Reveal Your Own Wholeness, by Carol Carnes

अपनी खुद की पूर्णता को प्रकट करो

हर प्रकार की मानसिक चिकित्सा रोगी के अंदर शुद्ध जीवन, या पूर्णता की उपस्थिति के बारे में जागरूकता पर आधारित है। आप ऐसा भी कह सकते हैं कि यह उस पूर्णता को सामने लाने की कोशिश है। यह किसी टूटी हुई चीज़ की मरम्मत नहीं है, बल्कि यह आम हदों को पार कर जाने का तरीका है। यह तो वो है जो बेआरामी की अस्थायी अभिव्यक्ति को पछाड़ती हुई, हमेशा पूरी तरह चैन से रहती है।

हम इसलिए बेहतर हो जाते हैं क्योंकि हममें कुछ ऐसा है जो बीमार नहीं है। हममें कुछ ऐसा है जिसमें कोई कमी नहीं है। हमारा एक ऐसा पहलू है जो कभी भी हैरान, आसक्त या खराब नहीं होता। अगर ऐसा न होता तो कभी कोई बेहतर न होता या ज़िंदगी में कोई बदलाव न ला पाता। मानव जीवन उन कहानियों का एक संग्रह है जो बताती हैं कि हम कैसे लगातार अपनी खुद की उच्च प्रकृति से प्रभावित होते रहते हैं! हमें बड़े-बड़े ख्याल आते है और हम उन्हें पूरा करते हैं। वे कहाँ से उठते है? हम अपनी जीवन-शैली को बदलने की ठान लेते हैं और अपने में ऐसा संकल्प करने की क्षमता ढूँढ लेते हैं, जिससे हमें अपने निर्णय पर अडिग रहने की शक्ति मिलती है। जब हम अपनी लतों के वष में हुए बैठे थे तब यह संकल्प कहाँ था? ए. ए. (ऐलकॉहोलिक्स एनोनिमस) की मीटिंग में कौन जाता है, पीने वाला या कि वो जो ये लत पहले से ही छोड़ चूका है।

हम जैसे-जैसे इस बात पर अपना ध्यान केंद्रित करते हैं कि हमारे बारे में सच क्या है, जो सच लगता था, उसमें कमज़ोरी दिखने लगती है। हमने सिर्फ यही सोचा था कि हमें बीमार और गरीब और अप्रिय ही होना था। हमें विशवास था कि हम अपनी लतों के सामने शक्तिहीन थे। हमने मान लिया कि हमें खुद को भावनात्मक रूप से बचाना होगा और हमें असली प्यार कभी नहीं मिल पाएगा। ये मानसिक अवस्थाएं इस भ्रम पर आधारित हैं कि हम परिणामों की दया पर निर्भर हैं। फिर एक दिन शायद कोई हमें यह दिखालाता है कि अपने अंदर रहने वाले कर्ता से कैसे मेल किया जा सकता है। उस क्षण में हम अपने जीवन की बागडोर अपने हाथ में ले लेते हैं। यही नए जीवन की शुरुआत है। उसी वक्त हमारा मन अपनी प्राकृतिक अवस्था में वापिस आ जाता है; जब हम ऐसे विचार और धारणाएं बनाते हैं जो अपने आप सभी क्षेत्रों में हमारे अनुभव की पूर्णता को प्रकट करते हैं।

अपने अंतःकरण से जुड़े रहें

विचार के लिए कुछ मूल प्रश्न: अपनी पूर्णता को प्रकट करने से आप क्या समझते हैं? क्या आप अपना कोई व्यक्तिगत अनुभव बांट सकते हैं जब आपने अपने अंदर के कर्ता से मेल बिठा लिया हो और आप अपनी पूर्णता को देख पाएं हों? आपको अपने अंदर मौजूद कर्ता से मेल करने में किस चीज़ से मदद मिलती है?

Carol Carnes learned an ancient meditation technique in Hawaii that opened her mind and began the emotional healing she needed to find her own potential. Shortly after learning to meditate she was led to a New Thought spiritual center where she found the intellectual basis for what her intuition had been sensing as true and reliable. â€‹Today she is a New Thought teacher, an ordained minister of International Centers for Spiritual Living, a world traveller who has been in the company of HH the Dalai Lama and other world leaders in small group dialogues.

