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I am practicing a teaching where posture is not of primary importance. We focus on the pure life force energy (prana in its purest form) in our spiritual hearts and stay as awareness. This energy which is us at the deepest level is intelligent. It knows how to heal us...
Topic: Power
Should I continue with my meditation when a trauma and a blockage comes up to the surface during my meditation? Should I just observe it an go on with my meditation? Or should I take that opportunity and use my power to heal it?
Go on with your meditation. Genuine meditation will result in the arising of the state of awareness. Remaining in awareness, in full acceptance with whatever comes up, letting it arise and then return to silence while maintaining focus on the object of the meditation...
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...
To help me develop a powerful meditation practice, should I study a course, read a guide, use an app, use a singing bowl, or all of the above?
You can learn how to meditate first from a guide/article/course/workshop/etc.. Then all that is required is you keep practicing. As you practice, you will become aware of more and more of life. You will be capturing more and more of life. While this happens, all kinds...
Is Reiki pagan?
I haven’t received formal Reiki training. I will answer this question based on my understanding as a yogi. Life is one single entity, intelligent and aware. Therefore, nothing is not DIVINE. Everything is from God, everything is within God, everything is God. It is...
What is a time where you had to steel your nerves and psyche yourself up to get a task done?
My nerves have always been organic. It is my state of being, how I experience myself as consciousness is what decides how much I experience those times of strong emotional balance. The human organism is a wonderfully capable machine. We only need to learn to use it...
How many days do you think is acceptable to miss from work per year (excused or unexcused)?
I think whatever I say, as long as you don’t look at your situation and take responsibility of everything in your experience, you won’t experience the freedom you seek. Just realize the impossibility of answering this question logically. To give you an exhaustive...
Why do employers keep on focusing on my last job and experience when I have gone out from a stagnant, depressing, toxic job and had been working very hard during the past year striving to gain ground and change in it?
This means those you have met with are focusing on the past for their decisions. (read on for supportive elaboration) Are you going to focus on these employers’ decisions or are you going to keep focusing on the new direction you have set for your life? Accept them as...
I feel the need to write creatively. Is there value in pursuing it even if I don’t get paid?
Absolutely. True value is not measured by money, it is measured by the happiness (or pure life energy) you experience. And who knows, someday you can even get paid for it. The world needs happiness, and many people like people who bring happiness to the world. (Many...
Who are some of the most productive and active business leaders, politicians or scientists that are older than 80 and still working every day?
I know this is not exactly what you asked for, but I would still cheer for Sadguru Jaggī Vāsudeva here. He is 62 years old, and as far as I remember he has been working almost non-stop for the last (at least) 30 years, sleeping between 2.5 to 4.5 hours (and only...
Can you give me a timetable for 24 hours? How can I manage my work, eat, and sleeping?
It doesn’t matter what timetable I give you. It will anyway happen in the way you create it from within yourself. It is happening the way it is happening right now because you are creating it from within this way. Remember any time where you tried to implement an idea...
Advice please. How do you deal with a narcissistic boss/supervisor in the work place? Leaving is not an option so are there any tactics I can use to stay on the right side of a narcissistic boss?
Truth is the tactic. Your life is not just about that job as you would like to believe. Whatever you do straying from truth, will drag you more into suffering whether you keep the job or not. Whatever you do living with truth, will lead you out of suffering more...
You are given a chance/the power to return to any point in life. Where do you start from again?
🙂 Now. Always. Don’t live in the past, or the future. Past is memory, future is projection. Now is where we create. If you think that any experience you have had made you less, ultimately you are mistaken. Nothing can take away from the true you. So, there is no need...
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 can I be sure if I’m pretty or not? All my friends say I’m pretty but I feel like they just say that not to break my heart.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For some people you will be pretty, and some will not find you pretty. This is entirely according to their conditioning. Enlightened people see the perfection of life. For them, everything is perfect. For them, you are one with...
What tips do you have for being better at motivational speaking?
Be authentic. Speak from experience and (live) from your heart. If nobody happens to be around, perfect. Be alone, but be happy from your own presence. One person can come and listen, and this is fine. A crowd is listening.. all the same.. Just take care to be...
What does it say about a person when they are dependent on persecutory delusions in order to sustain their self-worth and ego-validation?
I wouldn’t say anything or form an opinion about them looking at this information. They are what they are. This video can help you discern the difference between living from the ego and from our divine self: Personal Power: Creating From the Divine Self Within vs the...
How do I stop thinking dirty?
The more you correctly meditate, the more you will experience a purity of mind. When our mind is conditioned to seek happiness outside of itself, our sexual energy is subconsciously channeled towards objects in the world. When we learn/discover the unconditional love...
How do I have better luck in dating as a guy, if I’m struggling with being boring?
This will be a definite answer to your question. The mechanism of the mind is that it seeks unconditional love. The conditioning of the mind determines how it seeks it, but it always seeks this unless it is being experienced in the present moment. Unconditional love...
How do I focus on studying and stop thinking about gaming?
When we are in tune with ourselves, when we know that an action is truly the most important at the moment, when we truly feel its importance to our core, when we realize other alternatives are not what we truly desire, we attempt to do/move towards doing that action....
How can I become better at guitar? I’ve been an intermediate player for a while now, and I feel “stuck”. Any tips? Suggestions?
I have discovered something that can answer your question and will try to convey that to you.. We have unlimited creative power within us, which is only limited by our minds within our experience. The more we focus into our true self, the more this creativity is...
How do I stop overthinking about too much gaming?
It is wonderful and perfectly natural that you want to be happy. It is a great experience to be happy while playing games. However; ask yourself this question: Do you truly want to play games to a degree that would harm you, steal from you possibilities in your life...
What should I do to reduce my shyness?
Wikipedia contains this sentence inside the definition of shyness: `The primary defining characteristic of shyness is a largely ego-driven fear of what other people will think of a person's behavior.` Your question feels sensible, because you don’t want to destroy...
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...
Is it really possible to change through sheer will and hard work? Can you really overcome illnesses or habits you have had for years?
If what you call as sheer will is resisting the flow of life, and you keep working hard in that direction, you will experience a lot of frustration. Your efforts are not being wasted, you are just creating a lot of frustration. This frustration I think would create a...
How do I best enter the world/culture of self improvement?
I will tell you the core principle of self improvement. It is consciousness. It is awareness. It is your innate nature. It is discovering who you are. Therefore the best you can enter this world of self improvement is being true to yourself moment to moment, with keen...
How do you deal with living with judgmental people (only 2 more months)?
The answer I will write is intended to facilitate a step towards the direction you desire, not explain all the steps you will take to get there, because you will need to live your life and face your unique circumstances as these steps are revealed. I would need to be...
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...
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