15 RULES TO PURIFY EMOTIONS AND HEALTH
Torkom Saraydarian
1. Try to avoid your selfish interests:
Whenever you introduce your personal interest in your thoughts, actions or words, you are creating ugly emotions and raising ugly emotions in others.
If you take any problem in the world, from family problems to commercial problems and international politics, and delve into its causes, you will always find the worms of personal interest that are eating the foundations. Personal interest always leads you in the wrong direction.
2. Avoid vanity:
Vanity is a form of self-deception, in which you think you are something that you are not. When I was very young, my father told me a story to instruct me about vanity.
One day a raven saw a peacock with beautiful feathers that he admired very much. He waited for many days until the peacock began to change his feathers. Then he picked them up and adorned himself with them. The crow was very proud with its appearance. He went to the mirror to admire himself. He called many birds to come to see how beautiful he had suddenly become.
Suddenly, a strong wind that came blew all the peacock feathers and the crow stood, in front of his friends, like a naked black bird.
"From now on, " my father said solemnly, "don't decorate yourself with the feathers of others."
Don't use other people's achievements and talent to look bigger. This is vanity.
3. Avoid anger:
Anger damages the petals of your higher centers. This may not be proven, but it is a fact that after you are angry, for several hours you have no energy. Anger is also dangerous because it often makes you do things you never would have done if you were in your right mind.
4. Avoid greed:
Greed alters the compass of your life. When greed catches you, you look like a plane caught in a jet stream, which cannot find its way. Greed causes you to be trapped by a force from which you cannot free yourself. This prints a tremendous load of pressure on your physical and mental bodies, and disrupts your balance. When your emotional balance is disturbed, your physical and mental nature will not serve you but will betray you.
5. Avoid fear:
Fear causes you to identify yourself with false values and false assumptions. One of my Masters in the monastery once told me: "Only in absolute fearlessness is the clarity of consciousness contained." If you're afraid, your conscience dissipates. Whenever you overcome all fear, you purify your consciousness and your body, and help your survival and longevity.
Your fear makes others control you, and every human being controlled by others is committing suicide.
But we like to control others, instead of letting them be people who perform alone.
When you exercise fear over others, you are a criminal, but you are a major criminal if you allow other people to control you by injecting fear.
6. Avoid ostentation:
Ostentation builds a false personality, and a false personality lives through negative emotions. Once you start showing off, you must continually feed that false personality with negative emotions to make it continue to exist.
7. Try to understand the views of others:
Do not jump immediately to your own conclusions when people behave in a certain way. “He did not greet me today. He must be mad at me. ” Immediately, by saying this, you already created a thousand and one emotions in your heart.
Even if your conclusion was right, you don't need to create those emotions: therefore, don't jump to conclusions.
8. Replace each negative emotion with a positive emotion through imagination:
People think that thought can control emotions. That's not true. Imagination controls emotions. Emotions are stronger than thoughts at this stage of our evolution because we live in the emotional whirlwind; We still do not enter the mental whirlwind.
Whenever you have a negative emotion, try to replace it immediately with the positive counterpart.
For example, as a child, a friend and I spent the night in a cabin in the mountains. My friend was very scared. He said: Around the house there are many bears and coyotes, they will burst when we are asleep and eat us! The poor guy was trapped in his negative emotions. I said: Five minutes ago I saw forty angels dancing around our cabin. They had huge golden wings and beautifully colored mantles ... And there is one sitting in every corner of the cabin. If any animal dares to enter here, the angel will draw his sword and cut off his nose ... I paused. He was already sleeping.
Unfortunately, most of humanity is a victim of its own hallucinations. We must free ourselves from our hallucinations.
On one occasion, a woman came to ask me for advice because I hated another and could not bear to see her face. Work with her for an hour by performing the following exercises over and over again:
First, imagine that you walk down the street, and that she walks towards you. Look at it and turn your face away
Now she comes from the opposite direction and you suddenly pass by her, say hello and then look elsewhere.
Now stumble upon her as she passes by and say: `` Excuse me, I didn't want to hurt you. The fourth time you pass by her, shake her hand. The fifth time, open it up and say: I love you.
The following week, the woman I advised entered a meeting. Stopping after transposing the door, he turned and saw the same woman he hated before, who was standing next to her. Suddenly, I hugged her!
Whenever you replace a negative emotion with a positive emotion, you break crystallizations of old imaginations and replace them with healthy imaginations.
9. Increase your positive and creative imagination daily:
For example, in the morning, very early, when you get into your car to go to work, don't think: An accident is going to happen to me. Businesses will go wrong. That man will come again All these things are possible.
But instead, say: What a beautiful day it is today! Today everything is going to go magnificently.
This kind of attitude equips you with positive energy to face the negative facts. This is not only a useful technique; It can really save your life.
10. Take the facts that could cause you irritation, anger, and negative emotions, and through your imagination try not to influence you:
Look at your imagination being very calm and cheerful.
It is very important to destroy your attachments to objects, people and desires because everything you stick to undermines your energy. Don't let people get attached to you or identify with you, and don't identify with them either. In this way you will have healthier human relationships.
In my experience as a counselor, I found that people who come with terrible problems with each other, were at one time merged, identified and attached; in short: stuck together.
11. Do not look for the faults of others:
Whenever you start trying to find defects in others, whether they are real or unreal, you will see that negative emotions emanate from you.
When negative emotions begin to circulate in your body, you have already poisoned your body; You polluted your own sphere of consciousness.
12. Do not be happy with the failures of others:
Each of us likes to rejoice when other people we don't like fail. But in doing this, we not only hurt others; we also hurt ourselves, because "they" are essentially "we".
13. Imagine daily, for one or two minutes, that you are sitting next to your Master, whatever it may be:
This will take away many negative emotions, and destroy them.
14. Try daily to make a total emotional silence for a few moments:
If you learn this technique, it will be a great blessing to you.
One thing is to say: "In today's meeting I will not speak ... I will not argue with that woman." Some people get great results by closing their mouths; But can you silence your emotions and not have an emotional reaction, no matter what someone tells you or does?
This is an important technique that must be mastered, because whoever dominates his emotions becomes master of his life. You can have great mental mastery, but if you don't have emotional mastery, you can destroy everything around you.
15. Develop tenderness:
People think that this refers to sweet smiles, melifluous expressions, melodious movements and syrupy eyes.
The true tenderness does not lie in the external forms but in the meaning of your words, voice and manners.
If in your expressions there is love, light, beauty, justice and freedom, you are a tender person.
But if there is bad intention in them, slander, betrayal, lies and hypocrisy, then no matter what your expressions are, you are a crude person.
Post: Leo H.
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