HABITS OF ENLIGHTENED SOULS
1. Be quiet. At least once a day, sit down. There is a
source within each one of us called the spirit or
soul. It is a crime to disturb the inner peace. This
peace is our power to create positive things in our
life.
Try speaking softly and slowly than your usual way.
Speaking this way is more powerful because it attracts
the peace in others. Just be aware of your words.
Savor their energy and rhythm.
2. Let go. Don't hold on to anything with your hand or
with your mind. Many think that doing this means
losing. If you don't release the old, you can't get
anything new. This requires detachment.
Letting go means moderating excessive attachment to
material possessions, to emotions, or to the status
quo or comfort zones in our lives.
3. Let it be. We are great fixers of other people's
lives. We're trying to write somebody else's script.
We are absent from our own lives because we're busy
living the life of others. Acceptance and contentment
are the first steps to healthy relationships.
An example is our appreciation of the moon, which is
beyond change. We never dream of wanting to change or
influence it, nor have we the slightest remorse that
the same face of the moon is always turned toward us:
We have no need to see the dark side. Extend this deep
feeling of acceptance to the people we meet.
4. Listen in. Use your intuition, the inner tutor and
the voice of wisdom.
Because we have held on to our false beliefs for so
long, we ignore and distrust our inner voice and tell
it to shut up. The process of enlightenment is the
process of learning to trust that inner voice once
again.
Example is the conscience as intuition at work. When
we misbehave, the voice of conscience alerts us to our
mistake. We may shun that voice, engaging in reason as
the ally of ego to justify our deeds.
Yet the troubling intuitive disapproval of conscience
will go on to make its rebukes. We can either suppress
the advice or repair the wrong.
5. Wake up. Habits are programmed by our external
conditioning. Write down your habits then decide which
ones to strike out and replace them with virtues.
Visualize the virtue you want to create and empower
that image.
For example, if you want to develop patience,
visualize yourself as a patient person. Watch, feel
and manifest patience in every action you do until it
becomes your behavior. Waking up is to consciously
choose your behavior and thereby create the
personality you want. Never believe anyone who says,
"You can never change."
6. Know yourself. Look behind the "I want" attitude,
those desires that make us need things that are not
necessary. The truth is, happiness is a choice, not a
chore, a decision to bring out from the self. Affirm
that you are happiness, a source of happiness.
7. Pass it on. Take one idea from this article then
pass it on to another. You empower yourself and the
other as you share this truth. This is also giving
value to the time you spent reading this.
Life is like a river, constantly flowing. The highest
purpose of rivers is to nourish plants and people who
are fellow travelers in the journey of life. Our
highest purpose is to nourish others.
Like the river, the greatest gift one can give is
wisdom. Through this, you empower yourself as well as
others.
Try these habits, one by one.
1. Be quiet. At least once a day, sit down. There is a
source within each one of us called the spirit or
soul. It is a crime to disturb the inner peace. This
peace is our power to create positive things in our
life.
Try speaking softly and slowly than your usual way.
Speaking this way is more powerful because it attracts
the peace in others. Just be aware of your words.
Savor their energy and rhythm.
2. Let go. Don't hold on to anything with your hand or
with your mind. Many think that doing this means
losing. If you don't release the old, you can't get
anything new. This requires detachment.
Letting go means moderating excessive attachment to
material possessions, to emotions, or to the status
quo or comfort zones in our lives.
3. Let it be. We are great fixers of other people's
lives. We're trying to write somebody else's script.
We are absent from our own lives because we're busy
living the life of others. Acceptance and contentment
are the first steps to healthy relationships.
An example is our appreciation of the moon, which is
beyond change. We never dream of wanting to change or
influence it, nor have we the slightest remorse that
the same face of the moon is always turned toward us:
We have no need to see the dark side. Extend this deep
feeling of acceptance to the people we meet.
4. Listen in. Use your intuition, the inner tutor and
the voice of wisdom.
Because we have held on to our false beliefs for so
long, we ignore and distrust our inner voice and tell
it to shut up. The process of enlightenment is the
process of learning to trust that inner voice once
again.
Example is the conscience as intuition at work. When
we misbehave, the voice of conscience alerts us to our
mistake. We may shun that voice, engaging in reason as
the ally of ego to justify our deeds.
Yet the troubling intuitive disapproval of conscience
will go on to make its rebukes. We can either suppress
the advice or repair the wrong.
5. Wake up. Habits are programmed by our external
conditioning. Write down your habits then decide which
ones to strike out and replace them with virtues.
Visualize the virtue you want to create and empower
that image.
For example, if you want to develop patience,
visualize yourself as a patient person. Watch, feel
and manifest patience in every action you do until it
becomes your behavior. Waking up is to consciously
choose your behavior and thereby create the
personality you want. Never believe anyone who says,
"You can never change."
6. Know yourself. Look behind the "I want" attitude,
those desires that make us need things that are not
necessary. The truth is, happiness is a choice, not a
chore, a decision to bring out from the self. Affirm
that you are happiness, a source of happiness.
7. Pass it on. Take one idea from this article then
pass it on to another. You empower yourself and the
other as you share this truth. This is also giving
value to the time you spent reading this.
Life is like a river, constantly flowing. The highest
purpose of rivers is to nourish plants and people who
are fellow travelers in the journey of life. Our
highest purpose is to nourish others.
Like the river, the greatest gift one can give is
wisdom. Through this, you empower yourself as well as
others.
Try these habits, one by one.
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