Contemplation:Don't Miss Your Life

Contemplation:Don't Miss Your Life

Don't Miss Your Life

Many of us spend most of our life trying to live someone else's life. We are great fixers, and as we watch others we can hear ourselves attempting to 'sort them out'. We hear it in our conversations with others and with ourselves. It sounds like, "They shouldn't...weren't they awful...did you hear about so and so...in my opinion they should". In these moments we waste time trying to write the script of others and forget to write our own. We have no right to write another's script and any attempt to do so is futile, frustrating and doomed to failure. So let be, and taste the freedom from the subtle tensions and anxieties about others by letting them write their own script. Don't miss your life by trying to live someone else's.

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The Distinction (Difference) Between Love And Attachment

Attachment is a mental state. It is a relationship we have with
someone in our own minds. When we become attached to someone we use
their image to fill our mind. We find our thoughts are constantly
filled with their image and the memories of their behavior. It is not that we should never think about others, it is more about thinking about others only
when it is necessary, and as we do so, to make sure we don’t lose our
self in their image. This will finally free us of dependency. Symptoms of
attachment can be found when there is any personal desire or
expectation of the other person. Desire causes the change of the
energy of our love into fear.

We forget we are already a source of what we have been taught to need
and desire. Attachment desires, love never desires and it has no
expectations. It doesn’t need to! As soon as you have any desire from
others, or expectations of others, and your happiness becomes
dependent on the desire or expectation being met, you are already
giving birth to fear and anger, otherwise known as negative emotions,
otherwise known as stress, otherwise known as suffering. Love never causes pain, attachment does.

Soul Sustenance 

Meditation For Overcoming Fear (Part 1)

Breathe deeply. You should say to yourself "relax, calm yourself". Repeat until you are peaceful and centered. Become serene and feel a sensation of peace and wellbeing. Maintain this serenity on breathing. Free yourself of worries on breathing out. Now slowly create the following thoughts:

I sit comfortably like an observer in silence... I let go of every-thing around me... objects, people, responsibilities, places... I focus my mind on the present moment... I let the serenity... the peacefulness... envelop me... In this calm I can see the dark corners of my inner self... Like shadows, I can see the fears, anxieties, guilt, unhappiness, weaknesses that lie hidden there... Fear has poisoned my being; it has stolen my peace, my happiness and my self-respect...

I accept that there is fear within me... I observe it and I realize that I am not that fear... I am not that weakness... it is not real, it is a shadow... I focus now on what is real: it is love... it is peace... it is wellbeing... it is the purity of the soul, what is real, authentic and true... I only have to access these original qualities and allow these energies to heal and strengthen my soul... To do this, I continue to observe calmly... with patience... I do not allow my mind to judge, or analyze what is happening to me... everything that has happened to me forms part of the past... I have learned from my mistakes... I forgive myself... I forgive others...

This meditation commentary will be continued tomorrow:

Message for the day 

When there is equality in what we understand, desire and do, there is success.

Projection: We usually recognise the need to bring about a change in ourselves from the signals we get from different situations. We also feel strongly that we have to change, but most times we find ourselves not taking into action and our change is limited only to understanding and having a desire.

Solution: As soon as we understand that we have to change, we have to work at bringing about a change in ourselves immediately. We need to tell ourselves that there is no better time than now when we can bring about a change. We, then, find ourselves successful in all we do.