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Topic: Peace
Seeing the Pandemic as Part of the Natural Flow of Life
The pandemic and quarantine.. almost all of us want to do something and fix the situation. What can be more natural than this? Let's do what we can in the natural flow of life.. what needs to be done will differ according to the location of the person. For some it...
How does art relieve stress?
It depends on where you are looking from. If art for you is an activity that you take a step back from the stress generating patterns in your mind and engage with the art from a deeper sense of peace and/or happiness within yourself, then this will relieve stress. The...
Is proper breathing during meditation long and deep or short and shallow breathing?
The breath will have developed its own tempo already because it is associated with the activity of the mind. Simply being aware of the breath is enough for the mind to start to return to peace. As peace begins to be created, you will be able to recognize your deepest...
What is the difference between “watching the breath” and “focusing on the breath”?
Focusing is an action where you are more or less in the mind. Focusing on the breath will bring into your experience your deepest aspect, the awareness. Watching is an action where you are experiencing the awareness and staying as the awareness, where the object of...
I feel super stressed and I’ve once had an amazing Kundalini Kriya spontaneous movements but couldn’t get it to happen again. What can I do?
Practice meditation and staying meditative throughout the day as best as you can. As the mind comes to relative peace, the energy will start to come into your awareness again. Do not try to increase or decrease the energies during meditation. Treat them just as you...
How do I meditate for 10 minutes without any reaction to the thoughts that are coming from my mind?
The first step is to understand how to meditate. Please read this article for that. The rest of this answer builds on top of the core info in the article. To most fully experience the state of awareness, you need to most fully maintain your focus on the object of...
Can Reiki be used as a relaxation technique?
I am not coming from the Japanese lineage of learning Reiki. I arrived at the experience of the energy of Reiki from a different path. I will share my understanding so that you can understand more the mechanics of how Reiki helps you when you are studying Reiki. Feel...
Why is it necessary to set your goals realistically?
Setting goals realistically, is not a requirement for one to exist. One will always exist as their true self. Setting goals realistically, will keep your investment of your energies within what you think is real. Once you achieve such a goal, you may temporarily feel...
What activities can older people with limited mobility do that can keep them busy yet productive?
I feel it is not the activity but how you do it that will give you fulfillment. Fulfillment is a state of being, a state of realization. The desire to stay busy is because you don’t know how to remain still yet. The desire to be productive is related to the desire to...
How do you overcome developer/programmer burnout?
You can!. Love the burnout. There is no need to fight it. Imagine you are putting a thread through the eye of a needle. Would getting angry and hurrying up help you to put it through? Or would simply a relaxed alertness, and a patient pace more useful? It is the same...
Meditation isn’t helping me pick a university course. What should I do?
Suppose that you will buy a car tomorrow, and you don’t know much about cars. If you get up and meditate in the morning, you will have more clarity in your mind. but you still won’t know much about cars. You will perhaps need to go to a car gallery to browse them and...
Is it ethical to work as an employee while building your own?
The purpose of work must be to uplift both others and yourself. (Here I am using the word ethical in the context of serving the highest good of all): If building your own hurts your employer’s business, it is not ethical. If your employer’s business prevents you from...
What does it mean to be aware of your awareness in meditation and how can you apply it in your daily meditation practice?
There is an article that excellently matches the answer to your question so I am posting the link here: Types of Higher Self Meditation Practices Note the 3. meditation in the article. For the Breath Awareness Meditation in the article, study this article for...
How does one dissolve ones chakras completely and permanently? This would eliminate the constant trouble of have to try to clear them and balance them and open them and close them and clean them and worse having pay someone else to do it for you.
What about your physical body? Don’t you need to consciously care for it? Only when you die, you don’t need to do anything about it any more. Your chakras are your responsibility, too. They are emotional organs. You don’t dissolve them, they are part of the human...
Why does “achievement” in meditation is to not have thoughts? Aren’t thoughts just another discrimination like any other perception within the field of awareness?
I think the idea is to have them when only you choose to have them, not as an automatic process and otherwise have a completely peaceful mind. You can check this one out for more information: Mind Mastery: Why Do We Have Thoughts? Follow-up Question: Is it not...
