Perhaps you have never experienced that state of mind in which there is total abandonment of everything, a complete letting go.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz1YJKNIG_w0oiN7tnAZ2W8nB4bMNXoWEFEUW8gAiXJWInVG5JZ0sRzoNy4BjPmrxUKHfsOKxC1Z4zmfHxoHWfiHQMRil9b_Q7pREaBTszuDgiBRXwhB4Vj5WEdB7awrYx4Db4sKLAzVpF/s1600/562028_482384345163102_569856234_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz1YJKNIG_w0oiN7tnAZ2W8nB4bMNXoWEFEUW8gAiXJWInVG5JZ0sRzoNy4BjPmrxUKHfsOKxC1Z4zmfHxoHWfiHQMRil9b_Q7pREaBTszuDgiBRXwhB4Vj5WEdB7awrYx4Db4sKLAzVpF/s200/562028_482384345163102_569856234_n.jpg" width="127" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Perhaps you have never experienced that state of mind in which there is total abandonment of everything, a complete letting go. And you cannot abandon everything without deep passion, can you? You cannot abandon everything intellectually or emotionally. There is total abandonment, surely, only when there is intense passion. Don't be alarmed by that word because a man who is not passionate, who is not intense, can never understand or feel the quality of beauty. The mind that holds something in reserve, the mind that has a vested interest, the mind that clings to position, power, prestige, the mind that is respectable, which is a horror;such a mind can never abandon itself.</span>

Perhaps you have never experienced that state of mind in which there is total abandonment of everything, a complete letting go.

Perhaps you have never experienced that state of mind in which there is total abandonment of everything, a complete letting go. And you ca...

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When things go wrong, we cut ourselves off from the manageable world in which we live and turn our problems into demons.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPChyg8LoksGA6XTRGwWYlAJ76VqBtU7Zjhkp06rI5ZFk84ah4Uixg5-JwwBWwvIqXLju-6WSg89lgUciveF5MOC_Yl-iNoBdWQ1cu87CHDN3-uMRPLhOU9kLe2cEKVW0O928AGe5zWxcj/s1600/faceblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPChyg8LoksGA6XTRGwWYlAJ76VqBtU7Zjhkp06rI5ZFk84ah4Uixg5-JwwBWwvIqXLju-6WSg89lgUciveF5MOC_Yl-iNoBdWQ1cu87CHDN3-uMRPLhOU9kLe2cEKVW0O928AGe5zWxcj/s1600/faceblog.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">When things go wrong, we cut ourselves off from the manageable world in which we live and turn our problems into demons. We make monsters where there are none, and then go in fear of the things we ourselves have created. If we could only see that they are just bits of the ordinary world that we have made monstrous and intractable, then we would have nothing to fear. </span>

When things go wrong, we cut ourselves off from the manageable world in which we live and turn our problems into demons.

When things go wrong, we cut ourselves off from the manageable world in which we live and turn our problems into demons. We make monsters ...

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The ego loves fighting, but doesn’t like solutions

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPChyg8LoksGA6XTRGwWYlAJ76VqBtU7Zjhkp06rI5ZFk84ah4Uixg5-JwwBWwvIqXLju-6WSg89lgUciveF5MOC_Yl-iNoBdWQ1cu87CHDN3-uMRPLhOU9kLe2cEKVW0O928AGe5zWxcj/s1600/faceblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPChyg8LoksGA6XTRGwWYlAJ76VqBtU7Zjhkp06rI5ZFk84ah4Uixg5-JwwBWwvIqXLju-6WSg89lgUciveF5MOC_Yl-iNoBdWQ1cu87CHDN3-uMRPLhOU9kLe2cEKVW0O928AGe5zWxcj/s1600/faceblog.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The ego loves fighting, but doesn’t like solutions, and in any case is not very good at finding them. Our egos and our sufferings are the two sides of the human coin.</span>

The ego loves fighting, but doesn’t like solutions

The ego loves fighting, but doesn’t like solutions, and in any case is not very good at finding them. Our egos and our sufferings are the ...

