.

Say no to rushing and allow yourself to enjoy this endless and beautiful moment now.

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Every day is special

What is a special day for you? Why would you celebrate it?

Every day there is a holiday, and no matter what the occasion, it is described in the holiday calendar.

In the culture where I grew up, there were many days a year that were considered holidays, and people celebrated them following certain traditions.

Until a certain age, I looked forward to some of them, but the older I got, the clearer the meaninglessness of these holidays became to me. Even my own birthday has ceased to be a special day. After all, these days are like any others.

Then I came to the conclusion that for me, there is a holiday every day, and if I am in the mood, I can celebrate it with dinner in the company of loved ones or even alone, visit a place that is significant to me, visit a person, or buy myself or anyone around a gift.

If suddenly you want some Christmas cheer in the middle of summer, I would say, Why not? What is stopping you from giving it to yourself? Life itself is the greatest holiday.

May it be so for everyone who reads this post.

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Find yourself

What was your greatest discovery of your life?

When all attempts to pull on the images of the surrounding society failed and the dark time came for the loss of any meaning to live, at that very time something happened that led me to the greatest discovery of my life.

By a happy coincidence, at the age of seventeen, I had the opportunity to leave my parents’ home, the country in which I was born and raised, and go to the other side of the globe, where I was completely on my own. At that time in my life, I did not have a mentor or someone who could correct the direction of my growth.

I was surrounded by the same careless people whose lifestyle boiled down to an endless feast and satisfaction of carnal pleasures, and somewhere in parallel, there was a barely noticeable awareness that such a path leads to inevitable self-destruction.

There were also those who, indulging society, accepted the generally accepted path of the average person, enslaved by career growth and the thirst for profit, and who, one way or another, did all this in order to ensure that very idleness.

As it turns out later, the so-called idleness was a way to drown out the pain lodged deep inside, but I would find out this almost a decade later.

No matter how terrifying it may sound, as I described above, in fact, I am eternally grateful for the path I have traveled, on which I have had the opportunity to put on countless masks and try on many roles, among which there was not one that personified the real me.

When life brought me to the question “Who am I?”, I stood on the threshold of something else; I’ll call it “incorporeal existence,” that is, the end of earthly existence. It was during this darkest time that I found what I had been looking for for so long in the world around me—the real me, which I had ignored for many years, and he waited patiently, watching over and over again the false me cause pain and suffering to my body.

It is the discovery of oneself that is, for me, the greatest of all. My experience shows that every person on the planet, to some degree or another, is trying to find themselves.

I wish everyone who consciously follows this path to come to their true selves.

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Three-parts union being

As most of the spiritual teachers said, we are three-part union beings—body, mind, and soul. Where the body is a vehicle, the mind is a passenger, and the soul is a driver.

The mind always tries to take control of the life of the body when it overthinks and takes responsibility for the driver, which is the soul. The soul knows why this body exists and what it has to do during its lifetime.

Society teaches us to listen to the mind, and we see that it steps on the same trap and becomes a crazy life-destroying machine. The mind is a powerful tool that can be programmed.

Humans using the mind created countless amounts of beliefs and programs for the mind in their known history. Some of the beliefs obviously create separation from the soul—the life energy source. The body suffers more pain as the separation grows larger.

Finding the way to the union looks and feels unpleasant for the conditioned mind, but there is a way.

Let the mind be a wonderful tool that serves the body and knows its role.

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Stop the war inside and you won’t see it outside

Life seems complex and unpredictable when we don’t accept what we receive from it.

Only a tiny piece of thought is enough to steal your attention from being here and now and change entire life.

I heard from somebody that humans’ first addiction is thinking. The world of thoughts is endless in all directions, and it causes feelings and emotions. Some of them are very addictive. It doesn’t matter if they are positive or negative.

The joke is that your way of thinking creates your reality. Most humans keep their focus on thoughts that lead to worries and fears. They imagine the future and create fear, or they stick to the past and regret it. Any of these two ways of thinking has a pretty negative effect on life.

Staying in these conditions for too long is dangerous, and it leads to deep inner conflict that becomes an external reality with war all around it. That’s why someone said, “Stop the war inside, and you won’t see it outside”.

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Slavery

The more pain we experience, the greater our dependence on bliss.

