MOC : [[SPIRITUALITÉ]] - [[DÉVELOPPEMENT PERSONNEL]] Date : 2024-02-19 Auteur : [[Mickael A Singer]] Source : [[Living Untethered]] *** ## Le mécanisme de fonctionnement du mental From a yogic point of view, here’s what happens on a daily basis in our lives. The energy flow comes up, and as it approaches the heart it can do one of three things. First, if the energy is totally blocked by the samskaras while trying to go into the heart, you won’t feel your heart. A lot of people don’t feel their heart very much. They are so used to focusing on their mind that they don’t notice the shifts in the heart until those shifts are too strong to ignore. Emotions are messy and much too sensitive, so people suppress them. They want to be analytical, not emotional. No one told these people that if they bothered to do the work necessary to clean out the heart, the increased energy flow coming into the mind would result in more inspiration, more creativity, and more intuitive brilliance. A second thing can happen with energy coming into the heart. It can make it in and begin hitting the blockages stored there. This tends to make you moody and more sensitive to what is going on around you. Every once in a while, however, things will line up just right, and your heart will get quiet. Somebody is in front of you and somehow the way they look, the way they talk, or something else about them stimulates and rearranges your samskaras just right. “Her hair looks like my sister’s hair, and I really got along with my sister. Look at those glasses. They’re just like the ones my favorite actress wore in my favorite movie of all time. This is definitely my kind of person.” The next thing you know, you’re saying out loud, “People told me nice things about you, and I was really excited to meet you. Now that I see you, it’s way beyond anything I expected.” So it begins—love at first sight. The words are right, the hair is right, the glasses are right. Everything is opening you. You don’t have to do anything—it’s all happening by itself. The stimuli coming in through your senses are rearranging the samskaras just right to create an opening for the energy to come up. As the energy comes up into the heart, it has the opportunity to flow out and connect with what caused it to open. ([Location 1474](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1474)) ### Les émotions sont un relâchement d'énergie bloquée - An emotion is caused by the shakti hitting the blockages in your heart and shooting out to release the blocked energies. This creates enough disturbance to your normal flow that your attention gets drawn to these disturbed energies. Emotions are a release of blocked energy. ([Location 1462](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1462)) => Plus de détails ici : [[Que se passe-t-il quand on est dominé par nos samkaras ?]] ### Comparaison à un ordinateur programmé sur nos samkaras - Your psyche is like a computer program running in your mind based on your samskaras. ([Location 862](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=862)) - [[Technique Vipassana]] La BDD ce sont nos préférences, nos samkaras. L'objectif du programme, c'est de les satisfraire en permanence. - All your preferences exist because you stored experiences from the past inside your personal mind. This makes it difficult to live in there, but instead of fixing it, you double down and try to satisfy your preferences. “I want to feel good, and the way to feel good is by getting the house I want.” “The way to feel good is by owning the car I’ve always wanted.” “The way to feel good is by finding a better relationship—this one’s not doing it for me.” These attempts to compensate for your blockages are, at best, short lived because you are not actually getting rid of the blockages. The foundational choice we have in life is either constantly control life to compensate for our blockages or devote our lives to getting rid of our blockages. ([Location 1034](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1034)) - That is why you tend to have so much trouble making decisions. You’re trying to figure out how each choice will make you feel later. “Where do I want to live? Should I change jobs? I need to figure this out.” ==You’re trying to mentally conceptualize how the proposed action will match the patterns you’ve stored inside.== You don’t even think twice about it. “Of course that’s what I’m doing. What else would I do?” How about live in reality and enjoy the moments that are unfolding in front of you? That’s what else you can do. **Use your mind to be creative, inspiring, and do great things. Don’t let the mind always be thinking about itself and what it wants.** Learn to enjoy life as it is—instead of limiting the ways you can enjoy it to serve your past impressions. ([Location 1046](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1046)) On devrait vraiment vivre le présent et enjoy la vie. - The ==self-centered, analyzing layer of mind is the worst==. It is the model you build about how everything and everybody needs to be for you to feel okay, including the weather tomorrow. “It better not rain tomorrow, I’m going camping.” Now you’re getting upset about the weather! You have no control over the weather, yet it’s bothering you. It’s not just the weather. The driver in front of you is going ten miles per hour below the speed limit. Let’s watch your mind: “This is ridiculous. I don’t have time for this. What’s wrong with them? They’re supposed to be in the slow lane.” Turns out the problem is not how the person in front of you is driving. The problem is what your mind is doing about how the person in front of you is driving. **Eventually you catch on that you’ve developed an entire intellectual model of how every single thing needs to be: how people should behave, how your spouse should be dressed when you’re going out, even how much traffic there should be.** How many things do you do this about? Pretty much every single thing. You honestly believe that what you made up is how it should be. ([Location 1052](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=1052))