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Are You Moving Towards the Life You Want or Away From It?

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July 21, 2014

Are You Moving Towards the Life You Want or Away From It?

“Life is truly what you make it. The purpose and meaning of life is the purpose and meaning that you give it” ~ Steven Redhead

Life doesn’t come with a rule book. With over 7 billion people living on earth, it would be impossible to determine a one size fits all formula for success and happiness.

The ironic thing is, while most people don’t doubt that everyone’s definition of happiness is different, they still seem to be willing to sacrifice their own version of happiness in order to fit in with society’s version, or the version that their parents lived.

Many people are just going through the motions. As long as there is a paycheck coming in, they don’t think too much about what they really want out of life. They are content at just making a living.

Unfortunately, in this quest to just make a living, many people forget how to make a life. In order to discover our own personal formula for how to make a life for ourselves, it is important for us to focus on one question: “What is my purpose?”

This question may be harder to answer than we think. It forces us to become self-aware which can not only be uncomfortable, but also difficult considering most of our decisions are happening so automatically that we don’t even realize the “why” behind them.

However hard it may be, by doing this we allow ourselves to take a more active role in how our life will go instead of sitting back and watching it pass by.

Here are some important questions to ask yourself to help you determine whether you are ultimately working towards your version of a life you want:

1) How do I define Success?

The definition of success will vary widely amongst people and cultures, but it is important to determine whether or not we are relying on external factors to determine our success or internal factors. While it is not wrong or “bad” to desire financial abundance, or a big home or an expensive car, it is important not to depend on these things in order to feel “successful”.

Truly successful people know that health of mind/body/spirit is the true mark of a successful person, because with health in these three areas, they know they are happy. Happiness will naturally attract to us a job that we love, which will make us more prone to financial abundance, if that is what we desire.

2) What is my purpose for wanting a relationship?

In order to attract a healthy relationship, we must examine the reason behind the desire for one. Many people make the mistake of trying to escape loneliness as the reason or maybe they think they need validation from another person.

Either way, they open themselves up to a quantity over quality issue, which usually ends in disappointment. The happiest and healthiest of relationships start with two people who feel whole and complete on their own and decide to start building a life with each other because they actually enjoy one another’s company.

When the purpose of the relationship is to enhance an already happy existence instead of filling some sort of void, we find that we only stay in relationships that are aiding in our self-growth. The purpose behind the relationship becomes more about companionship instead of co-dependency.

3) Do I have a vision for how I want my life to be?

To have a vision or a goal of how we want our life to ultimately be will help us out tremendously. It makes the everyday grind much more tolerable. For example, a person may have to work at a job they don’t truly love for a while but when they know deep down they are working towards their ultimate goal of let’s say, being an actor, they won’t begrudge their day job so much.

They know deep down that they only are doing this job until they get their big break so the mundane job they have now doesn’t seem so terrible. When we set a vision for our lives we subconsciously start working towards it every day.

You can write down what your vision is for your ultimate dream life or even create a vision board that you look at daily, once you know WHAT you are working towards you, the HOW will start to reveal itself. Also, you will start to feel excited about getting there as opposed to just working mindlessly with no end in sight.

4) Am I doing things because I want to do them, or because I have to do them?

It may sound selfish to only do things you WANT to do, but it’s actually the best thing you can ever do for yourself and the people around you.

When the purpose is fear, for example, “I’ll do this because I’m afraid so and so will be mad at me if I don’t” or “I’m afraid of how I will look to someone else if I say no, so I’ll just do whatever they want me to do,” we live a life that is not genuine.

We start being a people pleaser instead of paying attention to our own individual needs. However, when we start engaging only in activities that we truly want to do, or that will bring us joy, we allow other people in our lives the freedom to do the same.

Suddenly we find ourselves surrounded by friendships and relationships with people who actually want to be there for us, or help us out instead of people who are doing it out of obligation. Conversely we do the same. We start to help and be there for our friends because we get genuine joy out of it, instead of just doing it because we feel guilty not to.

An examined life is the best way to go about working towards our goals. If we have no inkling as to the reasons behind our behaviors how can we ever expect to change them?

When we do start to bring awareness into our day to day actions we find that we hold the key to our own happiness. Yes it will require constant mindfulness and questioning of ourselves but in the end we will constantly be working towards the life we want instead of in the other direction.