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In the ten stages compassionate awareness is the key.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-BnMR2ytY7uAsn2yy0AfHKOeU3UmvwzZ4m1lsdMsTnazz_rUo_C40uO4qrq6fO-esjw9bxUWv_DrwiC31HHqk77g1thjiHRSHqKJqqBMqrWQU4BLvAq6CmYydfG7m_Ut3GlWMvWhCC28-/s1600/529342_482738798460990_1144904146_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-BnMR2ytY7uAsn2yy0AfHKOeU3UmvwzZ4m1lsdMsTnazz_rUo_C40uO4qrq6fO-esjw9bxUWv_DrwiC31HHqk77g1thjiHRSHqKJqqBMqrWQU4BLvAq6CmYydfG7m_Ut3GlWMvWhCC28-/s320/529342_482738798460990_1144904146_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">In the ten stages compassionate awareness is the key. But what does the word mean to you? To most people, perhaps, it denotes an acknowledgement of that which is going on around them in a general sort of way. In the context of meditation, however, it means ‘waking up’, becoming acutely sensitive, knowing, feeling, living the moment in its pristine state, sensing colours and contours, sounds, textures, smells, recognising tendencies within oneself yet resisting the pull to be controlled by them — this is meditation.</span>

In the ten stages compassionate awareness is the key.

In the ten stages compassionate awareness is the key. But what does the word mean to you? To most people, perhaps, it denotes an acknowled...

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Meditation is the great antidote to ignorance.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnMKWK5-94zsbtj1uBIWcfAWkZDxCkWNB5Hng9kmgnU6CNAqcoJaXZ30G6WEea8Tssydf7I_AMaVwfJJkVyY-8JbyM8nsqkOV-z3cAdsh9DtFeWQ6WViupRz4gstEXZTb6PkV28bzJTnmx/s1600/529342_482738798460990_1144904146_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnMKWK5-94zsbtj1uBIWcfAWkZDxCkWNB5Hng9kmgnU6CNAqcoJaXZ30G6WEea8Tssydf7I_AMaVwfJJkVyY-8JbyM8nsqkOV-z3cAdsh9DtFeWQ6WViupRz4gstEXZTb6PkV28bzJTnmx/s320/529342_482738798460990_1144904146_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Meditation is the great antidote to ignorance. It allows us to see ourselves plainly as we are, as if standing before a large clear mirror. Nothing is hidden.<br /><br />If the movements of the body and mental processes are observed intelligently and with an open mind, one soon becomes aware of the mystery in life.</span>

Meditation is the great antidote to ignorance.

Meditation is the great antidote to ignorance. It allows us to see ourselves plainly as we are, as if standing before a large clear mirr...

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Drink a cup of tea

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7x4rf9qWY_iRFVxAZ8v_MSupDdMjzmoeykb-TuKJ9Jb64ojwVth4QXTlsfyhdyWVPJkH9AN00td0-DqU4-oVF5oxyPZ08W-RbU_EWx0tYpb0VbjUOpvI6XjCAoknR-FqAxd3vQ_JqjtZO/s1600/1-tea%2526Info.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7x4rf9qWY_iRFVxAZ8v_MSupDdMjzmoeykb-TuKJ9Jb64ojwVth4QXTlsfyhdyWVPJkH9AN00td0-DqU4-oVF5oxyPZ08W-RbU_EWx0tYpb0VbjUOpvI6XjCAoknR-FqAxd3vQ_JqjtZO/s320/1-tea%2526Info.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">‘Drink a cup of tea,’ as they say in Zen. Don’t think about drinking a cup of tea — just drink it. Taste it. Feel it. Enjoy it. That is experience beyond thought. How nice! How free!</span>

Drink a cup of tea

‘Drink a cup of tea,’ as they say in Zen. Don’t think about drinking a cup of tea — just drink it. Taste it. Feel it. Enjoy it. That is ex...

