{"id":6330,"date":"2017-04-27T15:23:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbsfestival.com.au\/?p=6330"},"modified":"2017-04-27T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:23:05","slug":"one-spiritual-practice-will-transform-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbsfestival.com.au\/sydney\/blog\/one-spiritual-practice-will-transform-life","title":{"rendered":"The one spiritual practice that will transform your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us desire peace and happiness, if not spiritual awakening. Many traditions urge that we become the Witness, so that we can see our thoughts and feelings but know that we are <em>not <\/em>those things\u2014we are instead the part of us that is observing those temporary states. Yet, too often, we bypass feeling, and in so doing abandon the part us that needs loving attention.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we\u2019re not taught how to handle difficult emotions\u2014pain, grief, anger. We avoid them, push them away. It\u2019s easy to believe we are victims \u2013 of circumstance, of others. Then, when we need help, we seek <em>fixing<\/em>, as in \u201cplease make this feeling go away.\u201d But, when we avoid our feelings, we are not able to loosen their grip and be free of them. They grow more intense, demand our attention. We build an altar to avoidance, creating an ego identity out of <em>not feeling<\/em>, and <em>not loving ourselves<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We are all capable of mastery, when we rise to challenge of being with, and loving ourselves.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>So, if you only do one spiritual practice every day for the rest of your life, make it this: <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Sit with yourself, first for five minutes, then longer over time. Just allow yourself to feel whatever you feel at that moment, be it messiness or wondrousness, pain, love or confusion. Don\u2019t judge yourself. \u00a0<em>Notice whatever arises<\/em>\u2014as in, \u201cwow am I so angry\/sad\/upset.\u201d Then, honour yourself. Affirm that you are consciousness, pure and perfect, having a human experience, and love yourself for having the courage to just <em>be<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Transformation awaits when you lovingly allow the ripples of the smaller self to make way for vast ocean that is the bigger self beyond.<\/p>\n<p>*Note: trauma survivors require a different approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us desire peace and happiness, if not spiritual awakening. Many traditions urge that we become the Witness, so that we can see our thoughts and feelings but know that we are not those things\u2014we are instead the part of us that is observing those temporary states. 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