"Negating Nagging Needs"

 

Everything changes when you change.

Michael A. Singer

In this great talk Singer once again explains that in order to change the world, we  simple change ourselves. All this suffering we feel and observe is not because of anything that is happening out there...it is because of our inner reaction to what is happening out there.  This event (whatever it may be) that shows up in this moment...really has nothing to do with us. It is simply happening for a myriad of different reasons, with a million different causes and effects. Yet, if it isn't the way we assume it should be, if it doesn't meet our expectations, doesn't relieve some of our own inner turmoil, and if it, in fact, stirs up our inner turmoil...we actively resist the outside event and label it as "bad, wrong, or shouldn't be". We push it, and the emotional energy that surrounds it, away which is equivalent to pushing it down into the recesses of our minds and hearts to be triggered again and again by outside things. This creates a blockage or samskara and the Shakti ...the free flowing innate and powerful energy of peace, love, joy and bliss, that is intended to flow through us, gets blocked or tangled up in these blockages on its way through us.  That creates disturbance and emotional energy that we judge as positive or negative. That creates our neediness. 

It is not the event...it is whether it opens you or closes you and that is up to you...if it closes you feel terrible...if it opens you you feel great cuz Shakti is able to flow around the blockage

We either  open or close in reaction to a trigger and a samskara activation.  That opening and closing is something we do. Therefore, it is something we have the power to change.  We cannot change the world around us to make it suit our inner worlds, no matter how much we try, but we can change our inner worlds so we are no longer so easily triggered and disturbed by the world around us as it does what it does. We can become joyful, and loving unconditionally by staying open. We can get rid of those blockages that prevent us from experiencing the free flow of Shakti through us. We can learn to relax and release into what is without preferring or wanting it to be different than what it is. 

"Negating nagging needs",  is what yoga is all about.

All is well in my world. 

Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe ( November 17, 2023) Understanding the Root of Need. https://tou.org/talks/