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You cannot change the past, arrange the future to suit yourself

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGh535nOUzewYUn8fMrLrEY-lIbcm8UJ1pRtkkuMsyuU8DJHPoYKKb-AshW6K8ExY5hMKb91xQg8cSl-2zB4aVlQmO1iQQOAJZKfBhd-6NESqy-lE1TS452R2xXzJP-1Zc08sC-nTPGeCO/s1600/562028_482384345163102_569856234_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGh535nOUzewYUn8fMrLrEY-lIbcm8UJ1pRtkkuMsyuU8DJHPoYKKb-AshW6K8ExY5hMKb91xQg8cSl-2zB4aVlQmO1iQQOAJZKfBhd-6NESqy-lE1TS452R2xXzJP-1Zc08sC-nTPGeCO/s320/562028_482384345163102_569856234_n.jpg" width="204" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You cannot change the past, arrange the future to suit yourself, or make other people say and do the things you want them to say and do. All of your power is contained within this moment, related to this particular body and mind. And this is a very powerful position to be in…</span>

You cannot change the past, arrange the future to suit yourself

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It is a great human tragedy, to have come close to life transforming meditations

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6mDJzG7hVejMCSdvN2ODK_BcrnKCw3_fCsg5HB_1bkz0I254FmHcH-etFwKY1U_rxOuhbjItvO5P8HXxopYaLm8-3nUynsy1xW04Gf9ZojoZ8fJhnAf2Qk906uGceQwXP52jNPn5BlwNh/s1600/DSC_0596.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6mDJzG7hVejMCSdvN2ODK_BcrnKCw3_fCsg5HB_1bkz0I254FmHcH-etFwKY1U_rxOuhbjItvO5P8HXxopYaLm8-3nUynsy1xW04Gf9ZojoZ8fJhnAf2Qk906uGceQwXP52jNPn5BlwNh/s320/DSC_0596.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It is a great human tragedy, to have come close to life transforming meditations that offer the kind of human wholeness and fulfilment, radiance, goodness that they are designed to do, and then to walk away from them and fall back into the dreary egoism and self-absorption that makes life ultimately meaningless.</span>

It is a great human tragedy, to have come close to life transforming meditations

It is a great human tragedy, to have come close to life transforming meditations that offer the kind of human wholeness and fulfilment, ra...

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The mind within the mind

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhS84GgdUlxoKV13HEuzMDMxgqn7eEo0NYi1Qg9e9sGdBKo0UBFVkkROpb1peeC0kf53oNpRx-LkvbWn0qr_l8DZAiFe4YmDAGS15ctGUjJvMDZsHfGbM8oRWquXsDf4DhZcxDq4pVENHy/s1600/shutterstock_191191331-771x514.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhS84GgdUlxoKV13HEuzMDMxgqn7eEo0NYi1Qg9e9sGdBKo0UBFVkkROpb1peeC0kf53oNpRx-LkvbWn0qr_l8DZAiFe4YmDAGS15ctGUjJvMDZsHfGbM8oRWquXsDf4DhZcxDq4pVENHy/s320/shutterstock_191191331-771x514.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Awakening to our original enlightened nature involves interrupting the ordinary flow of linear, language-based, thinking so that we can rediscover "the mind within the mind". Focusing on external circumstances or teachings is not what triggers the moment of (spiritual awakening), in other words. Rather, it is focusing on the absence of internal commentary. Because it is impossible to "think" without words, this practice of stopping the flow of running commentary on our lives involves cultivating a mindset of no-thought (wu-nien) in an attempt to experience each moment as it is without silently talking to ourselves about it</span>

The mind within the mind

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I’d like you to sit quietly and just let everything be the way it is.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj58r9U5AURRKTcxos4O_Ww6Hor8QoCquYVyUy68v89-LJWGuxzGOoSp2U0q2XkNqlozvMA89267C6fW4uKiKaz7YqS2b5ja3KdfDk-PATN7t3Jl0lz_zhaRUNIl1cXkMSLwYzKzZiDoGgF/s1600/DSC_0361.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj58r9U5AURRKTcxos4O_Ww6Hor8QoCquYVyUy68v89-LJWGuxzGOoSp2U0q2XkNqlozvMA89267C6fW4uKiKaz7YqS2b5ja3KdfDk-PATN7t3Jl0lz_zhaRUNIl1cXkMSLwYzKzZiDoGgF/s320/DSC_0361.JPG" width="180" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">First, close your eyes for a few moments, then open them. After five seconds with your eyes open, practice being aware of the objects around you. Did this add anything to your experience, or were you already aware as soon as you opened your eyes?<br /><br />Now close your eyes again, and take a few minutes to sit comfortably and shift your attention from your thinking mind to the coming and going of your breath. Instead of starting to practice your accustomed meditation technique, I’d like you to sit quietly and just let everything be the way it is. Don’t focus or manipulate your attention in any way, don’t try to be mindful, don’t do anything in particular; just let everything be, without trying to change or avoid or get rid of anything.<br /><br />Ordinarily our attention tends to focus on thoughts, feelings, stories and the other objects of our experience, constantly shifting from object to object. If you practice Kindfulness, you make an effort to bring more kindful attention to these objects. Instead, let go of this emphasis on objects and relax back into awareness itself. Rest as the open, unconditional awareness in which experiences come and go. This awareness is inherently silent, present and still; it doesn’t require any effort on your part, and it doesn’t do or cultivate anything, it simply welcomes what is just the way it is.<br /><br />Let yourself rest as this silent, open, unconditional awareness or presence. No effort, no manipulation, no cultivation, no doing, just rest as awareness and let everything be as it is.</span><br /> <div> <br /></div>

