August 11, 2008: "Thoughts for the Day" (1)
Wake you inner being the heck up, people!!!!!!!!!!
(by Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D.
and Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D.)
Our personal energy level affects our lives in multifaceted ways. Energy determines our capacity for elegant action in the world. Energy bounds the intensity with which we can express ourselves. It determines, for instance, our ability to speak powerfully -- with animation and impact. When our energy level is optimal, we become aroused and alerted to the world around us. Then, with a profound reciprocity, nature seems alerted to and connected to us. We experience energy as vigor and stamina -- the physical and mental strength that we can sustain and bring to bear upon any problem.
We all feel our energy in its potential and active forms. We sense our reserves as well as our immediate energy and use our assessment of both to determine which challenges we will take on and which we will decline. And one of our greatest sources for reserve energy is our spirit. Whether we recognize it or not, when we reach deeply within ourselves and tap into our spirit, that spirit gives us stamina, grit, scope, and energy that works regardless of everything happening around us.
Even though our energy level has multiple areas of expression and corresponding sources, most of us form habits and consistently draw our energy from a few favored yet unhealthy sources. Instead of drawing on the body-mind-spirit as a whole, we grab on to seemingly immediate solutions like food, drugs, emotional dramas, or excitement. But our design is subtler than that. Our sources are more diverse. We need to think more holistically about our energy level and its sources, for quick fixes like food and drugs actually take away more energy than they provide. Breath, on the other hand, works as an energy source. It is one we don't use enough. Huge reserves of energy lie buried in our musculature and in our glands, ready to be tapped and used -- by mastering our own breathing.
You see, the nervous system can actually contain and release energy. The part of your nervous system called the autonomic system can be developed in the same way that a muscle can be toned or shaped. And the energy stored or released in that system is directly affected by breathing, exercise, and your entire attitude. Your emotions, and all the electrical and chemical processes that change with them, are sources for energy.
Awareness itself is also a great source of energy, for your state of awareness directly changes the pattern of your brain activity. Good healthy nutrition and conscious eating are another source of energy and healing. Our ideal is to be vitalized by all these sources. We want to align our habits and activities to sources of energy that deliver us in the present and sustain us for the future.
But without some training and conscious introspection, most of us do not use all of these sources. Instead, once we sense our energy is running low, we let our search for more energy get directed by unconscious habits and emergency reflexes. We grasp whatever seems closest and takes the least attention or effort. Surrounded by junk food and instant everything, we often make poor choices and end up losing energy instead of gaining it. A drink or two to relax at the end of the day seems reasonable, but for many people it leads to depression, reckless driving, and emotional withdrawal.
Not knowing how to tap our core energy, some of us rely on stirring up an emotional storm within ourselves. The resulting emotional outburst releases energy but, like a bad storm, devastates everything in its path -- a short-term gain, but an enduring loss that actually depletes our energy. In order to get and stay vitalized and healthy for the long run, however, we need to cultivate effective energy regeneration strategies. Like a flowing stream, we need constant renewal to live well.
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Personal mastery goes beyond competence and skills...it means approaching one's life as a creative work, living life from a creative as opposes to a reactive viewpoint.
(Peter Senge)
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Personal power is not about controlling anyone or anything. It is the interaction of the various thought processes of your personality that allows your true self to shine through. Personal power is the willingness to make the choice of self discovery and choose which reality you wish to foster and activate in your life.
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The Secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
"Present moment," because that is the only moment for us to live. If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. The Buddha said life is available only in the present moment. "Wonderful moment," that is life that you touch. Suddenly happiness becomes possible.
(Buddha 2-Thich Nhat Hanh)
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You will have to do two things to achieve Soul contact: trust, and leap into the unknown. Both choices will be seen as desperate by the mind that clings to limiting belief. These old beliefs get their strength from the mind's powerful need to reinforce its ideas of reality...This is basic survivalist experience, and not a path to life. Are you wanting to break those chains? "
Trust must be earned through total honesty of expression and intention. It is a re-training of the way you think, and the way you respond to feelings... Why is it such a struggle? You all keep secrets from yourselves that need to be brought to light in order to heal. The reason you hide from yourselves is to avoid the pain of healing. Fear of grief causes you to bury emotion, and it is precisely this that creates the struggle! Despite what you may fear lies within you, there is no reason important enough to avoid total self-honesty. It truly is the path to freedom, health and prosperity. There is nothing to fear, but..."
(StarStuffs)
Thoughts and emotions happen as a result of you interactions with the world based on your perception of past experiences. It is how you perceive this world of events that form our thought processes that become reactions and behaviors, unconsciously or consciously. Your thoughts create your feelings, emotions, behavior and what you attract and magnetize into your life." If we are aware of our emotions and aware of actions tied to those emotions we have an opportunity to transform our perceptions of ourselves and the world around us.
