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@Preety_India Sorry for the delayed reply, darl, just seen your post now. The thing that really helped for me personally was just to be very present in my body, to notice how the negativity manifests as physical tension and contraction, and to allow that inner resistance to relax. It took a lot of concerted effort, though, because those patterns and accompanying energetic blockages can be very deep-rooted, and there can be a lot of upset, fear, rage, etc., lurking underneath the resistance which can be really challenging to deal with if such feelings do start to arise. I found a formal meditation practice absolutely essential in my own experience (yoga also really helped when I was suffering with chronic anxiety).

The not wanting is also negativity, ironically. It's eminently understandable though - I know I for one can definitely relate, I struggled for a long time to let go of negativity (and boy, was I holding onto a lot of the stuff).

I have an ex who's 28, and to be honest I just can't think of her as a woman because she lacks maturity (not her fault, she had a very difficult upbringing which left her emotionally stunted) - to me, a woman has maturity, and not all females over the age of 18 possess that. Maybe my conception of womanhood isn't accurate, I don't know.

Might be something called the Inner Sound Current, which I heard about a little while back - article on the subject here.

Mm, I've heard it's a very sexy show. You'd think that alone would be enough to make me watch (what with me being a geezer an' all) and yet alas not. Does sound like an excellent show from what you've said, though maybe I'm too much of a delicate flower at the moment to be able to really appreciate it Jesus H. Christ I'll keep that in mind, thanks for the heads-up!

Oh I dunno, she could eviscerate you with logic The Xena, warrior princess of the spiritual community, imo. Buggeration, never seen an episode of GoT but I'm intrigued now, going off that comment. What was it, Rohypnol?

I don't know what you mean by that

@Natasha Love it ?

@VeganAwake Ugh, no offence but you always come across to me as the worst kind of neo-advaitist fundamentalist. No different from any other sort of religious fundamentalist, you just seem to spew dogmatic rhetoric.

@Natasha Ahh, love that Matt Kahn quote - so, so true ?

If God is all-seeing and all-knowing, shouldn't you know what to do now?

@Preety_India Glad to hear it

@Preety_India Bless you, thanks - I'm doing well, hope you're well too

Love this ?

This is fantastic, Brandon, thanks for sharing (Your cat making an appearance was a nice bonus, too )

Ah, okay. Thank God indeed.

@Abc109 Your post might have been deleted when the forum crashed over the weekend, a lot of posts went missing as a result of that.

'Every time you turn away from or deny what is here in your heart, you add to the darkness of the world because you are divided within. Every time you deeply accept or open to what is here in your heart, you set the world alight because you are radiant with an inner oneness. You are the cause of war and peace in the world, because the world is inseparable from who you are as consciousness.' - Amoda Maa Jeevan

Just read the following article on the subject of accessing an intelligence that's far deeper than that of the thinking mind and thought it was very good, so figured I'd share it here for other like-minded people (it's by a spiritual teacher called Amoda Maa Jeevan, who still appears to be relatively obscure, but I think her teachings on spiritual transformation are excellent): A Deeper Intelligence A list of all her articles can be found here (I thought this one on emptying your vessel was also very good).