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

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10 Buddha Mudras to Practice in Daily Life

Garima Roy

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July 20, 2014

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10 Buddha Mudras to Practice in Daily Life

Mudras or hand gestures is a practice to improve your physical, mental and spiritual well-being. In the Vedic tradition, the fingers of the hand represent the five basic elements that make up the human body: air, fire, water, earth and ether. Based on this understanding, finger tips of living beings have many concentrated nerve root endings which act as free energy discharge points.

On touching the finger tips together in different ways or to other parts of the palm channelizes and balances the flow of energy (Prana) within our body, and the energy traveling through the nerves stimulates the various chakras.

In Sanskrit, mudra literally means a posture/seal and has been used in different religions, art and dance forms, yoga and meditation for a long time.In yoga, using mudras in conjunction with Pranayama (breathing exercises), revitalizes the flow of energy to different parts of the body. While Tibetan Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism broadly use mudras during mindful meditation.

Let’s take a look at ten important mudras incorporated by Buddha on his journey to enlightenment. You must have come across a Buddha statue somewhere in one of these mudras. As mudras have healing benefits on the mind and soul, you can generally perform these to instantly energise yourself.

1) Karana Mudra

This mudra keeps negativity at bay. To perform this Mudra, stretch your hand either vertically or horizontally. Turn the palm forward. Now using your thumb press down the two middle fingers and extend the index and little finger straight upwards.

Energy created by performing this mudra helps in expelling negativity from your mind and soul.

2) Varada Mudra

This gesture signifies offering, welcome, charity, giving, compassion and sincerity. It is a left hand gesture in which the arm is hanging naturally at the side of the body and the palm facing outward, and the fingers extended.

3) Uttarabodhi Mudra

It signifies supreme enlightenment as it charges one with positive energy and vibrations. The mudra helps one in staying connected with oneself and the divine universal energy.

In order to perform this Mudra, both hands are placed at the heart; index fingers touching and pointing upwards and the remaining fingers intertwined. Try holding the Uttarabodhi mudra for a couple minutes and feel the subtle energy shift in your body.

4) Namaskara or Anjali Mudra

Namaskara mudra is used in Indian culture to greet people and as a sign of respect. This Mudra is performed by pressing the palms together and holding it to the center of the chest or the heart chakra; fingers pointing towards the sky.

The mudra evokes positive vibrations in the body teaching us the fact that we are all one and we must acknowledge/adore the existence of light in one another. This Mudra helps in staying grounded and humble.

5) Vitarka Mudra

This mudra evokes the energy of teaching and intellectual discussion, or argument. In this gesture tips of the thumb and index finger touch to form a circle that creates a constant flow of energy and information. All the other fingers are extended upwards. This Mudra gives us the energy required to attain clarity of mind.

6) Abhay mudra

Abhay is translated as fearlessness. In this Mudra, the right hand is brought to the shoulder level and the palm faces outward and fingers extend upwards. History says that when Buddha was attacked by an elephant, he used this mudra to stop the flow of negative energy (fear). This Mudra gives us the energy to stand strong.

7) Dhyana mudra

This mudra depicts absolute concentration in the process of meditation. Place both your hands on the lap with the right hand placed on the left and fingers fully stretched, palms facing outwards; thumbs of both the hands will touch creating a triangle, cleansing of any impurities on an etheric level. Practicing this Mudra will fill you with deep sense of peace and serenity.

8) Bhumisparsha mudra

Bhumisparsha translates to touching the earth where the mudra symbolizes the fact that the earth witnessed Buddha’s enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. This was the Hand gesture of Buddha when he accomplished Enlightenment. In this Mudra, the right arm hangs over the right knee with the right palm turned inward and the left hand is placed on the lap with the left palm faced upwards.

9) Vajradhara mudra

In this mudra the wrists are crossed, over the heart, with the right forearm placed in front of the left one; this gesture symbolizes the highest energy and the union of compassion and wisdom necessary to reach enlightenment. In vajradhara mudra, one is free from judgement, notions, theories, fate, truth and any concept that defines enlightenment; as they say, enlightenment is not defining it.

