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April 19, 2015
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April 13, 2015
How to Live in the Now
When my spiritual journey began, I wasn’t sure how to live in the Present, nor did I know anyone who could show me how. That all changed when I met my spiritual teacher. And my spiritual growth rapidly accelerated with my newfound ability that I began to practice incessantly, ultimately leading me to my own spiritual awakening three years later.
Today is your lucky day!
I will do for you what my spiritual teacher did for me. I will show you how to experience the Present. In this video, I will guide you step-by-step into the Now. Even if you already know how to be present, I think you will benefit from watching it.
Be sure to leave me a comment or question in the box below. More importantly, please forward this email to everyone you know who might benefit from watching it. I need your assistance in spreading my teaching to the masses.
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March 29, 2015
The Myth Regarding Detachment
In this video, I address the myth regarding the spiritual practice of “Detachment.” It’s a common concern my clients have as they make the effort to live more in the Now. Maybe it’s a concern you have too. Watch this video to learn how detachment is not bad at all, but something that will improve your life.
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February 18, 2015
A Question Regarding Detachment
A concern often expressed by my clients is, “In my efforts to be more present, will I become more aloof or appear uncaring as I become less identified with events and people affecting my life?” This is a common misconception, and the answer is quite simply, “No.” What my clients are referring to is “detachment.”
If you are not living in the present your normal state is one of attachment or identification. Meaning, in any given moment your ego or mind is attached or identified with an emotion, thought, person, event, etc. This attachment keeps you in the past or the future and not in the present moment. If you were to stop and observe your thoughts, you would see that your mind and ego are like a pinball in a pinball machine, bouncing off the bumpers haphazardly without any clear intention. For most individuals, this is their normal state of consciousness—haphazardly moving from one identification or attachment to the next without self-awareness or presence.
When you engage the Now, you enter into a state of calm detachment and objectivity. Being detached does not mean that you are uncaring. It means that you don’t react negatively or lose energy to stimuli and things affecting you. In other words, detachment means you retain your state of presence and internal peacefulness amidst the whirlwind of activities and emotions of those around you.
Most of your suffering is self-inflicted and unnecessary as it is due to the ego being identified or attached. The ego takes everything personally, almost always reacts negatively, and expends a great deal of energy in the process.
For example, say you are driving and the person behind you is impatiently riding your bumper. You are going the speed limit, but that is not fast enough for the driver behind you who, when you look in the rear view mirror is obviously annoyed you aren’t going faster. You can’t change lanes because someone else is in the lane beside you. So, you speed up to create space so that the person in a hurry can access the other lane and pass you.
The ego’s first reaction is to take offense, yell at the other driver to slow down, maybe even make an obscene gesture at them as they pass you. Your blood pressure has increased and you are irritated. Maybe you fantasize about the other driver getting a speeding ticket or worse.
In a brief amount of time, you have allowed another person or event to completely consume a few minutes of your life and make you negative. Time that you can’t get back; time wasted because your ego took it as a personal attack.
If you were present while driving, you would have encountered the driver with detachment. You would have noticed that he was in a hurry and you were inhibiting him. Instead of taking it personally and becoming negative, you would realize that you were not the problem, and that this person may have a very good reason for being in a hurry. You do what is necessary to let him pass you. You would then continue driving without having lost any energy at all and still remain present.
Detachment is non-identification. It means not taking things personally. It often requires that you put yourself in another’s persons shoes, to see the world through their eyes. To be detached requires that you be compassionate, that you have an understanding of the human condition. Practicing detachment will make it easier for you to be present and remain in the present.
Peace and blessings,
Sullins
Being Present Is an Awakening to Your True Self
Each time you make the effort to be in the Now, you experience an awakening. When you are present, you experience life from the true nature, your soul.
February 17, 2015
Try to Bring Awareness to Negative Thinking
Do you experience moments of worry, anxiety, and fear? Of course you do. Everyone does. Do you sometimes make decisions because you don’t want to appear foolish, or you are worried what others might think? Do you ever feel as though sometimes your worries and fears prevent you from living the life you desire?
