Bitesize Wisdom For Busy People: Recent Episodes
Ivan Campuzano
"Extraordinary insights for Life, Work, and Travel."
Hello and welcome to my channel. My name is Ivan and I like sharing transformative ideas rooted in the Wisdom Traditions in a simple down to earth way while working to evolve them further.
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Hello, I'm Ivan: travel junkie, blogger, teacher, a student of life. Welcome to my little home on the net, where I hope to share ideas and insights to help you lead a deeply fulfilling life.
This is a journey of discovering both inner and outer freedom. Will you join me on this quest towards ultimate freedom? I write and talk about my experiences in: self-development, psychology, traveling full-time, living abroad, location independence, meditation, yoga, lucid dreaming, entrepreneurship, lifestyle business, language learning, and how to be in the now.
selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealizationToday's quote is by Sir Francis Bacon, “In charity, there is no excess”
If you are on a self-development or spiritual journey, much of that journey at times can seem selfish as you are mainly focused on yourself. This can be ok because in order to truly help others we must be able to help ourselves first.
This will also help us to relate to other people’s struggles and then we can be in a better position to help by having some personal experience and insight into their situation.
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I think it’s safe to say that most of us will spend our whole lives searching. Searching for love, money, happiness, success, and many other worldly desires.
This search takes place mainly in our external world, a search that leads us further away from what we actually want and from who we really are. We feel that once we attain these worldly desires that life will be grand, everything will be ok, that we will be deeply fulfilled.
I think that many of us deep down know that things like money, becoming famous, becoming powerful, will be really nice but that ultimately it will not give us the peace of mind and deep fulfillment that we crave.
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The title of today’s video is “How To Become a Leader: What Trump Taught The World”, but it’s actually based on an article I wrote a long time ago, which was “How To Become a Leader: What Hitler Taught The World”. It’s not my intent to discuss politics here, but if Donald Trump has done anything well, I think many of us will agree that he did a great job of implementing the main ideas that I discuss in the post.
The purpose of this video is to raise some awareness among people who would like to be a leader of some sort, to make you aware of the responsibility you will have, and to question what your true motives are and the possible consequences of your message. To possibly re-think what it means to be a leader. Do you even need to be a leader?
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Today's quote is by William James, “Genius...means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitable way.” If you have watched some of my videos you will know how much I stress and talk about the faculty of attention. If you are new to my channel check out my video where I give an overview of the 3 levels of attention. I’ll put some helpful links in the description box below.
Understanding The Three Levels of Attention For Our Self-Development: https://youtu.be/n-cTUil01Bg
How To Really Understand Yourself Through Proper Self-observation: https://youtu.be/2fmLjPpOZAM
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Today we’ll talk about increasing our ability of working with our sensitive energies, of getting more acquainted with recognizing sensation for what it truly is.
With learning to relax the body, emotions, and thoughts we are laying the foundation for our journey into our inner space. Our ability to perceive what’s going on inside us becomes more acute and vivid. When our body is no longer wasting its vital energy on unnecessary tension and strains the energy that keeps us in relationship with our bodies is naturally accumulated. Most people never advance on their self-development path because they simply don’t have the energy because our already low supply is wasted through various unconscious leaks we have developed like negative emotions and bodily tensions. If we were video game characters, at the end of our day our power bar would always be in the red. We just don’t have the resources to pursue more lofty spiritual goals.
Through our practice of deliberate sensing, we learn to come into contact and become grounded in our bodies through this sensitive energy.
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Living From Presence: How To Really Enter The Present Moment: https://youtu.be/-Px1k1XLJ2A
Developing Presence 101: Relaxing The Body and Releasing Its Tensions: https://youtu.be/Yj6x1VzN874
Recently I made a couple of videos about living from presence, If you haven’t checked them out, I'll put the links in the description box. In the first video, I talked about the importance of grounding our attention in the raw sensation of the body, in the 2nd video I talked about the next step of learning to relax the entire body to get our energies flowing more freely, today we’ll talk about furthering our ability to calm our body.
Once we have gotten acquainted with learning to use our attention to progressively relax our whole body, we will try to go into a more thorough deeper relaxation. Our self-development journey is one where we learn to go from the gross to the very subtle.
The tensions at the coarser physical level of our body are usually the easiest for us to identify and to let go of. The next more subtle and deeper level of tensions that we need to relax is that of our thoughts, emotions, and will.
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Today's quote is by Epictetus, “For if a person shifts their caution to their own reasoned choices and the acts of those choices, they will at the same time gain the will to avoid, but if they shift their caution away from their own reasoned choices to things not under their control, seeking to avoid what is controlled by others, they will then be agitated, fearful, and unstable.””
This quote highlights an idea we've discussed before, which is the importance of creating a life aim for ourselves. A long last aim that can serve as our guide and always point in us in the right direction for our life. Since my channel focuses on self-development and becoming more conscious, increasing our awareness can serve as a broad and long-lasting aim for our life. Anything that helps us move in the direction of becoming more mindful and aware is good and anything that takes us away from that aim we would consider bad.
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“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” They say patience is a virtue, and it truly is the number one quality to cultivate in our lives because it ties in and is a by-product of all our self-development work. Real patience is the result of our genuine inner work, of us, becoming more conscious. To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitesizewisdom Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitesizewisdom
Recently I made a video about living from presence, If you haven’t checked it out here: https://youtu.be/-Px1k1XLJ2A In that video, I gave a brief overview of how our spiritual journey is one where we go from the gross to the very subtle, and the importance of learning to ground our attention in the energy of sensation in our bodies in order to grow and feed our presence.
Today I’ll get a little bit into discussing the initial stage of developing contact with our body, with our body presence which is an essential beginning foundation to help us go deeper and higher into the subtle energies of our inner space. Developing our inner energy body of sensation will act as a container to attract and hold the next higher energy of consciousness.
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Today's quote is by Mark Twain, “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
We're living in crazy times right now, and we all could use a little cheering up. Unfortunately, modern life in many parts of the world has encouraged more selfish ways of living, of being. It’s a dog eat dog kind of world out there. Which has become a big source for stress and unhappiness for many.
