Mental & Emotional Balance

Believe it or not, emotions and thoughts CREATE your physical reality. They are the "energetic" template that condenses to manifest your level of happiness, health, wealth, etc. Listen to what you feel and think on a minute-by-minute basis. Are you positive, optimistic, unity/love based? Or are you negative, pessimistic, and self-centered? By practicings self-audits, you can control your emotions and thoughts. Exercising this self-control of your emotions can be the most powerful means of improving your enjoyment of life. Hint: if your thoughts and emotions are persistently cycling over and over again, stuck on fears, you are thinking of the future. If you are stuck on guilts, you are in the past. The mind tries to distract you from enjoying the PRESENT. To focus on the present, BREATHE and be grateful for the things you have going for you, right now, even if it's only the breath you just took.

Ten slow, deep yogic breaths (see article on breathing) can do much to increase your sense of well-being by increasing your blood's oxygen levels. Oxygen is vital to a sense of well-being and when it's deficient, breathing properly is the cheapest, most efficient way to replenish it. Without enough oxygen you cannot produce the endorphins/eukephalins (morphine-like substances) neurochemicals that are greatly responsible for a positive state of mind. When these chemicals are in deficiency, depression can result.

An excellent book to read about how to stay in the present is The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman. This book chronicles one man's spiritual transformation and contains many gems that can help you cope with living in this polarity-based reality. The Gregg Braden books listed on the suggested reading list are also wonderful tools.

We come into bodies to learn from this third dimensional experience of life on earth in a polarity consciousness. The name of the game is consciousness remembering itself and it's source. Some call it the search for enlightenment. If we have patience, perserverance, courage and, perhaps most importantly, unconditional love, we can achieve higher consciousness or enlightenment and a sense of unity with all of creation.

Much of our world focuses on separation, division, conflict, selfishness, money and so forth. At some point, we discover the unsatisfying lack of fulfillment in the pursuits. Once survival, relationship, sexual and career goals have been mastered a natural draw to spiritual growth emerges. Finding a deeper meaning, a higher purpose in this life to give us true satisfaction becomes paramount. Through meditative practices we can tune out the worries of the world and make connection with our higher self, our own inner guide to spiritual growth.