I Am Spiritual But Not Religious
Having too many dreams in last few days, some pleasant, few unpleasant, but all of them interfering with sleep. These were thoughts manifesting in the subconscious during sleep in the form of dreams coz i wasn’t paying much attention to them.
I wasn’t paying much attention to anything.
Life was on an automatic, i would just go along.
But these dreams and disturbed sleep felt like a message.
I need to be aware, just reading spiritual quotes or books once in a while is not enough now.
I need to be aware and sit with myself for a time every day. Meditate. Let those thoughts out in the conscious observation and then let them go.
Otherwise they keep swirling inside, coming out as dreams, disturbing sleep. One thing i cannot bear is disturbed sleep. I cannot function the whole day if sleep is disturbed.
So i deleted most of the apps and a game on my phone. And for next 40 days, i’m going to meditate every day and be aware as much as possible. I’m writing this down so i can stay true to it.
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[c=#002673]“The content of your mind is not your choice; it is decided by where you are. Everything that is around you gets into it. You have no choice about what you have gathered. And what you have gathered in your mind goes far beyond your present levels of perception. But it gathers everything that the five senses come in touch with. In wakefulness and in sleep, it gathers. It is just that most of it is not in the form of conscious memory, so you do not know. But it is all there.
This mind is a fantastic instrument, anything and everything that it comes in touch with, it is storing it up for you, for your use. But now you are sleeping in it, you are living in it, so it is big trouble – big time, not small time. If you could keep the garbage bin in such a way that, when you want it you can open it, and when you don't want to use it, you can shut it and keep it there, that would be great. The problem right now is that it is always open. Not only it is open, but you are sitting in it. You have to crawl out of it now.”
~ Sadhguru
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I wasn’t paying much attention to anything.
Life was on an automatic, i would just go along.
But these dreams and disturbed sleep felt like a message.
I need to be aware, just reading spiritual quotes or books once in a while is not enough now.
I need to be aware and sit with myself for a time every day. Meditate. Let those thoughts out in the conscious observation and then let them go.
Otherwise they keep swirling inside, coming out as dreams, disturbing sleep. One thing i cannot bear is disturbed sleep. I cannot function the whole day if sleep is disturbed.
So i deleted most of the apps and a game on my phone. And for next 40 days, i’m going to meditate every day and be aware as much as possible. I’m writing this down so i can stay true to it.
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[c=#002673]“The content of your mind is not your choice; it is decided by where you are. Everything that is around you gets into it. You have no choice about what you have gathered. And what you have gathered in your mind goes far beyond your present levels of perception. But it gathers everything that the five senses come in touch with. In wakefulness and in sleep, it gathers. It is just that most of it is not in the form of conscious memory, so you do not know. But it is all there.
This mind is a fantastic instrument, anything and everything that it comes in touch with, it is storing it up for you, for your use. But now you are sleeping in it, you are living in it, so it is big trouble – big time, not small time. If you could keep the garbage bin in such a way that, when you want it you can open it, and when you don't want to use it, you can shut it and keep it there, that would be great. The problem right now is that it is always open. Not only it is open, but you are sitting in it. You have to crawl out of it now.”
~ Sadhguru
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