One Buddha Teaching That Will Tell You More About Yourself Than Anything Else No-Self In Buddhism one of the ‘Three Characteristics’ is No-Self (the other two are impermanence and suffering which are closely associated with this). This refers to the illusion of reality having a permanent and separate self. There is this notion that there is a permanent “I” or “me,” which is a separate entity that can be found. The obvious assumption of we are our body sounds good until we look at it and say “this is my body,” which implies at that moment that whatever owns the body wasn’t the body. Perhaps thoughts are the “I.” There is also something frequently called the “watcher” or “observer,” which is observing all of these phenomena. One of the biggest clues in solving this mystery is that if we are observing it, then by definition it isn’t us. What Awakens? In short, it’s all of this transience that awakens! There are physical phenomena (everything we perceive with our senses) and mental phenomena (thoughts, feelings, emotions). True-Self
The Difference Between Healthy Love & Unhealthy Love “What is love?” is perhaps one of the most pondered about questions of our existence. Is it a feeling? An emotion? Types of Love To set up the context for this exploration, let’s quickly define what’s going on here. Unconditional love would be more so “regardless of your choices and the fact that they may have caused me to experience painful emotions, I still love you because I recognize the purpose of our journey.” Healthy Love Versus Unhealthy Love Leaving the ideas of conditional and unconditional love aside for a moment, let’s look at two types of love. Unhealthy love can be seen as giving up aspects of yourself simply to please someone that you might be with. Healthy love is something that is mutual between two people and no one gives themselves up to experience it. How To Experience Healthy Love The bottom line is, whatever experience you are having now is totally fine. To transform your experience of love, look at the many facets of unhealthy love and see if any apply to you.
Your Brain Can Make Decisions During Sleep Efforts to combine last minute cramming with a good night's sleep by sticking a book under the pillow and hoping the information will seep through aren't as ridiculous as they sound. Okay they are, but an audio book might just work. Dr Sid Kouider of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris and co-authors conclude, “Subjects classifying spoken words continue performing the task after falling asleep.” When given permission to fall asleep, many of the participants did just that. Kouider links this to the sort of procedural memory that allows us to repeat tasks while focusing on other things. In The Conversation, Kouider and his PhD student Thomas Andrillon ponder, “If we are able to prepare for actions during sleep, why is it that we do not perform them? Sadly the sleepers could not remember the words they processed in this way, so the audio book idea may require something extra. Photograph from markjsebastian.com.
Walter RISO - Cum sa nu mori din dragoste Walter Riso Site personal: Cum să nu mori din dragoste Zece principii de supravieţuire afectivă Editura ALL traducere din spaniolă de Medana Oltean Textul de mai jos este preluat de pe site-ul LIBRARIEI LIBRIS Walter Riso este si autorul cãrtii IUBIRI TOXICE. Fragmente pe site aici Introducere „Să mori de iubire, încet şi liniştit“, cânta Miguel Bosé. Să mori din dragoste nu e un act iremediabil, cum susţin unii romantici excesivi. Aristotel spunea că dragostea înseamnă să te bucuri, dar, de asemenea, înseamnă şi să fi i surprins şi uimit din cauza unui clic care se produce între tine şi cineva care nu era în planurile tale. Pentru a iubi nu trebuie „să mori din dragoste“, să suferi, să devii şters, să-ţi pierzi orientarea, să fi i una cu cealaltă persoană sau să-ţi pierzi identitatea : aceasta se numeşte intoxicaţie emoţională. Ce să faci atunci ? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.Ţi-ai aşezat jumătatea pe un piedestal. 9. 10.
Learning to Let Go of Past Hurts: 5 Ways to Move On We’ve all been hurt. You can’t be an adult — or teen — alive today who hasn’t experienced some kind of emotional pain. It hurts. But what you do with that hurt is probably more important than the hurt itself. In short, how do you let go of past hurts and move on? Blaming others for our hurt is what most of us start off doing. But blaming someone else for our hurt can backfire, as Holly Brown notes: The problem with blaming others is that it can often leave you powerless. People who hold on to these past hurts often relive the pain over and over in their minds. 5 Ways to Let Go of Past Hurts The only way you can accept new joy and happiness into your life is to make space for it. 1. Things don’t disappear on their own. Making the decision to let it go also means accepting you have a choice to let it go. 2. We don’t live in a world of black and whites, even when sometimes it feels like we do. 3. Being the victim feels good — it’s like being on the winning team of you against the world. 4.
How to Let Go of Someone Who You Deeply Loved: 11 Steps Edit Article1,187,641 views 82 Editors Edited 7 weeks ago Two Parts:Changing Your MindsetRegaining Your Independence Love is so special precisely because it has the ability to hurt us when it fails. Don't take the failure personally. Relationships fail every day, and not always because there isn't enough love to go around. Whatever the reason, learning how to move on from a person you loved deeply is an extremely difficult process, and one that takes time. Ad Steps Part 1 of 2: Changing Your Mindset 1Realize that you may still love this person. 5Decide if you want to remain friends. Part 2 of 2: Regaining Your Independence 1Take a trip somewhere. 6When you are ready, starting looking for love again. Please be as detailed as possible in your explanation. Tips Surround yourself with positive people who want to help you as well as see you happy.Stop wondering about what your former love might be doing, thinking, and feeling about you.