I’d like you to sit quietly and just let everything be the way it is.

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Letting go is about releasing control or the perception of control.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbhWVWvami5608IHyRljB2TYX7hzxTxFmQS74K6gG5-CnodW9xGF2FaXW5WnWPtUAmAEOertFbxFS0Q50EPGseAU6goi3xpN3IoqVo9yOqpu1D_J7qycLnq9Pb2HZd8wUt1xuu_dEi6bVs/s1600/bamboo34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbhWVWvami5608IHyRljB2TYX7hzxTxFmQS74K6gG5-CnodW9xGF2FaXW5WnWPtUAmAEOertFbxFS0Q50EPGseAU6goi3xpN3IoqVo9yOqpu1D_J7qycLnq9Pb2HZd8wUt1xuu_dEi6bVs/s320/bamboo34.jpg" width="226" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Letting go is about releasing control or the perception of control. Giving up personal control of all these things on the list below. Keep in mind... We are not shaming ourselves for thinking in old maladaptive ways. We're not reprimanding ourself at all.<br /><br />We're using our meditational toolbox of skills to remedy holding on and trying to control. We're using positive affirmations to combat our shadow self. We're using INTULEXIA thought techniques to put the adult parental voice in its place. We're also using meditative skills to just let the feeling or thought pass by; to notice it and allow it to be there.<br /><br />Respecting ourself without having to act or shame myself for feeling or thinking in parental voice ways. I'm stopping myself from obsessing, from ruminating, from being a victim of all these thoughts that are the antithesis of </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">the child within.</span><br /> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br />We'er not shaming ourself for holding on; We're noticing and letting go the best that we can, giving ourself lots of grace. This is an important distinction. Non judgement. Letting things be as they are. Accepting reality for what reality is. That is Letting Go. We invite you to let go of these things if you need to.<br /><br />I let go of trying to make people understand me who don't have the capacity to understand me.<br />I let go of the need to be perfect.<br />I let go of my inner parental voice telling me I'm not good enough.<br />I let go of trying to impress other people.<br />I let go of trying to cover up my pain with substances, people, behaviors or activities.<br />I let go of ignoring my child within.<br />I let go of having to be right.<br />I let go of proving myself.<br />I let go of people pleasing.<br />I let go of the compulsion to put myself beneath others.<br />I let go of the compulsion to look down on others.<br />I let go of the need to stay busy all the time.<br />I let go of my false adult self.<br />I let go of the pain I've felt for so long.<br />I let go of the need to prove that I'm unlovable.<br />I let go of my fear of abandonment.<br />I let go of my fear of rejection.<br />I let go of my need to have someone love me no matter how cruel they are to me.<br />I let go of my need to have a perfect body.<br />I let go of my need to be accepted by those who are unaccepting of me.<br />I let go of my aversion to kindness and love.<br />I let go of living in the future or the past.<br />I let go of defining myself by my material possessions.<br />I let go of trying to prove that I'm right.<br />I let go of trying too hard.<br />I let go of toxic relationships.<br />I let go of relationships that are for show but offer nothing.<br />I let go of trying to get the love that I never got in childhood.<br />I let go of my need to please the unpleasable.<br />I let go of my need to be strong so that I can grieve.<br />I let go of hiding from myself.<br />I let go of hiding from my vulnerability.<br />I let go of hiding from my pain.<br />I let go of trying to get affirmation from outside sources.<br />I let go of ignoring my deepest intuition.<br />I let go of being afraid of what others think of me.<br />I let go of allowing myself to be shamed by others. <br />I let go of allowing myself to be shamed by myself.<br />I let go of the shame I feel for the abuse I've endured.