10) Dharmachakra Mudra

Depicts the continuous flow of energy in the cosmos. Here the hand gesture symbolizes the energy of the universe in the form of a chakra/wheel. Both the hands are placed near the chest, the left palm faces the heart and right palm faces outwards; index finger and thumb form a circle like Vitarka mudra. This mudra represents the whole universe in a nutshell. As I mentioned before, these Mudras are used in the process of mindful meditation. But at the same time one can practice these mudras to gain the simple benefits of altering one’s state of consciousness and staying positively energized.

“Our essential nature is boundless consciousness. We are rooted in it when the mind focuses and settles.” – Yoga Sutras

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Sacred Activism and the Lighting of the Third Fire

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Gary Z McGee

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July 18, 2014

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Sacred Activism and the Lighting of the Third Fire

“Sacred activism is the fusion of the mystic’s passion for God with the activist’s passion for justice — creating a third fire, which is the burning sacred heart that longs to help, preserve, and nurture every living thing.” ~ Andrew Harvey

In a world of unholy wars dubbed holy wars and media claptrap passed as truth, there has never been a more important time to rise above the hogwash of the status quo. We are everywhere surrounded by fraudulence. We are immersed in the pink goop of the Matrix to such an extent that we can’t even see the forest for the trees.

What’s needed is a self-inflicted rude awakening. What’s needed is a wake-up call of the first order. What’s needed is a tapping of the cornerstone of the human condition itself. And the music resonating from such a tapping is a song of freedom, and sacred activism is its magnificent dance.

As it stands, we need to relearn how to dance this particular unpopular dance lest the music stop forever. Sacred activism is unpopular because it’s uncomfortable. It’s unpopular because it takes courage. It’s unpopular because it requires us getting off our butts and questioning everyone and everything, especially so-called “fixed” laws and “entrenched” power structures.

That which is deep-rooted must be un-rooted in order for healthy roots to grow. That which is well-established must be reestablished in order for healthy establishment to occur. That which is preconditioned must be reconditioned in order that healthy conditions may arise.

This requires activism. This requires insurgency. This requires rebellion.

Like Rainer Maria Rilke said, “Everywhere transience is plunging into the depths of being… It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again, “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.”

I often tell people, “I’m a force of nature first, a man second.” And they scratch their heads wondering what on earth I could mean by such a strange statement. I mean exactly what Rainer Maria Rilke said in his quote.

The essence of the earth has indeed risen again. It has risen inside me. It has the potential to rise inside you, as it resides within us all. And it must be unleashed, “painfully and passionately” lest things – bees; oceans; monarch butterflies; us – collapse into an unhealthy state of existence.

This is the essence of sacred activism. This is the lighting of the third fire: each of us realizing that we are a force of nature first and a person second. Once we get the “cart in front of the horse” then we can begin the difficult task of figuring out who we are as a person and what our unique (as unique as our fingerprint) contribution to nature really is.

Like David Spangler said, “The spirituality of the earth is more than a slogan. It is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new.”

But, figuring out who we truly are is no walk in the park. It requires practicing self-interrogation. It requires a particular flavor of ruthlessness toward ideals that most people fear. The more we question ourselves, the more we discover exactly how limiting our worldview is.

But once we’re able to question ourselves to the nth degree, then we liberate ourselves from our own self-stagnation and we then free ourselves to question the world.

Like Rob Brezsny wrote in his book Pronoia, “The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and again, you might earn the right to overthrow the rest of us.”

As such, we need to get in each other’s faces (just be sincere). We need to stir any and all unstirred pots. For every ointment we come across without a fly in it, we need to BE that fly –a gadfly, perhaps.

Whatever our medium may be –writing, acting, directing, painting, sculpting, comedy, or just plain activism– we need to get in the face of entrenched power structures, growling and snarling, and show them that the third fire has indeed been lit.

Like George Santayana said, “A man is morally free when he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.”

And this should not just be an aim, but an obligation to truth and justice the world over. Authentic sincerity does not imply seriousness. In order to be genuine we need to be sincere rather than serious with each other.

This requires elegance in the handling of our fragile human condition, but also an understanding of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s antifragility and how many things in life benefit from disorder, volatility, and turmoil. From the deepest wounds can arise the greatest wisdom.

Through our mistakes we can become wise, but first we have to learn from them. We only learn from our mistakes by keeping each other accountable, and for that we need sincerity through activism, otherwise we doom ourselves to repeating the mistakes of our forefathers.