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Today our topic is on living from Presence.
Our whole self-development journey is one towards a deeper understanding and embodiment of presence. The more presence we invite into our life, the more our life comes alive. Living with little presence our life just slips through our hands and passes us by. We become passive participants in our life and don’t experience it fully.
Presence means to be here and now grounded in our life, grounded in our bodies, through not only the sensory experience but also aware of ourselves doing whatever it may be as we are doing it. We fully inhabit our bodies and actions by being an active participant in our life.
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Today's quote is by the Buddha,
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”
I know it seems as if the sky is falling every day as we hear non-stop about all the different crises going on around the world. Especially if you are someone who has been directly impacted by everything going on. It can be difficult to feel thankful right now. But as the Buddha said, as long we’re breathing and live to fight another day, we should remain thankful. It’s all a matter of perspective, no matter how bad things may seem we can always find something to be thankful for.
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I have spoken before on the importance of making an aim for oneself in respect to our self-development work. Our aim is what keeps us on the right track. After careful and sincere self-observation, of being objectively mindful of our behavior we should be able to identify areas that we need to work on in order to progress on our journey of becoming more conscious. This data helps us to formulate an aim for our self-development work. For example, you may discover that feelings of jealousy are especially damaging to you, so your aim is to understand and overcome them. Today we will talk a little bit about understanding where our aim comes from and that it can come from a right or wrong place within ourselves.
We need to have a deep and clear comprehension of our aim, of ourselves, of our attention because we may have an aim that is right but be coming from a wrong place or we may have an aim that is wrong but be coming from a right place in us.
In order to understand where our aim is coming from we need to have an intimate relationship with our attention and how it relates to the main centers in our body.
Recommended videos:
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Balancing and Understanding Our Intellectual, Emotional, Instinctive Brains: https://youtu.be/WePYyrVbFQU
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Increasing Self-Awareness of Our Three Brains: Head, Heart, and Gut: https://youtu.be/dyIX9_wBxss
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How To Not Be A Smartphone Zombie: Increasing Awareness and Expanding Consciousness: https://youtu.be/f9H1p6IW3gs
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Understanding The Three Levels of Attention For Our Self-Development: https://youtu.be/n-cTUil01Bg
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All of us have heard the importance of learning to be present, of living in the now, but how many of us are actually really living it, how many of us really understand what that means or how to do it…
Today I’ll briefly touch upon this by emphasizing that we need to live like we really mean it. It means we need to learn to identify the silent presence behind all experiences and to live by having our intention in whatever it is that we may be doing. Living from a place of presence we do not let life just happen to us, or to let this present moment go by unnoticed. We are here in an integrated way, fully and vividly as our attention and intention. We are in our life living it as it unfolds.
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Today we will continue our discussion on negative emotions, specifically that you have the choice or right to not be negative.
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In recent years due to the success of the Secret, the law of attraction has enjoyed a mass revival. Although it was good that the focus was generally on being more positive, it lacked a comprehensive understanding and also gave birth to many negative outcomes due to this. I Instead of helping people become more free, it subtly enslaved many people as well by enabling them to become more egotistical and the results promised did not materialize for most. Peoples hopes and dreams are being exploited to the max in this age of social media by internet marketers turned self-improvement gurus.
A big part of that is that the teachings are so watered down in an effort to reach a big market and it focused only on the intellectual thinking process so it made people even more lopsided by neglecting the development of the other essential parts of our Being.
In the Secret, they rebranded something that has been taught for thousands of years as if they were sharing something revolutionary, something new. So today we will briefly go into the art of prayer, which is the original method to manifest in our material reality and some of the key ideas and understanding missing from a lot of mainstream ideas around the law of attraction.
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On our journey of self-development, one of the key themes that you will find across all spiritual paths is that of purification...and specifically of the purification of our emotions.
The emotions that we have picked up through life, that are now part of our false personality, is what keeps us at the level of being that we are currently at.
False personality is all that we have acquired from life, all our conditioning from the external environment that has shaped us. False because it’s not intrinsic to our real nature. These emotions that we learn from the imitation of those around us, are mainly negative.
For an explanation of self-observation check out episode #32: https://youtu.be/p7UZtW0nMmo
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Today we will talk a little bit about how we can use our habits to help us in our self-development work. In trying to change ourselves to live more consciously we need all the energy we can get. Much of our energy is spent through all the automatic habits that we have developed, and through all our various energy leaks such as indulging in negative emotions, at the end of the day we simply don’t have enough energy left for our self-development work. So we need to become less mechanical, more mindful, and to stop all of our unnecessary energy leaks.
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Energy is all around you. On our self-development journey, one of the primary tools that we use to gain self-knowledge is our attention. We develop a deep and intimate relationship with attention. Which is just an aspect of our true Will. Not what most people take their Will to be which is a constantly changing little “i”, the will of our conditioned personality.
When our attention is refined enough it may be possible for us to be able to perceive and to draw in the energy in the air. This gives you a little clue into the real meaning of “inspiration”. The Latin word “spiritus” means both breath and soul. All of the other major traditions tell us that the air contains special energies. From the Taoist traditions, it is known as ch’i. From Yoga and Hindu philosophy, it is known as prana. Ruach, from Hebrew, is the breath of life. And pneuma is the ancient Greek word for breath and also related to the spirit.
So today we will be talking about the importance of collecting the vital energy in the air for our inner work.
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We live in a culture of me, me, me! We all occupy a very small part of the world, we live in our own tiny bubble that doesn’t make any real contact with the greater world. It is important for us to try to conceive of something greater than ourselves. To extend beyond our own little bubble, and in doing so new vistas will open up to us.
For example, if all of us could every day upon waking up try to realize the fact that our time on this earth in the grand scheme of things is actually very short, it might make not only an intellectual impression but also an emotional one and that could possibly change the way we see the world, it would change how we live our lives. We need also need to develop our relative understanding. This is because everything is interconnected so to understand anything we must try to understand some aspects of the whole in order to know the part.
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Today's quote is by Saadi Shirazi, “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”
In a world that seems to be exponentially moving faster, developing real patience will help us to navigate life much more intelligently.
