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What is life like when having your period puts your health at risk and means you are shunned by society? Rose George reports from Nepal and Bangladesh on menstrual Taboos on<\/span><\/div>\n
http:\/\/mosaicscience.com\/story\/blood-speaks<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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The Untethered Soul <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/em>http:\/\/www.untetheredsoul.com\/book.html<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n

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What would it be like to be free from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to find this kind of inner peace and freedom? The Untethered Soul<\/i> offers a simple, profoundly intuitive answer to these questions. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space or you\u2019ve devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you.<\/span><\/div>\n
The Untethered Soul<\/i> begins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. It then delves into what you can do to free yourself from the habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit your consciousness. Finally, with perfect clarity, this book opens the door to a life lived in the freedom of your innermost being.<\/span><\/div>\n

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<\/a>Aussi en Francais: L’Ame d\u00e9livr\u00e9e – Un voyage par-del\u00e0 vous-m\u00eame – <\/span>Michael A. Singer<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
sur Amazon<\/a>, FNAC<\/a>, … Extrait<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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the voice inside your head<\/span><\/div>\n


<\/span>\u201cShoot, I can\u2019t remember her name. What is her name? Darn, here she comes. What is it\u2026 Sally\u2026 Sue? She just told me yesterday. What\u2019s the matter with me? This is going to be embarrassing.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>In case you haven\u2019t noticed, you have a mental dialogue going on inside your head that never stops. It just keeps going and going. Have you ever wondered why it talks in there? How does it decide what to say and when to say it? How much of what it says turns out to be true? How much of what it says is even important? And if right now you are hearing, \u201cI don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about. I don\u2019t have any voice inside my head!\u201d\u2014that\u2019s the voice we\u2019re talking about.<\/span>
If you\u2019re smart, you\u2019ll take the time to step back, examine this voice, and get to know it better. The problem is, you\u2019re too close to be objective. You have to step way back and watch it converse. While you\u2019re driving, you hear internal conversations like,<\/span>
\u201cWasn\u2019t I supposed to call Fred? I should have. Oh my God, I can\u2019t believe I forgot! He\u2019s going to be so mad. He may never talk to me again. Maybe I should stop and call him right now. No. I don\u2019t want to stop the car right now\u2026\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>Notice that the voice takes both sides of the conversation. It doesn\u2019t care which side it takes, just as long as it gets to keep on talking. When you\u2019re tired and trying to sleep, it\u2019s the voice inside your head that says,<\/span>
\u201cWhat am I doing? I can\u2019t go to sleep yet. I forgot to call Fred. I remembered in the car but I didn\u2019t call. If I don\u2019t call now\u2026oh wait, it\u2019s too late. I shouldn\u2019t call him now. I don\u2019t even know why I thought about it. I need to fall asleep. Oh shoot, now I can\u2019t fall asleep. I\u2019m not tired anymore. But I have a big day tomorrow, and I have to get up early.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>No wonder you can\u2019t sleep! Why do you even tolerate that voice talking to you all the time? Even if what it\u2019s saying is soothing and nice, it\u2019s still disturbing everything you\u2019re doing.<\/span>
If you spend some time observing this mental voice, the first thing you will notice is that it never shuts up. When left to its own, it just talks. Imagine if you were to see someone walking around constantly talking to himself. You\u2019d think he was strange. You\u2019d wonder, \u201cIf he\u2019s the one who\u2019s talking and he\u2019s the one who\u2019s listening, he obviously knows what\u2019s going to be said before he says it. So what\u2019s the point?\u201d The same is true for the voice inside your head. Why is it talking? It\u2019s you who\u2019s talking, and it\u2019s you who\u2019s listening. And when the voice argues with itself, who is it arguing with? Who could possibly win? It gets very confusing. Just listen:<\/span>
\u201cI think I should get married. No! You know you\u2019re not ready. You\u2019ll be sorry. But I love him. Oh come on, you felt that way about Tom. What if you had married him?\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>If you watch carefully, you\u2019ll see that it\u2019s just trying to find a comfortable place to rest. It will change sides in a moment if that seems to help. And it doesn\u2019t even quiet down when it finds out that it\u2019s wrong. It simply adjusts its viewpoint and keeps on going. If you pay attention, these mental patterns will become obvious to you. It\u2019s actually a shocking realization when you first notice that your mind is constantly talking. You might even try to yell at it in a feeble attempt to shut it up. But then you realize that\u2019s the voice yelling at the voice:<\/span>
