I've found Self-Inquiry even more affective than meditation.
Nick Lowe - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (Live on 89.3 The Current)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy3LpV0THB0
#peace #love #understanding
Props, Matt! What a story - makes mine sound like a walk in the park - well maybe only a slightly different park with some similar surrounding scenery. ;)
Glad things are going well for you, and glad to have met you - at least online. ๐
One of the applications of releasing is dissolving resistance to goals. And it's very simple - deceptively simple.
Let me explain.
When we have a goal, we tend to fight ourselves unconsciously. There's almost always a belief getting in the way.
This comes from wanting. Sounds strange, doesn't it? Well, if you think about it, when we want things, it means that we don't have them - there's an unconscious sense of lack.
When we go for goals from a place of equilibrium - free from attachment to any particular outcome, we're free from wants that get in the way.
The most basic wants are the need for approval, control, security and survival.
When we release these wants, there is a tendency or a greater possibility for our goals to become realized.
Ultimately, when you fully let go of all these wants I've listed, there will be no need for goals in the same way that you once thought there was.
At that point, goals will arise spontaneously from your sense of peace or equilibrium.
In the next post, we'll look at attachment, aversions, and polarities.
Depends what you choose. :)
I have the same problem - and "All Followers" not refreshed for 3 days.
Moaning Matt! Focusing more on Nostr ATM - still getting my head around some of the quirks - but, feel freer to speak my mind here than on Masto.โ
The Mechanism of Letting Go
Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on letting out the energy behind it.
The first step is to allow yourself to have the feeling without resisting it, venting it, fearing it, condemning it, or moralizing about it. It means to drop judgment and to see that it is just a feeling. The technique is to be with the feeling and surrender all efforts to modify it in any way.
Let go of wanting to resist the feeling. It is resistance that keeps the feeling going. When you give up resisting or trying to modify the feeling, it will shift to the next feeling and be accompanied by a lighter sensation. A feeling that is not resisted will disappear as the energy behind it dissipates.
#meditation #mindfulness #stress
Fatherhood has been and continues to be one of the most rewarding, challenging and enlightening experiences of my life.
3.00am listening....
You too ๐
Sorry I'm late to this. I'm not really actively involved in music much these days, TBH. It's a great idea though.
Scarcity is *mind* made.
The realisation of this is utilised by those who are greedy and controlling (the route of which is fear).
We are innately sovereign - and have dominion. But if we point the finger of blame and make "them" or anything external the source of scarcity, we forget this - making ourselves their victims.
Arthur Edward Waite was a British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters. He was a Freemason, as well as being a member of the SRIA and Golden Dawn, and spent most of his life in or near London, connected to various publishing houses and editing a magazine, The Unknown World.
He also co-created the very popular Rider Waite Tarot Deck.
Here's one of his poems, read by various narrators on Librivox - including yours truly. :)
https://librivox.org/the-wanderers-life-song-by-arthur-edward-waite/
#tarot #poetry #librivox