How can we develop real patience? Real patience can be a by-product of our sincere self-development work like our meditation practices and our active self-observation. On my channel, you always hear me talking about learning to objectively observe ourselves. Where the goal is simply learning to observe and witness the contents of the mind in a more objective manner. This entails learning not to react to our unconscious tendencies.
Check out this video for a more thorough description on what I mean by self-observation: https://youtu.be/f9H1p6IW3gs
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Today's quote is by Henry James, “Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind”
I think we can all agree that our world can always use a little more kindness. Today, I just want to provide a little gentle reminder to deliberately be more kind as you go about your day. If you are trying to be kind to others, do it with the attitude that you will be kind to others without the expectation that they will then be kind to you. The reason being that creating expectations of how other people should behave according to our ideas only sets us for disappointment. Also, by being kind to others even if they don’t reciprocate doesn’t matter because we still benefit from cultivating this powerful and beneficial attitude. Out of kindness, many other positive qualities will emerge. Patience is another quality that you will also be cultivating.
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We live in a world that is dominated by thought. Thought has allowed us to create a materially comfortable world. It’s allowed some amazing inventions to come to life, but at the same time has enslaved us as evidenced by the levels of unhappiness and depression that people deal with despite that the common man has more wealth then even Kings had not long ago. On the quest towards inner freedom, it is essential that we come to an intimate understanding of thought. That we question it. It’s very difficult for many of us because thought is so close and invisible to us that we just take it for granted. We just know we have it, we get so wrapped up in it, that we end up deriving a majority of our sense of self, of our identity from it.
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I think if you ask someone if they love themselves, a big majority will say that for the most part they do. The reality though is that many people only love the ideas, the images that they have of who they think they are. These images are very precious to us. They give us a sense of identity. If I have an image of myself of being an honest hardworking person, and someone comes along and says that I’m a lazy lier, I will feel attacked, I will feel threatened. But what in me feels threatened? What is it in me that reacts? It’s the conceptual image itself and my identification with it. But is that image really who I am? The problem is that most people have a case of mistaken identity, we’re in love with our false personality. Only what is false feels the need to defend itself, to fight for its survival. What’s true doesn’t need to prove anything.
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“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” - George Bernard Shaw
Today I want to touch on a few ideas that this quote inspired. While in our bodies we meet reality in a threefold way. Which is to say that we can only think, feel, and sense the world around us. And based on our own individual faculties and capacities will perceive the world in our own unique way.
Our lives from the moment we are born until we die is spent reacting to external stimuli. As we react to these external stimuli, we develop certain patterns and habits of thinking, feeling, and sensing. As time goes on, we increasingly become more conditioned. People, if they don’t take their development into their own hands, will become set in their ways.
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When settings a goal that will be fulfilling and achievable formulate one that will touch your mind, body, and spirit. We need to find inner balance among our various parts to be able to pursue our goals in a deeply meaningful way. To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com
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Today's quote is a Chinese Proverb. The proverb is “The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.” One of the big ironies of life is that most of us seem to go on missing what’s right in front of us, right under our noses. We are all chasing something which we deem more satisfying, more pleasurable, then our current moment to moment experience. To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com
If you are trying to be more aware of your body, just pick one thing, one physical manifestation and work on it until you master it. For example, let’s take your tone of voice. Learn to be aware of it as if you were simply listening to a stranger. Be an alert witness, that doesn’t judge what he observes. It’s important that we make no attempt to modify our behaviors, we are simply seeing and gathering objective data about ourselves. Work on this until you can be consciously aware of your tone of voice all day.
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The law of 3 is an ancient teaching known to all the great wisdom traditions of the past. In esoteric Christianity is was known as the trinity, in Indian teachings, they were expressed in the 3 Gunas of tamas, rajas, and sattva.
The law of three can be used to explain how all manifestations happen at both the material and psychological level. It is the 3 forces of creation. We will talk a little bit about why this important for us at the practical level. So for every manifestation or event 3 forces must meet for its actualization.
These 3 forces can be described as the active force, passive force, and neutralizing force. Or as the father, son, and the holy spirit in Christianity or Rajas for active, Tamas for passive, and Sattva for neutralizing force. These forces are found in the outer cosmos as well as the microcosmos within man. These are the creative forces of our cosmos.
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So today I want to talk a little bit about how we can make the best choices for our life. In order to make good sound decisions, we need to become balanced and see and act from a place of presence. As I have mentioned many times on my channel most people have their center of gravity in either their intellect, their emotions, or their bodies.
If you make decisions while solely being identified with only one of your centers you will only be acting with a third of your potential. Each center possesses its own unique form of intelligence. In order to make good sound decisions, we need to be able to access all the information that is available to us. When we learn to become more balanced in our thinking, feeling, and sensing, our centers will then be able to work efficiently and communicate with each other. They can work as an integrated and harmonious whole as a result of our self-development work.
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Throughout life we have people who can come into and are a part of our lives, then due to various circumstances are out of our life. We really need to appreciate all the people who come into our lives for however long it may be. We need to make an effort to restore, renew, revive. reclaim, and redeem our relationships.
In life relationships are everything. And now in our modern day life loneliness and lack of meaningful relationships are an epidemic for so many. People’s lives are literally being cut short.
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Today's topic is on Effort. Specifically, the importance of effort on our self-development journey. When we have ceased to make efforts, we can say that we are now psychologically asleep and drifting through life. Although it may seem that we are not drifting because we are being active in the world, but we are so identified, so immersed in worldly pursuits that we forget everything relating to our inner journey.
Our inner journey depends on conscious effort, it depends on us constantly remembering our work and the aim we have created for ourselves. We must constantly remember why we have even embarked on our self-development journey in the first place.
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Today's quote of the day is by Norman Vincent Peale.
The quote is “Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.”
Today I want to take a few minutes to talk about the importance of learning to drop from your head-space, from our conscious thinking mind, into our heart space. Getting in tune with our inner knowing, the wisdom of the heart.
In today’s society thought, has become all important, we have become too head oriented. Most people derive their entire sense of self from their thinking, from the little voice in their heads.