Can meditation be done in the wrong way? After and during meditation I feel empty, like a glass waiting to be poured with emotions. The way I do it is focusing on my thoughts. Is there anything wrong or is this normal?
If you choose your thoughts to be the object of meditation, then, as a result of your meditation you will have empowered them more. You will have created yourself more as a being who focuses on your thoughts. Then, during meditation or when you revert to a state of...
If you are unsure of what career to pursue, how can you gain clarity and find fulfillment?
First of all, what is a career? Is it a series of works we undertake to have a sense that ‘i am working, now i deserve my due’? Why do people pursue careers? Are they trying to catch hold of something that they think they don’t have right now? It must be so, if it...
What is the cause and solution for motivation loss?
If you are ready for a deep answer that can change the way you look at reality, read on. Stay with the answer, and your question will have been most completely answered in the end. Are you experiencing a loss of motivation? See.. what you are experiencing right now is...
What can I do about the constant tension in my head that interferes with my ability to think clearly?
I don’t know the exact cause of your tension from your question. It could be mental or physical. To help, my personal experience when having tension is that for me there can be two main causes: (For you, there may be other causes as well, such as an unknown or known...
What increases productivity better, pressure and fear or motivation?
Self-knowledge increases our capacity of creative power. Ignorance diminishes it. We are always creating but how intensely we experience life depends on how much energy we can embody within our vessel. The more awakened we are, the more we can consciously direct this...
How has meditation brought you peace?
Meditation is a state of focused awareness. Where we focus our attention, our energy flows towards. We create more of that in our experience. When we focus on specific objects in meditation such as the breath or the energy of love, or the formless awareness itself, we...
What does burnout do to your brain?
I am not medically qualified to answer your question. This is a research topic and you can check scientific journals etc. for a scientific answer. However, if you asked this question to learn more about how to heal burnout, I would suggest you consider this analogy...
Why can’t I control my intrusive thoughts no matter how much I try?
Note: For a quick answer, skip to the end and study the last video. However, I suggest studying this answer as well to gain a path to fuller understanding. Let’s give an analogy that might help you understand the situation from a wider perspective. Imagine that you...
I replay unwanted thoughts in my head over and over again while doing a certain action until it “feels right”. I heard this is OCD. It’s difficult to control and I hate it. How can I make these compulsions stop?
Currently who you think you are is a construct of thoughts. But in reality, you are the awareness that is the container of everything, including your thoughts, your emotions and your body. You are trying to stop the thoughts by staying identified with some other...
Isn’t Zen Buddhism anti-science? It tells you to stop thinking and focus on mind numbness.
I don’t know in detail about the later interpretations of the Buddha. But true meditation is the most scientific approach possible. It is not numbing the mind, it is staying aware, staying as awareness with your experience. When awareness merges with an object, our...
What is the best nootropic or nootropic stack to take prior to a job interview?
As you asked this question to me, I will answer it to give a different perspective for you to consider. The answer in my personal opinion is: None. Go as yourself and if you fail; perfect. It would be a chance for you to let go of the idea that you had to get this job...
What words of encouragement do you have to motivate someone with depression to start going for walks and runs to get healthier?
You don’t have to go for walks or runs. You don’t have to be healthy. You are free to do these things or not do these things. Your innate worth never changes because of being healthy or otherwise. Recognize that you can be as you are and still be happy and peaceful....
Does having money raise self-worth?
It is a common belief for many people that if you are rich, you are more worthy or if you have money you are worthy. There are also beliefs about money which make it ‘bad’ in the perception of many people who have these beliefs. So, people can crave to be rich due to...
Does being completely sober help you become more productive in your daily tasks?
The more clarity you have in your mind, the more effective your actions will be. With a mind in chaos, you won’t be able to accomplish what truly matters to you with efficiency. Even while being sober, the mind needs to be purified to become peaceful and calm to have...
I need some help reducing stress, can you please give me some advice?
We suffer because of our resistance to what is. The more we resist, the greater the suffering. We resist, because we want to uphold an identity, a separate sense of self that we think we are. This identity is called the ego. Deep inside we know that we are one with...