\u201cShut up! I want to go to sleep. Why do you have to talk all the time?\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>Obviously, you can\u2019t shut it up that way. The best way to free yourself from this incessant chatter is to step back and view it objectively. Just view the voice as a vocalizing mechanism that is capable of making it appear like someone is in there talking to you. Don\u2019t think about it; just notice it. No matter what the voice is saying, it\u2019s all the same. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s saying nice things or mean things, worldly things or spiritual things. It doesn\u2019t matter because it\u2019s still just a voice talking inside your head. In fact, the only way to get your distance from this voice is to stop differentiating what it\u2019s saying. Stop feeling that one thing it says is you and the other thing it says is not you. If you\u2019re hearing it talk, it\u2019s obviously not you. You are the one who hears the voice. You are the one who notices that it\u2019s talking.<\/span>
You do hear it when it talks, don\u2019t you? Make it say \u201chello\u201d right now. Say it over and over a few times. Now shout it inside! Can you hear yourself saying \u201chello\u201d inside? Of course you can. There is a voice talking, and there is you who notices the voice talking. The problem is that it\u2019s easy to notice the voice saying \u201chello,\u201d but it\u2019s difficult to see that no matter what the voice says, it is still just a voice talking and you listening. There is absolutely nothing that voice can say that is more you than anything else it says. Suppose you were looking at three objects\u2014a flowerpot, a photograph, and a book\u2014and were then asked, \u201cWhich of these objects is you?\u201d You\u2019d say, \u201cNone of them! I\u2019m the one who\u2019s looking at what you\u2019re putting in front of me. It doesn\u2019t matter what you put in front of me, it\u2019s always going to be me looking at it.\u201d You see, it\u2019s an act of a subject perceiving various objects. This is also true of hearing the voice inside. It doesn\u2019t make any difference what it\u2019s saying, you are the one who is aware of it. As long as you think that one thing it\u2019s saying is you, but the other thing it\u2019s saying is not you, you\u2019ve lost your objectivity. You may want to think of yourself as the part that says the nice things, but that\u2019s still the voice talking. You may like what it says, but it\u2019s not you.<\/span>
There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind\u2014you are the one who hears it. If you don\u2019t understand this, you will try to figure out which of the many things the voice says is really you. People go through so many changes in the name of \u201ctrying to find myself.\u201d They want to discover which of these voices, which of these aspects of their personality, is who they really are. The answer is simple: none of them.<\/span>
If you watch it objectively, you will come to see that much of what the voice says is meaningless. Most of the talking is just a waste of time and energy. The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it. It\u2019s like sitting down at night and deciding whether you want the sun to come up in the morning. The bottom line is, the sun will come up and the sun will go down. Billions of things are going on in this world. You can think about it all you want, but life is still going to keep on happening.<\/span>
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In fact, your thoughts have far less impact on this world than you would like to think. If you\u2019re willing to be objective and watch all your thoughts, you will see that the vast majority of them have no relevance. They have no effect on anything or anybody, except you. They are simply making you feel better or worse about what is going on now, what has gone on in the past, or what might go on in the future. If you spend your time hoping that it doesn\u2019t rain tomorrow, you are wasting your time. Your thoughts don\u2019t change the rain. You will someday come to see that there is no use for that incessant internal chatter, and there is no reason to constantly attempt to figure everything out. Eventually you will see that the real cause of problems is not life itself. It\u2019s the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes problems. ……<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is life like when having your period puts your health at risk and means you are shunned by society? Rose George reports from Nepal and Bangladesh on menstrual Taboos on http:\/\/mosaicscience.com\/story\/blood-speaks The Untethered Soul http:\/\/www.untetheredsoul.com\/book.html What would it be like to be free from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to find this kind of inner peace and freedom? The Untethered Soul offers a simple, profoundly intuitive answer to these questions. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space or you\u2019ve devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you. The Untethered Soul begins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. It then delves into what you can do to free yourself from the habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit your consciousness. Finally, with perfect clarity, this book opens the door to a life lived in the freedom of your innermost being. Aussi en Francais: L’Ame d\u00e9livr\u00e9e – Un voyage par-del\u00e0 vous-m\u00eame – Michael A. Singer sur Amazon, FNAC, … Extrait 1 the voice inside your head \u201cShoot, I can\u2019t remember her name. What is her name? Darn, here she comes. What is it\u2026 Sally\u2026 Sue? She just told me yesterday. What\u2019s the matter with me? This is going to be embarrassing.\u201dIn case you haven\u2019t noticed, you have a mental dialogue going on inside your head that never stops. It… la suite (read more) …“Readings …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}