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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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Wednesday, 21 January 2009 08:52 |
The ego is always trying to get something for itself from others and from the environment. Its stance is that it doesn’t have enough or that it might not have enough in the future, and its strategy is to withhold what it has from others and to try to get more of what it perceives it needs. |
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Friday, 16 January 2009 09:59 |
The Self speaks to us primarily through intuition. It is the language of the Heart. The value of meditation and other spiritual practices that quiet the mind is that they make intuition more accessible. Most people need these practices to get over the hurdle of the dominance of the mind and into greater alignment with the Self.
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Friday, 09 January 2009 17:33 |
One of the simplest forms of meditation is listening. You don’t even have to sit still to practice listening. Except for when you are asleep, listening is always happening. You are either listening to the mind or to something else. When we are not listening to the mind, the opportunity exists to be aware that listening is still happening. Listening is part of Awareness, which is a name that is often given to our true nature. If you look closely at who you really are, you find only Awareness—vast empty space that is aware, conscious. You are this consciousness, this awareness, of the mind, of feelings, of sounds, of sights, of sensations, of energy, of what is in any moment.
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Monday, 05 January 2009 10:00 |
Whatever you are doing, enjoy it! You have another option, of course, which is to not enjoy it. Notice what keeps you from enjoying whatever you are doing. It’s thoughts, isn’t it? Even if you’re experiencing pain, for instance, or something unpleasant, like going to the dentist, if you don’t listen to any negative thoughts, fears, complaints, and desires related to that, you won’t suffer. You’ll just have the experience.
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 04:55 |
What if you believed and knew at your very core that life brings you what you need? This runs so contrary to what the ego believes. The ego doesn’t trust life and feels solely responsible for your survival—as if there is nothing else here supporting you—and it convinces you of this. The egoic mind plans, strategizes, and worries about survival. It scares you into believing that you can’t survive if you don’t listen to it. It’s not that the ego’s plans and strategies don’t work—they do—but often at a very great cost: happiness, peace, and joy. The thing is, you don’t need its plans because something else is living your life and everyone else’s just beautifully. This Intelligence brings you everything you need to support yourself and learn what you came here to learn.
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Sunday, 28 December 2008 06:44 |
There is a lot going on in the now. That’s all that really exists, so everything you’re experiencing is part of the now, including your thoughts. Human beings have a particular relationship with thoughts, however, that takes them out of the experience of everything else. Thoughts create an alternate reality, a subplot to the now, and people get lost in this pretend subplot and don’t notice other things about the now.
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