Practical Spirituality for Ordinary People.
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My name is Nada. What I offer here are simply my personal observations and insights. I offer them not in order to provide you with manufactured answers, but to encourage you to awaken insight and discover wisdom within yourself. I offer these insights in the hope of inspiring others, to encourage critical thinking and self-examination, leading to deeper a understanding of oneself and a more fulfilling way of life. If you find these videos helpful, please feel free to share, like and subscribe. Let's encourage one another on our journeys. As Ram Dass used to say, we're all just walking each other home.
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You are great! I mean it. Thanks.
Thank you for the new video. Awake mind and relaxed body: a wonderful place to be. 🙏☮️💕🌸
Namaste Brother. 🙏
For me, the perfect meditation ❤
Thank you so much for this ☺️
If your relationships always end the same way, there is something there within you that needs healing.
Relationships are for us to heal and evolve.
ThankU really appreciate you. Right on. Putting it mildly. I would add another wrinkle, trauma response. To feel in love/lust feels instantly so dangerous I go fugue. Tactile defensive... ended up unable to pairbond. Part of the defense is getting hyper romantic, love must be mystical... kinda hemorrhage in my core. glad I'm old
I can listen to you for hours and hours. I appreciate what you are doing. Society needs people like you. Thanks.
Thank you ❤
The ego is the voice in your head that keeps telling you different little stories about everything. The story of who you are and who other people are. All the time, the ego is evaluating and judging itself and everyone else. And the ego reacts strongly to everything that is not the way the ego wants it to be. The ego reacts strongly if a negative uncomfortable feeling arises in the body. The ego will do anything to immediately experience pleasant feelings again, so the ego activates itself with something or puts something in the mouth for short-term satisfaction. The ego maniacally seeks validation from others so that the ego can feel that the ego is good enough. The ego gets its value through others' approval of the ego. The ego is a false self-image (a brand) that the ego polishes all the time and shows off to others how good the ego is. The ego stands for inner insecurity, lack of trust, envy, jealousy. separation, fears, conflicts and drama. The ego constantly lives in a fear of not being good enough.
Wonderful session, thank you 💜
Thank you for this. Very affirming
I got this epiphany a year or so ago. I resolved that I would have to go back to the basics of things I thought I had succeeded eliminating. All that does is you go back to deal with DEEPER levels of whatever it is that needs to deepen. Doesn't mean you failed, just means there are more layers there that you couldn't deal with prior to this. But you grow, and when you are ready, go back to deal with the deeper stuff to root it out bit by bit.
Let them … There is benefits in any shape or form All part of this reality May we all find peace and joy
When I lose my mom I’ll definitely drift into the abyss
Resonated with everything you said
Guy! ThankU I really appreciate how you explain things. I must offer a slight adjustment. Psychological fear may well be embedded in the body, the neurology. I need to qualify fear of death, as fear of violence. My early life was a near death experience. I've gone through life with a torpedo through the abdomen, blade through the throat, a hammer to the skull. I've sought to bury this self knowledge. Denial doesn't work. To integrate, I need to consciously remember. Remember Chicken Little
Guy. This is great & for sure I feel regret deeply. That is deeply resonant, to correlate regret to lack of self forgiveness. While I have learned to forgive others, I lack the knack to forgive myself. I understand neglect of the present. But I want to remember my mistakes, to be sure to avoid repeating. I'm haunted...
Thank you 🙏☮️❤️
Thank you 🙏
Tears in my eyes. I accept it for a while but then that desire for someone close. For some intimacy. Almost 9 years now and feel pretty worthless to women. Even though Im actually quite a catch. So there must be something very wrong with me. Hope is scary. Cause it only lets me down.
