Putting It All Together: Rendering Blind

Yes, cowardice gives you pain, fear gives you pain, anger gives you pain; these are negative emotions. When you are angry, one can rely on it that your anger is not false, not cold; it is hot and alive. Because people don't trust themselves, hence they can't trust anybody else—wife, friend, father, mother, son, daughter. You cannot even see the sadness that comes naturally by living together. Acceptance itself is another name for freedom. But this can happen only if in your meditation you discover your being. You will feel it coming from your whole body. Everybody is carrying much rubbish in the stomach, because that is the only space in the body where you can suppress things. You recall your image of you as the expert as a reminder that you can talk knowledgeably and confidently about the subject at hand.To begin, close your eyes and relax. I don't teach any solutions, I teach the solution: just step back a little and watch. Each time you do, more and more negativity is drawn away from you and disappears into the air.Next, take your right hand and sweep it down your left shoulder and left arm. If we didn't have rules and norms of behavior, like those supplied by our religions, wouldn't our emotions and impulses always be getting us into trouble? Later you can just ask your question and you will feel your body respond with a yes or no.Some Tips on Asking Your QuestionsIn both of these techniques it's important to ask your questions in the right way so you tap into what you really feel. You simply see; what is your concern? Start one meditation in the night. Simply decide what skill you want to develop, create a mental scenario where you are in a setting that you are comfortably using that skill, and see yourself doing it perfectly. As you do, keep in mind the image of yourself as a more outgoing, friendly person who evokes positive responses from others.The process of creating a new personality or role for yourself is much like the process of getting and achieving goals as was described earlier, except now your goal is to become a different person with different personality characteristics. They are designed to help you look within to discover either a general nay-saying attitude or a specific fear about a particular situation that is holding you back. It is simply a situation in which you are provoked, and you are alive so you respond to it. You might even start a daily or weekly blog where you describe what you have achieved and the techniques you used along the way. The head is a good mechanic, technician, but you cannot live your life joyously just by being a mechanic, a technician, a scientist. He is one of the most sensitive men in the West. We are very fearful about making mistakes. She cannot revolt against this male chauvinist society; all she can do is go on finding faults, which are bound to be there. If so, what are they like? If you have not been able to sleep well, the day is disturbed. Gabor Maté, for example, has written extensively about the deep imprints emotional stress leaves on the structure of the brain, causing many common physical and psychological illnesses. If your childhood Self-expression is not seen, your soul feels diminished. If people are not in suffering, they won't seek salvation. If you look to the west, you can take a path down to the river or a lake. It is not that sometimes you feel love. One is becoming aware while the act is happening. If you look to the east, you can follow a path to a mountain, and you can walk up to the top of it. Is it a reaction to a depressing world, a kind of hibernation during the winter of our discontent? As you see it happening, put yourself in the picture. As you do, repeat to yourself, I am relaxed. Take your hands away from your neck and shake out the negativity. Meanwhile, her son saw the raging battle and turned against her for being unreasonable and was uncommunicative with her. But what will come in its place is immense, infinite. Yes, women have more love but they should also be made aware of the other side of the coin. A whole hour's effort! She said, That is good, but still not good enough. You have closed the door and you have put them in the basement; they cannot escape. Because you could not penetrate a woman's body, you penetrate somebody's body with a sword. If you learn to incorporate a creative approach to whatever you do, you can call on your creative force at any time and for a variety of purposes. The mystics have been talking about it for thousands of years, but only recently has science discovered that there are hundreds of centers in the brain controlling all your behavior. Life implies death, death implies life. You feel very good and very sure of yourself.Take a moment to notice whatever it is you are going to do. Your ears are always deaf; you don't hear—or you hear only what you want to hear. Very few people are so courageous as to live with a moment-to-moment, changing life. You have no value, you have been reduced to ugly things, to disgusting beings. Keep your spine straight and rest your feet on the floor so you feel solidly