Body and Emotions
The body itself is a dynamic system that reflects our thoughts, emotions and feelings and can be correlated to physical discomforts, illnesses and diseases. Our emotions have a direct correlation to all of life's experiences. Starting as children we learn through experiences the various behaviors which program us with feelings and emotions. Psychologists have determined that early childhood is a pivotal time for emotional development and that we learn very early in our lives how to cope with our surroundings and adapt in some form the reactionary attitudes of our parents. These behaviors carry through childhood into adulthood. We shall analyze behaviors in the following Wisdoms.
Our emotions are one of the greatest sources of personal power and energy. Emotional states are based upon the stimuli that we perceive at any given moment. We react to others in ways we associate with previous emotional responses. If we can be aware of our emotions and understand how we came to feel that, we will understand more of our true selves and not an old out-dated perceived notion of who we think we are. We can take great strides in our spiritual development by understanding our emotions. But what of the body's reactions to these emotions?
The body remembers emotions and traumas even though we may not consciously be aware of it. We may develop subconscious and psychosomatic illnesses when specific situations arise. Perhaps one may harbor a deep emotional trauma that is connected to a shoulder, knee, or other body area and cause pain when the subconscious aspect is triggered. In some circumstances, the physical body may be suffering from past-life physical and emotional traumas harbored as a karmic ailment for various reasons. In other situations, the body reacts as a learned response as in blood pressure rising, head aches, becoming nauseous, fainting, rashes and hives.
Thoughts are truly amazing energy packets. If thoughts and emotions create illnesses, then thoughts and emotions can create wellness and harmony. One of the numerous and most notable study was conducted by Dr. Davidson who studied the effects of Buddhist practices and the brain. He found within the brain's neurological circuits in those that meditated were better equipped to handle emotions and behaviors to make them happier and calmer people
(StarStuffs)
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There are people whose main source of power comes from the energy reactions of those around them. Upon further in depth analysis, some people have adapted dual traits to cope with an energy depletion of one drama style. Some "Takers" have learned that if one form doesn't work, another will. "Takers" continuously create reactions as outlined in the following Life Dramas.
Enforcer
Is one who gains control by using physical or verbal force thus obtaining energy by this means. For example: Typical of spousal abuse situations, work force tactics, positions of authority.
Makes one feel bullied, angry, fearful and disgusted.
Criticizer
Gains control by judging and questioning, a criticizing of actions, circumstances and people. For example: A friend, spouse, parent that criticizes your judgment, clothes, actions all the time.
One feels helpless, confused, disoriented, breeds lack of self-esteem, belittled.
Avoider
Gains control by not speaking, avoiding the situation, coy. For example: A complaining friend that does not want to talk about it after bringing it up.
One feels exasperated in communicating, anger and hopelessness.
Complainer
Gains control by wanting pity from others. The person likes to dwell in self-pity and has lack of self-esteem. Nothing is adequate in life. For example: Whining all the time about being sick, lack of money, family members never around etc. Wants things done or brings attention to something by complaining.
One feels pity for person, comforting, "poor thing" syndrome.
Pleaser
Gaining control through accolades in attempting to please everyone or someone. The person may be a perfectionist or domineering because they lack control in other areas of life. Constantly pleasing and doing for others such as: cooking, cleaning, tiptoeing for perfection to the point of self-harm
One feels a sense of duty and guilt by "owing" something to them for all they do.
The following dynamics appears to be prevalent in family relationship where habits, patterns and coping skills are learned from childhood. One can trace the life drama(s) backward to parents, grand parents and great grandparents. This dynamic will be explored more in the 6th Wisdom.
Avoiders create Criticizers
Criticizers create Avoiders
Enforcers create Complainers
Complainers creates Complainers
Pleasers creates Pleasers/All Above
The first four Life Dramas are pretty straight forward however, the Pleasers are one of the more complex and mutable of the Life Dramas.
They become the submissive figure in a parental relationship and children typically take on the behavior and life drama of the other parent or if they become masters, become Pleasers themselves. Pleasers assure everything is done perfectly with an unhealthy doting of always doing for others at the risk of dis-ease of mental-emotional discomfort of themselves or others. They extend and overindulge others at the expense of themselves. Sometimes they rule their job, house, family in their self-imposed perfection which is inflicted upon others. Pleasers use their deeds and actions as pre-payment of anything that should arise to keep control over others. This drama style is to gain energy through excessive practice of getting others satisfaction and abnormal sense of self imposed perfection.
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Part two next post.
Best regards,
Chillen
Wake you inner being the heck up, people!!!!!!!!!!
