My meditation today: 9 am (30 minutes)
I am contemplating the Lesson Two theme, Mindfulness. Appropriately enough I found this thought of Abraham on FB:
A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to
get a happy life.
I think it is very well said. The here and now is so important because it is all we have. Why is it so difficult to get this? Why is there such a need to live in the future and in the past but never in the now? I guess it is because we lack faith. We just cannot believe that things will be okay and we are always taken care of. Why? I guess it is because there is so much misery and failure around us. When we see people falling, we start fearing we will fall, too. Interestingly, other people thriving and succeeding does not have the same impact on us. On the contrary, we feel envy and jealousy.
We humans are so twisted. It is as if we were hardwired to think that failure is the default condition of human existence. And yet the neuroscientists and spiritual teachers both teach us that it is quite the opposite. Thinking of failing brings failure. Thinking of success brings success. Our brains and souls are built like that.
Negative thinking is like a drug addiction. It is so difficult to give it up. The temptation for relapse is always there. Scaringly enough, I wake up in the morning in fear. It is the first thought in my head. How am I going to make it? is the prevailing question that I ponder 24/7. Instead of life´s endless possibilities, I look at the threats and focus on them.
It is therefore the Lesson 2 theme is so important for me. I will try to make the most of it. I want to learn. I want to change.
I want to start the next lesson as a new person. A fearless person!
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I started the Headspace Take 10 programme. I am on day 1. I liked Andy Puddicombe´s videos on how meditation works. I also like his business. Looks like he is doing well.
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I am continuing Mike Waldman´s exercise. Today, (day 2) my deepest, innermost value is Love. I am meditating it for a minute now.
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I am trying all of the how God Changes Your Brain exercises today. Then from tomorrow onward, I do four each day, just the way they recommend in the book. I start with the nr 1 (breathing) and then do one of the nr 2-5 and then one of the 6-9. I will also do either 10 or 11 each day.
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I have experimented the first 7 exercises today. I will report the progress in a separate post. After the exercises I took my dog out in the dark evening and came back to find a wonderful link to a youtube video that Brenda had posted on FB. It was about who you really are - the very question that I am so yearning to find an answer to. What I learned was that I am not who I think I am but I am the awareness and the consciousness observing all this. Wow! I knew this before, having read Tolle etc, but somehow now, today, after all the spiritual exercises I have done, it somehow sank in. Also: I am free! Absolutely free! The images in the video of high mountains, snow and blue sky emphasized the message of absolute freedom.
Wow!
I am contemplating the Lesson Two theme, Mindfulness. Appropriately enough I found this thought of Abraham on FB:
A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to
get a happy life.
I think it is very well said. The here and now is so important because it is all we have. Why is it so difficult to get this? Why is there such a need to live in the future and in the past but never in the now? I guess it is because we lack faith. We just cannot believe that things will be okay and we are always taken care of. Why? I guess it is because there is so much misery and failure around us. When we see people falling, we start fearing we will fall, too. Interestingly, other people thriving and succeeding does not have the same impact on us. On the contrary, we feel envy and jealousy.
We humans are so twisted. It is as if we were hardwired to think that failure is the default condition of human existence. And yet the neuroscientists and spiritual teachers both teach us that it is quite the opposite. Thinking of failing brings failure. Thinking of success brings success. Our brains and souls are built like that.
Negative thinking is like a drug addiction. It is so difficult to give it up. The temptation for relapse is always there. Scaringly enough, I wake up in the morning in fear. It is the first thought in my head. How am I going to make it? is the prevailing question that I ponder 24/7. Instead of life´s endless possibilities, I look at the threats and focus on them.
It is therefore the Lesson 2 theme is so important for me. I will try to make the most of it. I want to learn. I want to change.
I want to start the next lesson as a new person. A fearless person!
........
I started the Headspace Take 10 programme. I am on day 1. I liked Andy Puddicombe´s videos on how meditation works. I also like his business. Looks like he is doing well.
....
I am continuing Mike Waldman´s exercise. Today, (day 2) my deepest, innermost value is Love. I am meditating it for a minute now.
...
I am trying all of the how God Changes Your Brain exercises today. Then from tomorrow onward, I do four each day, just the way they recommend in the book. I start with the nr 1 (breathing) and then do one of the nr 2-5 and then one of the 6-9. I will also do either 10 or 11 each day.
...
I have experimented the first 7 exercises today. I will report the progress in a separate post. After the exercises I took my dog out in the dark evening and came back to find a wonderful link to a youtube video that Brenda had posted on FB. It was about who you really are - the very question that I am so yearning to find an answer to. What I learned was that I am not who I think I am but I am the awareness and the consciousness observing all this. Wow! I knew this before, having read Tolle etc, but somehow now, today, after all the spiritual exercises I have done, it somehow sank in. Also: I am free! Absolutely free! The images in the video of high mountains, snow and blue sky emphasized the message of absolute freedom.
Wow!
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