Mirroring

"When you realize that what you react to in others, is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego."
Eckhart Tolle

Returning to innocence

Recently more and more people, children and adults, are playing games. Why do you suppose they feel the need to play games, I mean adults? It is a normal thing for children to play games.

Perhaps adults are playing due to a need for relaxation, because of a stressful day, or because of boredom. So having nothing else to do they turn to gaming. 

But maybe there is another unconscious motivation for playing games. Maybe there is a need to return to innocence. Events in childhood may have required them to grow up quickly, no more children games. No more having fun or enjoyment. It does not matter how much knowledge is gained or degrees earned they are missing a piece of their life, an important one that forms the personality. 

So as adults playing games we might discover what is missing and become aware of what is needed to complete the inner being.

Some games are educational, some help us find friends, some to express creativity allowing our subconscious or hidden skills that were never cultivated.

Returning to innocence is something that we really need to experience from time to time. Although some games are quite addictive we still need to give into the child within and have some fun and enjoy life.

From an optimistic view, life can be considered a game in which we win some and lose some. 

Play fair and be a good looser.

Let us recall our inner child and play the game called LIFE!

What is Conscious Communication for a Yogi?

Excerpts from KRI Level 2 Module Conscious Communication Manual by Yogi Bhajan

Do you know what real communication is? Real communication is when after uttering, saying, or communicating, you stand fully one hundred percent by whatever you said. Real communication does not give you any right to change it afterwards, no matter what. Anything which is not real is a lie. It is not whether it is right or wrong, good or bad, or moral or ethical. Person A talks to person B and between A and B, the talk is real. Then A and B are bound down to put their totality in it until infinity.

You should not say anything that you cannot put your totality behind. The total value of you is that whatever you say, you stick with it. When you don’t stick with what you say, you have no value, and your decoration and your jewelry and your sex and your person have no value. Real communication is the faculty of a human that whatever you say, you stick with it.

Why Talk?
Communication is very misunderstood by all human beings. When you are angry, when you are emotional, when you are hurt, when you are insecure, and when you are in your ego trip, you feel like you have to talk, and that is where you mess up. Remember, when you talk, it is for the future. lt is not for the past and it is never for the present. Communication is the art to build heavens in the future and people who do not have it do not have any future, no matter what religion or country or nation they belong to.

Communication is not for emotions and feelings. Not for the weather, either. Communication is an art through which you can clean the garbage in your life. Mostly you talk to get rid of anger, get rid of frustration, and get rid of inferiority/superiority complex. These three things make you talk. Mostly people talk because of the inferiority-superiority complex. Minus these things you don’t like to talk at all. You talk to get a feeling, because of curiosity, and to lay the ego number.

What you feel may or may not be reality, but you think that whatever you feel is reality; everything else is nonsense. What you feel is the outcome of circumstances, environments, your background, your pressures, your neurosis, your projection, your elementary thoughts, your projective thoughts, your imagination, your dreams, your compiled personality and your projected personality. All these things create for you an idea that you feel. The problem is that what you feel, I don’t feel. So there is a confrontation, a conflict.

You must communicate with your own soul. You must communicate with your own mind. And you must communicate with your own self. Your soul, your mind, and your self make you an identity, a psyche. You take a very long time to communicate what you really feel and what you are really saying. So what you do is create two domains—what you are saying and what you are feeling. There is a tremendous amount of stress which you cause by not communicating with yourself. Therefore, try to establish a relationship between you and your self.

When you speak unconsciously, you represent your emotions, your feelings, your neuroses, your handicaps, your shortcomings, and your insecurities. When you speak subconsciously, you are a con-person, you are a thief, you are a cheat, you manipulate, you are dishonest. All you want is to win the moment or impress the moment. Such people are never true to a bigger picture; they are never real in their lives. When you speak consciously, that which you speak about happens. When you speak super-consciously from the supreme self of you, that becomes the guiding line for the Universe. Then the akashic record has to move with that angle.