<br />I let go of the shame I feel for the progress I've made.<br />I let go of the shame for my success.<br />I let go of the shame for my failures.<br />I let go of feeling like I am bad, worthless, unlovable.<br />I let go of feeling guilty for things outside of my control.<br />I let go of feeling toxic shame for my mistakes.<br />I let go of needing to control others opinions of me.<br />I let go of needing to give advice to other people without being asked.<br />I let go of feeling pity for those who are abusive towards me. <br />I let go of taking the blame for all the problems in my relationships.<br />I let go of giving too much in relationships.<br />I let go of taking too little in my relationships.<br />I let go of hiding my needs to make other people comfortable.<br />I let go of saying yes when I mean no.<br />I let go of automatically agreeing that others are right and I am wrong.<br />I let go of blindly following people without checking with my heart first.<br />I let go of feeling sorry that I'm taking up air to breathe.<br />I let go of feeling responsible for other people's feelings.<br />I let go of feeling responsible for other people's life problems.<br />I let go of negative emotions that keep me from myself.<br />I let go of eating to soothe emotional pain.<br />I let go of exercising to be perfect and accepted.<br />I let go of degrading myself in order to motivate myself.<br />I let go of judging others.<br />I let go of judging myself.<br />I let go of seeing myself as all good or all bad (black and white).<br />I let go of people who shame me.<br />I let go of labels and stereotypes for myself and others.<br />I let go of trying to get love from those who have no love to give.<br />I let go of allowing myself to be abused.<br />I let go of my old story.<br />I let go of trying to prove myself to people who are rejecting.<br />I let go of rejecting people.<br />I let go of ignoring my needs.<br />I let go of keeping the peace at the cost of my self esteem.<br />I let go of pleasing others while abandoning myself.<br />I let go of the fear of anger in others.<br />I let go of the need to suffocate my own anger which is there to protect me.<br />I let go of denying my feelings.<br />I let go of ignoring myself while taking care of others.<br />I let go of taking care of those who can take care of themselves.<br />I let go of being controlled by others.<br />I let go of ignoring my truth.<br />I let go of being easily persuaded against my truth.<br />I let go of idealizing others.<br />I let go of the need to be in a relationship to feel worthwhile.<br />I let go of feeling unworthy of love.<br />I let go of accepting abusive behavior.<br />I let go of settling for crumbs.<br />I let go of giving myself away.<br />I let go of allowing my child within to be unprotected.<br />I let go of shaming myself for my needs.<br />I let go of being silent when I need to speak.<br />I let go of being compliant when I'm being disrespected.<br />I let go of the need to keep peace at all costs.<br />I let go of what other people need me to be for their own benefit.<br />I let go of being exploited.<br />I let go of self criticism.<br />I let go of ignoring my child within.<br />I let go of addiction to people.<br />I let go of people who can't love me for who I am.<br />I let go of the need to perform for accusers.<br />I let go of the need to over give to abusive people.<br />I let go of the need to comply with bullies. <br />I let go of the need to be controlled by others.<br />I let go of the habit of putting myself down for my imperfections.<br />I let go of comparing myself to others.<br />I let go of using outer circumstances to determine my internal worth.<br />I let go of ignoring my needs.</span><br /> <div class="post-footer" 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Letting go is about releasing control or the perception of control.

Letting go is about releasing control or the perception of control. Giving up personal control of all these things on the list below. Keep...

