Day 7 - Present Moment Awareness III

40 Day Meditation Retreat 2007 with Sri Vasudeva
"Be Wise in Action"
Day 7 - Sunday April 1, 2007
www.blue-star.org

You can also use the present moment very powerfully in recalling the past and looking at things from different angles to see how you can bring healing to the situation. The beauty of this is you can manage the situation in the present. If you are fully in the present, then you can think, 'How do I look at this in a more expansive way?' And as you hold yourself in the present, 'How can I explore bringing it into a spiritual space where I can see it in a more forgiving way, a more accepting way, a more compassionate way, and a more understanding way?' When you begin to explore that in the present, you can shift, looking at it from a different perspective: 'Can I go back and think of the person and how they would have been looking at it in their level of consciousness?'

Sometimes you sit to meditate or you have quiet moments and immediately your mind is drawn back to situations that are unresolved. Because, in our normal human living we want to resolve situations, we want to be happy. It is the natural tendency of our being to want to be in harmony within and without. So, we go back into conflict. It is easy to come back into the mind because we feel unsettled.

Deal with it, try to reason it out and then put it away; don't suppress it because if you suppress it, it is going to come up again and again. If you do not deal with things that come up into your daily thinking or daily consciousness, they are going to come up again and again or remain under the surface unresolved. When you are fully in the moment, you can be fully in the moment with a past situation and be fully in charge of it and explore how you can bring healing from a more spiritual perspective.

Do you try to stay in the present moment while analyzing conflicts from the past? Are you centered and detached from this past situation as you analyze it?

Come share your thoughts, ideas and examples of how you examine past situations, and let us know what you will try to do differently after seeing this message!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Spirituality
• Kundalini
• Kirtan
• Sri
• Vasudeva
• Blue
• Star
• Chanting
• Chakra
• spiritual
• chant
• bhajan
• satsang
• music
• devotion

[SpaceOfOrigin]

i just found these videos. really good info and reminders

thank you