Posts tagged Anxiety
Past Pain, Future Fear
Oct 8th
Many of our decisions are based upon the Fear of Future Pain. Have you noticed worry, anxiety, pain and fear is usually based on past events. As these past events go left unresolved they seek to influence our future. THIS CAN BE A VICIOUS CYCLE. The future soon becomes your past and as you continue to base your decisions on the past you continually Fear the Future.
The good news is there is a way off of this merry-go-round, that is, if you are tired of going in circles and you are ready for some peace. If your are truly ready for peace, a few things have to happen. Take a long, honest look at yourself. The good, the bad and the ugly areas of your life. Be willing to Give up all of the images of who you believe yourself to be. Try not to leave any stone unturned. The truth is when you get down to the very core of this matter you will discover the culprit of all your misfortunes. Let a man examine himself, before he drinks of this cup, for it is surely bitter.?
Peace is in the present. Father has surely declared that He is Omnipresent, (always present) however, if we continue to spend most of our lives either in the past or in fear of the future, we fail to experience the Peace promised to us, because Father is always in the NOW. Now is the acceptable time.
It can be a daunting task to give up the conceptual belief in what you have imagined yourself to be, because it is ego-driven. It is the path that few will follow, but rest assured you are not alone. It is not difficult to look outside of ourselves and critique a person or a situation and pass judgment without delay. However, our journey within should accompany the same critical observations.
Salvation is within, which is why inward examination is required to find the way back to our True Self. I keep using the word Give Up because that is the only way I can describe it. It’s like, you give up the persona you have created, everything you think you are and all you imagined yourself to be and live from a standpoint of Defenselessness. An illustration of my point is if you can imagine a chalk board filled with words and there is no space to add any other words to the board unless some erasing is done.
Our minds are often filled to the brim with situation and circumstances we have experienced.? It can be very difficult to live in the moment, when our minds are consistently overloaded with past events.? Therefore, we must become cognizant of our thought life in order to overcome the cycle of pain.? The way to become more aware of ourselves is through meditation.?
If you can do this you will begin to discover, the YOU, you thought was YOU, is actually not YOU at all.? The world you believe is causing havoc on your life, is only an unresolved inner conflict.? If you can slow yourself down long enough to smell the roses and enjoy each given moment, you will begin to overcome the pain of the past.? The instant you begin to live in the moment and understand that the past is gone and has no effect on your present, life?begins to change.??It is the inner battle that hinders you, not the outer.? The outer is only the effect of the inner, therefore the inner causes the outer.? When you begin to understand this simple truth, peace will surely follow.??Peace Be With You and Forever Forgive.
Meditate As You Breathe!
Oct 5th
Breathing resonates with our subconscious mind. It is not the job of our conscious mind. Just observe your breathe when you are relaxed, happy, angry or upset. To use breath as a meditation tool does not mean you have to control your breath. Of course, Yoga is a way in which breathing is the main focus while exercising.
If you are a little observant, you will notice that whenever you are angry, your breathing becomes faster. At such times, if you shift your focus from your breathing to your body, you would feel burning sensations on your body.
Breathing can be a great tool to control your anger or any upsetting emotion. Whether it is about past, present or future, whenever we find ourselves in a deep state of any negative emotion, the subconscious mind will respond. Human nature is such that we love to delve into past events and continue rehashing the incidences and negative self talks. This becomes a trap for the upcoming similar negative patterns. Without realizing we continue to harbor negative feelings which bring to surface our deep rooted emotions, feelings and sensations on the body level.
While this happens on the body level, our conscious mind reacts to whatever occurs physically or in the outer world. The reaction of the conscious mind multiplies these negative feelings or emotions which in turn get deeply seated in our subconscious mind.
Every thing begins with one single thought. This one thought attracts similar thoughts and these thoughts bring out the negative energy, pain, heat, anxiety and burning sensations from the subconscious to the surface level. Whenever we react, our subconscious mind looks for the similar patterns of feelings and emotions stored within, to return them back to the body or surface level. Here, the multiplication of negative energy in the subconscious mind starts.
When the sub conscious mind returns back to you what it finds deep within, the conscious mind reacts more. The more the conscious mind reacts the more similar negative feelings get generated and get stored deeply in our subconscious mind and the loop continues. This is how we multiply our miseries.
How to stop this on going loop? Simply by diverting your mind you can stop attracting negative thoughts. If you can divert your mind towards an external world then it’s a good quick remedy. E.g. immediately look for something good or think of your goal or any thing you like. It’s a very good temporary solution but it won’t give you the lasting results.? It will relax your mind for some time but it would not drive out the deep rooted enemy in you.
Vandana
