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Program Your Life Part II
Read the first part of the article here: http://reachnaran.com/program-your-life-part-i/
Be with your feelings
Naran
Focus on the feeling, with Adi Mudra.
Say, “Yes, there is … (mention the feeling here, for example, a feeling of sadness)”
“I welcome this … (feeling)”. But, can I let go this feeling?
If you get the answer “yes”, then just say, “I let go of this … (feeling)”
Is the feeling is still there? Ask the mind, “Can I let go just 10% of the feeling?” If the answer is yes, then proceed further and let go another 10%.
Still you are unable to come out of stagnation.
Now, observe your thoughts.
Can I release this thought?
If the answer is yes then say, “I release … (thought)”
If the answer is “no”, then ask another question, “Is this thought useful to me?”
“No.” means you need to let go of the thoughts. Release all the thoughts one by one.
Find out which desire is behind the emotions.
Is it the desire to control or change the person or event, or the desire for approval or the desire to feel more secure? Ask the mind again.
If there is desire to control or change ask, “Can I release the desire to control?”
Yes means, “I accept my desire to control but I let go this desire to control”.
Is there any desire for approval? (Desiring for praise, recognition)
If yes means, “I just release this desire for approval.”
Is there any desire to feel more secure? or is there is any fear?
If yes means, “I release this desire to feel more secure; or i release my lack of trust ”
After some time, there will not be any feeling or thought. Peace dawns. Now take the required action.
Read the final part of the article here: http://reachnaran.com/exercises-for-program-your-life/
How to love parents who are cruel
Grace
My parents have been cruel to each other and to me in various ways. How to love them?
Naran
The irony is we know how to get angry or how to blame. Who taught this? How does it come to us so naturally?
While learning to live from childhood, we have been learning wrongly. Unfortunately, there is no teacher. We observe, understand and form a thought, conclusion and start believing.
We should understand that when by being in resentment, resentment only grows.
By being in a state of anger, anger only grows.
In spite of our knowing that anger and resentment cannot achieve what we want, yet we will be in that state.
You may not love them. Can you not help yourself by getting away from resentment?
See what you cannot see. Don’t see what you see.
When you stop judging, you start observing. When you observe, you understand what you have not so far understood.
Any feeling that blocks our progress can be released. Get any feeling that can enhance your life progress.
Grace
Thank you for such a complete answer. I am grateful.
I know intellectually that holding on to my judgment of them is causing me problems. I will try to do EFT or something to reduce my resentment (although I never call it that!).
Some part of me thinks it would be wrong to allow them to just be who they are. As if the judgment will save me from becoming like them.
Naran
Don’t drag them into your life now.
Unite all the parts.
Forget what happened and treat them as new persons and be neutral first. Even the slightest resentment against them, will bring the same type of persons in your life.
Related Posts
There are no accidents only incidents: http://reachnaran.com/there-are-no-accidents-only-incidents/
Relationship with Parents equals Relationship with others: http://healbybachflowers.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/relationship-with-your-parents-relationship-with-others/
Remove the plasters inside the mind: http://reachchildcare.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/remove-the-plasters-inside-the-mind/