Het leven is interessant.

You learn best at the limit of your abilities.

Be totally ok with how you are right now, whatever you feel, it's ok, whatever you don't feel, it's ok, even if you feel terrible, it's ok, even if you feel wonderful, it's ok. There is something inside of you that is totally ok with everything you are right now and that something is what you really are.

Fully present.

Waarom moeilijk als het ook makkelijk kan?

Rob Broyles

If the only difference between a depressed state of mind and a peaceful state of mind is a matter of changing one's inner frequency, then how is that done? There's two things going on. A habit and a frequency. Changing the frequency is easier. Just watch something funny on television or have your favorite friend do that silly thing they do to make you laugh. The frequency has been changed.

The mind pattern of a person who suffered from a depressed state of mind for many, many years, can be stuck in a gravitational groove that pulls them back into negitive patterns very easily. Don't blame yourself, if that's you. Try and look at the things in life that bring you temporary relief as short-term helpers that will eventually be replaced with the inner beauty your heart desires.

All things are here to help. Medicine, therapy, and other forms of relief are great means to provide some mental comfort. Obviously, consult a doctor about serious matters. If possible, notice the mind pattern during a happier "you." Embrace that feeling and try to extend it into another moment when the beautiful music ends or the comedy is over. Try to extend that mental moment of feeling well for as long as you can after the funny movie has ended.

By doing this, you are training the brain to learn how to be at peace all on its own. Negitive mind patterns are addictive and like a rubber band returning to its original state, the mind wants to go back to that depressed state without outer stimulus doing the work for it. This took a few years for me to do. My mind wanted to return to negativity, but I myself didn't want to be depressed.

Getting from one frequency to the next isn't the problem. It's staying there. Forming a new mental habit is hard work. It's much easier to watch funny movies, but that never trains the brain to live in a state of peace by itself. So, the outer stimulus is good. It points to the way. Try to practice extending peace into other moments of life when the outer stimulus isn't there. Second, by the second, minute by minute, and day by day, the brain becomes trained to find peace all on its own.

Before you know it, you'll find yourself laughing at the brains attempt to find something ugly in life when there is so much beauty.

Een goed nieuw woord voor verlichting is de oorspronkelijke staat. Een goed nieuw woord voor meditatie is liefdevolle beschouwing.

Zalig de armen van geest.

Spend more time sensing and less thinking.

A meditation that works for me: The body scan: https://soundcloud.com/breathworks-mindfulness/the-body-scan

Awareness is transformative.

Sluit vrede met de onvrede van je geest.

Short moments of peace, repeated many times, become continuous.

Kijk met mildheid naar alles wat in je geest opkomt. Probeer je gedachten niet te veranderen maar neem ze gewoon waar. Als een koe die naar een voorbijrijdende trein kijkt.

Kijk met milde open aandacht naar je gedachten.

Las elke dag rustmomentjes in.

When a true Sage comes into your life he or she pushes your buttons. To see what you're all about. To see what will happen. If you really have true grit and can hold on or if you're still weak and drop away.

Leven is het betreden van onbekende wateren zonder kaart.

There is a place in you where there is perfect peace.

Gelukkig zijn is onze natuurlijke toestand. Raar maar waar.