November 2022 | Volume 6
Liberate your Mind. Transform your life!
The world is 8 billion people waiting for others to transform their lives when the power lies entirely in their hands.
Our mind mostly thinks in similar patterns and most of those patterns have been coded into our minds based on our memories of past life experiences. Further, the way we view important information we receive from our senses is also based on our the memories of our past experiences. So, in short our memories of the past define our life and choices today.
This is today’s science.
Now, if that was a surprise, read on. Most of our memories are formed by the time we are 7 years old. So, our experiences as an infant play a big role. Not to miss that our experiences while in the womb or even what is coded into our DNA. So, do we have the power to choose our life?
Yes, we do!
#1. AWARENESS: It all begins here
Your power to choose always begins with awareness - of your cyclic thought pattern and the the change that you truly and wholeheartedly seek.
It is important to focus on one change at a time for it is overwhelming on our mind to try and change many things at the same time. So, it is best to choose that which is causing us the most pain or blocking our progress.
Action: Take a moment to reflect on what is causing you most pain or challenging you the most. If it is a person, reflect on what aspect of that relationship (or person) is causing you this pain. If it is a block, reflect on what is the nature of this block within you.
Then, go deeper by seeking to be aware on what change in your that this points to.
#2. ACCEPTANCE: Accept where you are
That next step is to transition from awareness to acceptance (the contra to this being “wishing the present were some other way” or “blaming the world for where we are”)
Acceptance of the current pattern of thinking - that cycle of thought (the “code”) which exists within us is blocking our progress or causing this pain.
Instead of rejecting it or being frustrated, we accept it as our current code. This accepting of “where you are” is pivotal to transform.
Action: In this stage, acknowledge and accept the current pattern of thinking, (the “code”), wholeheartedly. Do not reject it or lay blame on someone else. Be wholehearted and unquestioning for it is afterall you.
#3. LETTING GO: Liberate yourself
We often hold on to memories in Anger - so, the other party doesn’t go scot free; in Guilt or Frustration - so we don’t let ourselves go scot free; in Grief - for we have lost; in Fear - for what could happen again. But by holding on to these memories these are the primary codes that drive our life - which is one of survival.
The transformation journey begins once you move from acceptance to letting go. of the parts you seek to release. So, we consciously choose those we seek to let go.
And what about those that are too hard to? We let them be. But we we won't fight them.
Action: The parts you wholeheartedly know that that is no longer productive for you, just release them from the bars behind your mind. Know that your life is changed - Your awareness is shifted. With this quality of awareness and knowing, it becomes easier to let go.
#4. SURRENDER: That which remains
And what about that which we cannot let go? This is where the act of surrender comes in. What we are unable to let go intellectually from our mind, we instead surrender to the universe i.e. to the universal intelligence - which is far higher than any of our individual intelligence.
This process of surrender oftentimes is seen as a defeat but in this case surrender is in fact a victory. What we are unable to resolve, we are trying to pass that to a higher intelligence.
It is important to understand and accept that there is a higher intelligence. Something which is I would say comes from a point of intuition, comes from a point of perhaps even spirituality.
We do not know everything that has to be known- there are many others who know things that we don't. If you see over a period of time, our awareness and our knowledge also keeps growing which means we do not yet know everything that is to know. Just from this logical point of view there is a lot more intelligence out there than that is in us.
Adding a further dimension to this, science has shown that we do not access majority of the power that exists in our brain both in terms of cognition (prefrontal cortex) and memory (hippocampus). That we are using a very small part of our brain repeatedly means that there is a capacity even within us that is much beyond what we access right now. I.e. we live our life in our neighbourhood street while the brain has the capacity equivalent to our whole country!
So, we simply surrender to that intelligence even if you have a problem surrendering to something externally.
Action: Understand that what we know and work with today, there is something much higher than that- in time, space, and intelligence. Surrender what we cannot resolve to that intelligence. After that you will be free to write a new code and sometimes you can even let that higher intelligence guide you in writing it. This will be your transformation, your true liberation, this is the thing that we all aspire and yearn for!
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