The problem with this is that thought is essentially just conditioned memory. In time life seems duller, we zap the aliveness out of life because we are seeing the world through the filters of the past.
Following your heart and intuition. Check out my self-development articles at: http://freedomfromtheknown.com
We're going to talk about about how in order to transform the world we need to transform the individual, for the individual is what truly exists. Society is a mental construct, show me this thing we call society?
To transform oneself requires self-knowledge. Without knowing what we really are, there won’t be any foundation for clear thinking, without knowing who you are there cannot be any meaningful transformation.
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Today's quote is “I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.” Most people understand that unless you love yourself, you cannot really love anyone else. If we don’t have a loving relationship with our very own self, we will project any of our own weaknesses unto the other person and end up sabotaging and limiting our relationship with another.
It seems basic, that we should learn to love our own selves and on the surface many people believe or think they love themselves but their behavior will show otherwise. And what most people call love is a superficial identification with a conceptual “me” which just makes us more egoistic and separate from others. We can be sure that Donald Trump is in love with Donald Trump.
So what keeps us from loving ourselves? The short answer is ignorance. We simply don’t have a deep and proper understanding of who or what we are. We only know who we think we are. Thought is memory, and our memories are conditioned through our experiences with life. Our identity becomes an object to us. We then derive our sense of identity from our thinking conscious mind. But who are really are is the silent subject of all experiencing, that from which thought arises, the space like awareness from which all the content of the mind arises. We get caught up and lost in the minds content losing sight of the subject.
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If you are someone who has embarked on a journey of self-knowledge, of self-development and have found yourself to stop making any efforts in relation to your higher aim, we can say that you are now drifting in life.
You have fallen asleep at the wheel, your mechanical tendencies have you under their spell, and as a result, you have forgotten all about your inner work. Being asleep, we are said to be drifting because we live a reactionary life. We are led this way and that way by the situations and circumstances we encounter in life.
Our journey on the progressive path towards self-realization depends on effort, and not just any effort, but effort of a special kind. Effort of the general kind is mechanical in nature. This kind of effort is what life makes us do. If it rains we need to pull out an umbrella, this is what I mean by mechanical effort. Through these general efforts, we adapt to life.
Conscious effort means effort that is not necessary and required by life. Life does not cause it or is the source of it.
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In order to have this higher point of view, we need to learn to recognize and become established in our thought-free awareness. Much like the King in our story, being established in our presence is like we are at the peak of a mountain.
From this vantage point, we look down and can see everything below us. We can see our thoughts, emotions, feelings, running around bumping into each other causing all sorts of problems. Being above them we remain unaffected.
Also as our understanding of our inner landscape becomes more refined we are then able to communicate a higher wisdom to our friends below. We can help them also reach the peak in a harmonious fashion.
From pure awareness, we have the clarity to see things as they are.
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Today our topic is on how we can use sleep to help us realize our true nature. On my channel, you always hear me talking about being present, being aware, being conscious, etc.
Learning to let go of all that is false in order to discover what we really are.
The problem for most of us is that we are too identified with our thoughts, emotions, bodies and invested into a conceptual story we call “me” that we miss that obviousness of the basic nature of reality.
Many spiritual practices aimed at helping us quiet our minds so that we may eventually clearly see what we really are. The timeless presence or global awareness that is the background to all our experiences. It is the only constant which all apparent objects both physical and subtle rise and subside within this invisible presence. So here we can take advantage of the sleeping process to get better acquainted with our true nature.
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Today's topic is on Karma Yoga. We will define Karma Yoga simply as the science of non-identifying. This means that we learn to approach life in a way that is equal whether those events are pleasant or unpleasant. That is we approach them consciously. We do not try to avoid the unpleasant things in life, which most people spend their whole lives doing.
When we approach life with non-identifying, we see that it becomes our ultimate teacher. Life gains a whole new meaning. It’s not that life is a teacher, but that through our relationship and non-identifying it comes to be our teacher.
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In previous videos, I have touched upon how our main centers...which are our intellectual, emotional, and moving/instinctive center of our body...have a positive and negative half….
For example, the positive part of our intellectual center is its ability to say “yes” (affirmation) and negative part is ”no” (negation)..this natural division makes it possible for us to think...without this division we would not be able to consider and reason…
Our emotional center is unique in that we learn that negative half is not natural and intrinsic to the makeup of our emotional center, but was acquired from our interaction with life. It is important for us to come to a deep understanding of our situation of the nature of negative emotions, so that we may begin to break the cycle of being infected and reinfecting others with our negativity.
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Today I want to talk about bringing more original and new ideas into the world. Here we want to quiet and go beyond the purely associative part of our thinking. We want to simply contact our inner stillness and just be open to anything that emerges. If you really learn to be inwardly still and go deeply into it, you will be in a position where an unknown dimension can come into being. You can call it an epiphany, intuition, divine inspiration. Whatever you like. The important thing is that it’s not coming from our associations, but from the deepest part of our being, of our consciousness, which is outside of time. So by being outside of time, it is not coming from memory.
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Humans are highly impressionable beings, what happens to most of us is that as we get older we become increasingly conditioned in our minds, emotions, and bodies.
As they say, people get set in their ways. Not only do people have a hard time in changing themselves at the personal level, but also the way in which they perceive the external world becomes very narrow and stale.
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Anxiety and fear keep us on a very narrow path. These limitations are an invisible prison that many of us are unconscious too. It becomes part of our identity, therefore, we no longer see it or question it, although we sense something is quite right.
This is where we need to be able to clearly see if anxiety and fear are a major problem in our life. In order to start heading in a new direction we need to identify how fear and anxiety have limited us. We need to see that we in our prison, the kind of prison it is, in order to plan our escape.
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Today our topic is on finding and appreciating balance. As the quote says happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
The problem is that as we go through life and we have a few amazing experiences, we then seek to only want and to maintain only good feeling states and avoid what we would label as bad experiences. We live in a world of seeming duality, of contrast, without the other side we wouldn’t be able to evaluate and appreciate each experience for what it is. If we only had blissful experiences soon we would take them for granted and would become dull.
