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Really good session.
Really good session.
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.How do you let go if a particular news story hits you?
What's left of you is here to serve. You want to serve, you just take that whole stupid ego and you let it melt away into shakti. Otherwise you keep forming it back and you're undoing all the work that you did. You could meditate for hours, go for weekends and do a 5-day retreat and come back and play this game when you come back, you undid every single thing you did.
What action does he mean, which would undo all the meditation work you've done?
I also highly recommend this book to everyone who participates here. What Singer is explaining is expanded upon in ACT therapy, where it's defined as cognitive defusion. That means you separate your identity from the thoughts and feelings you're experiencing, and you "let them go".Relax and release over and over again. Bigger stuff usually comes in waves (and the rest of the time it's somewhere in the background, not disturbing enough to cause a pronounced reaction).
Each time one hits you, just try to relax instead of letting it take you. Acknowledge that it's your human mind feeling this (based on its conditioning) but it doesn't mean you have to identify yourself with it (and "you" means the being watching it - you are not your thoughts as meditation easily shows).
It doesn't mean it'll be easy, that it'll work quickly, or that you try to act as if nothing happened. Just relax and don't think whether it "works" or doesn't. What definitely doesn't work is getting involved in it. Your work is to relax, release, and let go. Surrender to the fact that it happened.
Bigger stuff takes a lot of time and work to go through. I've been dealing with one for 1.5 years already. There's nothing else to do but slowly pick at it until it eventually goes away.
I'm sorry if this sounds a bit confusing. The main point, often repeated by Michael A. Singer, is to relax and release. This article may be helpful as well: 2. Relax and Release - Untethered Soul Group
I just watched a Michael Singer video Yesterday, he is addressing a similar question there, it is almost at the end of the video.
- Today, I lost my balance after seeing some disturbing news
- I took the day off to meditate and center myself and am trying to channel the energy into something productive
- How do you let go if a particular news story hits you?
Playing the game of ego. If you meditate and then get up and shout at your spouse because she did something you didn't like you're undoing your session. If you go on meditation retreat only to come back and complain about the weather, you're undoing your work, too.
Plus in general this type of stuff (another quote):
Every single second of your life you're given the opportunity to decide: do you want to be right, prove yourself, prove that you're smart, have concepts, views, and opinions and argue for them or do you wanna look at them and say "really, am I still there, do I really want to do that or do I want to let the shakti melt and become herself and let her dance inside of me instead of me controlling her and making her into something extremely ugly?"
Shakti is energy. If you waste it on controlling the world, you can never feel it yourself (of you feel it very rarely).
And this quote may be helpful as well:
I don't know what's going on, I'll never know what's going on, I have to be comfortable not knowing what's going on. A lot of it comes down to "right, I'm right." People are trying to prove that they're right, trying to defend their position, trying to show that they're smart, trying to show that they have their act together. That's all defending your false solidity. You have to be willing to say "I'm nothing, I know nothing, I'll never know anything, I'm not supposed to know anything. How will I know anything? I showed up a few years ago and I'm leaving tomorrow." It's been here for 13.8 billion years [the world].
I will tell you guys if I can recommend you the book when I finish it, but until now it really motivates me to meditate and maybe someday even reach 4 hours without losing myself in thoughts. Probably a goal that is hard to reach even after 5 years of practice.
What's left of you is here to serve. You want to serve, you just take that whole stupid ego and you let it melt away into shakti. Otherwise you keep forming it back and you're undoing all the work that you did. You could meditate for hours, go for weekends and do a 5-day retreat and come back and play this game when you come back, you undid every single thing you did.
I'm not sure if this is necessary. In the end, you meditate so you can be at peace in your everyday life. The end goal should be staying peaceful as you participate in life, not renouncing it for the sake of sitting alone in a room. I'll quote this again:
I think that focusing on how much time you can meditate is just another ego game. Ultimately, meditation is a tool. Would you rather learn how to be able to keep digging a hole with your shovel for 4 hours with no breaks or just dig the hole in the most efficient way possible?
That most efficient way is using meditation as practice for everyday life. The most important work is in everyday life, not in retreating from it by meditating more and more. If you enjoy hiking, you can prepare yourself physically by doing some exercises at home. But a few years from now, you don't want to spend more time exercising at home than actually hiking. Hiking is what you want, not the exercises.
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