Posts Tagged ‘thoughts’

Here is a Technique You Can Use to Free You Up From Feelings of Hopelessness

There seems to be no control over the feelings we experience. This is because there is an almost universal mis-perception that what we are experiencing is the result of something outside of us. We assume it to be the situations and circumstances of our life, the reality that is seen and thought about. Because of this never examined assumption, life is lived in error and our way of looking at life, leaves us no real control. There is only an ability to manipulate the hand we are dealt.

Everything changes when you are able to perceive accurately this physical law of the universe: energy precedes all things, even your thoughts. Making this distinction can open up possibilities you couldn’t otherwise imagine. And when you do, you will be able to deliberately choose to seek out better feeling thoughts. We are sensorial beings, we sense everything and it is our experience of life that matters to us. The range of emotions is vast and at the lower end of the spectrum one might experience helplessness, powerlessness and hopelessness and at the highest end would be the experiences of happiness, joy, bliss and ecstasy. In between there are many degrees. The words are what we have given labels to in order that we can talk about them to ourselves and others. Read more…

What Lies Beneath Meditation?

Many of us experience a meditative state without realizing it. For example, times when we are sitting outdoors, perhaps beside a stream or in a peaceful backyard, when everything seems to drop away, including all our thoughts or concerns, and we enter into a deeply peaceful stillness… an inner quite. In this quite, we feel as if we have dissolved and are no longer something separate or individual, but have merged with everything around us. We become the trees, the birds, and the water – there is no separation, no difference between us.

This state is very joyful; however, it does not necessarily last! Our minds and senses are so powerful that we being distract by every-day concerns, pulled into our worries or personal dramas, our habits or confusion, until this feeling of inner quite seems very far away. However, the more we practice meditation, for example, specific techniques to bring purposefully the mind into a focused and still place, the more we experience an inner quite.

The practice of meditation, which may include contemplation and prayer, is an aspect of systems. If we are too externalized and busy with thoughts, we are unable to perceive the beauty around us or to receive divine inspiration. But meditation is not limited to religious practice; it also has far-reaching implications in our fast – moving and highly demanding world for bringing balance and harmony to our lives. Read more…