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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why We Think About Our Past So Often

Sometimes we spend a chunk of our lives looking back on what was. We are stuck remembering and holding onto something that is no more. We reflect on old issues, remembering things that have happened and moments that have passed. Why do we do this; why is it so important to us that it, in a way, consumes us? What benefit is there from spending so much time reflecting and remembering? Sometimes it seems like our mind wanders there on its own, without our consent.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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How To Be Centered and Grounded

Sometimes in life things can feel out of control, like we are being pulled in many different directions. When things feel this way, we too can become that way inside. Our emotions and thoughts scatter, rising and falling with the events in our lives. It can be hard to stay grounded, to be present, when we feel like we are always stuck in this very reactive mode. Sure, it can be easier to feel okay when everything is fine and all seems to be working as it should. But once that changes do you find yourself responding from a place of fear and worry?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why It Is So Important To Love Yourself

When we speak of love, we think of others and what they mean to us; we think of those we love. We do not, however, delve into what we think of ourselves and if we love the most important person to us, ourselves. Love, when given to ourselves, has the power to erase doubt, self-loathing, discrimination, and any hurtful feelings we may feel. It erases the negative ways we see ourselves, and it also alleviates that feeling that no one cares or that we are alone. For when we love ourselves unconditionally, we are complete; we do not need others to fill this void.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Feel More Involved In Life

If you feel closed off, protected, or withdrawn, you can physically change this feeling in yourself. You can bring more awareness into your life by purposefully opening yourself up to the world. This can be done in stages and through many steps. It is important to know that when we are withholding ourselves, what we are really doing is trying to protect ourselves. So to substantiate this feeling, we look at the world as a place that is fundamentally hard or that is against us in some way.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

When Life Feels Heavy or Hard

Opening up to the possibilities in life is important. If we feel hopeless and challenged too often, we lose the purpose in our life. We stop seeing what could be, and instead see the end of things. Letting go of this viewpoint in life enables you to see life as it really is for you. If we believe life is a struggle, then it will continuously feel this way. If we see life as uplifting, then everyday we can experience this.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Letting Go Of Doubt

When you doubt yourself, you are basically saying that you cannot do what you want to do. For every moment we doubt ourselves, we are limiting our abilities and we are stopping ourselves. We limit ourselves, and therefore we lack self-confidence. It is a two-way street. If we doubt ourselves, we have no self-confidence. One creates the other. When we stop ourselves from what we want to do because we have no faith in ourselves, our lack of confidence grows. Usually doubt begins to form not because of what we think of ourselves, but because of how we perceive others to see us.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Become One With Everything

Releasing the idea of trying to be something else, something more, and allowing yourself to become one with all that exists is a true possibility for you. It does have to do with believing enough in yourself, that who you are in this moment is enough without reaching any further. It is believing you are ready to release the idea of trying to be a certain way, of pushing yourself, and realizing that you at this moment are ready for everything.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why Do I Feel Lost?

Do you feel confused about your life or lost? Does your life feel like it has no purpose or plan, that you are just using up time? Do you wonder about when it will get better and when will you start really living your life? When you feel this way there is a reason. All of these thoughts mean something and add up to what is really missing from your life. The difference between someone who is content and someone who feels lost or even distant from their own life is realizing one thing. That thing is what is inside of you.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Approaching Someone That You Have A Crush On

When we like someone, we may be afraid to approach them. We may have developed a crush and feelings toward them, but because of our fear of rejection, we haven’t spoken to them about the possibility of getting together. When we really like someone, approaching them feels even hard because they have become something more to us. We may imagine what they would be like or simply feel good when we see them. But how does a person go up to another person and really say what they want to say?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why Life Feels Boring

What is boredom? Is it seeing our life as not enough? We may want something else, believe we need something else, in order to be happy and feel fulfilled. But it is also feeling that we are missing something, either missing out on something in life or lacking what it is we need to be happy. It is not about not having enough to do, for most of us have plenty of this. It is this need for more that we rely on in life, for we believe that when we have enough of whatever it may be, then we will feel and be satisfied. Some of us may wonder what it is that we lack, for we may not even know.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

