Dear Gavriel,
I came to you a broken man, angry and frustrated, with my head filled with many futile thoughts. And you in your wonderful calm way taught me meditation. This taught me how to calm down, empty my head of thoughts and look out at the world with a proper perspective. I am 57 years old and most of my life passed in anger with futile thoughts. It is not easy to change at this age. I have changed, my head no longer has futile and empty thoughts and I am enjoying life. All of this is to your credit. Thank you dear brother.
Thank you very much.
Shabti G.
Manager of technology information systems
Showing posts with label excessive thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label excessive thoughts. Show all posts
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Reactive and Proactive
When someone says the word "RELAX" do you find yourself relaxing or becoming more tense?
If you find yourself becoming tenser than you are being REACTIVE. You are reacting to a word in the opposite way that you should be for whatever reason. The reason does not matter. The only thing that matters is for you to change your "RE-ACTION" to "PRO-ACTION" meaning, YOU TAKE CHARGE!
Think about what the word relax means, not the fact that someone is telling you to do it. The word means to let the body re-lax (to return to being lax once again). To let the muscles become soft and supple. To let the muscles become extended, elongated without pressure or tension pulling them back together. To let the joints expand and release pressure on the ends of the bones where they meet at the joint or at the vertebrae. Do this part by part over the entire body starting with the head and working your way down. Try to visualize the muscles in your body actually releasing all tension. You do not need to know how the body works you need to know that "now I am working on my facial muscles", "now I am working on my neck muscles" and so on until all tension and stress are pushed out through the hands and feet into the air and earth where they dissipate and the only thing left is soft supple muscle and relieved joints. You may feel a light feeling in those parts of the body or a tingling or a pulsating sensation or just an overall balanced feeling in the whole body.
The main thing is, don't RE-ACT rather PRO-ACT. You are in charge of your body, your thoughts and your emotions. Take charge and be PRO-ACTIVE!
If you find yourself becoming tenser than you are being REACTIVE. You are reacting to a word in the opposite way that you should be for whatever reason. The reason does not matter. The only thing that matters is for you to change your "RE-ACTION" to "PRO-ACTION" meaning, YOU TAKE CHARGE!
Think about what the word relax means, not the fact that someone is telling you to do it. The word means to let the body re-lax (to return to being lax once again). To let the muscles become soft and supple. To let the muscles become extended, elongated without pressure or tension pulling them back together. To let the joints expand and release pressure on the ends of the bones where they meet at the joint or at the vertebrae. Do this part by part over the entire body starting with the head and working your way down. Try to visualize the muscles in your body actually releasing all tension. You do not need to know how the body works you need to know that "now I am working on my facial muscles", "now I am working on my neck muscles" and so on until all tension and stress are pushed out through the hands and feet into the air and earth where they dissipate and the only thing left is soft supple muscle and relieved joints. You may feel a light feeling in those parts of the body or a tingling or a pulsating sensation or just an overall balanced feeling in the whole body.
The main thing is, don't RE-ACT rather PRO-ACT. You are in charge of your body, your thoughts and your emotions. Take charge and be PRO-ACTIVE!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)