Laws of Attraction
I practice Ashtanga Yoga daily. Ashtanga has 6 levels. The first level is sometimes called "back therapy" and most students, if they are true to the method, will never get past the first level. It takes many lifetimes. I honestly believe I'm approaching the light at the end of the tunnel, as I've discovered and released core tensions that were buried under layers and layers of tight muscles.
What most of us have heard, but still find hard to believe, is that for every muscle that a student lets loose, they also have a thought they are holding on to, that they need to release.
Your body's muscles aren't just tight by themselves. They are constantly bombarded with subconscious muscle intentions, born from those thoughts in the back of your mind.
The New Age / Spiritual Healing movement says our thoughts are responsible for creating attractions in our world. Life sends us the things we are subconsciously telling it to give us.
I had a spiritual epiphany last fall. When I was 8, I witnessed my neighbor run over my dog with her car. Beyond the initial trauma, I bore the weight of that event for the rest of my life until now. Instead of dealing with the loss in a healthy way, I shut down. I became extremely passive-aggressive, and decided that the world did not deserve the best from Jason Neely.
None of this was a conscious decision, mind you. But in hindsight I can see it as clearly as day. That's the point where my grades started slipping, when I no longer cared about doing well.
Since then I've been living in a netherworld where my best efforts are thwarted by what my subconscious was saying I deserved. I was frustrated in my career, often finding that I would volunteer for extra work with no recognition reward. In terms of energy, there was a leak in the system.
Once I discovered this pattern and saw the root cause everything changed for me.
Soon after, the universe started sending me in the right direction.
Maybe you know, I discovered cryptocurrency. And then I discovered Tron. Currently, I am working towards building an organization that will operate a server node on the Tron network. The opportunity is everything I could hope for - I could become a leader in the decentralization movement, helping to tear down today's Internet behemoths - Amazon, eBay, YouTube, Facebook. Tron's business plan hopes to replace all of them with a decentralized media network. They just announced the acquisition of bittorrent, and combining the two technologies will create a powerhouse for content creation, distribution, and sales.
To me, these events are not unrelated. The freedom I would achieve as an operator of the Tron network parallels the freedom I've achieved by letting go of my core muscle tensions, and the rigid thoughts I used to subscribe to.
Comments
I do believe that yoga is good for the soul and the body.
Tension in the mind and body are absolutely connected.
Tron and Bitcoin are a world beyond me, and I do not know or want to learn anything about them unless I absolutely have to. I am glad that folks like you are interested and trying to use them to better the world. Congratulations. It is nice when life is on a roll.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
The Mind is a Powerful Tool
For change. In conjunction with the heart, and absent the ego, we can break through even the most painful of obstacles.
As a practicing Buddhist, I chant. Alone or with other fellow Buddhists, the experience for me is akin to bringing all the dharmas together. The best advice I ever received when I've felt blocked or particularly frustrated with a problem, was to completely open up my emotions, not overthink the problem, and leave my ego out of it.
Sounds simple enough until you try and do it. The difficult part for me was letting go of the resentments that kept coming up whenever I thought about a particular person or a situation I was angry about. And make no mistake about it, anger does have its purposes. It can motivate us to accomplish many things. But ultimately, as a driving force, as a cause we make, it is a destructive one.
In my case, anger served a very important function. It covered me with an impenetrably armor protecting the pain underneath. While anger makes us feel powerful; pain makes us feel vulnerable. But my most rewarding breakthroughs usually followed taking off that armor and looking at the pain underneath. Usually I recognized a pattern that led to the obstacle. Sometimes when I identified the pain, I ended up crying right there in front of my altar allowing myself to let go of years of bottled up emotions. Once properly grieved, it was like being given a key to a very rusty lock where the wisdom to break through that obstacle became "magically" apparent .
Congratulations on your dharma work and for sharing your journey with the rest of us
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Kirtan is an amazing practice
A couple times I've practiced Kirtan chanting, and it's just amazing how time flies! I usually get antsy after a couple hours, but this event ended and it had been 3 hours, and it only felt like 15 minutes.
I think you described the most accessible way for the average person to make real spiritual progress - tap into your emotions and seek out the source of those emotions. The answer WILL come to you if you clear your mind.
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