The Pendulum

[Nick_98]

I have invented an abstract idea of how someone's life rotates between the stages of awareness during a normal state. I called it " The Pendulum"

Before we understand this idea we first have to get ourself familiar with the term "bob". What is the bob ?

The bob : That hanging weight at the end of a pendulum. 

During your normal state of awareness the bob swings at both directions. It goes from the Past/Future, to the silent feeling of the presence. 

You can gauge on which direction you are at by asking the following.

Am I investing in the "unawareness" direction ? (The past/future and the mind processes)

What is the degree of my investment ? am I invested 50%, 90%, or 10% ? For example when you are extremely angry you might be experiencing the bob reaching it's end limit for the "Unawareness , Past/Future" Direction.

Is my heart on the line ?  

When your heart is on the line that means you've aligned your heart with the same direction of your identification with the material world , that means you are going to the unaware direction , opposite to the conscious direction. 

I have realized one thing that causes the pendulum to swing to the Unaware direction and that is Excessive use of social media (Facebook,Instagram,Whatsapp,Tiktok, etc..) I recommend keeping your daily use of social media to be between 0 to 2 hours max. 

What are the things that we can focus on so that will fix the pendulum in the direction where we want ? Consciousness

One suggestion would be kriya Yoga and generally focusing on breathing. What else ?

Please share your thoughts on how to keep the pendulum fixed at the Consciousness Direction.

Edited February 10 by Nick_98

[CARDOZZO]

You sound like Ouspensky.

Read "The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution".

Edited February 10 by CARDOZZO

[Ramasta9]

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

Try 1 - 2 hours on the socials (per week)  u'll eventually might lose the taste for them altogether. The longer the break, the more you see through them and how toxic a and diluting they actually are to ones consciousness. You may have some FOMO (fear of missing out) in the beginning, but eventually it transforms into a term I created: JOMO - Joy of missing out

You don't even have to do kriya and more "spiritual" techniques, they help, but the idea is to be fully with yourself at all times and not go beyond the intimidate reality around you. Mindful living as much as you can, you can still read books, enjoy movies here and there, watch a little youtube, listen to and enjoy music, and many other things, as long as you are fully being with yourself, whatever the task at hand.

Being on social media makes being fully with yourself extremely challenging and distracting, because its opening up a portal of an "artificial spectrum" or wavelength that is out of your immediate reality. If people understood the quantum and holographic nature of reality better, they would realize no two people are living the same reality, so paying attention to so many different points of view also prevents meditative and conscious living and creates more confusion and dilution in ones consciousness awareness.

Even this forum is a distraction, but its good for reminders because we discuss and go deeper into this stuff, eventually this needs to be dropped too when it no longer serves you. I often take long breaks. I was recently living mostly in nature camping for a few years, had no taste to be on my phone or this forum whatsoever, it was actually quite distasteful even considering checking this site, rather i was living the things we discuss here more directly, and life was far more rich, less toxic and more peaceful and beautiful. I recently had to come back to the city so its my open window to exchange.

This week I've only been on about an hour total which when i come back and snoop around, its not as drawing me in as much, because Ive detached somewhat, and its the same for everything else. Detachment allows you to see with a greater sight, just takes time and space away from people and things sometimes to realize the loops that you are caught up in. 

I deleted fb entirely years ago, check instagram once in a blue moon on an account with no friends just those music and creative/artistic videos and channels i follow for inspiration, telegram for catching up with close friends and occasional chat, youtube for videos, that's about it. I mostly use utube but its very personalized and selective, i don't scroll much or click random stuff unless there is a very strong pull.

My 2 cents ~