5 Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want - Part I
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- Feb 6, 2018
- 5 min read
I have been learning spiritual lessons for years. They come to me in different manners and forms. Sometimes a book, found in a library by accident, will provide powerful lessons, sometimes a speech from a more experienced and knowledgeable person will help me to bring the learning closer to realization, sometimes it is animals and birds around. It is undeniable that our teacher can be anything and anyone and the learning itself is a never - ending life process.
We all want to experience life to its full potential. Anyone standing on a street corner waiting for the light to turn green is waiting to step into the world of light and mythic action. We just don't see our chance, waiting for a sign from above. But it is always here. I hope this article will help you to step further in your personal journey into a miraculous one. And the journey starts right now.
The 5 spiritual lessons presented in this article are truly powerful learning lessons. Those who want to change their perception and uncover a new personal reality will find the reading truly useful and practical.
Here are the 5 lessons that will help to transform your life for better
Reread each lesson as often as you want. Take a day or a week to live with it. There is no timetable for this.
Lesson 1. A True Self exists in all of us. It sees and knows everything
This first lesson is about finding the True - Self within and appreciating his point of view, which often is very different from the point of view adopted by either the mind or emotions.
Emotions such as mistrust, anxiety, boredom, skepticism arise when something does not go according to their wish. They immediately feel the change and want to resist it as soon as possible.
The mind, on the other hand, works less spontaneously. Before telling you what to do, it will consult with memories. It compares and renders a decision: this is good, that is bad, this is worth to repeat, that is not.
Both, emotions and mind, are looking for familiar stimulus, thus preventing our True Self to come out and speak to us. To go beyond emotions and the mind we need to practice silence.
Close your eyes and sit in silence for a few minutes. You will start hearing words that begin to come out from nowhere (actually the words are coming from our True Self). Let the True Self speak up and let the wisdom do its work. Don't expect to anticipate any results, but be alert to whatever happens.
Whatever happens is good.
Lesson 2. The return of the magical can only happen with the return of innocence
Innocence is our natural state, before it becomes covered over. What covers it over is self - image. When we look at ourselves, even when we are trying to be completely honest, we see an image build up over many years, in layers that are complexly woven together. These images come from the roles we play in society during our lifetime.
To be clear from any judgments, labels and definitions, we need to stop seeing things through the prism of ego or "I". For example, when we describe somebody as a friend, enemy or family, we instantly place our judgment on them. How? By treating a friend one way and an enemy another way. This perception clouds our vision on things, preventing to see them as they are.
When there are no labels and no dust on the lens of our vision we can see how the world sparkles in new light every time we look at it. It is never seen twice in the same way.
Look at this list of words:
Heavy
Light
Black
White
Sun
Moon
Close your eyes and let yourself experience the qualities of each word. Did you notice that it is impossible for your mind to avoid some sensation of heavy, light, black, white, sun and moon? In fact, it is very hard to read the words without summoning up a faint taste of each quality.
Our participation is what it takes for these qualities to exist. By practicing an innocent view on everything around, as we have never seen it before, we cultivate a fresh and new perception.
It is a key to transformation.
Lesson 3. The True Self witnesses the world comes and go, but her nature remains the same
Each of us has a witness inside. The role of the witness is not to interfere in the changing world, but to see and understand. It does not necessarily mean that to see we need to be awake with eyes widely open. Seeing, in its deepest sense, can take place while we dream or sleep. To see means to be present to the universe's intelligence. And when the witness is fully present, everything is understood.
What is witnessing? It is not easy to explain what witnessing is.
In an ordinary waking state, we all see objects. But the witness sees light. Light is a metaphor to describe the higher states of being. The witness knowledge is pure knowingness without reliance on external facts. It is the water of life tapped directly from the source.
The power of perception depends on the trust between you and your True Self. Rationality kills the knowingness, the witness inside, because it looks "out there" for answers. The True Self sees everything as part of the inner world.
Close your eyes and imagine a situation you were recently irritated by. Now drop all reasoning and look at the situation again. Repeat this exercise every time you feel injustice, hopelessness or unfairness.
Lesson 4. Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered
We are citizens of the cosmos and this is the only definition any awakened person will tell you. Names, labels, definitions are irrelevant in the question of who am I.
Having a name is useful, but it quickly turns into a limitation. As a label it defines where and in what families you were born. After a few years your name defines you as going to such and such school, becoming such and such professionally. By 30, the walls of the box, which you were put in, might consist of the following definition: "Orthodox doctor, born in Europe, migrated to USA, graduated from Stanford, married with two children and a mortgage." These facts may not be inaccurate, but they are misleading. Is this who you truly are?
We are far more than any limitations put on us, since birth. They may pertain to our body, but we are more than that. As mountains, rocks, trees, dreams have shape, our True Self take a shape in a form of consciousness. It is not limited by the body or labels. It is much bigger!
To experience this lesson, forget your name for a while and ask yourself... Who am I?
Lesson 5. There are no beginnings or endings in the world. In the light of awareness, everything is alive
The emotional fear of death is one of the biggest barriers we live with. This fear creates boundaries and limitations in us. It puts a ticking clock on us right after we are born.
Our True Self sees time as quantified eternity. To the True Self, death is merely a belief. Think about death from this perception of time: the universe is a storehouse of energy. Energy never dies as it cannot be destroyed. As an energy you will always be alive.
For releasing the fear of death, practice the following exercise:
Find a quiet place where you can't be disturbed. Prepare several sheets of paper and a pen. Close your eyes and breath deeply. Once you are calm get your pen and paper and start writing "I am afraid of" and finish with whatever comes to your mind. Try not to lift the pen during the practice. As you are writing, take slow, measured breaths in and out without pausing in between. Finish when you feel you have written enough. You may go back and read over what you wrote. After that, rip up the paper and discard it in a bin or compost.
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