HEALTHY LIVING: 'THE 10 GOLDEN RULES TO A FREE MIND'

'THE 10 GOLDEN RULES TO A FREE MIND'

Poetic Monthly Magazine, Enlightenment Column - April 2010

Freedom is a state of mind that is completely independent from your external circumstances. You can live in the most difficult circumstances and be free or live like a prisoner amidst your golden palace.  Whether you see the glass as half-empty or half-full is directly influenced by your past life experiences and conditioning. The only way to free yourself from the old patterns and suppressed fears and desires that are preventing you from reaching your highest potential in life and enjoying a long, healthy and happy life is to learn to know your mind and transcend it.  There are many ways to do this and all it takes is a little effort on your part.  It is well worth the benefits you will reap as a result.  For more, read below and visit www.letloverule.us.

Last month, we talked about Freedom and how getting back to the roots of who we truly are by honoring our inner child and living in the now can help us regain this freedom.   This month, I’d like to offer some more practical suggestions on how to access that realm of Infinite Freedom that lies at the core of each and everyone of us.  The “rules” to apply are so simple, you’ll wonder why you haven’t been using them all along.  They’ll help you decondition your mind and ultimately set you free from all the antics and idiosyncrasies that keep us entrapped in unhealthy behaviors... After all life and the way we experience it is all a matter of perspective, a question of mind... And so why not free ourselves from the confines of a limited mind and gain access to self knowledge and the freedom that comes with it?  So go inside, introspect a little, decondition a little so you can love and live a lot!

10 GOLDEN RULES TO A FREE MIND

Code 1  - ACCEPTANCE OF OTHERS 

Learn to accept other people for who they are without judging them in relation to your expectations.  Understand people’s personality as the result of their own conditioning.  

While their mental programming may vary from yours, the same process of conditioning has brought it into existence and while you may be aware of yours, they may not have shed light on theirs yet.  As you start accepting others, they in turn will start to accept you.  And remember to always laugh at yourself, your behavior, and your antics…

Code 2  - ACCEPTANCE OF YOURSELF

Accept yourself with all your qualities and present limitations.  In order to prevent unnecessary anguish, understand that all your actions are the result of your mental makeup and therefore do not dwell on your problems and shortfalls.  All the while, remain intent on cleansing your mind’s content of all inner conflicts which cause all perceived limitations, so you may continue to grow on the spiritual path and come closer to personal freedom.

Code 3  - DETACHMENT

Watch your habituated reactions to your environment and the people around you.  Understand how your attachment to the external can result in discontentment and reduce your need to find happiness in outer activities.  Do not suppress external desires for such suppression causes even more harm then acting them out, but become detached to the outcome of your actions even when it is not as desired.

Code 4  - IDENTIFICATION OF ONE’S OWN EGO – Mental & Emotional Attitude

Identify your greatest needs, attachments, desires, hang ups, etc… One of the best ways to discover your attachments is to trace the cause of your present anger or unhappiness to its source.  This will point out the mental and emotional attitude that causes disturbances.  Focus most intently on the things and people that cause you the most intense dislike as they will unveil, and eventually help you remove, your emotional hang ups.  Treat the whole world as your teacher… 

Code 5  - LIVE FULLY IN THE NOW

Try to live each present moment as fully as possible by giving your full attention to the now, whatever the task may be without thinking about the outcome or completion.  Forget about the past, i.e. do not worry about past “failures” and stop trying to replicate pleasurable experiences too.  Do not anticipate the future either.  You can make plans but see planning as part of the present.  Enjoy every action as you perform it and enjoy the fact that you exist and that your every action is an expression of your very existence. 

Code 6 – DISSOCIATE FROM THE EGO (body, mind, and actions)  

Do not fully identify with your actions, body, or mind, which only make up the Ego.  Realize that your consciousness, i.e. the witness that sees it all, is separate from your Ego and underlies everything in your life.  The more you purify body and mind, the more you will begin to see and identify with the “ever-present” Consciousness rather than with your mind and body.

Code 7  - - BE YOURSELF AND OPEN UP TO OTHERS

Open up and express your true feelings to others. Instead of putting up a wall that causes mental tension and alienation and creates a greater divide with others, be willing to open yourself and be vulnerable.  Do not try and hide your weaknesses for others will most likely feel a sense of falseness emanating from you.

Code 8  - SEE UNREALIZED POTENTIAL IN ALL

Remember (however difficult that may be) that everybody has the potential to reach higher levels of awareness, a potential that lies dormant, awaiting to be tapped.  One’s mental programming is causing a person’s current circumstances, but these can be changed and made more harmonious as soon as one starts understanding himself and his own mind.  

Code 9  - EMBRACE DIFFICULTIES AND ENEMIES

Do not avoid difficult situations and enemies but treat them as your greatest teachers.  Rather than continually associating with people and situations which tune in with your emotional programming and therefore reinforcing and satisfying your individual prejudices, let so-called controversial circumstances bring your emotional conflicts and prejudices to the surface and unveil your mental programming.  Once this is clearly identified, you will be able to deal with it and free yourself from it. 

Code 10  - RECOGNIZE MENTAL PROGRAMMING IN YOURSELF & OTHERS

Try to put yourself in other people’s shoes.  Instead of reacting blindly as programmed, try to see the other person’s point of view.  Remember that all reactions – yours and those of others – are purely automatic.  Try to change your response to all of life’s situations so that they may only cause the least possible emotional upsets.

For more information on mental deprogramming and freeing your minds from the grooved you find yourself stuck in, be sure to check out my recently released novel, “Spiritual Enlightenment In The Age Of Cybersex” (Dec’09), a comedic spiritual gem that introduces basic concepts of Spirituality through the innovative platform of an urban satire, exposing the biased belief systems, prejudices and conditioned behaviors that keep us prisoners to our own selves, @  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449906818

The “Ten golden rules to a free mind”  will also be the subject of our “Let Love Rule” Radio Show next month.  Be sure to check us out @ www.letloverule.ning.com

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