We need to learn to see and appreciate the immense diversity of our world. We need to learn to become balanced in mind, body, and heart. To be balanced we need to learn to entertain and hold the opposites in our mind. Many people tend to only think in terms of black or white. They become fixed in their ways of thinking, doing, and being. We then become unbalanced, topsy-turvy.
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Society is artificial, we slowly get conditioned into having many faces. To be yourself in society can cause you great inconveniences, hence why almost no one ever shows who they really are. Many of us don’t even know who we are anymore, we just think we do.
The word persona is a very significant word, it is a Latin word meaning mask. This is where the word personality originated from, our personalities are the masks we use to participate in society.
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I think we have all heard the expression that sometimes people feel like they are carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. Physically you can also see it.
For many of us regardless of our physical weight, in our inner space, we feel obese. We are weighed down by our thoughts, emotions, feelings, our addictions, our past, our expectations of the future
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Today's topic is on understanding the wrong work of our bodies centers, that being our intellectual, emotional, and the instinctive/moving centers.
In a recent video we talked about the importance of observing and really knowing your centers because doing so gives us a lot of self-knowledge. By properly observing our centers we can determine how conscious we are being in the moment, we can see if our centers are doing their appropriate work and the quality of energy they are using by understanding the different levels of our attention in relation to our centers. We also went into how our centers can be further subdivided into their own intellectual, emotional, and instinctive moving parts along with each center having a positive and negative half.
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If we want to reclaim the creativity that was once ours, we need to get rid of all our social conditioning’s, otherwise whatever we create is truly not our own unique creation. Our social conditioning only allows us to modify and copy ideas that were never really ours. To be creative in the purest sense is to be an individual, to not allow our creations to be colored by mass psychology.
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Today I want you to take the time to think about someone who you really dislike, nay, someone who you may even despise.
What is it that irritates you most about them? Is it that they are inconsiderate? That they don’t listen? Or maybe that they are overly narcissistic?
What if I told you that it is entirely possible to even learn to like these people and that it’s actually in your best interest to do so. Don’t believe me?
Well, if you give me a few minutes of your time and if you make you a sincere effort you will see why other people, especially ones that irritate you, hold the key to an immense understanding of yourself and the world.
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Journaling can be a great way of freely putting your thoughts, feelings, ideas on paper to be able to look at and explore them in a deeper way. And as our quote above highlights, writing can be a way of relieving inner pressure. It can be a cathartic exercise.
Journaling consistently can also help us tap into our inner creativity which can be a source of potential problem-solving in our day to day lives.
Through journaling, we will also increase our own self-awareness and as we reflect on our day we will start to notice and get to know our thoughts and feelings on a very intimate level.
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Our mechanical addictions keep us locked in place. Take a good look, what little compulsions and drives have power over you, by you not being able to live without them.
We can start by looking at everyday things like our daily coffee, video games, social media, or gossip at the office. Is it a harmless indulgence or is it now running your life?
It gets harder to see with things like our psychological suffering. We may not look at them like addictions, but how many people do you know that if they gave up their suffering would be a completely new person?
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In modern psychology, they refer to the three dimensions of the mind as being the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious. From Yoga and Vedanta, they are known as the gross, subtle, and causal dimensions of the human personality.
These three aspects are then subdivided into the five koshas or bodies that go from the grossest to the most subtle dimensions of existence. Kosha is a Sanskrit word that means sheath, you can think of it as a layer of an onion.
Many spiritual traditions identify and classify our subtle bodies although there will be some variance among them. Today will just be just a short introduction into the five Koshas.
The five koshas correspond to the psychological, physiological, and different levels of awareness.
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We always hear how important it is to be present, to live in the moment. In order for us to become more conscious and aware, we need to realize just how unconscious we may be currently living. We need to realize our lack of presence. So, just how present are we in our lives?
Today I want to share a little useful exercise that help you determine just how present you are to the present moment and the level of awareness that you possess. Having this baseline can help you realize many things and can provide a shock of motivation when you realize your degree of awareness.
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Everyone is at a different stage in their development, but were all on our own journey from lower to higher, from ignorance to wisdom.
It is a journey of discarding all that is false and discovering what is true, the source of our very own beingness.
We all have different starting points, we all resonate with different ideas and teachings, but anything that helps us to move our center of gravity from the external to the internal is useful on our journey to awakening our connection to the source of all that is.
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On our self-development journey, our goal is to become fully human, which means to become balanced in all our various functions. Right now most of us are unbalanced in various degrees.
You can think of our centers as each being a different kind of mind. We have an intellectual, emotional, and instinctive mind.
Each mind was designed for a different purpose and use. And since most of us never got a proper education on our highly complex and delicate machine, we don’t know it’s intricate workings and therefore use them wrongly.
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Today our topic is on creating opportunities for our life. Let’s take a few minutes now to see how we can create more opportunities to live a happy conscious life.
From an esoteric point of view, we learn that if you are living life from personality, the most exterior aspect of you, then you will be living according to the law of accident. Things just happen.
When you are in tune and in touch with your inner self, when you know who you are at a deep level then you will be living according to the law of fate. Under the law of fate, you will attract circumstances that are perfect for your growth and which will bring out your own unique abilities and talents.
Living from your inner self you will be fulfilling your destiny and will attract appropriate opportunities.
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Meaning can come from life or we can find meaning in imagination. When we derive meaning from imagination we are functioning through our identification to our conscious thinking mind, through our personality.
When we derive meaning from life we are functioning more through our essence, what is real and unchanging in us.
When we start to sense the meaning that we derive from tapping into our essence, our self-development work, our spiritual work can then become the greatest source of meaning for us.
Making your self-development work a priority you will be well on your way to waking up to reality.
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One can get tired of something that it no longer has any meaning for the person. So what is the meaning of meaning? What is the source of meaning? When you look back on your life on your experiences, what is it that made them meaningful?
We need to realize that what we take for granted doesn’t have any real meaning for us. And many of us take our very life for granted, so we are simply just carried along by it.
We get a certain amount of meaning from life and a certain amount from our imagination.They are two sources of meaning but on completely different levels.
We also need to realize that imagination can never be satisfied by reality.
