spiritual growth – Page 5

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.

May love be with you!

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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.

May love be with you!

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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.

May love be with you!

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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.

May love be with you!

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Awakening

In a couple of years, you can barely find a reason to be or do anything.

There is no joy in all activities: meeting with friends, doing art, even nature. You’re still scrolling through mass media feeds that are full of informational junk, but you still believe that you can find the exit from this desperate condition, or it seems this is the end of you.

You have tried so hard to follow the paths that your parents or society gave you since you were a kid. It seems nothing works for you.

People will tell you that you are a loser, others will tell you that you should see a doctor, someone will try to persuade you to follow their suggestions.

None of them knows that you see no spark in life. Only heavy desperation and obsessive thinking are left in you.

Days are copies of each other.

The bitterness of loneliness fills your entire being.

You scream, you cry, you are furious, and you don’t care anymore.

And this day has come, and you understand that this is the real end, and some invisible force is pulling you out of your body.

First, you are scared and after a few moments, you realize that there is nothing to be scared about, you just need to accept that this is the end of the suffering you have lived in for such a long time.

Your body is still here, but you can no longer move it. You feel the last beats of your heart and how your brain sends its last signals to the body, and…

Complete void.

Nobody, nothing, no light or dark, but I am.

I am.

May love be with you!

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Obsessive thinking

It happens that there are arguments in your head with yourself about something.

You notice that the mind is responsible for going dialogue. You just listen to your own thoughts and think that you are going crazy because the voice in your head expresses the good and the bad in you.

Furthermore, you clearly understand that at the moment you are not related to either one voice or another, you seem to be observing and witnessing the dialogue in your own mind, using the same mind at the same time.

At such moments, we notice the duality of the work of our mind.

Being a whole, the mind divides everything into opposites, including itself, and this is its natural function.

Managing your own mind is what I would recommend everyone do.

Do not suppress or encourage the mind, but use its functions for their intended purpose, and stop giving attention to the stream of endless thoughts about something produced by the mind when there is no need for it.

Otherwise, the mind becomes a frenzied copying machine of opposing thoughts.

I wish you to experience a calm mind.

Even if it seems like it’s not working out, don’t stop, just be and breathe. That’s enough.

Be still and observe youself.

May love be with you, dear friend!

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Fear is sickness

Guilt constrains the body and any motivation. What is the nature and mechanism of this phenomenon?

First, the seeds of doubt about one’s own righteousness or even one’s own normality were planted.

This belief in your position could frighten you and the subconscious mind remembered that this is how you need to react to what is happening based on a feeling of guilt, that is, fear.

Fear is a disease. Manifestations of fear can smoothly flow from the mental to the physical plane.
We can distinguish two main types of behavior of those who are overcome by fear.

The first is submission to someone else’s will and the second is domination over others.
In the first case, he is intimidated and ready to submit to the creature or circumstance that inspired fear, in the second, he intimidates others because he himself is afraid that he will have to submit or lose his status. Both are afraid.

With fear, the body becomes numb, shrinks, sometimes crawls, internal organs and feelings lose their rhythm. The result is that the mechanism begins to work incorrectly and will inevitably fail, bringing problems to life.

What are you most afraid of?
Look inside with love and compassion, find the one who is afraid.
Where your fear lives is the source of your inner pain.

Send you many hugs dear!

May love be with you!

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Repetition of opposites

Anyone who wants to get rid of something comes from a dual perception, seeing the object from the position of liking or not liking.
Binary code is in everything, in every object, thought, wave.

From this endless repetition of opposites, another picture is created, which is part of another larger picture and there is no limit to this manifestation of reality, no matter what direction you choose.

Every end has a beginning, just like every beginning has the end of something.
Whatever you think while reading the text, it is just your interpretation of the interpretation of the meaning from the infinitely possible.

There are no right or wrong because every thought is valuable, even the darkest and most terrible. The degree of beauty and horror can be laid out on a scale from infinity to infinity, but people, as limited beings, have a range in which it is necessary to find a balance.

Balance will not make you get rid of problems, but it will allow you to pay attention to what is happening so as not to miss the moment now.

By changing your attitude and your own reaction to everything that happens, you can gain new experience by performing even a pattern that is familiar to you.

May love be with you!

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