If you had the opportunity to meet a historical figure, who would you choose to meet and why?
We don’t realize that we already met them when we first encountered the prints (arts) they left in our culture.
They speak to you every time you think of them. All that wisdom or stupidity in you is from the people who lived on this planet before. So we are in constant connection with them, but we think that all of our thoughts and ideas are only ours.
If you imagine that you met those people in person, it could be a really unpleasant experience because, for you, they will look like just regular people with their own craziness.
How much do you pay attention to those great personalities in your daily life? As Tesla’s, Jesus’s, Buddha’s, and other great people’s contemporaries were annoyed by them, you could feel the same if you were that ignorant to think that you are separated from the universal mind that is all of us.
Be silent and meet a great person in you.
May love be with you!
Visit my website alshapovalov.com to find out more about mindfulness and my own observation of this beautiful life.
I have tried to work in very different industries. I have been a farmer, a constructor, an actor, an inspector, and a trader in different fields and the most pleasant and exciting job I have ever had is that of a teacher for young children.
I am a very honest person, so working with children is a perfect match for me. Children are not conditioned by society’s perverted beliefs. They see life as it is, without judgment or labels.
From children, we learn more about ourselves and life as we witness how children grow and discover the world around them. Never lie to children, because they see the very core of life.
It is so important to be honest with yourself and others before you get closer to children’s education.
I’ve seen teachers who are totally hypocritical and full of self-hate educate children and poison little kids with misery and fears. The same things I can tell some parents.
Unfortunately, in my childhood, I had teachers who were emotionally and spiritually damaged by the Soviet education system. I could never understand the violence against children. Even if I took a nonjudgmental position in life, I would never accept those who became teachers with no passion for this profession and who fed their egos by dominating the little ones, causing deep psychological trauma in them. These people even don’t realize how harmful they are to all of humanity.
As the universe shows, nothing is for free, and everything will have a fee.
Children are precious gifts of life, and we should never hinder their curiosity or their natural way of expressing themselves. Help them navigate through life, and don’t limit their experience by imposing limitations that you believe are important because you were educated in such a way.
May love be with you!
Visit my website alshapovalov.com to find out more about mindfulness and my own observation of this beautiful life.
Life flows through us, and we are forced, passing it through ourselves, to react to the events that arise in it. Events themselves are neutral, but our reaction is always polar: negative or positive. Polarity is always relative. The richer our experience, the closer we are to the balance between polarities, which is synchronization with the flow of life itself.
Any experience is priceless in itself; it is important to realize what the experience you go through teaches you. Otherwise, it will repeat itself again and again.
Regret about something is a signal that the lesson has not been learned and you will have to deal with it again.
Solitude and meditation are two of the most effective ways to review past trials and look at your character’s life from different angles.
Accepting what was and is, forgiving others and yourself—this path seems difficult and sometimes impossible. Only fear can hinder this process of awareness and liberation from shackles.
What’s your biggest fear? Look straight at it, because most often we are afraid of what we cannot see.
May love be with you!
Visit my website alshapovalov.com to find out more about mindfulness and my own observation of this beautiful life.
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.
May love be with you!
Visit my website alshapovalov.com to find out more about mindfulness and my own observation of this beautiful 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.
May love be with you!
Visit my website alshapovalov.com to find out more about mindfulness and my own observation of this beautiful life.
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.
May love be with you!
Visit my website alshapovalov.com to find out more about mindfulness and my own observation of this beautiful 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.
May love be with you!
Visit my website alshapovalov.com to find out more about mindfulness and my own observation of this beautiful life.
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!
Visit my website alshapovalov.com to find out more about mindfulness and my own observation of this beautiful life.
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”.
May love be with you!
Visit my website alshapovalov.com to find out more about mindfulness and my own observation of this beautiful life.
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?
May love be with you!
Visit my website alshapovalov.com to find out more about mindfulness and my own observation of this beautiful life.
mindfulbe 