The Source Of Addiction

Addiction comes from a place of wanting, of needing something to fulfill and replace part of one’s life. It can be seen as an escape, but the real need is much more. What is missing that needs to be replaced? What part of life is empty and aching for fulfillment? It is a place that may be hard to reach and see. One often seeks to fill the emptiness without the truth behind the desire. Why is the desire there? That is the real question and one that should be sought out, for from there the problem arises.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Letting Go Of Negativity

How we look at our life and the world around us has a lot to do with how we live our lives. If we see our lives from a point of view that is pessimistic, negative, or without hope, then this is what our lives will feel like. When we see our lives as progressing, changing, and evolving, then this is the life we will live. The same can be said for how we see the world around us; it is all a matter of our perception. Two people seeing the same thing will of course interpret it differently.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Being Calm Under Stress

In our day-to-day life, we get over excited, overstimulated, stressed, and overworked, too much of one thing or another, whether it is our frame of mind, our emotional reactions, or something in our outside world affecting us. We all need to learn the techniques that enable us to relax at all times. What this means is we can have the ability to retrain our behaviors so that we can feel better, no matter what is happening or how we are feeling. This is a great tool for all situations, for it is in these times that we overreact, that we feel the most out of whack.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

What Is Acceptance?

To accept something is to let it be as it is, to not fight it, not even the idea of it, internally. It is to be open to what is, however it may be, without resistance. It is the understanding that every moment changes; therefore, what may be now will change. This allows continual acceptance to happen. When we create resistance against ideas, moments, thoughts, feelings, others, or anything at all, we are forcing ourselves into one way of living. It is saying I can only be happy if I approve and accept what is happening or going on around me.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why We Fear Something

We think that if we fear something, it is there to stay, that it is permanent, and unchangeable. But this is not so, and we must take a very personal look at ourselves to see why we think this is. When we believe something about ourselves, we encapsulate it, we make it stronger, and therefore more real to us. We see ourselves as one way, and we become so. What we believe about ourselves is how we are. It is just as easy to change your perception of yourself as it is to change your mind. And fears work the same way.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Change Your Perception Of Life

Open up your perception of life and you will not only live life differently, but will see the world in a whole new way. Often, we can get locked into seeing the world as we think it is, instead of seeing what is real. This can come from how we feel about ourselves. We project how we feel outwards. We may hold onto past memories and replay them in the present, recreating our old experiences in the world around us. We may find ourselves judging others by how we think they should be, instead of allowing ourselves to see them as they are.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Deal With Angry And Negative People

We often come across people who for no good reason treat us badly, not that there is ever a good reason. People who behave in this way, who attack verbally or on a personal level, are really seeking acknowledgment and approval within themselves. By pushing outward they are trying to attain a level of completeness in themselves. For example, as you cross the street someone unjustifiably honks their horn in anger, where does this come from and why is it directed at you?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why You Are Afraid

Sometimes we hold onto fear even after the moment has passed. We maintain this sense of fear because we still haven't let it go. What happens to us stays with us until we make a conscious effort to let it go. When we tense up in life, it could be because of a past fear, and not just the moment we are in. Fear can come from any moment in your past. When something in our life makes us feel afraid it can stay with us, until we let it go. We can carry this feeling with us always. It can spring up in us when we least expect it, for it is attached to our emotions and thoughts.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Finding Peace In Your Day

We all want to feel good and be at peace during our day. We strive for this and attain it at times, but during the course of our day, we struggle to keep that feeling. We get lost in our day-to-day motions and forget how important it is to come from this place, to exist in this way. We lose the balance we had because we are too busy, worried, stressed, anxious, or any other of the many ways we choose to feel. Finding your way back to feeling that sense of peace, no mater the moment, is a very useful tool.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Find and Understand Your Destiny

Our chosen path already exists within us. The path we are meant for, our destiny, is true to our heart and our being. It is here, throughout life, we are being led toward. Sometimes, of course, the path is averted or ignored completely. We then become unsatisfied and full of want. It can be hard to see clearly the choices meant for us. To hear above the noise, the direction that is calling us forward. But in your heart and deep within, when you have found your true path, all becomes light and filled with life.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Reaching Enlightenment