Like Mark Twain said, “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

The lighting of the third fire is the awakening of our own sacred activism. It is a switch inside us all. It’s a potential bonfire inside every heart. A few of us have already collected the kindling necessary for this sacred fire to burn, but many of us have not. It is the duty of those who already have the capacity to light fires, to light the fire of others.

That’s what Albert Camus meant when he said, “I rebel; therefore we exist.”

Each and every act of sacred activism is a lighting of another fire. We’re all candles in the wind. Most of us aren’t strong enough to keep our fires lit in the current maelstrom. Some of us are. And those of us who are should be blocking the wind at least long enough for others to light their fire and to keep it lit, because the wind is only going to get stronger. It is my conceit that this article is just such a windbreaker.

Like the immortal Tolstoy brilliantly opined, “Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.”

Apocaloptimists everywhere, may your heart forever be illuminated.

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Seven Steps toward Sublime Impeccability

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Gary Z McGee

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July 17, 2014

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Seven Steps toward Sublime Impeccability

“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt” ~ Immanuel Kant

Here’s the thing: enlightenment is an illusion, but the path toward enlightenment is exceptionally real. It seems like a contradiction, but it’s not. The essence of the sublime is letting go of our attachment to the goal and allowing the journey to be the thing.

There are roadblocks and tripwires and briar patches galore, but even they are an essential aspect of the journey. In fact, the most fulfilling moments in the journey are when we gain the capacity to transform roadblocks into stepping stones, tripwires into jump ropes, and briar patches into crowns of thorn.

Here are seven hang-ups in particular to let go of in order to attain a state of sublime impeccability.

1. Let go of Fear

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ~ Plato

The ability to recognize fear is an essential aspect of our survival, but when the ego becomes attached to fear it can become an obstruction to survival. Fear becomes our puppeteer, and we become its floundering puppets.

This type of fear is almost always preconditioned. Letting go of it is tantamount to letting go of our first layer of skin, a difficult task indeed. Gain the courage of the Snake, who regularly sheds its skin.

Make it a part of your meditation practice. Like the Kundalini snake rising up through the 7 chakras, you too can gain this essential power. In fact, it would behoove you to imagine each of these steps as a snake shedding its skin.

This way the “letting go” is a sacred process, a beautiful unfolding, an honoring of the previous skin and what it taught us, and a celebration of the new skin and the new adventures to be had. But first, let go of fear. Alchemically transform it into courage. Re-baptize yourself into a Courage of the First Order. Meditate on the root chakra.

2. Let go of Guilt

“The religious perception of reality is about guilt, sin and blame, and that’s the trap. That’s the chains that hold every citizen. The spiritual perception of reality is about responsibility. We’re all responsible. We’re not guilty, we’re responsible. And it’s trying to make our way through these two perceptions of reality that seems to be the biggest problem we’re confronted with as human beings on the planet right now.” ~ John Trudell

Letting go of guilt is as simple as forgiving ourselves. The problem is: forgiving ourselves is exceptionally difficult. Cultural and familial pressures abound. Grief too is almost always preconditioned. Letting go of guilt is allowing ourselves the power to recondition the precondition. Transform the blueprint. Rework the woodwork.

Let it all come tumbling down, forgive yourself, and then build it all back up, your way. The art of the sublime can never be discovered their way, or my way, it can only be discovered your way. Boundaries are illusions, especially those dictated by culture.

Stretch your boundaries the way Neo bends spoons in The Matrix, by realizing, “There is no spoon (boundary).” Like Rumi said, “Why do you stay in prison when the door is wide open?” Meditate on the sacral chakra.

3. Let go of Shame

“There can be no transformation in the world outside unless there is transformation from within. It is our responsibility to bring about a radical transformation within ourselves.” ~ Krishnamurti

Let go of humiliation. Embrace your insecurities and doubts. Let go of letdowns and disappointments. Use them as steppingstones. Dance them into something worth tripping over. Dance with the fire. If it burns you, then rise up like a phoenix. Life is too short to live it second-guessing your authenticity.

You’re flawed. You’re imperfect. You will fail. So what? There’s no avoiding it. The question is, how well will you fail. How much will you learn from your failure? Sublime impeccability requires making a sacred dance out of “rolling with the punches.”

