MENTAL CLARITY

EXPRESS YOURSELF

Our emotions are comprised of our physical being. Emotion literally means “energy in motion.” It is when we are taught to repress our emotions that we come into trouble and can become mentally ill. The more we repress our emotions the more likely we are to become ill. It may take many months and years to actively and consciously feel through your emotions. This is a passive activity, as you are either sitting or laying down and feeling through your emotional realms.

We have five emotions, these are; Love, Grief, Envy, Anger and Fear. When we repress Love, it becomes Possessiveness. When we repress Grief, it becomes Depression. When we repress Envy, it becomes Jealousy. When we repress Anger, it becomes Rage. When we repress Fear, it becomes Panic.

You may, even now, be able to get in touch with what emotional state you are in, and the practice is to feel through the emotional state, to give it expression, rather than to keep it repressed.

Facing your deeply repressed emotions is something that can bring great healing, and it seems that once you have released a certain amount of emotion, your mind will integrate rather quickly after the emotion is released.

BELIEFS - UNDERSTANDING YOUR COMPASS

Having an addiction can be a very challenging thing to contend with. I’ve been through a number of addictions personally, and these can show up as addictions to illicit, or legal substances, and also to other things such as relationships and people.

An addiction is something that you cannot be happy without. You constantly need a “fix,” or a “hit” of this thing to be happy. Addictions are based in need.

Predominantly, substances are the way we can self-soothe, we can try to put a patch on our wounds. Though there comes a time when you want to be free of your addictions, and there are avenues and pathways to being free of addiction; there are ways you can make it easier for yourself too.

I have created a process by which one can help themselves through the withdrawals of addiction, and to be able to be free of the addiction and this is something I have written about in my ebooks.

Addictions are something that can be very challenging to let go of, and in conjunction with the other practices that I teach they are also actually something we can let go of.

You can let go of the addictions you have, and be happy in the freedom of living without what you are addicted to. And it takes time, and effort, though what it means to be free of an addiction, or at the very most the inner need to have that thing in your life, is something that can help to propel you into the life you want to live.

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ITS ALL ABOUT PERSPECTIVE

We have many personal roles and rules that define us. It is that we are defined by these personal attachments that we must consider the practice to do with this process. We can have what are deemed many “personalities” that inhabit our psyche. In ancient Toltec tradition these are called ‘masks.’ And as Osho has said, “All personality as such is mask.”

These masks can look like “father,” “son,” “mother,” “daughter,” “gymnast,” “musician,” “cyclist,” or maybe they may be more negative, such as “alcoholic,” “loser,” “schizophrenic.”

When we bring our awareness to our masks that we are role-playing in our life, we can then release them, and come back to our True Self.

Bringing in our awareness to these roles, and masks that we use to play with in our life will have them be released, and we can become more mentally free.

There is certainly also a difference to our desires and our attachments. It’s the attachment to the desire which causes suffering, not the desire itself. Desire is the beginning of all creation; all creative effort begins with desire. Desire creates forward momentum in life. Masks; personal attachments to our identity is what we are wanting to shift here.