Increasing Your Energy Levels
(by Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D.
and Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D.)
Our personal energy level affects our lives in multifaceted ways. Energy determines our capacity for elegant action in the world. Energy bounds the intensity with which we can express ourselves. It determines, for instance, our ability to speak powerfully -- with animation and impact. When our energy level is optimal, we become aroused and alerted to the world around us. Then, with a profound reciprocity, nature seems alerted to and connected to us. We experience energy as vigor and stamina -- the physical and mental strength that we can sustain and bring to bear upon any problem.
We all feel our energy in its potential and active forms. We sense our reserves as well as our immediate energy and use our assessment of both to determine which challenges we will take on and which we will decline. And one of our greatest sources for reserve energy is our spirit. Whether we recognize it or not, when we reach deeply within ourselves and tap into our spirit, that spirit gives us stamina, grit, scope, and energy that works regardless of everything happening around us.
Even though our energy level has multiple areas of expression and corresponding sources, most of us form habits and consistently draw our energy from a few favored yet unhealthy sources. Instead of drawing on the body-mind-spirit as a whole, we grab on to seemingly immediate solutions like food, drugs, emotional dramas, or excitement. But our design is subtler than that. Our sources are more diverse. We need to think more holistically about our energy level and its sources, for quick fixes like food and drugs actually take away more energy than they provide. Breath, on the other hand, works as an energy source. It is one we don't use enough. Huge reserves of energy lie buried in our musculature and in our glands, ready to be tapped and used -- by mastering our own breathing.
You see, the nervous system can actually contain and release energy. The part of your nervous system called the autonomic system can be developed in the same way that a muscle can be toned or shaped. And the energy stored or released in that system is directly affected by breathing, exercise, and your entire attitude. Your emotions, and all the electrical and chemical processes that change with them, are sources for energy.
Awareness itself is also a great source of energy, for your state of awareness directly changes the pattern of your brain activity. Good healthy nutrition and conscious eating are another source of energy and healing. Our ideal is to be vitalized by all these sources. We want to align our habits and activities to sources of energy that deliver us in the present and sustain us for the future.
But without some training and conscious introspection, most of us do not use all of these sources. Instead, once we sense our energy is running low, we let our search for more energy get directed by unconscious habits and emergency reflexes. We grasp whatever seems closest and takes the least attention or effort. Surrounded by junk food and instant everything, we often make poor choices and end up losing energy instead of gaining it. A drink or two to relax at the end of the day seems reasonable, but for many people it leads to depression, reckless driving, and emotional withdrawal.
Not knowing how to tap our core energy, some of us rely on stirring up an emotional storm within ourselves. The resulting emotional outburst releases energy but, like a bad storm, devastates everything in its path -- a short-term gain, but an enduring loss that actually depletes our energy. In order to get and stay vitalized and healthy for the long run, however, we need to cultivate effective energy regeneration strategies. Like a flowing stream, we need constant renewal to live well.
=========================================================
Personal mastery goes beyond competence and skills...it means approaching one's life as a creative work, living life from a creative as opposes to a reactive viewpoint.
(Peter Senge)
========================================================
Personal power is not about controlling anyone or anything. It is the interaction of the various thought processes of your personality that allows your true self to shine through. Personal power is the willingness to make the choice of self discovery and choose which reality you wish to foster and activate in your life.
=========================================================
The Secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
"Present moment," because that is the only moment for us to live. If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. The Buddha said life is available only in the present moment. "Wonderful moment," that is life that you touch. Suddenly happiness becomes possible.
(Buddha 2-Thich Nhat Hanh)
=========================================================
You will have to do two things to achieve Soul contact: trust, and leap into the unknown. Both choices will be seen as desperate by the mind that clings to limiting belief. These old beliefs get their strength from the mind's powerful need to reinforce its ideas of reality...This is basic survivalist experience, and not a path to life. Are you wanting to break those chains? "
Trust must be earned through total honesty of expression and intention. It is a re-training of the way you think, and the way you respond to feelings... Why is it such a struggle? You all keep secrets from yourselves that need to be brought to light in order to heal. The reason you hide from yourselves is to avoid the pain of healing. Fear of grief causes you to bury emotion, and it is precisely this that creates the struggle! Despite what you may fear lies within you, there is no reason important enough to avoid total self-honesty. It truly is the path to freedom, health and prosperity. There is nothing to fear, but..."
(StarStuffs)
Thoughts and emotions happen as a result of you interactions with the world based on your perception of past experiences. It is how you perceive this world of events that form our thought processes that become reactions and behaviors, unconsciously or consciously. Your thoughts create your feelings, emotions, behavior and what you attract and magnetize into your life." If we are aware of our emotions and aware of actions tied to those emotions we have an opportunity to transform our perceptions of ourselves and the world around us.
