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Here's Gina's latest blog post at www.radicalhappiness.com:
The world, without thoughts intervening, has a neutral or positive impact on us: When we look at the sky, we feel expanded (positive), unless the egoic mind comes into that moment with a complaint or judgment about the sky or something else. When we feel the breeze, we experience that (neutral), unless the egoic mind comes into that moment with a complaint or judgment about the breeze. Where we get into trouble (negativity) is when we encounter other egoic minds or our own. When the egoic mind mediates between us and experience, we generally suffer because it tends to put a negative spin on experience or take us out of the experience altogether.
Once you notice the impact of the egoic mind on your experience of life, you can begin to ignore it and notice the true impact of life. You can “step around” that mediator and choose to experience life as it actually is. If you encountered an unpleasant stranger, you would probably avoid that stranger, and this is what you can do with your own (and other people’s) egoic minds. You “step around” or move beyond that interference to a place of peace, a place of no tension.
The way you know you are giving your attention to the egoic mind (yours or someone else’s) is when you feel tension or stress. That’s the time to “step around” that unpleasant intruder into reality. Life, itself, is benign, but the ego makes life feel threatening, or at best dull. It is either fending off its perceived difficulties or problems or trying to drum up some excitement, drama, and specialness. It doesn’t know how to play the game of life simply; it opts for trouble and drama. But drama doesn’t equal happiness, and simplicity and peace don’t equal boredom—the ego has it backwards. It tries to create a happy life, and all it does is take us away from happiness.
To free ourselves from the egoic mind, we just have to notice the impact it has on our experience of life. Does the experience you are having cause you to contract and feel bad or does a thought about the experience you are having cause this? This distinction is huge. Once you see that it is your thoughts and only your thoughts that cause you to feel contracted, then you can begin to free yourself from these thoughts. This sounds like work, but the truth is that the only thing that keeps us tied to our thoughts (imprisoned by them) is the belief that they belong to us and are therefore valid and necessary. They are not “your” thoughts and they are not valid or necessary. What a revelation that is when we finally see this—and so obvious, actually.
Every thought except the most mundane or functional ones, such as “this is a pencil,” has an impact on our consciousness, or energy. It causes us to contract or expand. If you notice, you’ll see that most thoughts cause contraction because most are judgments that attempt to make us feel superior. The ego tries to make itself feel good through judgments and being right, but the result is always a contraction. How interesting! The best the ego can do to make us feel good is to come up with a fantasy of something good, but fantasies actually result in a contraction too, if you notice. Anytime, the ego is in play, the result is a contraction.
Thoughts that are positive and true are expressions of essence, and they cause us to feel spacious, expansive, and at peace. The truth feels good! This is a clue to our true nature. When we are in touch with it, we feel good. This is why life without the mediation of the egoic mind feels good—because life is good. When we notice the impact of life on us in every moment, without the intervention of the mind, we feel the excitement and joy of essence, which is glad to be alive and grateful for everything it’s experiencing through us. That is the truth. When we learn to “step around” the egoic mind as it tries to intervene between us and life, we can finally be happy.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Release your doubts ...courtesy of Viking Karwur
Can you let go of your doubts? Of course you can.
How do you release those doubts? You simply stop holding on to them.
If you wish to drop an object that you are holding in your hands, you just let it go and it falls away. Visualize doing the exact same thing with each doubt, and allow them all to fall away from you under their own weight.
Every doubt you maintain requires your active participation and energy. Choose to no longer participate in keeping those doubts alive.
Instead, use the energy to grow and build and love and live and accomplish great things. Release your doubts, and stop standing in the way of your own progress.
Move positively forward without the encumbrance of doubt. And discover how amazingly effective you can naturally be.
-- Ralph Marston
What a Woman WANTS ?? courtesy of Farida Lo
I would say "DON'T ASK IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR THE ANSWERS" and basically women love surprises, so surprise us.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
A Thought
World is a stage where Life being performed by beings and
God is the ultimate Director, if not, a Master Puppeteers.
Script has been written and rewritten times and again accordingly,
timeless and unpredictable as always.
God is the ultimate Director, if not, a Master Puppeteers.
Script has been written and rewritten times and again accordingly,
timeless and unpredictable as always.
25 Random Things about me - Suprise...FABIOLA TAMBA >>> Part 4
05 February 2009 at 11:42
I tag You means you have eto makes 25 things about U!!! make it ya :)
Since I got 2 Tag for this notes .....welll what can I do ....hahha ok here's 25 random things about me :
1. I like to Travelling wish one day I can Travel round the world even now economy ups and down
though.
2. I believe in Miracle
3. I like chocolate and biscuit
4. I Prefer drink Hot Chocolate than alcohol ...lol
5. I like Fresh air in the morning and i like to Jogging
( now i need a lot of jogging )
6. I am control food that i consume
7. I am not into Rice
8. I wish I am really Very Very rich so that i can build a free school for all the nation
9. Love makes this love and life more worth
10. I like Art and culture
11. I like to write a poem and I am Smiling face ....all the time smilleeeee aja
12. I collect a rare things to makes me memorize all the things
13. I hope i can speak and write in 12 Languages
14 . I like Italian .........................
