Yogani talks about this as a form of self-inquiry in one of these posts. I read it a while back, was into it for a little while but then droped it once other things caught my attention. I'm glad Yogani called it a form of self-inquiry because it made me think twice about it and now I've decided to start using it throughout my day as a more personaly self-inquiry rather than the endless who am I? headache producer.
In my opinion so far I like this practice a lot because it kind of stops you dead in your tracks and forces you to surrender. Or at least it takes the hold that thoughts and feelings have over you. How doesn it do this? What's actually happening to you when you practice them? I'll save an answer to that for a later time once I've practiced it more.
So does anyone actively practice them throughout their day?
I don't go crazy with awareness as I don't think it's something that can be forecfully integrated into everyday being - rather slowly introduced via cultivated awareness. I do however - when I notice that my mind is wandering too much, or I am giving into the lower tempations way too much - do something like that where I focus on my breathing and my five senses. I think having that as an alter where you can always go is useful, but I think for most people it is impractical, especially at an early point or age, to try to force constant awareness. But for some people it probably works, it seems to work well for you. I find personally that I am better off not trying to fight the currents of my mind and rather working with them in meantime until they are ideal.
yeah that's what i'm trying to do. just instill it into me so i just do it naturally.
it's really cool when you start having these reletive realizations like "wow i really don't have to care what anyone thinks at all!" and you get this type of nice feelings of freedom. i plan on having a lot of those in the upcoming future
been two weeks on the four agreements and i feel like i am starting to bear fruit. i feel like some of the habits that i'm used to are breaking down. i'm starting to be less sensitive to everything.
The Four Aggreements
Posted - Nov 01 2007 : 10:09:54 PM