ThankU so much! So quite very useful. When you talked about genuine calm, I have a lot of calm behavior. But the anger never leaves. I have to be perennially vigilant to keep it sidelined
ThankU Well I'm old, unsure of everything. I don't think I'm an old soul. Maybe a middle aged soul. A while back I realized in my first year of life was a near death experience. From then on was a dark night. I found salvation in the arts, alcohol, then AA. Maybe salvation is not the right word. Balance? Acceptance? Glad to be old
The commonplace typical narrative and rhetoric that I would like to shut down or decrease is the following notion that nobody cares. If nobody cared your parents or Guardians would not have raised you. if nobody cared your various teachers would not have taught you. if nobody cared you would have never had a friend. if nobody cared then people would not show up to the grocery stores you shop at. if nobody cared no one would be at the gym that you go to. If nobody cared you would have never obtained any of the jobs or careers or professions or vocations that you have had. If nobody cared there would be no air Pilots there would be no flight attendance or mechanics. If Nobody cared no one would work on your vehicle. if nobody cared you would not have gone to the church you went to. if nobody cared no one would have provided you with shelter or clothes or food or things to drink. if nobody cared then there would not be cashiers at gas stations. If nobody cared then there would be no inventions. If nobody cared then there would be no religion whatsoever. If nobody cared then there would be no philosophy. There's nobody cared then there would be no libraries. If nobody cared there would be no police there would be no paramedics or ambulance drivers. It's nobody cared there would be no firefighters. If nobody cared there would be no therapists there would be no psychologists there would be no counselors. If nobody cared there would be no psychology whatsoever. If nobody cared then there would be no people creating all the clothes you wear. If nobody cared no one would have written a single book. If nobody cared then there would not be so many different types of music movies paintings sculptures masks. If nobody cared then there would be no singers there would be no storytellers. If nobody cared then there would be no funeral celebrants or funeral officiants. If nobody cared there would be no Carpenters plumbers electricians and countless other trades. If nobody cared there would not be any lifeguards at pools or beaches. If nobody cared there would not be any senators or congressmen or any other type of politicians like mayors or vice presidents or presidents. If nobody cared there would not be any world leaders. If nobody cared there would be no innovation in science or health. Hopefully by now we realize that we can tune down our rhetoric that nobody cares hopefully we have the potential to help others realize the countless ways in which people do care. hopefully we as a society and culture can change the narrative and rhetoric to something like everybody cares differently once you realize that you'll be free and liberated if you've enjoyed this expression please share it
There is state that negative thoughts and emotions never arises simply because you become aware that’s only perception of the mind (it become so obvious) and believing them to be negative creates all the suffering and resistance. There is state of presence when simply no longer find any reason to give the mind responsibility to solve problems that does not even exist in fact are created by the mind! When releasing the mind from responsibilities that obviously is not capable no longer can distract us no longer give him empowerment to do so! The feeling is amazing beyond perception of peace, joy, fulfillment that stayed with me until i fall asleep the next day ego evolved in a way that pulls back my attention and keeps me away from tapping in to presence and it’s so confusing.
I,m so grateful for this video!! For so long i been trying to avoid or fight negative emotions and thoughts (literally i m scared of them) with so much effort until they hit me hard enough I couldn’t avoid them anymore then I decided to let them be without trying to think about them analyzing them fixing them. It felt so scary so wrong, like letting my self down, but decided to face that fear until i feel better. That was best decision of my entire life because i realized my true self is more than everything i,ve been wanting to experience it’s beyond perceptions and imagination. Now i suffer because never experience that connection again and feel like i,m falling in traps that ego creates to and kind have inner conflict, that creates resistance. I blame ego for all the suffering, now i know i have to accept it and understand his nature and even be grateful knowing always have best intentions just have his own limits.
There is no such thing as a negative emotion. .
thank you. i´m so long into spiritual theme. going back to the roots is a very very helping hand u reached out to me :)
thank you
Definitely cannot be explained it’s much better than everything i could imagine and like you said it’s always here and now we’re just to busy to think about our problems that actually don’t even exist in a first place. Funny thing is most of us try so hard to solve problems using the same mind that creates them and we are addicted to it. I reality there is no such thing as negativity out mind created perceptions of it. The key e to let go of try to fix or change the perception instead allow whatever it is to be without judgement or expectation, but simply with compassion and curiosity haw you feel this present moment without trying to thinking about it and figuring it out 🙂. There the magic happens when a least expected!
Definitely cannot be explained it’s much better than everything i could imagine and like you said it’s always here and now we’re just to busy to think about our problems that actually don’t even exist in a first place. Funny thing is most of us try so hard to solve problems using the same mind that creates them and we are addicted to it. I reality there is no such thing as negativity out mind created perceptions of it. The key e to let go of try to fix or change the perception instead allow whatever it is to be without judgement or expectation, but simply with compassion and curiosity haw you feel this present moment without trying to thinking about it and figuring it out 🙂. There the magic happens when a least expected!
A nervous system that actually cooperates with your rising vibration is also extremely important :|
Thank you 🙏☮️💞🌸
I have a very hard time doing this with my severe anxiety. I always find myself ruminating on my regrets and failures and the future pain to come. This palpable feeling of dread emerges within me and my ability to be mindful of various sounds and tastes is greatly diminished. Is it possible if I keep practicing mindfulness this pernicious tendency will be eliminated once and for all? Many thanks for another insightful video, your words always bring peace, comfort and astute advice.
Very lovely, thank you! 🙏
ThankU this is nice. Like how you explain. Acceptance= mental relaxation. Even if it's as bad as I think, this applies. Even if it's worse than I thought, after removing denial, this applies. Even if it's embedded in my neurology, beneath emotions, where willpower is feeble, this applies
Nada, Do you think the Reality of Present moment is something Cannot be Explain by words and Theory,, Ive spent some of my time searching for reality by your meditation,, Once i realized that its not something to look for but rather Realize its always there,, Its just our Mind too Overstimulated by oir activity so we cant see The Reality of noW
Thanks for the lecture video Nada. It's helpful.