4 Tips for Feeling the Amazing Effects of Meditation There are so many mental and physical benefits that meditation brings into your life. Though meditation will take a little practice, it is not as complicated as you would think! Here are some easy pointers on getting started: 1. 2. 3. 4. When you emerge from your meditation, however brief, you’ll notice emotional tranquility. These benefits have been known for years—now there’s a physiologic explanation. Meditation is the easiest way to achieve this feeling. There are also real physical benefits from the practice of meditation. Being in a Alpha brainwave state while you meditate will give you a feeling of calm, keep your mind sharp, and help you maintain composure in stressful situations. About the Author Roxanna has over 30 years of experience as a spiritual advisor and life coach. Image credits: AlicePopkorn
10 Empowering Quotes For Anyone Who Wants To Be Happy Like a fish out of water, change and uncertainty can feel life threatening. Branching out into the unknown is extremely unnerving for some, but I know from my own journey that all transformation requires us to accept uncertainty and embrace the unknown. On the other side of these changes are happiness and security. So learning to look at change as an opportunity for growth will help us in the long run. Inspired choices are almost always motivated from the heart. When we make an inspired choice it feels expansive, exciting and loving. When it comes to making a decision, many of us are so focused on the worst-case scenario that we are paralyzed by our choices. What if I told you that there is no right and wrong when it comes to making a decision? Here are 10 empowering quotes from my book, Find Your Happy, to help you embrace change: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. To create your own happiness list grab this FREE Love Your Life to The Fullest Guide. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com
This short Music Video explains the universe in visual poetry! Do you like music? Animations about the universe? What about Zirconium Pants? Then this video is for you! Take a breath and make whatever preparations you need to to slip into an epic trance, because you’re about to go on a journey. Some additional information on this video: An experimental animation by Tim Halloran to the song ‘Ruler of Everything’ by Tally Hall. Check out more of Tim’s work at www.creatustoons.com/
How to Remove Attachments to Past Relationships PROCEED WITH CAUTION: The only way this article will make sense to you is if you have had an encounter with a soul that was put in your path to help you dive deep into clearing past life soul Karma. About five years ago I was involved in the most manipulative and energetically parasitic relationship I could have ever imagined. I was tossed around, in and out of mind games and by the time I got out of this relationship I had felt like I had just gotten out of the heavy load cycle in the spiritual washing machine (whatever that is). And then it hit me after one day in meditation. We magnify this oneness energy when entering a relationship with someone. Let me explain a bit further, I think we attract into our lives a mirror to show us what experiences we need to release in order to find peace within this one. So how are energetic chakra cords even created in the first place? To put it more clearly all of life down to a subatomic level is vibration including our thoughts and words. 1. 2.
10 of the Best Conscious Lists The past few weeks i’ve seen a tremendous number of posts about the “Top 10 Powerful Wisdom Words from Gandhi” or “11 Spiritual Things you are doing to yourself right now”... and it got me thinking. What if we did the top 10 lists for all of these Top # Lists?! After spending several hours looking through tons of these, Here were my favorites that I picked out! 1. 21 Happiness Habits 2. 10 Vibe Raising Ways 3. 10 Disney Quotes to Brighten your Day 4. 25 Life Lessons from Albert Einstein 5. 7 Incredible Things that you’ll Never Believe Really Exist in Nature! 6. 10 Surprising Facts about how our Brain Works 7. 11 Signs of a Spiritual Awakening 8. 10 Powerful Phrases of Wisdom from Gandhi 9. 5 Mind Blowing Underwater Cities 10. 200+ Consciousness Raising Documentaries I hope you enjoy!!
Tapping into your Emotions at the Core One of the most important piece of the evolution of consciousness and re-intergration into our whole-selves is the reconnection to our emotional aura – our awareness of feeling both in ourselves and those around us. It is when we recognize emotions we can directly translate mental information into physical action, and physical action into mental information with an ease and clarity that was not apparent before. Understanding becomes easier because there is feeling connected to the thoughts and actions that run through your awareness. If we use the analogy that solid ground is “physical action” and the vast blue sky are your “mental thoughts”, then emotions are like the water that run through the rivers and float as clouds through the sky, and constantly flow between the two. Could you imagine a world without water? I sure can, but in its present state I wouldn’t want to live there. So how do we tap into our emotional body? 2 groups were asked about this. So what does this mean?
5 Steps to Transform Yourself into Higher Self The last week or so I have been engulfed and suffocating in negativity. Everywhere I look these days information is streaming in; all about death, war, pestilence, toxins, destruction, disease..well you get it. It all felt so much out of my control and dis-empowering. Then there is the other side of the spectrum, the world where I perceive my brothers and sisters to reside. The world of unrelenting and all consuming love. Where festivals with uniting music, light, dance, superfoods, acceleration, meditation prevail and the world feels like she is healing through the act of just being. Then today I had a breakthrough, like the two hemispheres of my brain, the yin and the yang finally harmonized in that cranium of mine and the truth started pouring out inspired by a fantastic interview with Eisenhower’s great granddaughter. We are living in the grand cleansing. We must merge hemispheres. Hi everyone, my name is Jocelyn Daher and I am a team member and writer for Spirit Science.
18 Ways You’re Making Your Life Harder Than It Has To Be Email Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. ―Oscar Wilde When we were young life was easier, right? You see, when we were young we saw the world through simple, hopeful eyes. As we grew older our minds became gradually disillusioned by negative external influences. As a result, we ate comfort food and drank alcohol to numb our wounds and fill our voids. Over the course of time, we made our lives harder and harder, and we started losing touch with who we really are and what we really need. If you’re nodding your head, here are some ways you’re likely making your life harder than it has to be, and some ideas on simplifying things: Reminder: Have you checked out our book? You look to everyone else for the answers only you can give yourself. – For much of our lives – especially at the beginning – we get told what do, how to think, what looks good, what “success” is, etc. Your turn… Photo by: Jenny Kaczorowski