Votes are always helpful, and your posts get my vote, usually. When I get time to read them. The more of us there are, and the more comments and replies to answer, the more new jacks to check and subjects that catch our eye, the less and less time to devote to doing all as much justice as deserved. I find it difficult to keep widening my interest, because of the time restrictions. I could spend all my hours here, and blow-off the time-wasters in 'real' life, but the outside connections need their time too, if only to create a 'now' income to pay bills. 😂
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Exactly right @simon62 this is a modern dilemma for sure.
How to balance the real life with the virtual one? There are no easy answers to this particular conundrum because for many people social media is a lifeline, for a greater number... an addiction and for a growing number a source of inspiration, connection and fertile ground for research, learning and growth.
THe word BALANCE comes to mind but in a world so out of balance, that can be extremely difficult to achieve, can't it? 🌏
I very much appreciate your continued support either by your valuable comments, upvotes and resteems, thank you so much for that. 💚
I hope you succeed in finding a way to balance EVERY aspect of life and when you do, please tell me how you did it? 😊
If I manage such, I expect you'll notice the TV news, of a bloke in Aussie walking on water with a light shining from his head bright enough to light the town 😂
No, seriously, balance is questioning oneself every minute of every hour of every day. Renewing and repeating one's renewals in faith in the Universal spirit that quantum physics says destroys us and recreates us 960 times per second. 😉
I like to think real balance is attained by a certain detached view in which the being using this bodily vehicle has control of where it places and or spends It's energy-in-motion. This E-motion whether to the good or disharmonius, is generated in a neutral attitude to all dichotomatic life. We partakers of Soul, the spirit in everything, are the sole matrix for the responsibility of everything that happens within our sphere. Does anything happen TO you? No, Everything happens FOR you, and our responsibility is the balancing of the way in which we perceive it. To see, a verb or an adverb? Is it there to see, or because we saw¿ Shakespiere made famous a line, To be, or not to be. . . . But we Are being, and unfortunately we deny our act of Being, and be an Act. So, balance, what is there to say, be kind, be truthful and do, as you deem necessary.
There are mental exercises which are helpful to still and control one's mind, and there are faiths that teach their practitioners their spiritual exercises. One has to think and discern and practice until one finds a balance with which one is at ease. Remembering that uncomfortable is incentive to learn more, and being too complacent can lead one into a eddy that does appear to go around, but doesn't actual move along, hence called an eddy. Ah balance, hmmm, it is a noisy world, my best advice is to deliberately spend twenty minutes everyday, at the same time everyday, in stillness of the vehicle/body, and silence(as close as world allows - you will find your awareness of nature sounds expand considerably) and practice watching mind as if an observer, until one can get a handle on its control.
I do realise that only skirts the sort of answer asked, but really, it is about learning to control one's own mind, from stillness to manifest action.
Umm¿ more? My notes are a mish-mash and I am trying to keep it simple, clear and concise, which seems to be the object of most of my blogs.
--To regenerate aura, for strength and a help in healing of self, from Sanskrit, try saying sotto voce, on out breath, for ten to fifteen minutes in a quiet still atmosphere, sitting with spine upright, comfortably; OM CHAITANYA CHAITANYA SWAHA.
A-u-m cha-i-ta-nya cha-i-ta-nya sooa-ha.
Can be practiced anywhere, walking in cadence, working or washing-up, but these not counted against the regular sitting and repeating till you perceive a difference, from a week to three.
Try for a week or so, then get back and let me know how you feel your balance is better understood. 😇💛
Wow, what a beautiful piece of prose you have blessed us with...it is worthy of being a post in its own right! You really should consider writing this one up.
I think you highlight the difference between being a human BEing and a human DOing very well. We get so wrapped up in the world of doing things and constantly being busy (probably busy doing nothing really) but the act of doing BECOMES our being instead of vice versa.
And yes, Shakespeare articulated this perfectly with his famous speech in Hamlet often quoted, for sure, but rarely perceived for the deep truth it contains.
Bringing me nicely to the different levels with which we see, perceive, to look into, to see BEYOND and deeply. This takes years of practice to achieve because to do so cleanly and clearly one has to detach oneself from INTERPRETING what we are seeing. If this can be done without the overlay of the self, the ego and all its desires, wants and needs then indeed we are SEEING into the heart of the matter!
I will be examining the darker aspects of digging deep and discernment in a future article so stay tuned for that because balance DOES indeed require the ability to face the inner aspects of the self that often remain hidden, or masked.
I have been using sanskrit chanting meditations in my life for many years and so I was delighted to see your suggestion and use of the Chaitanya chant, surely one of the greatest! I touched on the use of sound and vibration in my Tesla post and again, I am planning another post on how to use sound for healing, calming meditation and also in daily activities as well. There are so many aspects of this to bring together as a resource for both newbies and advanced practitioners, so little time, but a heart beat to do it all in...and yes, that is a touch of irony given that we were talking about BEing!!!
Your contribution, as always, is richly received with deep gratitude and humbly returned in the circle embracing us all 💚
PS I will stay tuned for any news reports on Australian TV, just in case they feature your water walking halo glowing feats in the near future😊