Take each punch like a fistful of truth. Use it to become the best version of yourself possible, and then lead by example. Meditate on the navel chakra.

4. Let go of Grief

“The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Let go of heartache. Release all sadness and loss. Let the pain flow away. Love has a pain center. Letting go of grief is letting go of our ego’s attachment to love which is embracing the pain center. Learning how to love is learning how to let go of the ego’s attachment to love. This is the secret of attaining happiness in a cruel world. There is sublimity in such seemingly contradictory practices.

The love-pain dynamic is a sacred dance of catch-and-release. When your heart breaks; relish in the break. Allow it to settle into a million little pieces. Be with it there in sacred silence, in divine awareness. Then let it go.

Breathe new life into the shattered pieces of your heart and then begin the slow process of mending it back together again. The sacred wound left behind will be your greatest teacher. Meditate on the heart chakra.

5. Let go of Lies

“The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

Let go of untruths and falsehoods. Let go of propaganda. Let go of self-deception. Honesty is paramount, self-honesty is indispensable. It is essential that you be impeccable with your word. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Clearly communicate your intent. Make your outspoken truth to power uplifting and wise, but don’t be afraid to practice a little trickster-goddery from time to time.

Remember that words are tools we use to raise and lower the vibration of things. Be responsible with your power. Embrace your own cognitive dissonance, learn from it. Practice counter-weltanschauung-dynamics.

Everybody knows something you don’t. Try your best to learn from them. We are all teachers, just as we are all students. Life is what we teach, and life is what we learn. This is the essence of sublime impeccability. Meditate on the throat chakra.

6. Let go of Illusion

“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.” ~ James Joyce

Let go of all false destinies. Recognize your ego’s attempt to separate things. The illusion of separation is the greatest illusion of all. But, and here’s the rub, the illusion of separation is what makes everything beautiful and meaningful. Open your third eye and see the interconnectedness of all things, but appreciate the beauty in the differentiated unity.

Like Alan Watts said, “Nature is always differentiated unity, not unified differences.” It is essential that you understand this, and move past the illusion, in order to actualize the Self in accordance with greater cosmic frequencies. See yourself as a spiritually interconnected being. Sharpen your intuition like a blacksmith sharpens a sword.

Hone your sense of identity, but always self-interrogate it. The ability to self-reflect is essential for impeccability. Don’t be afraid to be powerful. Just be responsible with your power.

Like Marianne Williamson said, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

Meditate on the third eye chakra.

7. Let go of Earthly Attachment

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” ~ Alan Watts

Let go of definitions. Let go of hunger. Let go of happiness. Let go of love. Let go of letting go. The art of letting go is realizing that everything is everything and even letting go is itself an illusion.

Remember: you are not letting go of love itself, only your ego’s attachment to love. Love is always there, and always will be. You are not letting go of happiness itself, you are letting go of your ego’s attachment to happiness. Happiness is always there, and always will be. The same goes for all things.

You are not letting go of your goal to attain enlightenment, you’re letting go of your ego’s attachment to enlightenment by killing any and all Buddhas you may discover along the path. The path is paramount. The path is an illusion. The journey is the thing, and is probably also an illusion.

So what! Roll with it. Have fun with it. Have a good sense of humor about it. Let go of definitions, but don’t forget to have fun with them either. Boundaries are made to be stretched, but they are also made to have fun with.

Play is an essential practice of sublime impeccability. Sublime play is sacred play. Work hard at being sublime and impeccable, but always remember to play harder. Meditate on the crown chakra.

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Love Yourself Away from Addiction

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Nikki Sapp

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July 15, 2014

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“No matter how hard you try, you cannot get rid of darkness because it does not exist. It is nothing more than the absence of light. In order to affect the darkness you must do something with light because the light is the only thing that exists” ~ Teal Swan

The word “addict” or “addiction” carries with it such a stigma, that it can be scary for most people to come to terms with. Most are unwilling to take on this label because it would signify that they had become out of control, which is something that most would not like to admit.

And even when a person has taken the first step of acknowledging that they have a problem, they often judge themselves very harshly because of it. This judgment of themselves brings about a whole slew of feelings from guilt, to anger to shame. Unconscious feelings that happen on a consecutive basis can often turn into beliefs.

