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Isha
When we look at the world, we often see many things we wish to change. It’s frustrating to feel so powerless when faced with seemingly irreversible problems - climate change, war, famine. Some of us fight to stand up for the causes we believe in. Others choose to get on with our lives, resigned to the impossibility of making any real difference. Yet there is a way that we can all contribute to transforming the world we live in: by transforming ourselves.
When I change my perception, something incredible happens: the world changes. We really do not realize how powerful we are; our perception creates our reality. If we are always focusing on what we perceive as wrong, on fear and lack and separation, that is what we will see. When we start to focus on appreciation, we become more aware of the incredible gifts life is bringing us in every moment. This does not mean we deny the challenges at hand; it just means we focus on valuing what we have, and by doing so, we bring more love into our lives.
As your consciousness expands, it is natural to become more caring about the environment. When we experience victim consciousness, we feel separate from everyone. We experience lack, and so we try to take as much as we can. But when we perceive union, we experience an abundance, and we naturally begin to value all around us. When our perception changes from us-and-them to one of union, all behaviors based in separation just dissolve. We don’t have to do anything in order for this to happen; only heal ourselves.
Want to make a difference? Change yourself. Want to see more joy, peace and love in the world? Find ways to give more of that in your life. What we focus on grows. Let’s choose for the love.
Isha is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher and author, and the founder of the Isha Foundation Educating for Peace. Her latest book and movie, Why Walk When You Can Fly? explains her system for self-love and the expansion of consciousness. Learn more at www.isha.com.
To Beaver or Not to Beaver? In Pursuit of Greatness
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Several years ago, I visited Tierra Del Fuego, an incredibly beautiful island off the tip of Argentina, and home to the southernmost village in the world. This land of jagged snowy peaks is also the home to an enormous colony of beavers. These beavers are not native to Argentina, I was told, but were brought there from Canada in the 1940s by some ambitious entrepreneurs, who thought they would be able to make a fortune out of the beaver's furs. Their reasoning seemed ingenious: the beaver's only predator was the bear, and there were no bears in Argentina! With no predators, the beavers would multiply quickly, and they would reap the benefits, selling the expensive furs and making a fortune.
The plan was soon put into action, and 25 pairs of beavers arrived in Tierra Del Fuego. As the beavers went about their beavery ways, the entrepreneurs waited gleefully for the fruits of their labor. The beavers did indeed multiply, but something rather unexpected happened -- the newborns did not develop thick coats like their Canadian relatives. In fact, their coats were totally useless.
The distraught entrepreneurs soon learned that the beaver's coat grows thick when the animal experiences fear. With no bears, there was no fear, and so their coats did not grow!
In our society, comfort is king. Anything that makes life easier and requires less effort, is prized. We have learned to avoid confrontation and conflict, to value routine over the unknown, and security over spontaneity. Yet often it is the things that make us uncomfortable -- the hard knocks, the disappointments and the losses -- that challenge us most in our lives. They are the storms we wish we did not have to weather, yet they are the storms that make us strong. They give us maturity and responsibility, for what better teacher can we have than our own direct experience?
Life becomes stagnated when we remove the challenges. Just like a spoiled child, who when finally facing the world, finds himself without the skills to function in society, if we overprotect ourselves and try to avoid the inevitable conflicts of life, we may find comfort, but not growth. We may find distraction, but not self-realization. To flourish and grow as an individual, we must face the world head on, and embrace the losses and disappointments life brings us. Then, instead of perceiving them as the obstacles in our way, we can use difficult situations to grow, to push through our boundaries and expand our horizons.
How did you grow from a child into a responsible adult? Was it by not making any mistakes? Or was it through learning from the consequences of your actions? Ultimately, we have to go through things ourselves before we fully understand. Maybe, when we do so, we will think, oh, now I see what mom was talking about, but it is having the experience that brings us to maturity. The way we raise our children often reflects our need to protect ourselves from the natural challenges of life; we don't want them to make the same mistakes we did, yet maybe they have to in order to become wise.
It is natural to experience ups and downs in life. We are having a human experience, and that entails a wide range of feelings and situations. When we begin to nourish an internal space of security and unconditional love through the expansion of consciousness, we start to experience these extremes more freely. We begin to embrace the contrasts of life, and find adventure in change and uncertainty. Self realization is not about living in a permanent blissed out state where you never feel any emotions. It is about embracing the contrasts of life fully, without fear: established in internal freedom, the need to control our circumstances falls away, and we can dance unfettered to the varying harmonies of the symphony of life.
You can receive notice of this blog every Wednesday by clicking on "Become a Fan" at the top of this page. Isha's latest book and movie, Why Walk When You Can Fly? explains her system for self-love and the expansion of consciousness.
