Question:
Hi Adam,
I have a small doubt that I need your help with. There is a conflict within me about working on my website. One part inside wants to progress with it. Another part balks at the workload and won't bend the mind to think of it. Since I have been reading your writings and meditating regularly, I have been "spectating this conflict" without taking sides, and without feeling as if these are "my voices" inside "my head"...
“We tend to give great value and importance to our painful emotions, we seem to give great belief and importance to what makes us suffer. We are somehow addicted to it. Don't give such faith to what hurts. See how it feels to no longer contribute to that which internally disturbs. If you relinquish your faith in the painful, a more peaceful quality can emerge...”
After a one-to-one session on Skype with somebody recently, here is an insight that others may benefit from:
Often as human beings we take it on ourselves to decide what our experience should be, and then strive to make that a reality. Perhaps it comes from more primal days, where we wanted food so went out and got it, or where we ere thirsty we went to drink, but when this deciding how we should feel and then striving towards it becomes an inner habit relating to thoughts and emotions, we can sometimes feel stuck in a tangled mess.
From this week's newsletter - For many of us, the challenges of life become far more deeply engrained in our minds as troubles, because in the background there is a secret assumption that the world should make us happy. If you don’t act the way I want, do what I think you should do, or if things don’t go exactly how I wanted them to go - if the assumption is that you or the world should make me happy - then I will suffer.
After a number of years in the making, I have a new book that is available to buy, either in paperback or as an ebook. It is a culmination of most of the themes touched on in this website, all weaved within short stories and adventure tales that make for an enjoyable read as well as a spiritual experience...
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