Living from what is real in you, you will be waking up to reality.
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On our self-development journey, our goal is to become a balanced human being. Balanced in our various centers or functions.
In today’s quote, Epictetus gives us a good look at how our intellectual center should be used.
“The proper work of the mind is the exercise of choice, refusal, yearning, repulsion, preparation, purpose, and assent. What then can pollute and clog the mind’s proper functioning? Nothing but its own corrupt decisions.” - Epictetus
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How do you spend your day? Are you doing all the things you need to be doing in order to live a fulfilling life? Learn to tap into your inner self, and as you get in tune you will use your time wisely. Acting from what is real in you will bring you fulfillment and you'll be expressing your own uniqueness.
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Learn a simple practice to start acknowledging and befriending your inner Self. Learn to be your own best friend, only then can you truly be friendly and loving with others.
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In today's episode, we learn how to not give undue power to our thoughts and feelings in order to progress on our inner journey. Through deep insight, we learn to dis-identify from our thoughts and feelings and let go of negative energy.
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Your thoughts travel far, so be careful what you think. Maintain a harmonious mental atmosphere to influence your environment and others in a good way. Learn to send good vibes to the world.
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Smiling is one of the easiest ways to change our state and brighten up our day. Simply by smiling more, you can be healthier and happier.
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Create your own special success symbol that you can utilize to communicate with your subconscious and unconscious mind. Symbols are the language of the unconscious. You can use your own unique symbol in deep meditation to imprint your subconscious and help you manifest your vision. This can be an effective tool to reprogram your subconscious mind and help you stay on track.
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. By becoming centered in your consciousness you can overcome life's challenges and you'll be constantly learning and growing.
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Learn to interact with people from all walks of life. We can learn to discover hidden aspects and develop ourselves to become whole and complete. Learning to have conscious relationships with all types of people will help us become well rounded human beings. You can learn to effectively deal with and understand all the various personality types and essence types.
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Shift your focus from the external to the internal. Realizing your inner potential you will worry less about how others perceive you. Not depending on the external world for your sense of security you will be living from your intrinsic nature. You will be living authentically. Learn to use the external world to develop your internal world through sincere self-observation.
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Learn to take small daily mindful actions towards your goals. Doing your tasks mindfully will bring greater efficiency and creativity.
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Don't take your life for granted. Learn to slow down and acknowledge your existence. This reality is truly a miracle. Learn to see the world with new eyes, your life can be a never-ending adventure. Develop an attitude of gratitude.
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Learn to rise above your mechanical unconscious thinking. Notice your thinking moment to moment without becoming identified to what you observe. If you see it, you don't need to be it. You don't need to be dominated by your thoughts. Master your thinking, master your life.
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In reclaiming our divine power we need to learn to let go of all concepts. Authority is one area that is very dominant in our life. We need to understand our relationship to authority in all its various forms to transcend it and become free.
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Learning to drop from our head space to our heart space, we can get in tune with our heartfelt intentions. Where intentions go, attention and energy flow. If you have lost your way, it's time to get in touch with your heart's guidance.
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Learning to be loving and kind will be a blessing to ourselves and others. In a world that is becoming more self-centered, we need to learn to consider others and be more loving individuals.
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Learn a simple beginners meditation to help you become centered in your day to day life. This simple meditation helps us create more inner space, with this sense of spaciousness we are able to feel more centered and able to see life from a different vantage point.
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Stop comparing yourself to others and learn to be grateful for what you do have. Abundance comes from a feeling of gratitude.
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Learn how we can insulate ourselves from negative planetary influences. Find out how your life may be impacted by the events and cycles unfolding in society.
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Reacting = a slave to an unconscious mechanical process. Responding = in the moment action that is free and intelligent. Learn to create inner space to be able to act from a conscious place that is not identified to mechanical habits.
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Life swings from one extreme to the next. Learn to stay in the middle. Things change, you can change!
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The Illusion of separation. On our spiritual journey, we can directly perceive the oneness of the Universe as a palpable existential reality.
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Remind yourself today that as annoying as the minor problems of everyday life are, you are not going to let them bring you down. Don't sweat the small stuff.
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In today's episode, we talk about the difference between acquired conscience vs our real conscience that is buried under our personality. Through sincere self-observation, we can awaken our real conscience and become a balanced human being.
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Today's quote of the day is by Marcus Aurelius. Where he encourages us to inquire into who we really are. Who are you? Ultimately this is something that only you can discover and realize. When you know everything that you are not, you are on the threshold of discovering your essential and real nature.
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Learn to do what you're afraid to do. We can learn to overcome our fears by stepping out of our comfort zone and starting with small doable actions that can help us build up our courage. Don't try to be unafraid, simply act in spite of your resistance to your fearful feelings. In time you will overcome your fears and learn to live courageously.
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Self-remembering is remembering our True Self. We need to work daily on becoming balanced human beings. Inner harmony will allow us to become established in our ever-present Beingness, in our True Self. Be aware of being aware.
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It's important to formulate an aim, a target for one's life. Start with the end in mind and make your plans accordingly. Your target in life will give you direction so you don't drift aimlessly in life.
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Learn to focus only on what is necessary. Releasing unnecessary thoughts will help us to lead healthy, happy lives and also to realize our higher nature. Through proper self-observation you will learn to distinguish between was is true and false.
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The mind is pure movement and therefore will constantly seek ways to keep you entertained. Learn to become established in your inner stillness to discover who you really are and dissolve your false identity with the conceptual egoic mind. Beyond mental distractions, you will find peace, happiness, and fulfillment.
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"Genius..means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way." - William James
Bringing a little more awareness to your daily tasks will transform them and help you see life with new eyes.
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In today's episode, I share a simple exercise that can help you to live more fully in order to overcome your fear of death. By realizing the value in our limited time on planet Earth we can learn to live more consciously, more meaningfully. Use your time wisely to discover yourself and discover the eternal and not fear your bodily death.
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Through proper objective Self-observation, we can really come to know thyself. This is a key tool for us to awaken spiritually and evolve our consciousness. We go from being less mechanical to more conscious and awake. In order to start our practice of Self-observation, we need to establish an observing "I" within us.