Follow Isha on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ishasystem
Isha
When we look at the world, we often see many things we wish to change. It’s frustrating to feel so powerless when faced with seemingly irreversible problems - climate change, war, famine. Some of us fight to stand up for the causes we believe in. Others choose to get on with our lives, resigned to the impossibility of making any real difference. Yet there is a way that we can all contribute to transforming the world we live in: by transforming ourselves.
When I change my perception, something incredible happens: the world changes. We really do not realize how powerful we are; our perception creates our reality. If we are always focusing on what we perceive as wrong, on fear and lack and separation, that is what we will see. When we start to focus on appreciation, we become more aware of the incredible gifts life is bringing us in every moment. This does not mean we deny the challenges at hand; it just means we focus on valuing what we have, and by doing so, we bring more love into our lives.
As your consciousness expands, it is natural to become more caring about the environment. When we experience victim consciousness, we feel separate from everyone. We experience lack, and so we try to take as much as we can. But when we perceive union, we experience an abundance, and we naturally begin to value all around us. When our perception changes from us-and-them to one of union, all behaviors based in separation just dissolve. We don’t have to do anything in order for this to happen; only heal ourselves.
Want to make a difference? Change yourself. Want to see more joy, peace and love in the world? Find ways to give more of that in your life. What we focus on grows. Let’s choose for the love.
Isha is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher and author, and the founder of the Isha Foundation Educating for Peace. Her latest book and movie, Why Walk When You Can Fly? explains her system for self-love and the expansion of consciousness. Learn more at www.isha.com.
To Beaver or Not to Beaver? In Pursuit of Greatness
digg Share this on Facebook Huffpost - stumble reddit del.ico.us ShareThis RS
Several years ago, I visited Tierra Del Fuego, an incredibly beautiful island off the tip of Argentina, and home to the southernmost village in the world. This land of jagged snowy peaks is also the home to an enormous colony of beavers. These beavers are not native to Argentina, I was told, but were brought there from Canada in the 1940s by some ambitious entrepreneurs, who thought they would be able to make a fortune out of the beaver's furs. Their reasoning seemed ingenious: the beaver's only predator was the bear, and there were no bears in Argentina! With no predators, the beavers would multiply quickly, and they would reap the benefits, selling the expensive furs and making a fortune.
The plan was soon put into action, and 25 pairs of beavers arrived in Tierra Del Fuego. As the beavers went about their beavery ways, the entrepreneurs waited gleefully for the fruits of their labor. The beavers did indeed multiply, but something rather unexpected happened -- the newborns did not develop thick coats like their Canadian relatives. In fact, their coats were totally useless.
The distraught entrepreneurs soon learned that the beaver's coat grows thick when the animal experiences fear. With no bears, there was no fear, and so their coats did not grow!
In our society, comfort is king. Anything that makes life easier and requires less effort, is prized. We have learned to avoid confrontation and conflict, to value routine over the unknown, and security over spontaneity. Yet often it is the things that make us uncomfortable -- the hard knocks, the disappointments and the losses -- that challenge us most in our lives. They are the storms we wish we did not have to weather, yet they are the storms that make us strong. They give us maturity and responsibility, for what better teacher can we have than our own direct experience?
Life becomes stagnated when we remove the challenges. Just like a spoiled child, who when finally facing the world, finds himself without the skills to function in society, if we overprotect ourselves and try to avoid the inevitable conflicts of life, we may find comfort, but not growth. We may find distraction, but not self-realization. To flourish and grow as an individual, we must face the world head on, and embrace the losses and disappointments life brings us. Then, instead of perceiving them as the obstacles in our way, we can use difficult situations to grow, to push through our boundaries and expand our horizons.
How did you grow from a child into a responsible adult? Was it by not making any mistakes? Or was it through learning from the consequences of your actions? Ultimately, we have to go through things ourselves before we fully understand. Maybe, when we do so, we will think, oh, now I see what mom was talking about, but it is having the experience that brings us to maturity. The way we raise our children often reflects our need to protect ourselves from the natural challenges of life; we don't want them to make the same mistakes we did, yet maybe they have to in order to become wise.
It is natural to experience ups and downs in life. We are having a human experience, and that entails a wide range of feelings and situations. When we begin to nourish an internal space of security and unconditional love through the expansion of consciousness, we start to experience these extremes more freely. We begin to embrace the contrasts of life, and find adventure in change and uncertainty. Self realization is not about living in a permanent blissed out state where you never feel any emotions. It is about embracing the contrasts of life fully, without fear: established in internal freedom, the need to control our circumstances falls away, and we can dance unfettered to the varying harmonies of the symphony of life.
You can receive notice of this blog every Wednesday by clicking on "Become a Fan" at the top of this page. Isha's latest book and movie, Why Walk When You Can Fly? explains her system for self-love and the expansion of consciousness.
Follow Isha on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ishasystem
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