Body and Emotions
The body itself is a dynamic system that reflects our thoughts, emotions and feelings and can be correlated to physical discomforts, illnesses and diseases. Our emotions have a direct correlation to all of life's experiences. Starting as children we learn through experiences the various behaviors which program us with feelings and emotions. Psychologists have determined that early childhood is a pivotal time for emotional development and that we learn very early in our lives how to cope with our surroundings and adapt in some form the reactionary attitudes of our parents. These behaviors carry through childhood into adulthood. We shall analyze behaviors in the following Wisdoms.
Our emotions are one of the greatest sources of personal power and energy. Emotional states are based upon the stimuli that we perceive at any given moment. We react to others in ways we associate with previous emotional responses. If we can be aware of our emotions and understand how we came to feel that, we will understand more of our true selves and not an old out-dated perceived notion of who we think we are. We can take great strides in our spiritual development by understanding our emotions. But what of the body's reactions to these emotions?
The body remembers emotions and traumas even though we may not consciously be aware of it. We may develop subconscious and psychosomatic illnesses when specific situations arise. Perhaps one may harbor a deep emotional trauma that is connected to a shoulder, knee, or other body area and cause pain when the subconscious aspect is triggered. In some circumstances, the physical body may be suffering from past-life physical and emotional traumas harbored as a karmic ailment for various reasons. In other situations, the body reacts as a learned response as in blood pressure rising, head aches, becoming nauseous, fainting, rashes and hives.
Thoughts are truly amazing energy packets. If thoughts and emotions create illnesses, then thoughts and emotions can create wellness and harmony. One of the numerous and most notable study was conducted by Dr. Davidson who studied the effects of Buddhist practices and the brain. He found within the brain's neurological circuits in those that meditated were better equipped to handle emotions and behaviors to make them happier and calmer people
(StarStuffs)
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Life Dramas and Taker Types
There are people whose main source of power comes from the energy reactions of those around them. Upon further in depth analysis, some people have adapted dual traits to cope with an energy depletion of one drama style. Some "Takers" have learned that if one form doesn't work, another will. "Takers" continuously create reactions as outlined in the following Life Dramas.
Enforcer
Is one who gains control by using physical or verbal force thus obtaining energy by this means. For example: Typical of spousal abuse situations, work force tactics, positions of authority.
Makes one feel bullied, angry, fearful and disgusted.
Criticizer
Gains control by judging and questioning, a criticizing of actions, circumstances and people. For example: A friend, spouse, parent that criticizes your judgment, clothes, actions all the time.
One feels helpless, confused, disoriented, breeds lack of self-esteem, belittled.
Avoider
Gains control by not speaking, avoiding the situation, coy. For example: A complaining friend that does not want to talk about it after bringing it up.
One feels exasperated in communicating, anger and hopelessness.
Complainer
Gains control by wanting pity from others. The person likes to dwell in self-pity and has lack of self-esteem. Nothing is adequate in life. For example: Whining all the time about being sick, lack of money, family members never around etc. Wants things done or brings attention to something by complaining.
One feels pity for person, comforting, "poor thing" syndrome.
Pleaser
Gaining control through accolades in attempting to please everyone or someone. The person may be a perfectionist or domineering because they lack control in other areas of life. Constantly pleasing and doing for others such as: cooking, cleaning, tiptoeing for perfection to the point of self-harm
One feels a sense of duty and guilt by "owing" something to them for all they do.
The following dynamics appears to be prevalent in family relationship where habits, patterns and coping skills are learned from childhood. One can trace the life drama(s) backward to parents, grand parents and great grandparents. This dynamic will be explored more in the 6th Wisdom.
Avoiders create Criticizers
Criticizers create Avoiders
Enforcers create Complainers
Complainers creates Complainers
Pleasers creates Pleasers/All Above
The first four Life Dramas are pretty straight forward however, the Pleasers are one of the more complex and mutable of the Life Dramas.
They become the submissive figure in a parental relationship and children typically take on the behavior and life drama of the other parent or if they become masters, become Pleasers themselves. Pleasers assure everything is done perfectly with an unhealthy doting of always doing for others at the risk of dis-ease of mental-emotional discomfort of themselves or others. They extend and overindulge others at the expense of themselves. Sometimes they rule their job, house, family in their self-imposed perfection which is inflicted upon others. Pleasers use their deeds and actions as pre-payment of anything that should arise to keep control over others. This drama style is to gain energy through excessive practice of getting others satisfaction and abnormal sense of self imposed perfection.
=========================================================
Part two next post.
Best regards,
Chillen
