Day 23 - Ego Beyond Limitation

40 Day Meditation Retreat 2007 with Sri Vasudeva
"Be Wise in Action"
Day 23 - Tuesday April 17, 2007
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You may ask yourself in your meditation, "Why am I not going further"? A great possibility is that you are comfortable where you are. Your body feels relaxed. Your mind feels a little comfortable. You stay in this state that I call "a bubble". You don't really venture forward, "How can I deepen my meditation? How can I go further? What is the goal?" You limit yourself just by the comfort level you are in; you stagnate. In meditation you need to push yourself further, to actually see that you are stagnating. "How can I experience more in this meditation? How can I go deeper in my meditation?" And continuously strive to improve. It is easy to get into a lull and you limit yourself just by your acceptance of that state.

It is also important to look at the ego limiting itself in terms of the energy of the different centres we spoke about. You can see how the ego can limit itself by its belief in every one of these centres:

Heart: If you think of the emotional centre of the heart, when we think, "I am lonely, I am sad, I am fearful," that emotional quality limits yourself, so that is coming from the emotional area.

Navel: If you are in your centre of vitality, the navel, when you think, "I am weak, I've no energy," you limit yourself.

Base: When at the base you think, "I am not grounded, I'm not physically strong."

All these are limiting thoughts or qualities that come from each centre.

How do we overcome this? How do we shift from this kind of limiting idea or belief that undermines our well-being and confidence? Here we can use "belief" in a very powerful way, or what we may sometimes refer to as "faith." If you use the power of an affirmation for example, in a strong way, and hold onto the affirmation until you can feel every fibre of your being vibrating with this affirmation. That is an important point to note, "until you can feel every fibre of your being vibrating with this affirmation"; you will experience a liberating feeling. This is where people say, "Think positive. Believe in yourself. Have faith."

A way to do that is to take an affirmation right through. Say it, say it, say it! Bring it into your emotional being. Bring it into your physical being. Bring it into your vital being. Let every centre resonate to this affirmation: "I am strong, mentally, emotionally, physically, vitally, I am strong. I am strong. I am strong. I am strong." Begin to repeat that until you believe it and if you keep on saying it enough to yourself, you will.

Are you venturing forward in your meditations or do you find yourself stagnating, stuck in a comfortable "bubble"?

Do you allow the ego to limit itself?

Do you use affirmations to overcome limiting thoughts or qualities that come from each energy centre?

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