Enlightenment is a jou ey; it is a way of seeking to understand all that is important and the truth of our own being. It is a goal and at the same time a way of existing in the world. It is without trying and without finding, for it is a presence that is already within. Each of us is capable of discovering peace, happiness, and truth, if only we are able to let go long enough to see that we already exist in such a state. We exist in a realm full of creation. So much is going on endlessly around us.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Reason Behind Overeating

Food for many has become a battleground; it exists in a way beyond nourishment into fulfillment. Sometimes we actively eat to satiate something other than hunger. We eat to feel better, to forget, to be in control, to relax and let go. The list goes on. It is when we eat for anything other than hunger that we have created this struggle, this battle with food. It is a habit formed to help ourselves to deal with something bigger, more “powerful”, than we can cope with. So we resort to food as a way to put it off. Food is not the problem; it is not bigger than what it is.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Finding True Love

We all desire to be with that special someone, to find the one we are meant to be with. Yet it feels hard and sometimes impossible to connect and to be found. There are so many people, so many to search through, so many choices. Yet even to meet the right one seems improbable. It is not. It is not a task or a struggle, you must believe it is probable, to the point of it being your right. You deserve happiness and companionship, and you will find it. It will come, for this is part of your life and in truth the odds are with you.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Confidence And Believing In Yourself

A lack of confidence is caused by the idea that we need something more to be who we are. Yet we already are everything we are meant to be. The lack of confidence comes from not believing this. It is seeing yourself through clouded eyes and not believing in your potential as it already is. Each of us is fully capable in life to handle everything, to cope and go forward, and to be the best we can be. Yet we tend to think otherwise, to talk ourselves out of it and out of our own potential in life. We are all equal, it is only ourselves that we choose to bring down and not believe in.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Change And Let Go Of Old Patterns

When you wake up in the morning do you feel like you are ready to start the day as who you are or do you see one moment the same as the next, the same as yesterday? It is important in life to remember that all is changing constantly, including yourself. It is easy to forget and to accept ourselves as just the person we’ve already decided we are. Not letting go every day of not only how we see ourselves but the day as well, can keep us in a state of repetitive stagnation. We are never the same as we were yesterday.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Releasing Grief

When we are faced with the moment of losing something, whether it is a job, a loved one, or a way of being, it can act as a catalyst of reversion, leading us on a path away from ourselves. It is almost as if in order to deal with it we must lose ourselves as well. To be present is harder than letting go of the situation and falling into what overwhelms us. To see ourselves clearly in these moments helps to exist with what is happening. By letting go of ourselves we lose the hold of not only our own reality but of what is true.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Releasing Attachments

Throughout life we grow accustomed to things, to needs, and to the belief in how things must be. We believe we can't do without them, that in order to be happy things must be a certain way. But do they have to be? And what happens when we lose the things that are necessary to us? When life stops conforming to our understanding of how we must live, what do we do? We might believe certain patterns in our life are necessary for our happiness.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Be Successful In Life

Success comes from doing what you want and desire in life. It is living your life to the fullest and being who you really are. You will find that as you do this all else falls into place, things begin to happen, and the obstacles fall away. This is because you are doing what you are meant to do. Sometimes what we think we are meant to do is not correlated with success. If you find the idea of yourself and your purpose does not bring you satisfaction, then you are not on the right path. Believe me when I say success is you doing what you are meant to do.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Guiding Your Child

When we are raising our children we are guiding them through life, giving them advice and teaching them what they need to know. Children follow by example; they watch and listen to everything we do. What habits we have in ourselves can follow them in their lives. How we look at the world can also become their perception of it. That is why how we live our lives affects our child’s life in a way that becomes their own. Of course, each child is an individual, but sometimes in their behavior you can see a mirror of yourself. It is helpful to look at our children this way.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Choosing Happiness