Liberation from All Addictions – The Case of Smoking
Hello friends, In this article, I will tell you how we can be free from our addictions in general and how we can quit smoking in particular. I felt the need to add this sentence when I was in the middle of writing the article: Since this is an article that touches on...
What are the Differences Between Ordinary Thinking and Critical Thinking?
Google dictionary for critical thinking says: “Critical thinking is the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement.” It is very common and ordinary to be semi-conscious, or mostly unconscious about what is going on within one’s mind in...
How does one stay motivated when there’s no hope?
No hope suggests that no path to peace/happiness seen by the person and the reality of the situation has not been accepted as it is. The primary reason of feeling hopeless is not the situation itself, it is the subjective reality of the person. Another usage of no...
How do I stop thinking about gaming every single second?
Apply these steps in order: 1. Watch and do this guided meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxizxuTSQsk&feature=emb_logo 2. Do step 1, until you feel enough clarity to focus on reading this article about meditation: What is meditation? How to practice...
How do I stop comparing myself with people in terms of study?
The only way to completely quiet the mind is to feel unconditional love all the time. The comparison thoughts that you are witnessing in your mind are a symptom of your conditioning which says you can only feel Love if you fulfill certain conditions. This is...
How do I stop thinking? Sometimes I can’t stop thinking even if I want to.
Learn this meditation from the following video: (practice it to learn) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxizxuTSQsk Also study this article: What is meditation? How to practice meditation. Practice meditation regularly, and peace will increasingly be created within...
How can I stop overthinking every social interaction?
Question Details: I’m way too sensitive to people and end up assuming the worst about most of the time. Its really annoying, and has caused me to avoid a lot of social interaction. I know this is a stupid question, but how can I stop? (Someone will suggest to ask for...
How important is the mindset in achieving success?
Definition of mindset obtained from Google Search: “the established set of attitudes held by someone” Whether you define success as the achievement of an external set of circumstances, such as the achievement of goals, or define it as an internal state such as peace...
How do I live a decent thug life?
I will base my answer on this definition of Thug Life: “Thug life means opposite of someone having all he needs to succeed. Thug life is when you have nothing, and succeed, when you have overcome all obstacles to reach your aim” from Urban Dictionary. Everything in...
How do I become personable?
I googled personable to have a starting context for this answer: “personable: (of a person) having a pleasant appearance and manner.” There are two ways that come to my mind: Actors can impersonate any person.. so learning acting you can act a personable persona. You...
How can I deal with someone’s statement?
It is human to feel triggered from time to time by statements by other people. Be aware of how you are feeling, do your best to stay in the present moment with awareness. Everything is interacting with everything else, this can’t be prevented. But we can learn to stay...
How do I make myself a good person?
Question Details: Everyone have shades of white, black and grey in them. How to be more of a white minded person (nothing to do with racism or skin colour here) When you believe you are not good enough and start on top of this belief to make your self good, you are...
How did you get rid of overthinking?
Yes, I had a very active mind and furthermore I was identified with the thought structure in my mind as myself. I was a seeker of truth, and gave a lot of intellectual effort in understanding the nature of reality, and also trained myself physically (martial arts and...
How do I get rid of toxic people in my life?
You can’t always control which people will enter your life or exit, especially when you have subconscious patterns that are pulling you into situations that you interact with such people. Sometimes life puts us in situations where we need to get some lessons via such...
Contemplations on Money, What to do in Life, Life Coaching, Anxiety, Covering Emotions with Food or Other Activities
Here is a message/contemplation I have shared with a friend.. I have been contemplatingso, i am staying as awareness.. and life goes on..i do chores and such.. and then nothing to do left.. i sit in front of the computer.. after a while.. i start to feel like i must...
Every Experience is an Opportunity to Find Yourself
I was chatting with a neighbor in his house on religion and spirituality. He was asking me about the purpose of religions. He is kind of an agnostic, and is skeptical of the purpose of religions. My answer was, in most cases they were systems put in place by their...
Riker Lets Go of Something
I thought it would be good to share a some insights I expressed while chatting with a friend. The excerpt contains some insights about peace, happiness and the desire for money, approval and fame, Me: Riker lets go of something; ...