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Kindfulness is focused awareness of the present moment.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4eS5LkDu8Hbti_9pN_qLR0mp9owiYCYKZXQNMt578mxnwZ1K16DpAqHM9V80Y5T4y0H0RX9bXkL_dRt0jptjcbKVVDPwR1oDkFfd_vXaWH8E1QUkjKSLEZgk1aBR4KyKVTJ974Wcm67S/s1600/931400_485583984843138_2062064343_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4eS5LkDu8Hbti_9pN_qLR0mp9owiYCYKZXQNMt578mxnwZ1K16DpAqHM9V80Y5T4y0H0RX9bXkL_dRt0jptjcbKVVDPwR1oDkFfd_vXaWH8E1QUkjKSLEZgk1aBR4KyKVTJ974Wcm67S/s320/931400_485583984843138_2062064343_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Kindfulness is focused awareness of the present moment. Kindfulness lets us be fully conscious of a simple sensation like the warmth of sunlight or of the complex interplay between our thoughts and feelings.<br /><br />By tuning in to mental processes, we are able to recognise that our thoughts are just thoughts; they don't necessarily represent reality. We can observe them rather than being subject to them.<br /><br />Kindfulness lets us absorb the richness of the moment instead of going through life with half of our attention on the past or future or our own mental chatter. The self-knowledge that comes from mindfulness lets us be more intentional in choosing priorities and actions that fit our life mission.</span></span>

Kindfulness is focused awareness of the present moment.

Kindfulness is focused awareness of the present moment. Kindfulness lets us be fully conscious of a simple sensation like the warmth of su...

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Your children are not your children within

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOxo1kvPgSXRNvubhK8nCm9qCi7_Cd24BPb2j40dpMTpBp4_VeWonRN3Pv94ZmhQ5jsDvc6xQyRIipTbkNeeZwTJA3edQQYyvoTTnEpwHLuMLpJHmydD66FrWpemjWBQTiNqRKKjA3QRq_/s1600/529342_482738798460990_1144904146_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOxo1kvPgSXRNvubhK8nCm9qCi7_Cd24BPb2j40dpMTpBp4_VeWonRN3Pv94ZmhQ5jsDvc6xQyRIipTbkNeeZwTJA3edQQYyvoTTnEpwHLuMLpJHmydD66FrWpemjWBQTiNqRKKjA3QRq_/s320/529342_482738798460990_1144904146_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Your children are not your children within.<br />They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.<br />They come through you but not from you,<br />And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.<br /><br />You may give them your love but not your thoughts, <br />For they have their own thoughts.<br />You may house their bodies but not their souls,<br />For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, <br />which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.<br />You may strive to be like them, <br />but seek not to make them like you.<br />For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.<br /><br />You are the bows from which your children<br />as living arrows are sent forth.<br />The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, <br />and He bends you with His might <br />that His arrows may go swift and far.<br />Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;<br />For even as He loves the arrow that flies, <br />so He loves also the bow that is stable.</span><div class="post-footer" style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 166, 189); color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"> </div>

Your children are not your children within

Your children are not your children within. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but no...

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Joining The Ten Stages Meditations starts the emotional healing process

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL2vmGqcbWXY0atg8ZVGlATf08WWe7fK6ZS5EyrHjD8g2E6tux0_i-l8VmqPAyTGkdQYVWBKKXAivNrPhyphenhyphen9T59YPQIfdB1n5ljbEuPruWqVx7BRg7IXPaNk31IYmqExvWnN798EwoyqyW6/s1600/bamboo34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL2vmGqcbWXY0atg8ZVGlATf08WWe7fK6ZS5EyrHjD8g2E6tux0_i-l8VmqPAyTGkdQYVWBKKXAivNrPhyphenhyphen9T59YPQIfdB1n5ljbEuPruWqVx7BRg7IXPaNk31IYmqExvWnN798EwoyqyW6/s320/bamboo34.jpg" width="226" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Joining The Ten Stages Meditations</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> starts the emotional healing process, if it goes well, it risks much. Basically at risk is our false self, which is all most of us have. It’s how we’ve been defining ourselves for most of our entire conscious lives – ever since we created it to fit into our childhood families. </span><div> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Healing attempts to help us understand ourselves and to modify this false self, to help us manifest our recovery our true self that lies underneath, dormant or partially dormant for years.We know our truth but have not been able to manifest it until now.</span><div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">When this process succeeds, the consequences are great, and often seemingly negative. Becoming honest is a betrayal of all our false relationships – be they with friends, parents, partners, family members, colleagues, or with society as a whole. It throws our old dynamics into turmoil, which can be especially painful if there is much interdependency – and history.Our belief system turns upside down and now we taste real freedom and real recovery for the first time.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Sometimes the truth hits like a bucket of cold water, spluttering we surface as the old gives way to the new.</span></div> </div>

Joining The Ten Stages Meditations starts the emotional healing process

Joining The Ten Stages Meditations  starts the emotional healing process, if it goes well, it risks much. Basically at risk is our false s...

