Tag: spiritual practice
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Emotional Detachment v. Emotional Detachment Disorder
During our spiritual practice, we will inevitability come across the concept of emotional detachment. Emotional detachment is when we overcome our attachments to people and things in our lives based on our dependency for security and safety caused by our ego’s fears. When we overcome our emotional attachments to people and things, we become free…
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The Finer Points of Spiritual Practice
Since starting spiritual practice, I have found some parts of spiritual practice confusing and wanted to share what I have learned. When we practice forgiveness, we do not need to take these people back into our lives. In the past, when I forgave people for hurting me, I also took them back into my life.…
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Freedom from Fear
Fear is the underlying feeling for all negative emotions, such as anger, jealousy, envy, suspicion, resentment, insecurity, etc. What I have observed under the Universal Law of Attraction is that we will attract exactly what we fear. When we feel fear, this emotion is energy, and this negative energy is sent out to others. This…
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Destruction of Emotional Pain
When we face trauma or abuse as children, our emotional growth becomes stunted and we become stuck at the age of that trauma or abuse. My abuse and trauma began when I was eight years old. So for most of my life until recently, I have been at the emotional age of eight. The trouble…
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Layers of Letting Go
For the past two years, I have been practicing truly letting go. What I am learning to let go is the emotional wounds caused by father who was a central figure in my life. My experiences of abuse, abandonment as an infant, and his infidelity to my mother shaped the person I am today. As…
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Learning to be Alone
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person – without possessing the other,…
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Addiction and Ego
As I observe different types of addictions in myself and others, it has become clear to me the root of these addictions. It is our egos. Our ego plays an integral role in our life choices, decisions, behaviors, and actions. I first began by observing what is the common thread in all addictions. It is…
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Understanding the Heart
I have been talking with and helping some friends with their romantic relationships lately. What I have found is that the heart can be mysterious. When open, it can love many people, but when wounded it can love no one, not even ourselves. The heart is the center of our being, the part of us…
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Embracing the Present Moment
I have found true joy in the present moment. We do not look to the future for our happiness, and we do not look back to our past at our sorrows. In the present moment, I finally find inner peace; the worries of my future and the sadness of my past is no where to…
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Living without Expectations of Outcome
When we live without expectations of outcome in our lives, we end our own suffering. I recently have come to understand this very well, and practice this now. This process is part of coming to acceptance about the reality in our life and surrender to that which we cannot control. Expectations of outcome is the…
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