The past has happened already and we have been affected by it more or less and we can stay affected by it for years, but at some point we have to move on. Otherwise we wear our past like a medal of honour letting everyone know how much we have suffered and how much we are still suffering. It's an incredible realisation to see that we can end suffering just by seeing through the 'games' we play with our own mind (software).
I'm not as naive as I sound, of course I believe that there are terrible things that happen to people and that we can be wounded very deeply by past trauma, but it seems to me that is has become an industry.
The film 'Fight club' although it is complex and male oriented it portrays a picture of victim consciousness, people sitting around talking endlessly about how bad it all is and never looking at a solution. The 'fight club' in a way is a metaphor for these victim/underclasses to face the biggest fear, in this case it is portrayed as violence, and the facing and fighting of each other is a solution for them. But it could just as easily been anything else. They face the 'fear' and become empowered. In this case they want to overthrow the banking monetary/consumerist system which they view as being the problem.
What are you scared of? Death! Well now there's a thing to be scared of. But if we look at that a bit more we may start to realise that we don't really know what death is. We can read all sorts of theories but no one really knows for sure what death is and where we go after we die. So in effect we are really scared of the unknown, are we not?
The dreaded unknown is something we are faced with every single day of our lives. But we don't know it like that because we move from moment to moment semi-conscious most of the time, drifting from one moment to the next and then arriving back in our bed at night wondering what happened. We have become victims of the life we have created almost unconsciously. Ouch! Or maybe you did choose this life that you now have, and if you didn't what can to do about it, it's never too late, is it? Of course you may believe in reincarnation and you may feel it doesn't matter too much because you can sort it all out in the next life, ha!
If you sit still and think about it for a moment you realise that you have no idea what will happen to you today. You may have a vague plan and will probably do what you did yesterday more or less but you never 'really' know, do you?
It's very exciting to realise that we don't really know anything at all!
When a person becomes scared for any reason chemicals are pumped into the bloodstream creating a physical sensation of fear and dread. We have all felt it and it registers in our memory banks as something to be avoided at all costs. What is this something to be avoided? Is it the experience or is it the memory of the experience that we avoid? Being in a peaceful state of mind is all in the mind.
We can be laying in our comfortable bed, the most expensive and biggest bed ever made and we can be extremely tense and anxious, worrying about all sorts of imagined catastrophe's. We could be in a tube in the rush hour having just done a three hour relaxation class feeling as peaceful as can be. We may then realise that it is not the setting that gives the us peace it is our internal attitude towards that setting that gives us peace.
For me peace within is the beginning of understanding and if we make that the goal then everything else will follow.
So if you get up in the morning and clean out your nostrils, using the 'neti pot', you will be able to breathe more openly and freely, beautiful. You know what it's like when your all blocked up and can't breathe, it's horrible. This is an important priority, breathing freely and cleanly through both nostrils feeds your brain and makes it work better, right or wrong? I would say it makes sense to believe this. When you feed your brain it will work better!
When you feel the aches in your body you realise how much tension you are holding in. If you don't feel anything you are either very clear or very numb, you decide which of these you are.
'A man travels the world several times in search of the ultimate truth. He arrives one day in the deepest part of the Himalayan mountains. He hears of a man living in a cave somewhere that knows the 'real' answer to the secret of the universe. He staggers across vast mountain ranges for days on end until he finally arrives at the mouth of the cave. He goes inside and travels along miles of tunnels until he arrives at a vast inner chamber. Inside this chamber is a small lake and in the middle of the lake is an island. He can just make out a small figure sitting in front of a fire outside a hut in the middle of the island. He shouts across, "Master, master oh please tell me. I have travelled many years and miles to find you, you must tell me the secret of the universe." Slowly the small figure stands up and shouts back. "Keep away from all humans they are a pain in the arse! Now f--- off!
P.s Keep your nostrils clean and clear and keep breathing deeply.
Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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