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Learn how to really learn about yourself and life. We need to let go of all our accumulated knowledge in order to come upon the new, come upon Reality. Knowledge by itself gives us a false sense of security and keeps us from really developing deep insight into the nature of life.
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By understanding your higher nature you will learn to stop worrying about what others think about you. Being established in your presence you will not depend on the approval of others for your sense of fulfillment and security. Being happy in your own skin is understanding that you are Pure Awareness, Beingness itself.
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"The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly, its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God." - Meister Eckhart
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Fear separates love unites. By becoming more conscious and aware we can experience higher emotions that will help us realize how the real energy of love can unite us on all levels. God is love, can be a direct realization.
The Philosophy of Epictetus. Become a lover of real wisdom to discover your higher nature and real freedom.
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What has meaning in your life? Whatever we find meaningful we derive force and energy from. Higher wisdom has tremendous meaning that we can extract for our spiritual awakening. Through higher ideas, we can learn how to make life more meaningful.
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In order to grow our inner-self, we need to assimilate higher influences that will nourish and grow our Being. The influences of the world can only develop our personality. Higher influences are spiritual food for the Soul.
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Learn to apply the wisdom of Stoic Philosopher Epictetus to live a happy conscious life. Learning to let go of what you can't control and focusing on what you can will help you to lead a deeply fulfilling life.
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Giving the purity of our attention to someone or something will infuse our actions with our loving presence. Be here now, learn to direct your attention consciously.
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In today's quote of the day, we discuss how by doing nothing we can come to realize our True Self, our higher nature, the source of reality. We need to take action, until we don't and arrive at the effortless effort and discover who we really are. The pathless path.
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Quantity vs Quality. Learn to use your time wisely and concentrate all your energies to progress on your spiritual journey. No conscious effort if wasted.
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When you are not sure what direction you need to take in life, learn to get inwardly silent until you hear the whispers of your intuition.
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Learn a secret meditation that will help you get into a more collected state and also to help conserve your psychic energy. You will learn to feel the subtle energy in your environment. This can help you in learning to understand and read peoples auras.
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Practice this simple mindfulness belly breathing exercise to bring more calmness into your life. This simple awareness exercise can help you with the daily fear and anxiety that many of us deal with.
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Don't resist resistance. Learning to create the space to allow reality to be as it is will help you in letting go of emotional baggage that keeps you feeling stuck in life. With the right understanding and spiritual exercises, you will become the Witness to your life that embraces everything.
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“A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day." - Epicuras
We live in an invisible prison that enslaves us through our unconscious habits and mechanical tendencies. We need to go from unconsciousness to consciousness through self-knowledge and by bringing awareness to our daily reactions to the events of our lives. As we rise above our mechanical tendencies and let go our identifications we live from our Presence and Beingness.
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What are the signs you on the right spiritual path? As you learn to discern all that is false, you will recognize the ultimate truth. In truth, you will find the source of real happiness. Your Beingness is pure happiness. Identify only with Beingness and happiness is what you will find.
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Learning to notice where we are in our inner space moment to moment is key to living a happy conscious life. Learn a simple exercise to help you become more conscious and aware.
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Today's quote of the day by Henry David Thoreau "We are surrounded by a rich and fertile mystery. May we not probe it, pry into it, employ ourselves about it, a little?". Don't take for granted our miraculous existence, use your time wisely and consciously.
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Don't wait to do what you can begin today. Learn to notice how you react to the events of your day to begin the process of real inner growth. Go from unconsciously reacting to life to consciously responding to the events of your day.
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Learn why we have such a hard time dealing with change and how we can really shape our lives by being in tune with reality.
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The source of our unhappiness is not being able to see things as they are. We live in our imagination when we don't face reality and suffer as a consequence of our faulty perceptions and understanding.
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Make this a part of your daily ritual to help you remove some of your negative personality traits. With this simple ritual rooted in ancient wisdom you can develop a strong healthy personality to help you on your journey to health, wealth, and happiness.
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You are not your body, mind, emotions. So what are you? Find your True Self and end your psychological suffering. It's time we all awaken to our true nature.
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"Anyone who can't enjoy his own company cannot enjoy the company of others". In a world moving at exponential speed, it is imperative that we learn to rest in our intrinsic silence. Learn to silence the mind and all will become SELF-obvious. It's time to awaken to your true nature.
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What is the purpose of your life? What are you capable of? The Earth plane is the ultimate playground for us to develop our innate potential to realize our purpose. It's time we wake up and become truly conscious individuals.
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Learn to incorporate this simple mindfulness exercise to help you increase your awareness and expand your consciousness.
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What are you committed to in life? Just take a look at the results you have been getting. Change yourself change your life. Learn to take full responsibility for everything in your life so that you can consciously create your life.
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Learn to slow down and enjoy the ride. In this episode I share 3 simple ways to slow down and become more conscious of our life. Life is moving faster, learn to slow down with these easy mindfulness exercises for everyday life to become more conscious and expand your awareness of the present.
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Taking responsibility for everything In your life requires that we develop a deep understanding of ourselves. We need to become more conscious and aware so we can rise above our mechanical tendencies. We stop being victims by learning to go from reacting to responding to life. Learning to take full responsibility for your life will lead you to freedom and fulfillment.
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Improving our skills of observation is one of the first steps towards mind control. The purpose of these exercises is to help you increase your awareness and expand your consciousness, and they differ from your everyday observations. These are conscious deliberate acts of the will and not our typical automatic tendencies.
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What does it mean to wake up? We all live in a type of self-hypnosis, that we need to wake up from if we are to discover reality and our true nature. When you see what being psychologically asleep means to your life, you will do whatever you need to do to wake up. Are you ready for your spiritual awakening?
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Right ideas lead to right things. The truth shall set you free. Learning to love higher wisdom will lead you to a life of understanding and fulfillment.
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Use this idea as a way to remind yourself to take responsibility for your life. Learn to respond to life in the moment. Learn to stop blaming and complaining when the world doesn't conform to our wishes. When you learn to change yourself you will also attract different circumstances and you will be able to intelligently handle life.
