Sunday, November 8, 2009

Charles Tart Good and bad NEWS

Charles Tart
Good and bad NEWS

Remember how one time in vogue were joking about the good and the bad news? I'll start with the good.

It consists in the fact that our deep-seated nature is wonderful, and it gives us hope. We can become less erratic. We can gain more vitality and a sense of reality and more contact with their own deep nature. There are also many contributing methods, and although they often require social support, they are difficult to practice at your own risk.

Bad news has two components. On the one hand, we are programmed in such a way that we have a very pathetic picture of himself and of life, and it always gives us trouble. On the other - these programs triggered in us automatically and continuously "scroll" and supported by the carelessness and thoughtlessness of our society. We do not need any care, getting around in daily life: everything happens by itself.

Gurdjieff, who approached things straight, talked about it in plain terms, namely, that the majority of the people we meet on the street, dead. They walk and talk, make a career in senior positions, but they are dead. Their inner essence, soul, spirit - as it is called - so much buried under the rubbish programmed that practically they are just machines.

I do not like the allegations that someone is hopeless. This is contrary to my own hopes and temperament. However, many people are so deeply mired in its conditionality, that chance to change them very small. They will live and die as programmed machines. And we all largely similar machines.

I'm going on the one hand, to present some ideas about why we must be careful what helps and what hinders this, but on the other - offer a number of means to be attentive in our everyday lives. However, these tools will be absolutely useless if you are not going to use them, they will only work if you're going to work.


CARE

Be careful not too difficult. It does not require special effort. The problem is only to keep in mind about this.

The ideal way to develop mindfulness suggests that you always make a small effort to be more attentive. This is exactly what we need to practice. However, since we are not able to do it well enough, we need to have a number of enlightened teacher, who exactly knows when we slip into fantasy, takes the form of ordinary consciousness, and spoke to us at this moment: "Awake!" This would be particularly useful in those moments when your own observation mechanicalness could lead to serious enlightenment. But to find such a teacher is not easy, especially when it comes to his presence, when care is especially important. So that this idea is not very good. This work must be done ourselves. There are techniques that can help people remember you.

If you are not able to determine in what aspects the most useful thing to remember about the need to be careful (usually the moments when a man deeply immersed in the fantasy, a distorted perception of reality, or are prepared to do something stupid), then we can give advice mainly to remind myself of care as often as possible. But it may be, and so that people will remember about this, even at a crucial moment for him when it would attract attention to something such that it would be deeply concerned, shake, or to change his life. Our unconscious psychological defense allows us to avoid trouble. In other words, we tend to implement the practice of a daily reality in the smallest moments, but not the greatest opportunities, that is not psychologically rich in those moments when we have learned to be more and more could be done.

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Today, I propose a detailed description of remote training "heightened awareness and sensitivity.

Authentic esoteric directions talk about the importance of enlightenment for man, and a tool for human development offer practices to increase care.

We recall the statement of someone known to the people that our life - is not the number of days lived, and the number of days that you can remember. While understanding the quality of life that is not enough, apparently, can be partly agree with this statement. In fact, the quality of life is not only interesting lived a few days. But, on the other hand, food for the soul - quality emotions are important too. Man - trehsostaven, it consists of a body, soul and spirit, and all three parts must be supplied, and therefore the soul must eat high-quality impressions. Care is also important for the relationship, because if we are attentive to other people, we understand what is behind this or that utterance or action, and not get involved in unnecessary explanation of the relationship. In everyday affairs, we can be more tolerant of other people as well as understand that many of their actions, are due to their negligence.

And, finally, raising their own awareness and mindfulness, we will find ways out of undesirable behavior and emotions, while maintaining a tremendous amount of energy, which is useful for a more meaningful cases. G., calling people by robots, he even said that many people we see around us, dead. They can make their careers, to support themselves somehow necessary or not really necessary, but they have not awakened the spirit, and not ripe soul. Looking at the people around, especially in large cities, I have to partially agree with Gurdjieff.

From the first lesson we begin work on improving care through the so-called alarm clocks - the events that remind us of ourselves. Exploring exercises for mindfulness to the body. Then we conclude spiritual contract, holding exercise - meditation, awareness of its Buddha-nature ", and learn about the Initiation Program, which allows you to share received spiritual gifts with others, on a thin level.

Olga writes: Amazing the power of its impact on the practice of awareness of his Buddha-Nature. It turned out just a little touch, while experiencing a feeling of pristine freshness, tenderness, freedom and omnipotence.

Beginning with the second lesson, after the new material you requested correspondence through which you can find out how your training is progressing bandmates, who appear any difficulty, and who has come a surprising discovery. At the request of the students in the course exercises are added to control thoughts, for greater effect of meditation. Communication is weekly, students write reports, ask questions, share of use.

Rais writes: I have become more discriminating to the food, the body turns out to be much does not want to different types of travel, as it were for, they found that if you listened to the body, many things fall away by themselves. I was curious to observe his body. Thank you. It seems to be all very simple and that just did not understand?

In the third lesson we learn Toltec practice of determining the energy value of actions, many of the students are aware of their shortcomings and refuse negarmonchnogo behavior that weakens their energy. Practiced negative behavior of the program with someone through a conscious attitude and attention. Disappear conflicts at work and at home, thanks to a new behavior and learning in society. And a lot of different qualitative methods proposed for passage in 10 weeks! Some exercises require special conditions, privacy for 15-20 minutes for meditation, while others carried the day, while walking or commuting to work, so for example, some kind of meditation while walking can be performed at any time. We spent day and slowness to learn more contemplative attitude to the environment and ourselves, throughout the day. And some useful exercises to increase mindfulness and awareness.

In general, training can not be called easy. Practitioner may have to accept that he had met internal resistance. After the first day we begin to relate differently to many things. And the changes - this is not always pleasant. But after about 2-3 weeks, most are already being drawn and fun to live a more relaxed, contemplative, attentive.

Training awareness rather long, 10 lessons - 10 weeks, and volume, materials and correspondence - is a whole book. Continuing through weekly correspondence, reports, and new exercises, the practitioner is in the "tone", constantly moving forward. All the proposed exercise should be done and after the training, itself. But even for this long for the training, but little to global changes appear very significant.

Mary: In my opinion, awareness and sensitivity training is very practical and useful in business and in everyday communication, behavior. Applied practice clearly improves quality of life, increase energy, learn organization, time management, harmonize relationships with oneself and others, relieve stress and unwanted emotions, claim the power. Exercises allow the whole day (from the moment of waking up to bedtime), the best way to spend a day. Changing ways of thinking and even style of life, because you understand the value of each moment, you learn to gratefully accept what is happening, and if necessary to manage events. Frankly, manage, and do not have to. All as it is built very well. Enthusiasm! Dedication to practice "at the beginning of the training sets for a particular wave. Feel responsible for their own destiny and regular connections with all the surrounding world. It was entertaining at the very beginning to observe examples of negligence in himself and others. Astonished, amazed, touched, and even laughed on how insensitive we go, and what it may lead, as illusory problems arise in a vacuum. A total and have something - be careful and stay here and now.

Huge help you have placed at the end of each new lesson our letter-reports of past activities for the previous period. They allow you to see how moving the other band members, clearly show how common difficulties, mistakes, failures and successes. Once again, that this training is unique in its practicality. Therefore I wish to pass it to anyone who wants to succeed in any sphere of life, to become confident, successful, sociable, healthy, energetic. Of skills are priceless! It must feel. Suggested exercises are fast becoming commonplace. Many thanks to you, Albert, for this training. All the materials are not just interesting, they are very effective and, most importantly - open those truths which must touch each developing person.