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We should be aware not to become the prisoners of everything …. not
even of our own thoughts
I’ve recently read a book of an austrian philosopher.
It was a book of essays … written into the same style as my books … and i really enjoyed it.
But what i found funny is that the guy defined himself more … a thinker … and prisoner of his own thoughts.
Started this process of asking himself existential questions from an early age … since he was just a little kid … and ended becoming a … writer … which was defining his perceptions in the front of the whole world.
The book itself … the one i was reading … was not about a specific subject … but mainly about a large spectrum of thoughts … which had nothing to do …. one with another.
I could even say … that same as me … he was defining in fact … his contradictory thoughts.
But … comparing to myself … he had the ability to admit that he became the prisoner of this process … called … thinking. Mark … this was his real name … considered himself a simple … ordinary guy … from Austria.
Just one of the citizens which were living into that country … and nothing more.
But why i am writing about this guy … is not to tell you about his books, but to tell you about an amazing trick he found to
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get out from the prison of his own thoughts.
His little son … which was an amazing kid helped him to do that … doing lots of funny things and having with him non sense discussions.
He was somehow … still into the era of … tabula rasa.
Mark could see this difference between the innocent Universe his kid was living in … and his own Universe … fulfilled with contradictory thoughts.
Could join his son in that Universe of … tabula rasa … with no thoughts at all … but it was all like getting out of his prison … for short periods of time.
The trick worked for Mark …. and trended to believe that it
will work for other people also.
Jumping from this non ending process of thinking on and on and on …. to simple disconnect from this habit … the thinker
started to not feel prisoner anymore … at least from time to time.
I liked the idea …. but guess what?!
Even if i tried it … i could not do it.
I was the prisoner of my thoughts … but it looked like i had a sentenced for life … into this prison with invisible walls … build by my own thoughts …
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A life under slipper …. unfortunately
a way of living
I see many people living like that.
Sometimes Paul says to me that i live into the same way … but i smile.
Most probably in one point …. the marriage itself becomes ….
kind of a prison … but knowing who’s the prisoner … i ask myself …. who’s the guardian?!
Divorced men …. make fun all the time of men that are still
married … and many times i do agree with them.
I see too many people dominated by the partners … but i smile realizing all that.
I personally don’t feel dominated … but from outside it still looks like i live a life … under slipper. Like many, many others.
Is it good?
Is it bad?
It’s marriage a prison?!
Who the hell is the guardian?!
Well … most probably … that role it’s taken by the rules, the expectations … and all the other conditions the partner is coming with.
And living under slipper… becomes unfortunately a way of living.
The guardian is not the partner … but the marriage itself.
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The question is why the hell people accept to live into this prison called …. marriage?!
Hmm … i could probably say that … we don’t even observe it
not even if someone keep telling us … on and on and on. I personally … can’t realize that i am a prisoner …. even if Paul keep repeating me that.
I am maybe a prisoner … but i don’t feel it. And i smile again.
Great philosophers … or spiritual leaders always told us about a prison … with invisible walls … where ordinary people live. I am an ordinary person … so ….
Being in prison … it’s probably … a real fact. But guess what?!
I found a trick … an amazing one.
While living my life …. on the stage of reality … i give myself the freedom to connect to my inner self and live in the same time in 2 parallel worlds.
My outer … but also my inner world.
I’m probably in prison … but i am not actually there. I am absent.
totally absent … from reality.
And i like it ….
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Being happy or unhappy it’s just a … decision.
Truth be told … there are also happy people into this world. But still … too many unhappy persons all around ourselves. I was recently reading about different diseases… but most probably the worst one is … the unhappiness.
I somehow feel that everyone is trying to hide that.
The term … disease … is used just … related with the body … but we avoid talking about the soul.
being unhappy … became somehow … kind of normality. And we accept that with … obedience.
We accept becoming prisoners of a reality … which is not what we dreamed about.
Being unhappy …. becomes an unhappy result … of not feeling in the right place … near the right persons.
But … prisoners of unhappiness … life continues. And we simple don’t do anything about that.
We remain unhappy … even if in fact … unhappiness could be redefined.
No one told us that being happy or unhappy it’s a decision. A very simple one … which we could take in the morning … everyday.
Day by day …
we keep remaining on that frequency of unhappiness.
We realize it’s all a decision … and we could switch all those
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inner feelings with beautiful ones …. but …
Maybe no one ever bothered to tell us … how damn simple it is … to do it.
That staying the prisoners of the unhappiness … it’s just stupid.
And instead of being unhappy … when we could actually be happy … it’s ….
Again … time flows … and nothing change.
Even if no one bothered to say us about the tricks of switching our perceptions about reality … we finally understand that all … it’s just a decision. .. and nothing more.
But still … all around us … just unhappy faces.
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Karmic stories make us feel we are … prisoners of unwanted circumstances
I believe sometimes that i write …. philosophy.
Many times i also believe that i actually write about … spirituality.
But my mind it’s still so unclear.
I have lots of contradictory thoughts … and i still don’t know how should i define everything it’s going on with me.
I came to this point of analyzing all about my own life … forced by circumstances … feeling like a prisoner of a unwanted reality.