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Quote of the day: "Being In a hurry is the greatest poison to your spiritual growth."
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For visual aids check out this episode on my Youtube Channel. We live in an era of social media and smartphone addiction. Learn a special exercise to use your smartphone consciously and become more self-aware. This will allow you to expand your consciousness and awareness. If you are on a spiritual journey the insights in this video can be life changing. This will help you to really understand how to be in the present. In this day and age it is critical that we learning to use technology consciously.
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"The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs." - Cicero
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“If you devote your time to study, you will avoid all the irksome things of life, and you will not long for the approach of night, being tired of the day, and you will not be a burden to yourself, and your company will be acceptable to others." - Seneca
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On the path to inner peace we need to see our inner multiplicity in order to begin working on unifying our Being. Through genuine uncritical self-observation we can discover that we have various distinct personalities, personas, that speak and act in our name. We slowly start to dis-identify from all that is false in us and feed our Being. We discover what is false and start to intuit are real inner/higher Self.
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Use the power of your mind to generate innovation and creative Ideas. Learn a few ideas to help you generate ideas to life's challenges.
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Learn about how we can really transform our lives. We don't attract what we want, we attract what we are. Learn how to change your Being by learning to take life's events consciously. Doing so you will be attracting the events that correspond to your essence and bring true fulfillment. In my view many of the LOA (law of attraction) teachings lack real substance and understanding and mainly appeal to the Egoic mind. Acting from essence we attract a fulfilling life, acting from Ego (false personality) our desires are endless.
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"The More One Does The More One Can Do". Learn to let go all the images that limit you in the present. Start to do small things, the things which you think you can't do, and in time you will be doing what you thought you couldn't do. Acting with real will power.
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Emotional memories don't fade. Learn about how being more present helps you to improve your memory and recall of your life's events.
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"Judgement is a strategy to avoid relationship". Learn to not become identified to what you judge so that you can be in a space of real relationship and increase your understanding.
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Learn the key to really getting to know and understanding your real Self. Through honest and patient self-observation we can come to know ourselves as we truly are and not who we "think" we are.
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Quote of the day: "Admission of Confusion Is The Beginning of Clearness". Honest self-observation can reveal to us our actual state, which will allow us to end our confusion with life.
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Learn about a simple morning ritual you can incorporate into your life to help you set the tone for a happy conscious day.
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In order to wake up, we need to see we are asleep and then find the ways to wake up to reality. The we can start our journey to spiritual awakening to a life of consciousness.
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Learning to let go of our past and creating our life in the present by being fearless through our deep understanding of life.
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Freedom is found beyond the labels we use to define ourselves. Develop the capacity to see beyond life's illusions and live your truth to be best of your ability.
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Learn about the 3 different levels and qualities of attention and how they are connected to our bodies and personal growth.
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Learn how we go from essence to personality back to essence to complete our journey of self-development to find deep fulfillment in life.
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Learn how to be successful in life by redefining and understanding what that really even means to you.
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Have you ever noticed that when you wake up in the morning for a split second you don’t remember who you are? The next few moments you spend reorienting yourself with your identity. You get up and while brushing your teeth you stare at your self in the mirror, on a subtle level you are just remembering who you are.
If everyday you start out like this, having to remember who you are, what are the chances that your day will turn out to be unique? What if before you tried to remember who you are you remembered what you wanted to be? This is a radically different perspective in living your day-to-day life.
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Learn how to sense what a person is thinking and feeling in order to communicate better.
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If you were able to attract the things you don't want, you can also attract the things you do want by taking responsibility and realizing you power as a deliberate creator.
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Learning to respond to life consciously.
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Learning to let go of our limiting emotions to have enough energy to change our lives.
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So how can you become more involved with life, with your surroundings? Well, an easy way is by putting all your energy into alert listening. Yes, the simple act of listening can be a gateway to a deeper interaction with the world. This type of listening requires that you have a quiet and still mind. Being able to direct your attention while keeping it free from becoming identified to some inner or outer object.
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How many have laid waste to your life when you weren’t aware of what you were losing, how much was wasted in pointless grief, foolish joy, greedy desire, and social amusements — how little of your own was left to you. You will realize you are dying before your time!" - Seneca
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Today I would like to encourage you to try an experiment, that if done sincerely can have a profound effect on your life. The experiment is this, for one whole day, don’t complain. That’s it, just try your best to not complain about anything, no matter how big or small it may be. What this will show you is that complaining is all many of us ever do.
To me ‘soul food’ means food that was made by someone who was mainly being Present to what they where doing. They took great care and consequently put their love (presence) into it. You can taste the difference. No wonder I miss my moms food so much.
Next time you cook do all the preparation mindfully. Be in your body. When you cut the tomato, feel each of your body’s movements. Feel the waters cool sensation on your skin as you wash your veggies. Don’t rush, set the table with deliberate care. Be alert, don’t think, just feel. Let it become an active meditation.
For many of us we are die hard creatures of habits, we love patterns, they make our lives easier. The problem is that life then becomes monotonous, we just run through the motions. We take something that is alive and turn it into a dead thing through a mechanical habit.
If you do something repetitively, as long as you are mindful it will be new, it will be fresh. It’s Only a matter of awareness, a habit only becomes boring when we become unaware.
One of the things you will discover is just how insignificant most disputes are, when you just give your self the space to see things more clearly. In twenty-four hours time, you should be able to see the situation more like an impartial observer.
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Most people talk just to talk and end up wasting a tremendous amount of energy. Learn how to become conscious of your voice and conserve energy to become more awake and conscious.
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The mind operates in three distinct ways. Discover what type of mind you are and how to consciously change it for a happy joyous life.
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Many of us carry unnecessary bodily tension which drains us of vital energy that could be used to expand our awareness and consciousness.
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Hello, I'm Ivan. Welcome to my little home on the net, where I hope to share ideas and insights to help you lead a deeply fulfilling life. I write and talk about my experiences in: self-development, psychology, traveling, living abroad, meditation, yoga, lucid dreaming, entrepreneurship, lifestyle business, language learning, and how to be in the now.