Seed Questions for Reflection

What does revealing your own wholeness mean to you? Can you share a personal experience where you tuned in to the Cause and saw your own wholeness? What practice helps you to tune in to the Cause that lives within you?

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12 Past Reflections

David Hicks

Feb 22, 2018

It is the kind of information I have been trying to find. Thank you for writing this information. It has proved utmost beneficial for me.

Rebecca McCarty

Aug 26, 2014

I may contain that which can become whole, within my self...but am I whole? Complete? Or do I suffer from unwholesomeness, being incomplete within myself? If I am honest with myself, I see, I am incomplete, though to realize this, is uncomfortable. Like you, I will not work for what I imagine I already contain, if I imagine I am complete, whole, I may receive a false sense of satisfaction, but will I strive for completion? Realizing the state of my own incomplete being, surely does quicken a desire in me to complete myself, to work on acquiring what I need to achieve a state of wholesomeness. For, is it not only from a state of our own wholeness, that we can offer, that which is wholesome? Has our world not already suffered enough from unwholesomeness? Like you,I will also, not work, for that which I imagine I can not attain. If I imagine I am incapable of attaining a state of completeness, I can allow myself, to become complacently satisfied, with partial development, saying to... View full comment

Aug 5, 2014

The practice that has helped me tune into "God inside of me" (my own personal wholeness) is that of silence. The "space", disconnect and nature of silence, leads me to a place of completeness. I feel intact and undivided. This is a state I am not "in" often, though I believe as I get older and life settles a bit more, time will better allow me this privilege.
Me+my son+my extended family+my work+responsibilities . . . . Divide me in such a way my sense of whole ness is diminished.
The closer I get to God, the further I move from earthly responsibilities, the more "whole" I feel.
"God inside of me"

Akshay Sadana, NJ

Jul 12, 2014

I very well believe in Mental Healing. I have found it to be very effective on me. I will share my experience and trust if it is passed on to others it will benefit lot many people who are suffering and are dependent on medicines. In this write up I am given my one experience and I will let my friends know the other ways I had used it. I has a big problem I could not sleep after going to bed for many hours. Or if while sleeping my sleep was disturbed due to some reason I could not sleep again for hours together. In other words I was suffering with Insomnia. I even tried medicines which were effective to some extent. But my problem still continued till again I got an advice from my old father. He suggested me that I should treat myself with self treatment or in a way through hypnotic treatment. I was advised to start chanting “My feet are sleeping, my feet are sleeping, my feet are sleeping….. then gradually move to my legs are sleeping, then my thighs ar... View full comment

dalia

Jul 11, 2014

most people live each day tying to be busy or occupied all through it by anything that catches their attention to keep themselves distracted from that weird feeling of a void inside that can't be filled by any kind of material consumption or addiction! When we allow this feeling to surface to the level of our consciousness,we cultivate awareness of it. We become observers of that presence of pure life energy, the potential seed of all possibilities and manifstations. This can be achieved through the silence of the ever occupied mind, through a state of alertness or meditation.

Vedashini

Jul 1, 2014

"Wholeness" is being at home with your body and its surroundings. Being present to yourself all those and all that you are surrounded with pleasant and unpleasant happenings. when i divert my income and talents and skill for the highest good of all I am at home with deeper peace and underlying bliss:shuddha-chitta-ananda. This journey to wholeness is like a deep prayer where you feel so happy and motivated to do good.

paashi

Jul 1, 2014

As I read and reflect on the seed question ,,,,,,in this moment, wholeness is the awareness of moving from the mental analysis state to allowing grace to be held in pure awareness of wholeness which leads to experience truth, beauty and goodness. I'm opening up to: There is nothing wrong at the core level of all beings that needs fixing--- it is the learning, developing, and evolving of spiritual intelligence from a state of humbleness

I practice intentional awareness of seen and unseen connections in life experiences as a whole and the moment to moment ease during states of overwhelm.