During life, we may sometimes find ourselves in a slump, experiencing sadness, emptiness, or withdrawal at times when we know our lives should be making us happy. This can be confusing. Why, if all seems as it should be, are we not happy? What is in our way or stopping us from experiencing the happiness we deserve? Sometimes, it is us. Sometimes, we are the ones who have chosen to be unhappy. Why do we do this? Because, at one point in our lives, we may have experienced something that made us think our life was an unhappy place.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Losing Yourself In A Relationship

Losing yourself in a relationship is a common occurrence. It happens when we forgo our own happiness for that of another, when we give up on our self so that the relationship stays as how we think it should. We give our identity over to the combined effort of keeping the relationship in stasis. When we lose ourselves to a relationship, we are inducing a sadness and a loss from within ourselves. The relationship can never make up for what we have given up to keep it going.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

The Message Behind Recurring Dreams

When we fall asleep we release tension, we relax and our mind slips away. We slide into another state, that of dreams and often of a very personal message to ourselves. When we look at dreams, especially recurring ones, we can see a theme. But what does it mean and how does it truly relate to you? To find this out it is important to remember that in the state of dream sleep you are not fully present, it is your subconscious that is at play. It is your subconscious then that is arising to give you a message.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Perspective and Acceptance

What is the best outlook to have on life? If we are to have one perspective, what should it be and where should it come from? We can look at life in so many ways. We can see it as a struggle, as something to be fought against, as a hardship. At times, do we not see life from this vantage point, as an obstacle to overcome? We may also see life as a ladder we have to climb, always striving to reach a goal or accomplishment, but never reaching the point when we can stop. Or we may come from another stand-point, that of waiting, never really committing to life.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Surviving Traumatic Events

In the wake of traumatic events it feels like the world is closing in and nothing makes sense, not even what others tell you or how you feel. It can be very unmanageable in how you feel and think, like nothing is right and you don’t know where to turn. Yet this moment is when you need direction and answers the most because of the ungrounding nature of the event.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Overcome The Fear Of Change

Sometimes we fear change. Why? Because we do not know what will happen. It is this fear that keeps us from enjoying life. Because we cannot know what will be, we fear; we fear the not knowing. It isn't so much what could happen as we cannot prepare for whatever may be. In order to feel more at ease about our future, we need to look at life from another perspective. Instead of assuming we are in a revolving pattern in life, we need to understand we are always and only going forward.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Being Open To Your Future

Life is not about making plans or deciding how your future will be. The life we live is about right now, today, and no other time. When we let go of our ideas for our future, when we shed our predetermined goals and open ourselves up to now, we can start to live the life we are meant to and not the life we decided we should have. For when we are open, life starts being what it is supposed to be for us. When we schedule and plan extensively into the future, we do not let life happens as it should.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Overcome Fear

We all know what it is like to be afraid, hesitant, and unsure in our lives. Worried about outcomes or afraid of the past, it can be everywhere we look. Yet it is not real, it is not a true factor in our lives. We give it so much meaning and power. Fear is really a belief that we will fail, that something will go wrong. It is looking ahead without freedom from your past. It is seeing your life through eyes of pain, leading you to need protection from your own life. Fear is a basic trait learned, unfortunately, at an early age.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Problems Sleeping Due To Stress and Worry

When you wake up in the morning do you feel rested, awake, and ready to start the day or are you like most people, plagued with restless nights and fitful sleep? Sleep patterns have a lot to do with stress in our lives. What we live through and are worried about will often carry over into our sleep, keeping us up and unable to fall asleep. Our dreams can reflect our lives, also leading to unrest. Our minds are cluttered with so much, trying to solve problems, worried, going over and over the day or the day to come. It is no wonder that when we lie down our mind doesn’t stop.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Waiting For Happiness To Come

We all seek happiness in our life; we all want to find peace, contentment, to be at ease, and feel fulfilled. And yet how often does this really happen, and what is the key to finding this? How can we live a life that provides not only this, but everything else we desire? How do we connect to living a life that is complete with nothing missing? How do we reach point that point in our life where we can become happy? One thing to understand is that life is not about reaching a goal because life is about right now.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