ThankU this is nice, confirms I'm on the right track. Someone recently pointed out that remaining angry is a way to hold on. Heavens! I don't want that. I learned to forgive blindly, independent of if they might still be unsafe for me. Ahem. Sigh, if only i could forgive myself. I don't. I do become hypervigilant to not repeat injurious behavior. I do feel intrinsically defective. If not evil. I'm glad I'm old
Hey nada, do you think your methods d way of slowpaced, wise building enlightenment is the same of other traditional like Japanese buddhist zen, I ised to be watching u a lot but lately ive been watching alan watts, i observed that his mathod is more of a straightforward awareness, just see the reality without making a lot of theory because reality is not a concept But you is telling us by your experience the wisdom of life, and by sll those wisdom of your realization we starts to awakened bit by bit Its a different method, a snap realization awakening and a slow paced wise awakening
Hey nada, thanks, for quite a while ive been wasting my time in distraction without being present or aware, sometimes when u feel sad or had some bad event, you keep trying to distract yourself with something while your true feeling of dissapointment and sadness is postponed,
Thank you. Sending so much love.
Find out who you are by finding out who you are not. A process of ellimination .what is left💚 THANK YOU
Listening to you again today Nada. It really helps to hear this as I've been in grief since last year. Grief is very tricky on the mind. It too can cause a person to go on autopilot for a long time. It causes fear and anxiety that I thought I had dealt with a long time ago but grief brought it all back up again. Life just doesn't feel the same when you lose your loved ones . It doesn't even have to be by death. It could be the break up of a relationship, loss of a job or even losing a precious souvenir and so on. For me it was the loss of my 3 cats. They were my life for 19 beautiful years. I loved them more than the people that I have in my life and they gave me years of unconditional love. I just felt so lost and I miss them so much. I believe now I'm mourning more than I am grieving because now I'm expressing it outward on here. I know some people will have the reaction of " well, they're just cats" and some people will understand. Either way I've learned not to care about the ones who don't understand the bond between animal and human. It's not like I have people who care about me, those cats were my family. Thanks again Nada. I keep coming back to this video because it helps me to remember to take care of myself and to live in the now. Love , peace and joy to you Nada and everyone on here.
I'm glad you found this helpful. While it's important to allow ourselves time to grieve, it's also important not to get so lost in our grief that we lose sight of what's right in front of us. I've also had (and lost) quite a few cat companions in my life, so I can relate. When you have a connection with another living being, it's not so important what form they're in (cat, dog, human, etc). For me, grieving is a process of letting go, and what I often find helpful is to appreciate the time I had with that cat or person or whatever it happens to be... to appreciate, while at the same time accepting their absence, and being attentive to life in the present. And how long that process takes is different for everyone. Sometimes it seems to be behind us, and then it comes back up because it wasn't fully processed the first time. And that's okay. We just allow ourselves to grieve some more. Sometimes grief comes in waves. Sometimes it stays with us forever. And that's okay too. So it's important to allow yourself to grieve as much as you need to. And even with our grief we can be present. We can create enough space for there to be grief, along with everything else that's going on in the moment.
@@AwakenInsight thanks so much for your comment Nada I really appreciate it and I agree with you about moving forward with the grief. I will always carry them in my heart and cherish the memories. I was fortunate to have had them for the time that I had them which was many years. Thanks again Nada I'm looking forward to your next video. Have a nice weekend. Love , peace and happiness to you.
Often the present - especially when doing complicated things requiring many different and simultaneous processes - is too involved for unfiltered/unhindered present-awareness. Also very often this awareness "interferes" with that which I'm doing. So there is a sort of "selective" awareness to practise while doing stuff. Then, when not doing stuff, I can let go of this"selective" or practised-awareness and be aware without restricting - or forbidding - the mind and the senses. Love.
Thank you, as always. You are one of my favorite advisors, right up there with Thich Nhat Hahn. I love your delivery and your message. That being said, I was noticing my surroundings, and found my tape measure. I’ve been looking for it forever!! Obviously, I set it down in a moment where I was focused on something else thereby losing it. Another reason to be mindful and in the moment.
•The 3 marks of existence Everything is suffering, impermanence, and non self,, •Suffering - all living beings suffer in different ways, mental and physical suffering, mental suffering like stress, depression, worry, etc. and physical suffering like disease, skin or organs problems, wounds, etc... •Impermanence - nothing last forever except change, everything or everyone will die or will change, like people, house, plants, possession, gadgets, perspective etc... •No self - everything is made out of 4 elements, fire water earth air, example is the house, how to build a house? Need stone blocks, how to create stone blocks? Need some earth or dirt, combined with water, then shaping to blocks after that need heat to be cooked and steady then need air to make the blocks dry and finish product, and humans and other living beings too are created by the 4 elements, People have heat in their body to not get cold, and water like blood, and air to breath, and earth is the physical form of humans and other organisms (living beings), Humans are just like cars, humans have organs, 6 senses, hormones, chemical reactions to the brain and the nature of mind, nature of the mind is greedy for sensual pleasure to the 5 senses, and car have engine, wheels, fuel, lights, windows, etc.. That's why humans are just like animals, humanity just invented sense of self, the sense of "me" "mine" "I'm this" "I'm that" but in reality all living beings are just an organism in the environment, So everything are just organism trying to survive everyday, name, labels is an illusion it's not real because truth is beyond words and beyond ordinary people and ordinary living beings understanding What do you think about the 3 marks of existence?
Thank you ❤ The mindfulness of the present moment and all that is in it is a wonderful thing and life saving 💕🍁 Love and blessings
Thanks Shaman