Tero Toivanen's List: esoteria

• Siddhartha Gautama sat upon the ground beneath the protective branches of the old Sacred Fig tree. Unaware of the passing of time Siddhartha sat and he sat. He was deep in mediatation and completely in the moment. He wasn't reliving the past and wasn't fantasizing about the future. Instead, he was living fully in the present and there beneath the shelter of the heart-shaped leaves of the Sacred Fig, Siddhartha Gautama achieved enlightenment.

• Each position also works on specific chakras or energy centers of the body.
• Pranayama is the technique of moving the energy. In yoga this is done through the different breath techniques learned. As the breath moves, the energy moves. This energy is then directed into the higher stages of the practice where one is engaged in meditation and the rest of the yogic limbs. One becomes master of one's own body and mind. You can act with awareness throughout your yoga practice and in life.

• When we welcome the experience of an unwanted feeling, that feeling disappears
• 1.  It is only our resistance to a problematic situation or feeling that sustains it. 
• 2.  Feelings are not 'good' or 'bad', they are our best friends

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• 1. Whatever frequency you emit, the exact same will be attracted back
• It is therefore important that we always actively attempt to maintain our beliefs and momentum towards our goals. Doing it passively will make us fall into the frame of beliefs and attitudes of other people by default, because of the nature of our minds communicating with one another in a subtle way.
• When you have a sole focus and direction, the frequency which you emit will be extremely specific yet singular and bulked at the same time. The result will be that it penetrates into the minds of everyone around you to be processed in their minds, so that their actions and behaviors are all such, that your goal becomes easier to accomplish. You will find that luck is always at your doorstep and massive opportunities open up without even trying.

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• 1. Alcohol kills brain cells
• Brain cells can be destroyed in critical brain areas. This means that a habit or fact which you had known for years, may suddenly be erased from your immediate memory.
• 2. Alcohol makes you repeat the same cycles over and over
• alcohol makes us forget the reasons we did particular things, so that we end up doing them again.
• 3. Alcohol makes you inefficient and lazy
• One session of drinking can take the body up to 7 days to recover from. If the body is fatigued, then so too is the mind, because they are interlinked.
• 4. Alcohol gives you fake confidence and power
• Real confidence comes from realizing that you already have it, not abusing it with alcohol.
• 5. Alcohol reduces your consciousness capacity
• The effect is that your focus will be scattered, so you will not be able to harness the power of the energies latent within you.

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• 1. When time moves quickly, it is because we have the correct mindset.

   

  This mindset is characterized by living in the moment, and doing our best in every situation. Therefore, if time seems to fly by, we are doing something right.
• 2. Time moves quickly because our mindset has established quantum upper position where time does not exist.
• This state exists when we are in a state of non measurement, so that all quantum possibilities have the potential to flow to us at any moment. In this state, time does not exist, except where we decide to measure reality by conscious observation.
• We therefore must act in the moment and give 100% mental attention to everything we do, because we are attempting to change yourself to create reality change.
• 3. Time moves quickly because we are allowing creative energy to flow to us through our mindset.
• The creative energy creates a new reality through us. Time is in effect jumping from one quantum reality to the other instantly, through the correct mindset.

• 4. When time goes slowly, it is because we continue to measure the time.

   

  When we look at the time and continue to measure it, the Superposition is cut off.

• When we accept that we need to be in “the zone” and in “the moment” to create reality change, we are opening ourselves up to our dreams.

   
   
  • The quick flow of time means our mindset is correct and shifting quickly.
   
  • Our goals will seem to achieved without any effort whatsoever. We will be enjoying the process so much that reality change is quick.
   
  • We will have a lot more mental integrity, focus and momentum towards our goals. This will happen effortlessly and as a result of mental shift.
   
  • New opportunities will continue to open up as a result of mental shift.
   
  • We will be oblivious to everything else which is happening around us. We will be in state of bliss.

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• Mindful people can hear negative feedback without feeling threatened. They fight less with their romantic partners and are more accommodating and less defensive. As a result, mindful couples have more satisfying relationships.
• 1: To improve your performance, stop thinking about it

• 2: To avoid worrying about the future, focus on the present
• 3: If you want a future with your significant other, inhabit the present

• There's no better way to bring yourself into the present moment than to focus on your breathing.
• 4: To make the most of time, lose track of it
• Perhaps the most complete way of living in the moment is the state of total absorption psychologists call flow.
• 5: If something is bothering you, move toward it rather than away  from it

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• The solution is acceptance—letting the emotion be there. That is, being open to the way things are in each moment without trying to manipulate or change the experience—without judging it, clinging to it, or pushing it away. The present moment can only be as it is. Trying to change it only frustrates and exhausts you. Acceptance relieves you of this needless extra suffering.
• If you feel anxiety, for instance, you can accept the feeling, label it as anxiety—then direct your attention to something else instead. You watch your thoughts, perceptions, and emotions flit through your mind without getting involved. Thoughts are just thoughts. You don't have to believe them and you don't have to do what they say.
• 6: Know that you don't know
• Langer says, is to develop the habit of always noticing new things in whatever situation you're in. That process creates engagement with the present moment and releases a cascade of other benefits. Noticing new things puts you emphatically in the here and now.
• You can become mindful at any moment just by paying attention to your immediate experience. You can do it right now. What's happening this instant? Think of yourself as an eternal witness, and just observe the moment. What do you see, hear, smell? It doesn't matter how it feels—pleasant or unpleasant, good or bad—you roll with it because it's what's present; you're not judging it. And if you notice your mind wandering, bring yourself back. Just say to yourself, "Now. Now. Now."

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• Here's the most fundamental paradox of all: Mindfulness isn't a goal, because goals are about the future, but you do have to set the intention of paying attention to what's happening at the present moment. As you read the words printed on this page, as your eyes distinguish the black squiggles on white paper, as you feel gravity anchoring you to the planet, wake up. Become aware of being alive. And breathe. As you draw your next breath, focus on the rise of your abdomen on the in-breath, the stream of heat through your nostrils on the out-breath. If you're aware of that feeling right now, as you're reading this, you're living in the moment. Nothing happens next. It's not a destination. This is it. You're already there.