LIVING IN HARMONY

                                                                

Q – I notice that I lost my joy for living, what can I do?

A – In order to return to my natural state of joy I need to understand who or what is the cause for my loss of joy. I need to examine my attitude toward myself and toward life. For example: do I hold the belief that I’m not good enough and that life should be different than what it is? Since joy is my natural state, I can only loose it when I’m not being myself and not living in truth.

Q – Why am I not being myself and living in truth?

A – Because whenever I believe my mind, I find myself living in the past and when I identify myself as an isolated ego, I see everything revolving around me, I’m the center of the universe, no one is more important than me. When I remain totally identify with my mind and ego I remain in dilution and elution. Then I take things personally and loose my joy.

Q – What can I do about that?

A – I need to catch myself every time I’m lost in my mind and ego and return my attention to my body. I need to remain present to my feelings and allow myself to experience them.

Q – How can I catch myself if I forget myself?

A – This requires daily practice I need to train myself to stay present to whatever is going on within and without while I stay connected to my breathing. I need to allow myself to feel and fully experience my emotions without any analyses or interpretations. If I do this consistently my emotions will dissolve. Then, I will be able to see more clearly. The fact is, that when I do manage to remember myself I’m able to see clearly that everything just as it is actually serves me

Q – How does it serve me?

A – Seeing things from a higher perspective reveal that my life is designed to show me my development and that not only no one and nothing is against me, but, everything is an opportunity to stretch myself some more. Also I can see where I’m still stacked and what attachments are already behind me.

Q – Why do I keep getting entangled and loose my joy?

A – The causes are always the same – I identify myself with my mind and ego, for example:

• I lose my joy when things don’t go the way I imagine: either I don’t get what I want, or I get something I don’t want.

• When I believe that I’m being neglected, rejected, ignored, insulted, or blamed for something unjustly, and alike.

• When my body is heart and I become limited in my movements.

Anyone of these situations provides me with good reasons to lose my joy. Most people would agree that I have good reasons to feel irritated and miserable. But, that’s the key – these are good reasons only form a point of view of mind and ego. Viewed from the seat of my intelligence things look very different. Form my intelligence point of view I see things clearly and objectively.

Q – How?

A – First, by remembering that my main goal in life is freedom, freedom from the past, freedom from elution, freedom from the control of ego and mind. Because so long as I’m under their control I will not be free to be me. I will not be free to be my unlimited self – that I am, that lives in an eternal joy.

Second, by remembering that all other goals in life are only the means to achieve my main goal, which is self realization.

Third, by being willing to make consisted efforts to return my attention to the present despite my tendency to follow the wanderings of my mind. And, by seeing myself as part of one whole, not as an isolated ego. But, I need to take into consideration that mind and ego will resist. Therefore, I have to be willing to suffer to get what I want. Being willing to let go of my attachments to the past, and giving up my desire to “look good and be right”, may initially be difficult and even painful at times, but it is a small payments for what I’m about to gain.

As I let go of more and more attachments I begin to feel better, lighter and more free.  As I let go of all that prevents me from experiencing my unlimited self, I become happier and filed with joy for living.

 

 

©2014 Nogah lord