If a person believes they are bad, unworthy, or should be ashamed of themselves, they will actually start to act out these attributes, which will perpetuate the addiction cycle. As a society we have been conditioned to fear, hate, fight, and even deny an addiction because of the stigma it carries. But what if we have been going about it the wrong way?

What if the key to coming out of the darkness of addiction is to shine the light on the very parts of ourselves we have become conditioned to hide?

When we shine light on these parts and practice unconditional love of all these perceived negative aspects, we come to a very important crossroads in breaking the addiction cycle…surrender and acceptance. It is only when we have accepted ourselves as we are and loved the addiction and ourselves that we can break free from it.

“Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.” ~ Deepak Chopra

The object of an addiction can come in many different forms. The more obvious being drugs, alcohol, smoking, sex and gambling but also television, food, relationships, and even negative emotions. Narconon.org defines addiction as, “a condition that consists of a repeated, compulsive need for and use of a habit forming substance despite the adverse social or mental or physical consequences.”

At one time or another it is safe to say that most people have repeatedly done something over and over even though they knew it was detrimental to their health or well-being, which means to some degree, almost everyone has been addicted to something. Like most shadow parts of ourselves, addiction has its roots in fear.

Fear of “I fear that I am not enough on my own, so if I have this thing outside of myself, then I will feel complete”, or “I fear that I will have a bad feeling if I don’t numb myself with the object of my addiction, so in order to not feel anything, I will use my ‘drug’ “.

Louise Hay, author of Heal Your Body, says the probable root cause of addiction is running from the self, fear, and not knowing how to love the self.

So it is quite literally, not knowing how to show love to our own self. When this happens, a person will look to food, drugs, shopping, etc… in order to nurture themselves. The key thing to realize here is that unconditional love (which means even loving the part of ourselves that fears not being enough) for ourselves will replace the need to look outside of ourselves to make us feel more complete.

Shaming ourselves into change, hating ourselves into change or punishing ourselves into change will never give us long lasting results, whereas loving ourselves into change will. We can literally love ourselves enough to DESIRE the change, which will help us move closer to our ultimate goal.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them” ~ Albert Einstein

In order to transcend the addiction cycle, we must rise to a level of consciousness above the one that had us stuck in it. If we stay focused and attached to the same emotions that brought the addiction on in the first place, we won’t be able to rise above them.

These things don’t happen overnight. If a person has been addicted to something for years it may take longer to undo the thinking patterns and habits that have been formed.
Depending how severe the addiction is, this may also require outside help of a medical professional or counselor or treatment program.

There are also alternative methods which can help a person get to a higher level of consciousness that no longer feels attached to the addiction and makes it drop away naturally. Some of these methods include, meditation, energy work, the oneness blessing, working with a spiritual counselor and yoga.

Whichever route a person chooses to take, the most imperative thing is that they get to the root cause of the addiction & find out what part of themselves they are not loving completely and unconditionally.

Once a person can surrender to whatever that is, love that part of themselves, and continue being honest with themselves every step of the way they will be on the road to recovery.

The recovery process will take time, and many people won’t be 100% successful in their first go, but as long as they begin to utilize the tools of self-love, and the advice of their teachers, mentors or counselors they will find that they are able to re-wire their thought patterns to a path of success.

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Here are some important questions to ask yourself to help you determine whether you are ultimately working towards your version of a life you want:

1) How do I define Success?

2) What is my purpose for wanting a relationship?

3) Do I have a vision for how I want my life to be?

4) Am I doing things because I want to do them, or because I have to do them?

Let’s take a look at ten important mudras incorporated by Buddha on his journey to enlightenment. You must have come across a Buddha statue somewhere in one of these mudras. As mudras have healing benefits on the mind and soul, you can generally perform these to instantly energise yourself.

1) Karana Mudra

2) Varada Mudra

3) Uttarabodhi Mudra

4) Namaskara or Anjali Mudra

5) Vitarka Mudra

6) Abhay mudra

7) Dhyana mudra

8) Bhumisparsha mudra

9) Vajradhara mudra

10) Dharmachakra Mudra

Here are seven hang-ups in particular to let go of in order to attain a state of sublime impeccability.

1. Let go of Fear

2. Let go of Guilt

3. Let go of Shame

4. Let go of Grief

5. Let go of Lies

6. Let go of Illusion

7. Let go of Earthly Attachment

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