Before practicing any spiritual tool (affirmations, visualizations, or meditations) one has to first wake up from the sleep of mind stories, we are running on autopilot of the mind.... let us choose to wake up and take charge, be responsible for the energy we bring to every aspect of our life.
Existence is a grand gift but by believing the stories of our mind about our situation, our past experiences, our future, our imaginations, our concepts, and our ideas, we build a huge wall of illusion around ourselves. We become blind to the gifts of existence. Awareness of the present moment dissolves the stories because the stories are everything outside this moment.
Belief in our stories have created a lot of repressed feelings of anger, hurt, sadness, pain, and need. These form the foundation from which we view our life. Limiting beliefs from childhood of “I am not loved, I am not wanted, I am not worthy, I can’t do it, and I am not capable,” go on a big list of things that support the story even more. We continue to live our life within our stories. Then we project our stories on to the present moment and judge everything in the moment based upon our stories. This creates a distortion about life, about love, and about us in general.
The stories take over every aspect of our life and prevent us from being our wiser, peaceful, and compassionate selves. The stories make us feel imprisoned with hopeless life situations. This then triggers us into making up more stories of a future that can bring us success or love;. Any ideal or goal to achieve in a future makes life more stressful because the future never comes as the future also becomes the now moment.
When we try to practice positive affirmations and follow the laws of attraction without first waking up in awareness, we continue to live within our story making it bigger and bigger. We can continue to improve our stories, but we cannot escape our stories.
Awareness is awakening out of our mind stories of the past and future, and out of the limiting beliefs that we have gathered from our childhood. In awareness, we understand where the truth of life is. We cannot stop our mind from thinking, but we can realize that we need not believe or attach our emotions to our stories. We need not feed or fix our stories, but we do need to wake up to know that they are stories and that we need not believe in them.
Every moment of life is new and every moment has potential to change life situations if only we become aware!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
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