I hear of many terrible sufferings all around the world. Many of them are caused by people who could have chosen to act differently, in a more peaceful and loving way. Since what we have inside of us affects what we do, I would say that it is of outmost importance to change what we are inside. Of course not everybody is as “bad” as the “worst”… But if we look inside ourselves I don’t doubt that we could spot negative aspects within ourselves. And if we can have “little” then we can have much.
Have you ever been in a bad, negative, low internal state and just kept doing what that state made you feel like doing? For example, you could have been depressed and not feeling like getting out of that misery, perhaps even listened to sad music to reinforce the feeling. Or being angry and making loads of excuses to keep being angry, justifying it as if it were something good for you? Often times we want to feed the states that we are in. If it is a bad inner state, then that feeling tends to get us to feed that inner state. And of course, everything that feeds gets bigger. Examples of these negative inner states are: anger, depression, hate, worries, stress, fear, addictions, etc.
As we can see in the world, there is a need to starve these negative bad inner states within ourselves.
These negative states are indeed possible to spot within ourselves… We can see these negative things within ourselves and we can see how our psyche works. We can see what it is inside of us that make us do what we do in our lives. And we can begin to live more consciously and wisely. We can improve. It is possible. Where there is a Will, there is a Way.
It starts with activating the consciousness. When we activate our consciousness we are being aware, and then we start to live more consciously. When we are aware we come out of the negative states. These negative states control us if we are not aware, or better said: if we are not aware it means that we are absorbed in these negative parts of our psyche. They make us do things involuntarily and they keep us in a fantasy world, in a daydream and illusions. They are the things inside of us which keep us asleep. And if we are not aware of them, we are controlled by them and feeding them.
The ability to be in awareness is something that improves with practice. A good thing to start with is to be aware of where you are… Become aware that you are Here… Look around you… Relax… Make no demands of anything… If you get caught up in worries or other thoughts, just go back to awareness… Listen to the sounds around you in a relaxed manner… Just Be… Don’t attack any thought, just get back to awareness in a relaxed way…
To be aware is to be aware of the impressions from the five senses of the external world and one’s inner world of thoughts and feelings…
The five senses of the external world are:
Sight
Hearing
Taste
Smell
Touch
These internal negative aspects of the psyche can be spotted in five areas inside ourselves… These areas are:
The genital area
The stomach and breast
The intellect (thoughts)
The upper back
The lower back
Now, one can’t expect to see everything straight away. So don’t think that you need to see, hear and feel everything to be aware, but you can always observe something, be aware of something. And that is a very good step, because it opens up more possibilities. Not only are you less controlled by the bad parts of the psyche that lock you in a sleep, but you can also learn how to reduce them as you spot them.
The things I have written here is quite a lot to explore actually… Because it is one thing to read about awareness and another to practice it. To be aware is actually not as easy as it might sound… It is something that improves gradually as you use it. It is a very natural state of being really…but the parts of the psyche that we want to reduce make it more difficult and they tend to complicate it. And awareness generally is something which many people have very little experience of. Many people live most of the time in their intellects. And awareness is not a thought, it is not an intellectual thing. It is only observing… Observing without making comments… Just calmly observe… And if you try it, you’ll see that thoughts come to take away this peaceful awareness… But when they do, just calmly go back to awareness… Don’t comment the period that you weren’t aware, just get aware again… and again, and again… This is how you use it. And this feeling for awareness strengthens as it is used.
This is an extremely recommended book: http://www.belzebuub.com/belzebuubs-printed-books/the-peace-of-the-spirit-within
Peace Within to Everyone
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