When You Feel Overwhelmed

When we feel ourselves closing off and retreating from life, when we feel ourselves holding ourselves back, we must search for the reason why. For when we see and understand this, we are all the more prepared to deal with it. Retreating is our attempt at not only hiding from reality, but stepping aside from the issue at hand. We are trying to remove ourselves from life and from the problem. But of course this doesn't help us, it doesn't solve anything. It only serves to make us feel worse in the end.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Creating Your Own Happiness

Creating your own happiness is letting go of what is holding it back, for we are all meant to be happy in our lives, living from a place of enjoyment, contentment ,and love. Why then does it feel like sometimes your life is missing this element; why are you without it? It can feel this way and really seem like this is so. But being happy is realizing you can be and that it is a choice. Happiness is not because of something on the outside, it comes from within.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Connect To Your True Self

Opening up to your true self can be a very rewarding experience. It can shed light on not only who you are, but what you have become. Often, we do not see the real us. We get lost in our day-to-day lives, the managing of our existence, and forget to connect to the real us. Sometimes we may even be living a life that doesn’t even connect to who we really are. We may act and relate to others not from our true selves, but from an idea of who we think we are. Our whole life could be a mirage, a duplicate existence, that doesn’t connect or even portray our true form.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

What Is Destiny?

When we think of our destiny, we think of fulfilling our purpose and living our life as we are meant to. But what does this really mean? Are we not already living our life doing what we do every day? Are we not finding purpose in our life already? The question really is, does your life, right now, hold everything in it you want? Does it feel to you like you are living your dreams; are you actually fulfilled by what you do every day? Imagine destiny as a feeling that connects to you.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Control Issues

Some of us have the need to be in control, to manage everything around us, to keep it up to a certain standard. This can be exhausting, tiring and endless, for to manage everything, to be in charge and in control of all we see, is not only impossible but futile. For in truth, you can not control anything, even yourself. What we see around us is always changing; we can not keep it a certain way even if we try. We are battling something that doesn’t exist. The act of trying to control anything, even if it is small, does give some sense of achievement.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Loss Of Energy Due To Emotional Issues

Our energy levels change constantly, and they can be a reminder of how we are doing internally. If we look at how we feel and how much energy we have, it often correlates because how we are feeling or thinking about something can consume and also regulate the flow of energy that is available to us. Your emotional or mental state often determines how much energy you will have physically. If you are overwhelmed emotionally or mentally, your energy will often become depleted.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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How To Fit In

We often look at the world as something to be gotten into, to find our place and where we fit. We search until we feel comfortable, stable and right with our place, but sometimes things change. Our group of friends may evolve; we might move or find ourselves just looking again. How do you fit in, find the place in this world for you? People can be guarded, cliquish, and unaccepting of others. How do you reach into a group and find out what holds you there? If you can reach out just a little past your comfort zone to find others, this will help.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Being In The Moment

Being in the moment is about releasing everything, the purpose of this being that you then exist with nothing pulling at you. Therefore, there is openness, a clear space to be with no ulterior distractions. No pull forward or backward, but simply being present with where you are. There are many levels to this and even more ways to look at it. But the simplest approach is to be with an open heart and open mind, and then you are free to feel and think where you are.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Releasing Fear

Whether you realize it or not, a lot of our actions and reactions are based upon fear. For we believe what has happened will happen again. We let our imaginations run wild with the possibilities, whether harmful or not. We see the world through eyes connected to our past, for we can not imagine a future unrelated to something we haven't experienced, if it has happened before, it will happen again. But life doesn't work this way, there is no pattern of repetition except in our minds. We even see something as the same even though it is unrelatable.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Walls Or Barriers In A Relationship

When we are in a close relationship with another person, sometimes we can feel the walls between each other. Sometimes, one of us may be trying to protect ourselves or hiding what we really are from the other person. After a while, this behavior becomes normal and thus is prolonged. If you have been in a relationship for a while, yet still feel like you haven’t connected fully to the other person, there could be a reason. First, look at yourself. Are you trying to protect yourself because of something that has happened in your past?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Purpose To Life

Throughout our lives we may come to points where we ask why are we here, what are we meant for? We may look this question in the eye, wonder for a bit, and then move on. For to ask, you need to know, how does one go about succeeding at this? Where do you gain your own personal knowledge about your jou ey here?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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