MOC : [[SPIRITUALITÉ]] - [[DÉVELOPPEMENT PERSONNEL]] Date : 2024-02-19 Auteur : [[Mickael A Singer]] Source : [[Living Untethered]] *** ## La technique au quotidien pour atteindre l'état de samadi **Le but c'est ça :** - Regarding the heart, a wise person allows the heart to freely express itself inwardly but does not get lost in it. Some people say, “Follow your heart.” They must not be referring to the personal heart because it’s all over the place on a day-to-day basis. Fortunately, there is a higher heart to follow. Once energy flows past the middle of the fourth chakra, it enters a deeper heart that doesn’t change, ever. There’s a constant upward flow of beautiful energy. It brings waves of bliss so powerful you can hardly focus outwardly. It wafts over you, and you settle back into this beautiful peace that surpasses all understanding. The peace you have because you got what you wanted—that’s understandable. This peace comes over you and stays for no reason, completely unconditionally—that’s what your higher heart has to offer you. This is the gift of your spiritual heart. ([Location 1795](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1795)) **Pour l'atteindre, il y a une technique :** - Reaching this state requires clearing out the samskaras that are blocking the energy flow and not putting any more in there. To do this, learn to handle your heart. This takes practice, just like you practice the piano, a sport, or anything else. We will explore this process in great depth in the following chapters. What it requires is a change in attitude: You begin to accept that things are going to happen, they’re going to hit your heart, and your mind is going to create thoughts to release the built-up energies. You commit to being okay with this process. ([Location 1812](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1812)) **Voilà les techniques :** - The first technique is called positive thinking. Yogananda used to teach that every time you have a negative thought, replace it with a positive one. This is a very basic and useful technique for bringing about change. It is based on the two types of thoughts we discussed earlier: those created willfully and those that happen automatically. If you notice your mind giving you a hard time while you’re driving—those are automatically generated thoughts. You are not purposely creating them. Now try purposely creating positive thoughts about the situation. If the person in front of you is driving much slower than the speed limit, you might say inside your mind, “Wow. What an opportunity to relax. I can’t be in a rush because the person in front of me won’t let me. I guess it’s time to watch my breath, calm down, and learn to enjoy the experience.” ([Location 1837](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1837)) - The next technique is very traditional and is broadly referred to as mantra. In the most general sense, “mantra” means training your mind to repeat a simple word or phrase over and over until it gets stuck in your mind. Just like a song can get stuck in your mind, a mantra can get stuck in your mind. We all experience that our minds can work in layers. You can be paying attention to someone speaking, and there can still be thoughts going on “in the back of your mind.” Your mind is so brilliant it can multitask. It can create thoughts at multiple levels, and you can be aware of these layers simultaneously. Mantra is offering you a layer of mind that is always there—balanced, pleasant, a safe place to rest. ([Location 1848](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1848)) - The final technique we will discuss for freeing yourself from yourself is generally termed witness consciousness, and it includes the powerful practice of relaxing and releasing. Witness consciousness is deeper than the other techniques because, in the end, it doesn’t require working with the mind. Positive thinking involves creating positive thoughts to replace the negative ones. Mantra involves creating a layer of mind that provides a peaceful and steady environment for rising above the lower layers. Witness consciousness is simply noticing that you are noticing what the mind is doing. You don’t need to interact with the mind. You don’t need to do anything. Just be the one who notices that the mind is creating thoughts, and you are aware of them. In order to do that, you can’t be disturbed by the thoughts that are being created. If the thoughts bother you, you will leave the seat of objective observation and try to change the mind. To truly achieve witness consciousness, you must be willing to let the thoughts be as they may and simply be aware that you are aware of them. ([Location 1878](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1878)) - Spirituality is not about changing the objects you’re looking at. Spirituality is about accepting the objects but not getting sucked into them. It’s about being detached and feeling at peace with whatever your mind and heart are doing. ([Location 1905](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1905)) - First relax, then lean away. You who notices are at a distance from what you are noticing. You don’t have to think about it. Just notice that what you are seeing in there, thoughts and emotions, are all distinct and at a distance from you. Now, lean away from their noise. The mind and emotions make noise. That is not a problem. Just relax and lean away from the noise. When you lean away from the noise, you are creating distance between You (the consciousness) and the objects of consciousness (the thoughts and emotions). ==In that distance, the samskaras have room to release their energy. It’s going to get uncomfortable, and that’s natural.== The discomfort you are experiencing is the discomfort of samskaras being released. They were stored with pain; they are going to release with pain—if you let them. This is the pain that ends all pain. ([Location 1915](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1915)) - Two things happen when you relax and release. One, you stop fighting with the causes of your disturbed mind, and that gives them room to release. Two, you are actually relaxing back into the seat of Self, and you will grow spiritually. If you will do that with the weather, if you will do that with the car in front of you, if you will do that with all these low-hanging fruit situations, you’ll grow every single day. The way to know that you are working with low-hanging fruit is that the situation is resolved simply by letting go inside. There is nothing else to do about it. ([Location 1951](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1951))