Our Potential and Meditation
When we are hindered in our creativity and in our natural potential, we feel unfulfilled, it becomes hard to be in the NOW and in becomes hard to feel happy. Think of all those people that are doing work that they do not like at all. How they gradually lose contact with themselves and go down as a result of a creative burnout. For many people working has become a necessary evil, a means to make money and not an object of passion, pleasure or challenge. This is a pity because, as Copernicus put it: the first day that your work has become your passion is the last day that you have worked.
Of course it is not easy to find out where our heart and our passion are to be found and once we have discovered this what we can do with them. Besides: when we have found out what we really want to do in our heart of hearts: do we dare to make the necessary steps? Society and our own ego do all they can to make this process as hard as possible for us. A friend of ours is a lawyer and after practising her profession for three years she has come to hate it. What she really likes is cooking and meeting people. No wonder that what she would really like to do is starting her own restaurant. But……. She is only 30, she has a high income and she has not studied law and practised her profession for many years for nothing. Does she dare to make the step? How many things can go wrong if she makes it? What will people think? Should not she, at her age, already have taken all the important decisions of her life a long time ago? And does not she throw away her education, her experience, her entire past? All of these are reasons that our ego thinks of to prevent us from reaching our true self and our true destiny. To put it even stronger: these are often fictitious excuses that we create ourselves to avoid uncertainty. Of course we should never say goodbye to our common sense, start out on dangerous adventures or begin to act stupidly.
Only use your mind and your brain where you really need them. We can guarantee you that the greater part of the reasons you come up with that tell you not to change your life are no more than excuses that are meant to prevent you from losing your feeling of security. We are afraid of the unknown and uncertainty is the last thing that people want. There are very few people that really live by the day and do not mind starting out on new adventures. The funny thing is that when we accept uncertainty, the need for security disappears. All our excuses disappear and we are no longer afraid of taking the kind of decisions that looked so hard at first.
If we want to find our passions, want to do what our heart tells us to do, and want to express our potential, then there is only one important thing: we must take our decisions on the basis of the NOW, this very moment. The past brings about a lot of fog that prevents us from seeing clearly and objectively what decisions we ought to take. Let us give our readers some extreme examples: look at the war in the Middle East or the violence in Northern Ireland. The mess that you find there and the irrational decisions that are taken by the people involved are ununderstandable for outsiders. The terrible misery from the past has so badly damaged the egos that they have ended up in a vicious circle and that it will take many generations before the fighting parties will be able to get along well together. That is a terrible pity because: if you put a Palestinian baby and an Israeli baby side by side in a cradle they will at once become good pals. These babies are not yet burdened with pains from the past and can look at their situation in a clear and innocent manner. Stop thinking of the past and the future: live NOW.
During Meditation we seek our happiness in ourselves and not in objects or means that surround us. We train ourselves to be in the NOW as much as possible so that the past and the future no longer influence the present moment. We try to express our true nature by saying goodbye to our fears, frustrations, worries and doubts and by accepting them. In our opinion it is so that as long you cannot be at peace with yourself, as long as you do not feel an inner restfulness and as long as your ego keeps looking for confirmation, any search for happiness will fail.
This idea is supported by the first spiritual law of success of Deepak Chopra: the law of pure potentiality. In our primary condition, Chopra asserts, we are pure consciousness and consequently pure potentiality. If we succeed in discovering the essence of our true nature, if we realise that our inner point of reference is our soul and not the objects that surround us, we are capable of realising any dream. Your true nature or your true soul is free from fear, striving for approval or power or the need to control everything. That is true power! That is permanent power! Constant analysing, evaluating, judging cause a lot of unrest in your inner dialogue and in the relationship between you and your potential. According to Chopra we can reach our true nature and our true essence by minimising this unrest by means of silence, Meditation, not judging and spending time in nature.
This looks a lot like spending time in the NOW, in the present moment. It means that in the NOW we get closer to ourselves, our true nature, because all the constructions that we have built around ourselves to protect us disappear. The ego likes control and cannot exist without a past or a future. The ego feeds on outward matters and defends itself with all sorts of protective constructions. Do not forget that these protective constructions are mainly thoughts. Economic circumstances, social security, fears, a daily routine, fear of the unknown, “I cannot do this because….”, a hard youth, bad luck, lack of time, loneliness, social class, perfectionism, etcetera are all reasons and excuses for your present circumstances and stop you from undertaking new activities. All these excuses may come in very handy because they help us to avoid a confrontation with ourselves. Do not sabotage yourself, live today and get rid of your attachment to the past and your excuses. It is a big illusion that these things help you along on your way to unconditional happiness. The unrest that we have described and that is created by our ego blocks up the energy stream between ourselves and our true nature or potential. The potential that we can realise by a combination of relaxation and our normal dynamic individual mind is the ideal means to achieve whatever we want to achieve. It is true that silence and dynamism are each other’s antipoles, but if you know how to control both of them at the same time you become independent of situations, circumstances, people and things. The only thing we have to do then is find the right methods and techniques to change our perspective and live more in the NOW. This means seeing to it that our awareness grows, that the influence of our mind on our actions weakens and that we get a better contact with our emotions and our inner potential. As we can read on other pages of this site Meditation is the best technique to train our mind to live more in the NOW and to relax.
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