Mass media and the internet demonstrate that the short way to satisfaction of a need is to artificially influence the release of certain hormones using all kinds of drugs and substances or experiencing an orgasm, which in turn depletes the body mentally and physically. This is how we find the way to an imaginary balance and avoid inner pain.

After all, the world into which we came is perfect and beautiful, but some creatures inhabiting this world, for some reason, created conditions to make newborn creatures suffer and suffer in the first and subsequent years of life, causing defects in the psyche and body that led to addictions.

As an individual matures under such conditions, it will inevitably be susceptible to the weakness of the addiction to achieving a change of state using the methods offered by the market.

This is how the populations of entire continents are looped into artificially created need or dependence, sometimes weaving it into the consciousness of those nations as a national feature.

Hence, many nations are at a low level of development, which is accompanied by endless mass suffering; therefore, their addiction to drugs and genital pleasures elevates the idea and meaning of life, and the result of such a lifestyle inevitably leads to aggression and war.

They sell their lives for pennies in order to get rid of suffering in the ways that are sold to them by those who cause this state in their psyche. An ingenious scheme for eternal enslavement.

Ask yourself if you have an addiction that helps you escape from a seemingly painful reality?

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How to meditate

There is lots of information, courses, and even books about different types of meditation. Some minds create the science of meditation.

We all want to explore ourselves and share what we experience, and that is good. That’s amazing because many of us have our own interpretation of unexplainable.

The paradoxical thing is that reading or listening to anyone’s experience is useless.
Do not ignore practice, because practice is where true knowledge and mastery come from.

In this post, I am sharing my own experience from my practice of meditation.
Life is meditation.
I meditate all the time, even when I type this text.

Here are some of my notes on what I personally experienced and found to be similar to what many spiritual teachers say.

One of the ways to enter a meditative state that I use and what usually happens during the process.

1. Position your body comfortably in a quiet place and close your eyes.

2. Look, listen and feel how your body breathes.

3. Keep your attention on the breathing process for the next few breaths.
This is how you focus and control your attention.

4. Focus all your inner senses on your palms, feel them and slowly move your inner eyes through your body from your toes up to the top of your head.

5. Scan your body with your inner eyes and relax every part that feels stressed.

6. Your mind might produce lots of thoughts about your life issues, memories and other fears. Do not react to them; notice them, but don’t put much focus on them. Just stay still, whatever you think or physically feel.

7. For any obsessive thought, you can ask yourself, Who am I?
Keep asking yourself and never answer this question.
After some time, you will notice that your mind steps back with the obsessive thought and other thoughts come.

8. Keep your focus on the stillness within you.
There is a point in the center of your mind that is the eye of a storm of your thoughts.
It is the point of stillness in you.
Practice holding your inner focus on that point. It might take some time to master it so it’s better to start as soon as possible;)

I wish you to feel and be yourself.
You are important.

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Seems you make a step back.

Everything is cyclical in our lives, and many things that we supposedly understood come back to life again, and we seem to go through the same lesson.

A lesson can be learned by repeating it many times until there is not a single question left and no one reacts. This is a test of how much you have learned from the last turn of the spiral of reality.

Don’t lose trust in the process; live and learn the facets of yourself and the world around you, and thank everything and yourself for what you experience. Everything exists for you and your growth.

Remember that the world is your reflection, what you give to it, it reflects, refracting the reflections with the edges of endless mirrors in the form of people and situations.

Refracting the light of consciousness may seem like something new, but everything new is a forgotten constant.

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Make your mind your servant, not your boss.

At a certain level of awareness, information and experiences begin to form logically related concepts. The analytical mind copes well with this task; it connects parts of seemingly unrelated facts and stories into a whole picture using logic. Where is the guarantee that the experience experienced by this mind or bunch of minds reflects reality and not just one of its facets?

The mind is a wonderful mechanism that should be trained to submit to life and not to subordinate life itself.

The mind, after all, is a phenomenon of life, and it looks funny when the mind, imagining itself to be the main thing in all existence, begins to destroy life around it.

Like a child fired up by a desire or an idea, he will try to use logic to adjust the circumstances while hiding the truth.

But then, as the experience of mankind shows, no matter how brilliant the idea, mistakes will still be made in it, which will lead to the collapse of everything created.

I am not calling on anyone to stop operating in life using the mind, I am reminding myself and you that the mind is a tool that should be mastered and used for its intended purpose.

Often, when solving a problem, the mind always creates an even larger problem, and then war and other man-made disasters happen.

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