grounded. By repeatedly visualizing and affirming what you want, and projecting your will and firm conviction that the result you want has already occurred, you begin to act in ways that further reinforce your beliefs. Truth is so simple; the head makes it so complex. Parent-figures who live out their lives through their children carry a deep-seated, painful belief that they are a failure or in some way inadequate, and often project this core belief onto their children. It was unfortunate that Mahavira and Gautam Buddha both used the word nonviolence. You always say yes, you always say great.' I have told him, 'You should understand that you are always under the influence of opium. And it has been my observation that if you help them come out of one misery, the next day they will come back with something else. Serious people always talking about God and heaven and hell and reincarnation and the philosophy of karma. Transformation is possible, but not by desiring it. Once you have built this association, whenever you feel negative about something simply pull the trigger and stop the feelings and thoughts.Say you feel yourself getting angry in a confrontation with someone and you're about to hurl an insult or you feel like hitting the person. Be ready to wait and see.Repeat this reminder to yourself several times while feeling this sense of interest and excitement. Anger is active sadness; sadness is inactive anger. You can have so much joy, but you are turning that whole energy into misery, into jealousy, into fighting, into a continuous effort to keep the other under your thumb. Which traits do you want to eliminate or develop first? If your energy is not becoming love, it is bound to become sour, bitter; anger, sadness. Scattered light will reach the same target but it is diffused, whereas the laser beam will pierce right through with its intense burning light.For example, if you have a family your primary goal might be to spend time doing something together on the weekend and find different activities you will enjoy doing together. Again, notice the first number that appears and record it. Feel depression, taste it deeply, live it, it is your fate—then suddenly you will feel it has disappeared, because one who can accept even depression cannot be depressed. Of course, on the outside they will remain silent, but their minds will go crazy inside. When sadness comes he becomes sad. I sensed their resentment and didn't want to be like that. You can use the following exercise to help you recognize the signs of anger before you express them in destructive ways.Get in a calm, relaxed frame of mind. You can't make any decision; you are always divided, split. What to do? That, too, will help you do it.Find a Good Role ModelEven if you already have some experience with a skill you want to develop, a good role model can give you an ideal to strive toward in your mental practicing. Have some paper and pencil handy to write down ideas.Think of any goal or need. In response, people defer to you and respect you in your new role. A single quality of awareness makes your whole being. Then he asked, What do I need to do to stay calm?After he asked each question, he listened for the answer. From where? In the beginning you will be very sad, looking at things inside you. Ramakrishna was the feeling type, and in the end he moved to Vedanta. Make a list of these objects and pick five to ten you want to work on. Let it be a meditation. When you are finished, they agree with you.As the conversation continues, you make additional points from time to time, and again, you know exactly when to say what you need to say and you phrase it exactly the right way. The body was going to be violent, aggressive. It is moving—it has already moved. Do what an animal will do if he is afraid. Listen as he answers your question. Use your usual relaxed, meditative state to imagine whatever scenario you choose.Along with seeing yourself in a new role, you can use an image reinforcer such as a color, animal image, or expert as a reminder in a real-life setting to adopt the role you have imagined in your mind. Mistrust, restrict, control—don't go according to your feeling. It will begin from the other side, too. If you have recently moved to a new area, your goal might be to get involved in local activities and social groups. He said, This is help? Only then is some deep relationship and intimacy possible. And just because you are a girl? So the missionary started reading, and just after two or three sentences Nan-In said, That's enough. One of the great ironies of human life today is that even though there are more of us on this earth than ever, and even though technology has theoretically given us more ways to be connected with one another than ever, many of us have never felt more alone. Begin drawing right away and draw as quickly as possible. If you talk long enough to trees, to birds, to animals—and if you don't feel foolish, because the mind will interfere and say that this is foolish—if you don't listen to the mind, but you bypass it and connect directly, a tremendous energy of feeling will be released in you.