tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673339801678718571.post8392328321744270608..comments2024-03-03T07:27:47.814-08:00Comments on Awake by Katie ~ Katie Davis Author, "Awake Joy": Ego-ji and Fear, Anger and Sadness by Katie Davis, Author, "Awake Joy"Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067095269484567469noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673339801678718571.post-90112015838338451332011-09-26T17:48:24.435-07:002011-09-26T17:48:24.435-07:00Beloved Xristos ~
You are totally and completely ...Beloved Xristos ~<br /><br />You are totally and completely embraced in this matter ... you are truly loved. <br /><br />The primary addiction is compulsive thinking and some of the secondary addictions may be to cover up all of the compulsive thinking. The body believe what those negative thoughts are saying. In fact, negative emotion is the body's reaction to negative thinking.<br /><br />I am not asking you to change a single thing. I am simply inviting you to look directly at those thoughts and realize that there is a direct correlation between the thoughts and the corresponding emotions.<br /><br />I am neither a doctor or a therapist. If you feel that you require that support, I would encourage you to do so.<br /><br />That said, sweet Heart ... there is NOTHING wrong with you. :) <br /><br />Are you AWARE of the sadness? Now look directly for a moment and see. Does that AWARENESS have any issue at all? Rest as that awareness.<br /><br />The breath meditation is perfect. In fact, it could open an entirely 'new' dimension; one of simply being ... the sense "I am," rather than "I am this" or "I am that." <br /><br />There are so many who are opening to spiritual awakening and with this opening, we become far more sensitive of the pain that has been held on to for so many years.<br /><br />I just posted another blog last night that might also be helpful. It's title is "The Heart of the Matter."<br /><br />One last thing. Is it possible to shift out of time to simply being here and now? Negativity belongs to the ego and the ego always fixates on the past and future.<br /><br />Just being here now ... feel how beautiful the air feels as it moves in and out your nose. Just this ... now. <br /><br />Oh yes, and being compassionate and kind to Beloved Xristos.<br /><br />All Love ~ KatieKatie Davis, Author, Awake Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08067095269484567469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673339801678718571.post-86904743732256163592011-09-25T11:50:23.674-07:002011-09-25T11:50:23.674-07:00I arrived at this blog with a search for sadness a...I arrived at this blog with a search for sadness and ego release. The wonder of the internet is that one can find a congruence of ideas. <br />The reason I did the search is because I have been practicing breath meditation for four months and recently quit smoking "cold turkey" 2 mths. ago, thinking well what chance is there of being enlightened if I am an addict? Anyway in the last month or so I have felt a sadness like grieving and depressive to the point of thinking of ending it all. My small wisdom however reminds me though that suicide is an angry act toward those who love me.<br />But I was wondering is this sadness grieving over the loss of a habit, the loss of the identity that smoking gives or perhaps the shedding of some part of my ego or a combination? I am thinking the latter. I have given up smoking previously in my life for periods of several years, but was not aware of grieving it, perhaps because I replaced smoking with increased indulgence in alcohol, sex, coffee even long distance running and swimming. This time I try to minimize relying on replacement of one addiction for another, as in the long term I want to be free of addiction or at least the addictive behaviour. I phrase it thus because the reality maybe even if I never smoke again the addiction will always be there.Xristoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17356342370395673770noreply@blogger.com