TEMEVO/SFL
page, but i got mine stock when i got teh kiar
ok so here's my essay so far.. if it makes sense, then I guess it's okay. lol. (the intro is super cheezy, yes I know, but she will like it cos she's cheezy, too.)
The radio is playing, the dog is barking, and the sun is shining through the window. You get up, brush your teeth, take a shower, and leave for work. Throughout the day there are many things to do and many people to see. You look forward to getting home so you can relax, only to find out that your child has a book report due the next day. For the final hours of the night you help finish the report and quickly head off to bed. This is just a small example of the hectic lives we all experience. However, there is a way to find ourselves within the chaos and be able to experience calm instead of craziness all of the time. There is a path that we can follow, which will lead us to self-realization and enlightenment.
The most basic principle of the yogic path to enlightenment is to create awareness. To begin, one must be able to feel and sense their own body reacting to specific stimuli. When it is cold the body shivers in order to warm itself up. Even though shivering is an autonomic reaction, there is still the importance of realizing when something such as that is occurring. Once a person is able to become aware of these small happenings, then they need to move onto a higher sense of awareness. The next level of awareness is being able to recognize our potential. In his book, Chopra explains the first spiritual law of success as being the law of pure potentiality.
The law of pure potentiality consists of being completely conscious within ourselves. “When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have…” (Chopra, pg. 10) What he means by this is that we must become aware of our being by who we are and not what we have. All of the money in the world will not be able to buy the happiness one seeks, but knowing the inner-self will lead to letting go of material objects. These material objects create stress, anger, jealousy, and even fear. We fear that our possessions are not as nice as someone else’s possessions, we get jealous of other people’s stuff, we become angry if we cannot have something and we fear not having enough money to buy expensive things. However, if we are able to let go of our material possessions by knowing that all we need is to be ourselves, then we are also able to let go of the stress, anger, jealously, and fear.
The radio is playing, the dog is barking, and the sun is shining through the window. You get up, brush your teeth, take a shower, and leave for work. Throughout the day there are many things to do and many people to see. You look forward to getting home so you can relax, only to find out that your child has a book report due the next day. For the final hours of the night you help finish the report and quickly head off to bed. This is just a small example of the hectic lives we all experience. However, there is a way to find ourselves within the chaos and be able to experience calm instead of craziness all of the time. There is a path that we can follow, which will lead us to self-realization and enlightenment.
The most basic principle of the yogic path to enlightenment is to create awareness. To begin, one must be able to feel and sense their own body reacting to specific stimuli. When it is cold the body shivers in order to warm itself up. Even though shivering is an autonomic reaction, there is still the importance of realizing when something such as that is occurring. Once a person is able to become aware of these small happenings, then they need to move onto a higher sense of awareness. The next level of awareness is being able to recognize our potential. In his book, Chopra explains the first spiritual law of success as being the law of pure potentiality.
The law of pure potentiality consists of being completely conscious within ourselves. “When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have…” (Chopra, pg. 10) What he means by this is that we must become aware of our being by who we are and not what we have. All of the money in the world will not be able to buy the happiness one seeks, but knowing the inner-self will lead to letting go of material objects. These material objects create stress, anger, jealousy, and even fear. We fear that our possessions are not as nice as someone else’s possessions, we get jealous of other people’s stuff, we become angry if we cannot have something and we fear not having enough money to buy expensive things. However, if we are able to let go of our material possessions by knowing that all we need is to be ourselves, then we are also able to let go of the stress, anger, jealously, and fear.
