Daily Psychological Work

Introduction

This post is a essentially the presentation of a step by step guided practice that one can go through at one’s leisure at the end of every day.

The Practice

Relax (Body)

1.) Choose your position and begin by relaxing your body. One very effective way to do this is to use the breathing.

2.) Follow your breath and when you breathe in notice that you are slightly invigorated. This slight bit of energy helps us t maintain the practice.

3.) When you breathe out notice that you relax and that you release tension.

4.) Use the out breath to relax your whole body. See and feel that the tension in your body goes out with each out breath.

Relax (Mind and Emotion)

1.) Put your focus into your mind and as you continue to put your focus there, expand your focus to make you gradually aware of all that you have going on in your mind.

2.) Just become aware of what you have in your mind.

3.)Now focus your attention on your emotional centre located in your solar plexus. Expand your awareness there to become more and more aware of what is going on in your emotional centre.

4.) Now, keep your attention focussed in a no strained way in your mind. Watch for the thoiughts that appear.

5.) When a thought appears, let go of it. Don’t continue the thinking process. Gently stop the thinking process and release the issue or topic that the thought is about.

6.) Continue to do this until you notice a change in the level of activity of the mind.

Retrospection (Focusing on the Day’s Failures)

1.) Retrospection: start from right now, that is the moment right now that you are doing this practice and go backwards.

2.) Work backwards by recounting the events and actions of your day, but pay more attention to your inner psychological state during each event. More importantly, recount what you were feeling and were thinking during each event.

3.) Look for the events in which you failed in the ego, events where you got identified with the ego  and the thoughts, emotions and actions that were generated could have been stopped.

4.) Stop the retrospection practice when you reach the moment that you woke up.

Make a list of the Failures

1.) After the retrospection practice you will have enough information to be able to make a list of the day’s failures.

2.) Put the ones that were more intense and longer lasting at the top of the list and give them more priority.

Work on the Ego Behind the Failure

1.) Take the two biggest failures and examine them.

2.) Determine which ego is behind them.

3.) Also determine what is the way of thinking of the ego behind them. This is the logic of the ego that is behind these failures.

4.) Question sincerely and deeply the truth of the ego.

5.) Upon seeing that main arguments or line of thinking of the ego is false and wrong we are ready for elimination, because we will want to eliminate the ego and we will see it false and wrong and we will never be able to eliminate something that is true or wrong.

Elimination with the Divine Mother

1.) Concentrate on your heart. Remember that in the inner esoteric dimension of your heart is your heart temple, which is the temple of your Being and of course Divine Mother.

2.) Yearn for her to hear you and help you. Concentrate on her and invoke her using the mantra RAM0IO, or O AO KAKOF NAKONSA or SOLU SIGI SIG.

3.) Present the ego to her, telling her all about what it does and how it is wrong and how you want to eliminate it.

4.) Beg her to dissolve it in the intellectual centre. Vocalise the mantra KRIM nine times.

5.) Beg her to dissolve it in the emotional centre. Vocalise the mantra KRIM nine times.

6.) Beg her to dissolve it in the motor, instinctive, sexual centres. Vocalise the mantra KRIM nine times.

The Resolution to Make Tomorrow Different

After all that have seen, understood and done in the practice form the decision and therefore resolution to not fall into identification with that ego or ‘I’ tomorrow morning.

Now to finish this practice activate your awareness to that particular defect. Because it just could waiting for you to finish your practice to manifest! Don’t let it catch you off guard!

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Daily Work (Daily Bread)

Introduction

When we are decided to work on ourselves, that is to work on our own transformation or mystical death, every day is immensely valuable to us.

Why we may ask. The answer lies in that when we begin to know ourselves even only a little and we comprehend what the work on oneself is we see that we have so much to do and we really can’t afford to waste time.

Everyday truly gives us many chances on many levels to extract material to work on and to motivate us to work.

What I would like to introduce you to in this post is a method of finding what we can work on in a given day. Using this technique will help us not to waste our day and make the day we have just lived useful to ourselves (this includes others), the Great Cause (this also includes others) and our Being.

This is the start of the work of being able to earn our “daily bread” as it is mentioned in Lord’s prayer.

A Good Scan of the Centres

The first thing to do is to make contact with the centres of your human machine. The centres of our human machine, principally our intellectual and emotional centres show us the state that our psychology is in, in any given moment. Knowing the state that our psychology is in allows us to work on ourselves. It is actually the first point of departure in the journey of working on ourselves.

The technique involves doing a scan of our centres preferably in the morning to find out or detect what issues, problems, worries, points of pain, tension, anxiety, anger, etc. resides in us (our psychology).

Steps to Scan our Centres

1.) Put your attention in the intellectual centre. Then focus your awareness there, allowing it to gradually increase as you keep your focus concentrated on the intellectual centre.

2.) In the intellectual centre look for any worries, problems, threats, anger, fantasy etc. Anything that troubles us or is taking up space.

3.) Put your attention in the emotional centre. Once again focus your awareness there, allowing it to gradually increase as you keep your focus concentrated on the emotional centre.

4.) In the emotional centre look for anything that troubles us or is taking up space.

5.) Now observe your motor centre and see if its behaviour is connected to what you saw in the intellectual or emotional centres.

6.) Note down on paper or make a mental note of what you found.

7.) Now with what you found go to work. If you didn’t find anything then scan the environment to find something in your present environment to use to work on yourself.

Scan the Environment

When everything is ok within us, that is, there are no issues or problems within us we can use our current environment to do some work on ourselves.

Steps to Use the Environment to Work on Ourselves

1.) See who is in your environment. See if you can help them in some way. Helping others always brings out one or several egos.

2.) See if there is some good that can be done in the environment. Doing good always draws opposition from certain egos in us.

3.) Is the environment bringing out certain egos in you that are not present in other environments? What egos take advantage of being in this environment? They could be egos of vice, negative egos (resentment, lust, gossiping etc.), they could be egos of fear, anxiety, worry etc.

4.) Are there any tasks that we have been delaying to do in the environment?

5.)Take note of what you have found and then act! That is most important part, act on what you find!

Retrospection

This exercise involves looking over past days that you have lived through and finding egos to work on. Usually during the course of some days many egos pass through us and they go unworked.

Retrospection Exercise Steps

1.) Choose any day that you have lived, it could even be your day today so far.

2.) Recount all that you have lived through hour by hour starting from the morning. Remember the external events and your actions and also remember what you thought and felt.

3.) Look through all that you recount for the egos that manifested.

4.) Take a mental note or write down what you find and then go to work upon what you have found.

5.) You can be sure that what you find is worth working on because it will come back again, even this very day.

Work on the Ego Even if it is Not There

A lot of the time we don’t work on ourselves because we don’t see the ego in us. This I consider is a false step. Because that ego is not eliminated and for sure it will come back again, and give us as much trouble or even more than it did in the past.

If we work on an ego that we know is very big and gives us lots of trouble the best thing that we can do is to work on it continuously even if it is not in the human machine at the moment. The advantage to this is that we are weakening it and it won’t catch us by surprise.

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