Jagdish P Dave

Jul 1, 2014

This writing reminds me of a poem sung by Saint Kabir-Kasturi kundal base'-musk fragrance lies within us. The musk deer senses the fragrance and he is looking for it outside of him. Poor deer! He does not know that the source of fragrance is within him.The fragrance is arising from his navel center. The poet, Rabindranath Tagore, is searching for beauty far away in the Himalayas. A little flower right in front of his eyes quietly whispers: O great Poet! What you are looking for is right in front of you ! In my experience, poetry expresses this wisdom more poignantly than prose. Being with people who are awakened to know and realize this Truth has helped me to relate to this way of being whole, wholesome and happy in my everyday living. I regularly practice Mindfulness Meditation and relate to happenings in life mindfully. I feel wholeness when I remain connected with this wise way of living.When I deviate from this wise way of living, I feel separated from my sel... View full comment

HEENA

Jul 1, 2014

" wholeness" to me is the belief that all is "oneness" of energy. it is energy that drives all of life rather than the belief that i held very strongly of "i " drive life. it is this " i " which created chaos; unanswered questions; strugles; resistance to life itself: in essense " suffering ". it is when i put this question to living "advaita" gurus that i was made to see that there is no "i" but there is suffering. the philosophy of " advaita" { non dualism"} if and when understood in the presense of living masters and also the pointers made by those that have left their bodies like Ramana Maharishi and nIsaragadutta maharaj ; that a simple shift takes place from " I " to "THOU". And that thou is a pointer to "I AM THAT". with this shift strugles; disappointments; fears; anxiety; ......the burden seems to drop and a certain centerdness of "peace" at the backdrop emerges while life continues with its pleasures and p... View full comment

david doane

Jun 29, 2014

"Revealing your own wholeness" is for me the culmination of discovering that there is more to me than I am aware of, and exploring, accepting, and owning that more. We each have aspects of our self that we don't know, often try to separate from and disown, consciously and unconsciously, and pretend they are not us. And we each have incidents that reveal to us aspects of ourselves that we are unaware of and/or don't like. It's all me (I'm all me), including my shadow side. I am whole, I just don't realize it, and revealing my wholeness is a process of becoming more of who I am and becoming more integrated. I don't think anyone becomes integrated or sees their own wholeness 100%, but we can be involved in the process of becoming whole. The Cause that lives within us is the inexorable drive to accept and own the wholeness that we are. The practice that helps me tune in to that Cause is to remind myself to maintain the beginner's mind, give up pre... View full comment

Michele Jul 30, 2014

This a beautiful response David to this inquiry. Integrating and including all parts, light and dark, is so important in the healing and creative process of life. I love the beginner's mind as a path of remembering that our Cause is not just mental or thought patterns but a remembering that are awareness is founded upon spirit, heart, mind and body intelligence working together in greater harmony.

In my own experience it's the Heart intelligence that roots the energy of our Spirit and gives the Mind greater clarity to see what wants to be visible now in the world of form, or Body intelligence. When these four intelligences are aligned, we are more apt to flourish.

I do not believe that we decide or think ourselves into dis ease, or lack. Unless we are truly enlightened, we in and out patterns of unconsciousness and consciousness. Each event, whether is appears good or bad, is an opportunity to grow closer to life itself as a path of revelation and for me the Presence is my Soul guiding me to weave together my wholeness again and again like a tapestry of light.

I actually don't believe that everyone has this greater Cause to grow and that's why there is so much addiction to that which ultimately doesn't truly sustain us. Personally, it took having cancer for me to see that even my addiction to personal growth and being of service had lured me from my deeper happiness.

Blessings on all of us for trying to put words to this great mystery of living life.

Abhishek

Jun 27, 2014

I sense a certain center, located around my heart from where I feel a certain spark, a certain energy illuminate me. This manifests as radiance, as a certain flow, a certain energy that I am present to.

In fact, when I am tuned into this energy, life outside also seems to flow - almost as if there is this One principle that pervades, within and without, and all we are doing is tuning into that same principle within us.

Often, dis-ease is only the body communicating something that we have refused to hear repeatedly.....each time I tune in I experience ease and move closer to being a part of the One