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Get rid of all that is unnecessary. Wabi-Sabi means treading lightly on the planet and knowing how to appreciate whatever is encountered, no matter how trifling, whenever it is encountered.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf_5TGLkBAuIdMEUncsST-G8Y_NCB_1hgaPb1qSQYYdi7jS2X8syWMctrZ2qwVTQlLDhAs8uj42buZz7D64zyDprJ_hgtGzUgvu59tL7hzizz_hdXsPeuNVL0RNjiUjFEnSlKk0FE3DvmJ/s1600/bamboo34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf_5TGLkBAuIdMEUncsST-G8Y_NCB_1hgaPb1qSQYYdi7jS2X8syWMctrZ2qwVTQlLDhAs8uj42buZz7D64zyDprJ_hgtGzUgvu59tL7hzizz_hdXsPeuNVL0RNjiUjFEnSlKk0FE3DvmJ/s320/bamboo34.jpg" width="226" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Get rid of all that is unnecessary. Wabi-Sabi means treading lightly on the planet and knowing how to appreciate whatever is encountered, no matter how trifling, whenever it is encountered. [...] In other words, wabi-sabi tells us to stop our preoccupation with success--wealth, status, power, and luxury--and enjoy the unencumbered life. Obviously, leading the simple wabi-sabi life requires some effort and will and also some tough decisions. Wabi-sabi acknowledges that just as it is important to know when to make choices, it is also important to know when not to make choices: to let things be. Even at the most austere level of material existence, we still live in a world of things. Wabi-sabi is exactly about the delicate balance between the pleasure we get from things and the pleasure we get from freedom of things.”</span><br style="font-size: x-large;" /><span style="font-size: large;">― Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers</span></span>

Get rid of all that is unnecessary. Wabi-Sabi means treading lightly on the planet and knowing how to appreciate whatever is encountered, no matter how trifling, whenever it is encountered.