15. I like to cook en .....still learning it
16. One day I will learn to fly a plane or helicopter ok lahhhh
17. I love my family and my loved one so much they been there for me up and down
18." Oh Thank you God " my quate
19. I like kids......my friends said i am Babies and kids Magnet
20. I like to dance and I like music
21. I Makes all my Dreams to be Reality !!!!
22. I dont like temper people, ego , under estimate u also double double cross person
23. I dont like 2 faces person
24. I understand that no matter what you do some people things you do wrong even though you are
right no need to explain it !!1
25. I beleive the PURE, STRONG LOVE , EVERLASTING LOVE and PERMANENT HAPPY
I tag You means you have eto makes 25 things about U!!! make it ya :)
Since I got 2 Tag for this notes .....welll what can I do ....hahha ok here's 25 random things about me :
1. I like to Travelling wish one day I can Travel round the world even now economy ups and down
though.
2. I believe in Miracle
3. I like chocolate and biscuit
4. I Prefer drink Hot Chocolate than alcohol ...lol
5. I like Fresh air in the morning and i like to Jogging
( now i need a lot of jogging )
6. I am control food that i consume
7. I am not into Rice
8. I wish I am really Very Very rich so that i can build a free school for all the nation
9. Love makes this love and life more worth
10. I like Art and culture
11. I like to write a poem and I am Smiling face ....all the time smilleeeee aja
12. I collect a rare things to makes me memorize all the things
13. I hope i can speak and write in 12 Languages
14 . I like Italian .........................
15. I like to cook en .....still learning it
16. One day I will learn to fly a plane or helicopter ok lahhhh
17. I love my family and my loved one so much they been there for me up and down
18." Oh Thank you God " my quate
19. I like kids......my friends said i am Babies and kids Magnet
20. I like to dance and I like music
21. I Makes all my Dreams to be Reality !!!!
22. I dont like temper people, ego , under estimate u also double double cross person
23. I dont like 2 faces person
24. I understand that no matter what you do some people things you do wrong even though you are
right no need to explain it !!1
25. I beleive the PURE, STRONG LOVE , EVERLASTING LOVE and PERMANENT HAPPY
25 Facts About Me by James Halligan >>> Part 3
Mon 16:38
1. I was recently told I was too thin and looked like an Egyptian Mummy by a Facebook Friend!
2. I talk too much and I am always right
3. My favourite author is John Wyndham but my favourite playwright is William Shakespeare
4. I have twice been a member of a political party (not the same one!)
5. I like to drink Bacardi & Coke and milk but not necessarily at the same time! I hate to drink alone. Good drinking buddies are hard to find.
6. I like to sing in church and the car but would never sing in karaoke. I can’t sing.
7. My first date was when I was 11 years old!
8. My favourite film is “Last of the Mohicans”.
9. I am happy one moment and sad the next for no apparent reason.
10. I like to eat meat and lots of carbohydrates but I never get any heavier!
11.I am very old fashioned and still believe in romance even if it doesn’t believe in me!
12. I have a secret crush on someone
13. I don’t like shopping.
14. If I need an answer to a question I “Google” it
15. I am always honest and often get myself into trouble. What is diplomacy?
16. When I was a teenager my hair almost reached my elbows!
17. No matter how much I do I never seem to have done enough!
18. I am completely right-handed but do most things with my left hand
19. I am Zodiac sign Cancer which means I’m home loving and romantic.
20. I am a chocaholic, always have been and always will be!
21. My favourite dishes are chilli con carne and spaghetti bolognese made by me!
22. I have many secrets but you will need to know me better if you are to find out what they are!
23. I think the most important thing for a wife to be is your best friend that way she will also be the best lover.
24. I always wanted to be an archaeologist
25. I want to backpack around the world and come back just in time to retire and live on my pension
William Shakespeare's house in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK
1. I was recently told I was too thin and looked like an Egyptian Mummy by a Facebook Friend!
2. I talk too much and I am always right
3. My favourite author is John Wyndham but my favourite playwright is William Shakespeare
4. I have twice been a member of a political party (not the same one!)
5. I like to drink Bacardi & Coke and milk but not necessarily at the same time! I hate to drink alone. Good drinking buddies are hard to find.
6. I like to sing in church and the car but would never sing in karaoke. I can’t sing.
7. My first date was when I was 11 years old!
8. My favourite film is “Last of the Mohicans”.
9. I am happy one moment and sad the next for no apparent reason.
10. I like to eat meat and lots of carbohydrates but I never get any heavier!
11.I am very old fashioned and still believe in romance even if it doesn’t believe in me!
12. I have a secret crush on someone
13. I don’t like shopping.
14. If I need an answer to a question I “Google” it
15. I am always honest and often get myself into trouble. What is diplomacy?
16. When I was a teenager my hair almost reached my elbows!
17. No matter how much I do I never seem to have done enough!
18. I am completely right-handed but do most things with my left hand
19. I am Zodiac sign Cancer which means I’m home loving and romantic.
20. I am a chocaholic, always have been and always will be!
21. My favourite dishes are chilli con carne and spaghetti bolognese made by me!
22. I have many secrets but you will need to know me better if you are to find out what they are!
23. I think the most important thing for a wife to be is your best friend that way she will also be the best lover.
24. I always wanted to be an archaeologist
25. I want to backpack around the world and come back just in time to retire and live on my pension
William Shakespeare's house in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK
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