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 Gina Lake is a spiritual teacher who is devoted to helping others wake up and live in the moment through her books, counseling, and intensives. She has a master's degree in counseling psychology and over twenty years experience supporting people in their spiritual growth. She is the author of eight books. For more info, visit her aptly titled site: Radical Happiness
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 05:50 |
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When spiritual teachers suggest that you accept something, they tell you this because to do anything other than accept what already is makes no sense, since it already is the way it is, and that fact can’t be changed. And yet, the egoic mind so often refuses to see this, and this refusal is a prescription for suffering. Some things can’t be changed because they already happened. That’s a fact of life. The egoic mind may try to change things that can’t be changed through thought, but that doesn’t work. It imagines and desires something different than what has happened, but that doesn’t change what has happened. It makes no sense to cling to ideas about things being different than they are. The only effect these thoughts have is to make us miserable. |
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Monday, 12 October 2009 11:59 |
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The only thing that can keep you from being happy is a thought. What a revolutionary truth that is! The kind of thought that interferes with happiness the most is a thought of lack, which is at the basis of all desire. If you didn’t think something was missing or lacking about you, someone else, your situation, or life, you wouldn’t be unhappy. Unhappiness is the belief that something is missing that you need in order to be happy. It is this belief that makes you unhappy—not the fact that something is or isn’t here right now. |
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Sunday, 20 September 2009 05:13 |
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One of the reasons we reject being in the now, or the present moment, is that we overlook the details of what we are experiencing. Many moments are ordinary and seem similar to other moments we’ve experienced: You get up and do the same thing every morning, you walk the dog on the same path, you cook the same food, you drive the same roads. The routines of life seem boring to the ego. It assumes those moments are like every other similar moment, and it overlooks what is going on and draws you into thoughts about something else that it deems more interesting and exciting. The egoic mind tries to take you out of every moment and into its world of thoughts, and we are especially willing to go along during those moments that seem like ones we’ve experienced before. |
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Tuesday, 08 September 2009 07:44 |
This is a stressful world—or is it?
People feel stressed, but is the world creating it, or are we creating
it by how we think about ourselves, our life, and others? It is
possible to be in this busy world, to accomplish what we need to, and
not feel stressed. It’s actually possible to accomplish a lot more when
we are not feeling stressed. Stress is a sign that we need to stop a
moment and examine what we are saying to ourselves. It’s created by a
negative thought about whatever we are doing or about something else,
like the past or the future, a judgment, or a “should.” Not being
present to what we are doing but, rather, being identified with our
thoughts about what we are doing invariably causes stress because most
thoughts from the egoic mind (the mind that generates thoughts about
“me” and about how the “me” is doing) are negative, and negativity
causes the contraction in our body and energy we call “stress.” |
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Saturday, 29 August 2009 07:23 |
Desires drive life. You take actions
to achieve your desires, and you assume they are worthwhile. But you
don’t really know that, do you? You assume that getting what you want
will make you happy, but do you know that it will? One way to know is
to ask: Has getting what I wanted made me happy? Everyone gets what
they want some of the time. Has that made you happy? |
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