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Before you begin, look over these fundamental points. They are true and are based on the experience of thousands of people.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbdg98IWbB3H0eVfzUarubDpQQm9p9ZZUyfys3N8I4zx0w5P8VToapn_dReHsG2Y6IHSTry3Ydq2IGJHA92gmi0s_VMSEvKiP6AzLP7kLw_EPtEawD406BiNTfnT4gj6A26CTcqg5UHN2T/s1600/oldman+child.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbdg98IWbB3H0eVfzUarubDpQQm9p9ZZUyfys3N8I4zx0w5P8VToapn_dReHsG2Y6IHSTry3Ydq2IGJHA92gmi0s_VMSEvKiP6AzLP7kLw_EPtEawD406BiNTfnT4gj6A26CTcqg5UHN2T/s1600/oldman+child.jpeg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">These are a few simple suggestions for people who are willing to make an experiment with themselves. You can discover for yourself the most important and practical thing any human being can ever learn-how to be in touch with your child within. All that is needed is the willingness to try it honestly. Every person who has done this consistently and sincerely has found that it really works. Before you begin, look over these fundamental points. They are true and are based on the experience of thousands of people.</span><br /> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"> 1. Our child within is alive, always has been and always will be. 2. Child within is perfect knows everything. 3. Child within can do anything. 4. Child within can be everywhere - all at the same time. (These are the important differences between child within and us manufactured human beings). 5. The child within is invisible-we can’t see or touch our child. But our child is here, is with you now, is beside you, surrounds you, fills the room or the whole place where you are now, is in you now, in your heart. 6. Child cares very much for you, is interested in you, has a plan for your life, has an answer for every need and problem you face. 7. Our Child Within will tell you all that you need to know, will not always tell you all that you want to know. 8. Child will help you do anything that it asks you to do. 9. Anyone can be in touch with our child within, anywhere and at any time, if the conditions are obeyed. </span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">These are the conditions: - To be quiet and still - To listen - To be honest about every thought that comes - To test the thoughts to be sure that they come from our child within - To obey So, with these basic elements as a background, here are specific suggestions on how to listen to our child within: </span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">1. Take Time Find some place and time where you can be alone, quiet and undisturbed. Most people have found that the early morning is the best time. Have with you some paper and pen or pencil. 2. Relax Sit in a comfortable position. Consciously relax all your muscles. Be loose. There is no hurry. There needs to be no strain during these minutes. our child cannot get through to us if we are tense and anxious about later responsibilities. 3. Tune In Open your heart to your child within. Either silently or aloud, just say to your child in a natural way that you would like to find a plan for your life-you want an answer to the problem or situation that you are facing just now. Be definite and specific in your request. 4. Listen Just be still, quiet, relaxed and open. Let your mind go “loose.” Let your child within do the talking. Thoughts, ideas, and impressions will begin to come into your mind and heart. Be alert and aware and open to every one. 5. Write! Here is the important key to the whole process. Write down everything that comes into your mind. Everything. Writing is simply a means of recording so that you can remember later. Don’t sort out or edit your thoughts at this point. Don’t say to yourself: This thought isn’t important; This is just an ordinary thought; This can’t be guidance; This isn’t nice; This can’t be from my child; This is just me thinking…., etc. Write down everything that passes through your mind: Names of people; Things to do; Things to say; Things that are wrong and need to be made right. Write down everything: Good thoughts - bad thoughts; Comfortable thoughts - uncomfortable thoughts; thoughts of thoughts; Sensible thoughts - “crazy” thoughts. Be honest! Write down everything! A thought comes quickly, and it escapes even more quickly unless it is captured and put down. 6. Test When the flow of thoughts slows down, stop. Take a good look at what you have written. Not every thought we have comes from our child. So we need to test our thoughts. Here is where the written record helps us to be able to look at them. a) Are these thoughts completely honest, pure, unselfish and loving? b) Are these thoughts in line with our child within c) Are these thoughts in line with our understanding 7. Check When in doubt and when it is important, what does another person who is communicating with a child within think about this thought or action? More light comes in through two windows than one. Someone else who also wants the child withins plan for our lives may help us to see more clearly. Talk over together what you have written. Many people do this. They tell each other what guidance has come. This is the secret of unity. There are always three sides to every question-your side, my side, and the right side. Guidance shows us which is the right side-not who is right, but what is right. 8. Obey Carry out the thoughts that have come. You will only be sure of guidance as you go through it. A rudder will not guide a boat until the boat is moving. As you obey, very often the results will convince you that you are on the right track. 9. Blocks? What if I don’t seem to get any definite thoughts? Guidance is as freely available as the air we breathe. If I am not receiving thoughts when I listen, the fault is not our child within. Usually it is because there is something I will not do: - something wrong in my life that I will not face and make right; - a habit or indulgence I will not give up. - a person I will not forgive; - a wrong relationship in my life I will not give up; - a restitution I will not make; - something my intuitive voice has already told me to do that I will not obey. Check these points and be honest. Then try listening again. 10. Mistakes Supposing I make a mistake and do something of my intuitive voice that isn’t right? Of course we make mistakes? We are humans with many faults. However, our child within will always honour our sincerity. will work around and through every honest mistake we make, will help us make it right. But remember this! Sometimes when we do obey our child within, someone else may not like it or agree with it. So when there is opposition, it doesn’t always mean you have made a mistake. It can mean that the other person doesn’t want to know or to do what is right. Supposing I fail to do something that I have been told and the opportunity to do it passes? There is only one thing to do. Put it right with our child within. Tell you’re sorry. Ask for understanding , then accept </span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">that awakening and begin again. Our child within is not an impersonal computer, understanding us far better than we do. 11. Results? We never know what swimming is like until we get down into the water and try. We will never know what it is like until we sincerely try it. Every person who has tried this honestly finds a new wisdom, not of their own, which comes into their minds and that the power and authority greater than human power begins to operate in their lives.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"> It is an endless adventure. There is a way of life, for everyone, everywhere. Anyone can be in touch with their child within, anywhere, anytime, if we fulfil the conditions of contact. When we listen, child within speaks. When we obeys our inner intuitive voice, our child acts. This is meditation. Our Child withins plan for this world goes forward through the lives of ordinary people who are willing to listen to their intuitive voice.</span></div>

Before you begin, look over these fundamental points. They are true and are based on the experience of thousands of people.

These are a few simple suggestions for people who are willing to make an experiment with themselves. You can discover for yourself the mos...

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