No Negativity
Generally when you talk to one another you get upset, you get mad, you get sick mentally and abandon your own real identity. You say things to hurt others. Remember, one wrong word said lives forever, on the Earth and in the heavens. There’s no way you can get out of it. So speaking is not just for expression; speaking is not just a communication. It is a tool, it is a weapon which cuts the lip forever.

The art of communication is simple and it must flow from you. Neither react nor act negatively in communication. It is very dangerous. There’s no solution to it. It will take away all your merits. It will leave you hollow, shallow, in pain. That is the power of the negative bani. Therefore, under no circumstances are you required to speak negative language, and you must not communicate in a way which will be offensive. Neither should you speak in a way which should be just buttering. Speaking should be neither overdoing nor under-doing nor super-positive nor super-negative. Speaking should be straight because between two lines, the direct route is the shortest.

Talking, communicating, speaking, writing is all good. But when adversity hits, communication will break. Never break the communication, neither with an enemy nor with a friend. Keep communicating. That’s what God does. Communication is just vibration. Keep vibrating. But be positive. Never listen to negativity.

A conscious person talks with absolute dignity and absolute faith. Never ever, never ever say things against any human form even unconsciously, because that is a slander of the divine, against what God manufactured.

Establish Mutuality
In every walk of life, in every aspect of life, harmonious communication can bring success out of failure. It can give you authority, it can expand your personality, it makes people trust you, it can give you the power to touch the very depth of another person. It can also make you feel comfortable with the world we live in.

Harmonious communication has nothing to do with what you feel, what you know, and what you want. In order to achieve harmonious and conscious communication, first you have to understand the other person. Then whatever knowledge you have about the other person and whatever knowledge you want to communicate with the other person has to be presented in a very loving manner and not with any intent or means to figure out any offensiveness.

Whenever you communicate to control or talk or introduce your motive or your legislation, or you want to be what you want to be, you are wasting your communication energy. People want to talk, but they don’t want to talk about that which is not of mutual interest to both parties. They don’t want to talk about that which does not bring mutual trust, or is not of mutual benefit.

People who are aware of how to communicate are either saints or they are those who have good in their hearts for others because they talk with compassion. Otherwise you talk only with a passion. If you talk with a passion, you are trying to make a point. You don’t care hell or heaven what the other person’s point may be. Normally when you talk, you want to talk to win. It is called “talk to conquer.” Most people do not talk to establish a relationship. If you talk to establish a relationship, then you have to always have the concentration of how the other man or woman feels, what they are doing, where they are at.

There are three ways to speak to someone. One is to create dialogue, one is to speak, and one is to talk. Talking is painful, like the conqueror and conquered communicating. Speaking is just understandable. Dialogue is beautiful and is desirable. Very few people can create dialogue, or intercourse, where two people talk in the same frequency, at the same moment, with the same passion, same compassion, same individuality and identity. Harmonious communication happens where there is oneness between the spheres of intelligence and consciousness, where hearts and heads meet.

Communication is a science and an art. Speak and answer if it boils down to that. But normally two people should just communicate by their presence. When presence doesn’t work, communication is a last resort to bring peace. Spirituality belongs to those who understand the science of anaadee naad, unknown sound. If a person speaks a language which is effectively positive and has perfected one or two words only, that is enough for effective communication.

Pinkie Finger Technique to Carry the Day
If you do not know how to communicate something that is bothering you, and you have to go to a meeting to talk. Sit down at a table and press this finger. (The pad of the thumb presses down on the nail of the pinkie finger.) Underneath the table; nobody will ever see. Just press your little finger for about a minute. And then touch it. (The tip of the thumb touches the tip of the baby finger.) Your entire sense of communication shall come on your command. You don’t have to have an initiation, you don’t have to belong to anybody, and you will carry the day. When your ego finger will press on the mercury finger, it is just telling the horse, “Let us gallop.” It is a totally physiological situation. There’s no reason that your communication should not carry the day.