The karmic stories … made me realize that my only chance is to meditate … and instead of feeling depressed or unlucky … just tried to see the message behind the message. But guess what?!
I did not saw a message …. but messages.
And even worst … it was about contradictory ideas that appeared into my mind.
All i wanted was to not be … or at least not feel like a prisoner anymore.
A prisoner … of karmic stories that were repeated on and on and on.
So … i meditated more.
I wrote my thoughts … like a diary of all what was going on into my life … but also deep inside my mind and soul.
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Unfortunately… all was … a nonsense, cause today i was convinced all was nice … and the next day … i saw everything collapsing again.
A large spectrum o contradictory events … having probably the purpose to teach me something …
But i was blind … cause i could not understand the real message of all those stories.
Continued to feel like a prisoner … but … i did not understand who are the guardians of this prisoner … and what i’ve done wrong to deserve to live such a life.
The whole journey of my life …. was annoying and everything
became a non ending story … related with … karma. So karma was the prison itself?! Or just the guardian?!
Or … maybe my illusory contradictory perceptions … made me feel like that.
But in a short moment of silence … i somehow felt that my life was a lesson … teaching me about … the whole meaning of everything.
The intensions of Universe … were not wrong … as i thought.
And i was not a prisoner … but a student at the school of life.
I misunderstood all …. for such a long, long time.
Instead of realizing the illusion of the self … that i was actually a prisoner of my own self … i thought that all what was going on … was real.
But it was all a lesson … to reveal me the secrets that could allow me see beyond the self … beyond the illusion. So?!
Did i made any change?!
Any improvements?!
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Did my karmic stories went to an end?!
Hmm … unfortunately … no.
I understood life … but only into a theoretical way … and on the scene of life … i was still an idiot … believing karma it’s a bitch …. not a teacher.
So … i was balancing … between feeling like a prisoners … but also dreaming about freedom.
And this emotional dance continued on and on and on ….
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Changing the energetic field …. the
influences just disappear
I still cannot understand … reading the statistics of my books
why “Influencing and being influenced” … does so well. But on the other hand … i do understand the impact of being influenced … and …
I realize i also influence around myself …. and not just into a positive way.
All those influences create some borders for me, but also for all the others.
Somehow realities … our realities …. which many times are having just very small variations are dominated by all the energies involved.
Any scene is somehow interconnected with all the energies of the people …. but also of the place … where we are.
The place itself carried the influences of all the people that were there before …
So all .. it’s somehow interconnected.
But one of the biggest mistake we do is that we don’t change places from time to time.
Simple totally disconnected from … the actual reality where we live.
Of the places where we usually spend mostly our time … but also of all the people from the scene of our lives.
Simple … cut … all connections … then come back after a
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while … and see the impact of that.
Might be surprised that … positive … but also negative things happen right away.
Disconnecting from a certain energetic field … which is actually an entity represented by all the energies involved … changes finally appear.
Influences are cut … off … at least for a while.
An example could be a vacation … when we stop talking to anyone from home …. or for the ones that are much evolved
spiritually … a state of meditation … that could simple disconnect us from daily life.
A practice done … daily … having the purpose of giving us the chance to stop being prisoners of forces which sometimes we are not even conscious about.
The methods can be very different.
Some prefers to go to fishing … and forget about anything
around themselves.
Some prefers … vacations.
Some … sports.
Some … arts … like painting or sculpture.
Some like me … writing …
But the purpose itself it’s the same even if we are conscious or not … about that.
to disconnect from influences that make us prisoners of unwanted realities.
Ones … which we dislike. Or even worst …. we hate.
But can we really stop being influenced?!
Can we also stop wanting so much to influence everything around us that represents … reality?!
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Most probably not …
We see energetic fields everywhere … of so, so many kinds … but we ignore the fact that the best connection of all … the best energetic field …. and the best influences can come from the inner self.
We should simple close our eyes … connect to the self … and
chase for the best reality of all … which can recalibrate us in such an amazing way … that opening again our eyes … we simple start acting into a better way … a positive one … that brings positive influences everywhere … we appear.
But again … i must repeat myself saying … theory it’s so damn simple … but …
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Chase for happiness …. not for success.
Everything else it’s a …. nonsense.
I’ve recently read a book of a guy that wrote his story about life …
His life in fact …
It was the story of an ordinary person … and i found it very similar with my own case.
I could almost say that he had the same life scenario as me … and i was even laughing while reading the book.
Like many others … this guy … started to study personal growth … and chased for success for years. And he really got the success he wanted.
After reading thousands of books about personal growth … believing in the idea of success … he got even more successful than he ever dreamed.
He owned different companies, had lots of money in his bank accounts, lots of properties … everything … but …
Well … he got all he ever chased for … but not happiness. Everyday when he was waking up … looking into the mirror … he still had that profound sadness and could not do anything to improve his situation.
But meditating more … he realized that before having the success he had today … he was analyzing a lot successful people … and tried to copy their models … as in the end to get all he wanted.
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So … Emilian … started to study happy people from all around the world …. or at least he was trying to do that.
The big luck was that social media was full with very clear examples … with people that looked happy.
And studying more and more … he started to copy their models.
