A light in the darkness

As I was looking to end my quest for inner self, I landed on the book "Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power."  In this book, it talks about attaining spiritual growth, which shows the wave-like motion of excited energy followed by resting energy. Inspiration from hymns, sermons, or books is borrowed. Elevating oneself demands discipline and continuous self-improvement. Achievement isn't finite; embracing the infinite self is ongoing, sustaining higher levels endlessly. This perpetual journey ensures sustained growth, nurturing the self indefinitely at elevated states. So in this section, I will talk about discipline. Discipline gives you real power. a) Know yourself The chapter of discipline was difficult for me, but that made me discover myself best. My life became better when I started to know myself better than others knew me. This discipline was necessary. As a child, I remember spending time in bed doing nothing for a long and I used to like that

 As I was exploring my inner self, I accidentally saw this book, "Lucid Dreaming: A Gateway to the Inner Self."  Our brain needs to rest in order to organize the information it has acquired all through the day. We put in all our efforts to assimilate information, considering all possible angles. In this course, our brain tires, and hence it has to look at other things (i.e., get distracted) or go to sleep when our mind sets itself free from all thought controls. Hence, it is possible to  solve problems while we sleep .  In this section, I was reminded of all the discoveries that were first dreamt of, and then they got up and discovered them.  Einstein's theory of  relativity Once, Einstein, in his dream, was strolling through a farm and encountered cows near an electric fence. Now, these cows jumped simultaneously as the fence gave them a shock. A farmer standing at the other end of the fence viewed this move as a Mexican wave (cows were jumping one by one).  This g

As we are nearing closure on the topic " the inner self" and we have discussed the popular hidings we use followed by soul-searching (scouting oneself), now we have reached the point when we should talk about moving out of the hidings. I will begin with this quote that pierced my heart: "We only see what we want to see. and hear what we want to hear. We don’t perceive things the way they are.  We have the habit of dreaming without any basis in reality.  We literally dream things up in our imaginations.  Because we don’t understand something,  We make an assumption.  about the meaning,  and  When the truth comes out,  The bubble of our dream pops  and  We find out it was not what we thought it was at all.” ―  Miguel Ruiz,  The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom We all live our lives like this. None of us can deny this. I still remember when we sisters have arguments, I will cut the phone if the argument is not according to me. Even in the class lecture

Having known all our hidings, we are now ready to search for ourselves. Here, I will begin with Carl Jung.  "Whoever looks outside dreams; whoever looks inside awakes." It is good to dream, but to make the dream materialize, we need to awaken ourselves to our true qualities that can make our dreams come true. This is the place where we need to go back and see all my hiding places. Many times, these hidings are so ingrained in our behavior that we have started considering them as one of our own. Let us see a few examples: " Yes, I’m a control freak—I admit it. I’m only a workaholic because I love my job so much. Are you going to criticize me for that? Oh, I know I’m a perfectionist. That’s just me." If we keep doing this, we are actually suppressing our true potential by denying it. I have done this quite a few times. I remember my olden days when I was a control freak. I wanted everything under my control. If it were not happening, I would shout and go mad. If I had

I would like to begin this session with a short experience of mine. Recently, I have been attached to a team of members who are highly enthusiastic and goal-oriented. I had a detailed task to finish. Though, with a timeline and proper instructions, I always complete my work on time, this time my work was interrupted by to many uninformed changes frequently. I have been trying to make it look better and better, which has made me invest the most of my time. This overwork has started eating me, and I was losing interest in something I had loved and cherished the whole of my life. I was eagerly waiting for this project to finish, and I had decided that I would not work with this team again because I was not getting time to revive my own worn-out soul. I need time for myself to work well.  Now, when the work is finished, I feel like I am left with no work. Luckily, my friend gave me a few of his pending jobs, which he is not able to manage well with his schedule. My friend is not a chasin

Knock on the door of a poor person; they will wail for all the wrong life has imposed upon them—scarcity of food, space, and money. Stroll and be a part of the congregation of the most affluent and rich crowd, and still you will hear the rumination of missing love and care, ignorance, and even an ample amount of time for family. We all have our own share of misfotunes and wrongs shielding our way to success. None of us are immune to this victim wand. A victim card is a state of being in which one feels constantly oppressed, wronged, and mistreated without having the desire to do anything to counteract said oppression, wrongdoing, and/or mistreatment.  What matters here is how we handle these situations of victimhood. Carl Jung says: "I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become." What happened was my past. It has already been lived. What has to happen has already happened. No element of it can make a difference at this moment. I have to decide: Do I want to dwe