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...There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh, total being...
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A test to check your level of identification with the body

*** Important Note: This spiritual technique, though enormously beneficial, might be too extreme for certain people due to the hard emotions that might arise during the practice of this technique. It is intended to be used only by advanced seekers. Do not run this test in case you are not sure you are emotionally stable, balanced and strong enough. This test is not recommended for people with mental problems or/and extreme fear of death. In case you feel that the emotions experienced are too strong, stop the test immediately and continue later, in moderate stages ***

Introduction

Spiritual teachers often tell you that you are not the body, you are just identified with it. They urge you to recognize this fact and believe in it. You try so hard and yet this belief remains as a solid barrier, whoever tells you this, whatever trust you have in him/her, you still feel a strong conditioning within you that says "I'm the body, the body is me, I am definitely the body..."

So instead of being stuck in frustration, there is an ancient technique you can use to test the strength of identification with your body and by this also to start weakening the accumulated conditionings that prevent you from breaking this identification.

How to run the test

The following is a simple test you can run occasionally to test your level of identification with the body, that is to say, to what degree you still believe that you are the body.

The more extreme are the emotions you experience during the test, the stronger your identification with the body is. Lack of extreme emotions does not necessarily mean that you are not strongly identified with your body but usually means that these emotions are suppressed deeply in your subconscious and not yet brought up to conscious experience. Try it over and over and they will surface very soon.

The experienced emotions may be very painful and very strong. You may feel tremendous grief and sorrow. The test might be hard emotionally but is worthy and the emotions will soon subside. Don't worry. Try the best you can to stay aloof and just observe and accept whatever emotion arises.

It is extremely important that you run the test not from an intellectual point of view, that is to say, not from your rational mind, but rather from an emotional stand. If you feel the thinker within you is currently more dominant and your emotional "I" is less, consider postponing the test to a later time.

The Test:

    * Sit comfortably. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths with ease and pleasantness. Relax for a few minutes with your eyes closed.

    * Observe this sense of "I" that always accompanies you, this feeling of your identity, this intimate mental entity of yourself that without it, you can not refer to yourself when saying "I am reading", "I am observing", "I am running this test right now", etc. If you cannot locate this sense of "I", ask yourself: who is it that tries right now to locate this sense of "I"?, follow the mental pointer in this question, don't try to answer the question, let the question lead you to this sense of "I" within you. Stay focused on this sense of "I" for a few minutes.

    * Open your eyes and look at your body and feel it from within for a few minutes. It is better to look at areas of your body which are not covered by cloths. Try not to move your eyes from your body, you can scan the body, part by part or look at it in general but try not to stir your look to outside of the body. If your look gets off the body sight, gently return it to the body. Inspect the patterns of your skin, the hair that grows on it, the wrinkles, the spots, the cells.

    * Reflect deeply on the following: you know very well that immediately after you die, this body you are looking at right now, this body you are feeling, this dear body you are sure is you, this body will decay, rot, decompose, cease completely to exist. You know this very well. This is a certain fact, beyond any possible doubt, right? Contemplate on this but not only intellectually, try to realize it from deep inside.

    * Look very good at your body and feel it as it is you, your flesh and blood, and slowly try to imagine this factual certain process after your death in which this you, this body, is decaying, breaking, changing to strange dark color, to unpleasant odors. This very you, not some other object, your body, you, the subject that observes and runs this test right now, the "I" will decompose like a piece of beef forgotten outside the refrigerator for a few hours.

    * Now, look at a certain part of your body, preferably your hand. Read and run again the previous bullet while focusing only on the selected part and not applying it to your whole body as before.

    * Admit, this is such a sorrowing fact, such an outrageous destination. Observe the feelings and the body sensations you feel right now, if you feel.

    * Stop the test. Focus on your breath and relax for a few minutes. Give yourself the time in leisure until you feel you returned to your balance.

How to break this identification with the body?

Another use of this test is to work on decreasing this attachment to the body by simply accepting and observing the emotions that appear while you run this test.

Whatever you observe with acceptance is weakening and so are these emotions. As these emotions subside with the practice, your level of identification with the body will decrease. This identification is directly due to these emotions, due to their field of energy within your subconscious, due to numerous past conditionings they represent.

Shared by enlight on Guru's Feet.Credits to her teacher Riktam Kantu.Republished with permission.