The ability to control one’s own thoughts may very well be the single-most rewarding challenge a life can hold. It holds the key to every kind of liberation there is, and is what the lessons of all the great spiritual teachers were getting at. It may very well be that ultimately, it’s impossible, that those who can actually achieve it no longer live in the world. But it does seem as though there are some people who have found a way to live in a state of near-perpetual enlightenment . While desires and hopes are constantly lurking in the busy mind, learning to overcome their gravitational pull is a big step toward self-awareness.
Through exercises like guided mediation and the use of biofeedback , one can start to learn the patterns of one’s own thoughts. On any journey, there are those “aha!” moments, when something is revealed, some deep inner truth. These are almost always painful, because the ego is not only involved, but threatened by the revelation of this information. This is always a lesson in letting go, and when the real self is able to recognize the needs and anxieties of the ego, and take them for what they are, they tend to disappear, and this is the beginning of clarity.
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