A Need
Sometimes we feel the need to empty ourselves of all that we
have swirling, orbiting, popping up and lurking inside of us. We can accumulate
so many impressions inside us that we feel full of impressions and so the need to
empty ourselves of these impressions arises. We can be also at times, so full
of the mental activities related to buying things, organizing finances, organizing
people, organizing events, worrying about people and their problems and so many
more trivial life related matters, that we are dragged away from our inner core
and stuck instead in a mind whirling with images, ideas, problems trying to
organize and solve all these issues. And this can be very tiring.
After experiencing these things we come to the conclusion
that we need to empty ourselves and clean our mind out. The way to do this is
to peel away or shed all these layers and reach the inner most essential part
of ourselves.
Shedding Everything
As we mentioned above the way to empty ourselves and clean
out the mind is to shed or remove these issues from the mind. There are
practices to do this and we have provided some in this post.
These practices work because when we release all these
issues from our mind we get closer and closer to our essence which is the
essential in us, it is the clarity in us, it is organisation in us, it is peace
within us and among so many other things it is direct knowledge. So with the
essence we will be able to know what we have to do and how we should do it, but
besides that when the essence shines in us it clears away all that is superfluous
and its light transforms our darkness (worries, problems, etc.) by means of its
wisdom and love into more light and trust.
Getting to the essence via shedding away all these mental
layers empties us and the essence cleans us, renews us and brings a new novel flavour
about life to us.
Back to Nature
Sometimes going to nature when we can is a great help to
empty and clean ourselves psychologically. Because after being in nature for a
little while we are drawn to become aware of what is essential and one of the
many things that come to our awareness about what is essential is health,
quality of life, awareness of what we are doing in life, breath and the love
for others.
Going back to nature after a while, especially when we
isolate ourselves from all the business of life we come to empty ourselves and
clean our mind as well. Actually the elementals of nature have this marvellous effect
on us, an effect of cleaning us. Water and fire and also the trees can do this
for us. We can if know such practices in Gnosis ask the elementals of nature to
heal, rejuvenate and clean us.
Doing It!
There are probably many ways to do it, that is to empty and
clean yourself (psychologically), though we can synthesise all these ways into
two. They are the two ways given below.
Two Ways
The ways to empty and clean ourselves is prayer and or
meditation.
Prayer
·
So find a nice spot somewhere. Somewhere quiet,
and preferably alone and preferable in nature, like your backyard, like a park,
like the beach, like the top of a building, like the woods or bush and like country
side.
·
Kneel down and open your arms and put all your
attention and focus on your heart and breath and just breathe. Have in your awareness
the importance of your breath, how it is the moment and how it is life itself. Then
also understand how important your heart is and that in your heart is an atom
of your Being and your essence your essential, inner most core of life.
·
Any issues that pop in the mind make a conscious
issue to drop them, to release them. If they don’t go and repeatedly come back,
you have no other remedy but to work on them. You have to go into them and see
what it is that we need to correct or understand.
Meditation
·
Once again find a nice spot somewhere. Preferably
somewhere quiet. It could be anywhere as long as you can concentrate.
·
Concentrate on your mind extend your awareness throughout
your mind and wait for the issues t appear.
·
Look into each issue and find its major point or
argument.
·
Analyse it by finding out what it really wants,
find the truth about it. Question it and apply duality to it, by reversing it,
seeing the opposite side to it, apply it to ourselves instead of others.
·
Then let each issue go as we analyse it. Most importantly
of all keep your attention fixed on the task.
Conclusion
The act of uncovering eh essence is to empty ourselves and
activating or making the essence shine is to clean and renew ourselves. This
very simple formula never fails it is the synthetic solution and there are many
ways to do this. We have given just two, but here are many more, which are fine
as long as they uncover the essence and make the essence shine.
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