If you can bring presence to those moments when you are encountering negative thoughts, you can experience being the observer of those thoughts. You can experience those thoughts as being separate from you, as being an entity outside of yourself. I liken the experience to being in a movie theater and watching the story of someone else’s life. You are witnessing the events of another’s life but you are merely there as the observer to that life. You are not engaged in the actual events of their life. You can have this same experience with your own life. Through presence, you enter into that space where you become the observer of the your thoughts.
In this state of observing, when you are able to bring awareness to the activity of the ego, you realize that the worries and fears of the ego are merely thoughts that ultimately have no power whatsoever, that they only have power when you leave the Present and the ego returns and latches on to those thoughts and believes them to be real. When you identify with those thoughts, and all the fear and worry returns, you are no longer the observer but you become what you observe, meaning you become worried, you become fearful, you become your negative thoughts.
So, try to bring awareness to your negative thoughts. Become the observer. By doing so you will see that negative thoughts have no power over you unless you allow the ego to identify with them.
You can experience freedom from your negative thoughts. The more time you spend as the observer to the endless chatter of the ego, the more you will be able to separate from those thoughts of anxiety, worry, and fear, that restrict you from living the life you desire.
I wish you all the best in your personal and spiritual journeys.
Peace and blessings,
Sullins
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February 11, 2015
Bring Awareness to Negative Thoughts
Do you experience moments of worry, anxiety, and fear? Of course you do. Everyone does. Do you sometimes make decisions because you don’t want to appear foolish, or you are worried what others might think? Do you ever feel as though sometimes your worries and fears prevent you from living the life you desire?
If you can bring presence to those moments when you are encountering negative thoughts, you can experience being the observer of those thoughts. You can experience those thoughts as being separate from you, as being an entity outside of yourself. I liken the experience to being in a movie theater and watching the story of someone else’s life. You are witnessing the events of another’s life but you are merely there as the observer to that life. You are not engaged in the actual events of their life. You can have this same experience with your own life. Through presence, you enter into that space where you become the observer of the your thoughts.
In this state of observing, when you are able to bring awareness to the activity of the ego, you realize that the worries and fears of the ego are merely thoughts that ultimately have no power whatsoever, that they only have power when you leave the Present and the ego returns and latches on to those thoughts and believes them to be real. When you identify with those thoughts, and all the fear and worry returns, you are no longer the observer but you become what you observe, meaning you become worried, you become fearful, you become your negative thoughts.
So, try to bring awareness to your negative thoughts. Become the observer. By doing so you will see that negative thoughts have no power over you unless you allow the ego to identify with them.
You can experience freedom from your negative thoughts. The more time you spend as the observer to the endless chatter of the ego, the more you will be able to separate from those thoughts of anxiety, worry, and fear, that restrict you from living the life you desire.
I wish you all the best in your personal and spiritual journeys.
Peace and blessings,
February 9, 2015
Bring Awareness to Negative Thoughts
Do you experience moments of worry, anxiety, and fear? Of course you do. Everyone does. Do you sometimes make decisions because you don’t want to appear foolish, or you are worried what others might think? Do you ever feel as though sometimes your worries and fears prevent you from living the life you desire? […]
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February 2, 2015
Are You Helping or Hindering Your Soul?
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One of the more profound experiences you will have living in the Now is liberation from the body and mind. When this occurs, you realize the body is merely a vessel for your soul. I encourage you to think of your body not only as a vessel, but also as an instrument, a tool for your soul. If you neglect it, you will be more prone to identifying with the problems that arise from failing to properly care for it. This will create unnecessary suffering in your life and make it harder to live in the Now...
January 25, 2015
Are You Helping or Hindering Your Soul?
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I encourage you to think of your body and mind as an instrument, a tool for the soul. If you ignore it, you will be more prone to identifying with the problems that arise from neglect. This, in turn, creates unnecessary suffering in your life and makes it harder to be in the Now.
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