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10/09/2024

Strange irony: we strive to escape the present moment into a world of illusions, only to later, having scraped our knees and elbows on them, seek solace in that very same present moment

07/09/2024

How to Increase Your Personal Power

Personal power is what lets us change our destiny. It’s the foundation of success—the thing that makes us creators of our own lives. The question isn’t WHAT we’re creating (business, relationships, or the ultimate transformation), but HOW to gather enough of this personal power.

But here’s the thing: personal power isn’t about control, willpower, or lifting weights. It’s about relaxation, sensitivity and the ability to feel the flow of energy. How do we get there?

There are 4 key elements:

1. Awareness & Stillness of Attention
Learning to guide your attention to places of light and warmth.
Awareness comes when your body, mind, and emotions are relaxed and open. One of my favorite practices for this is the “witness.”
This practice alone brings relief from the constant “weather changes” in our lives. Create a point of focus (in the head or above it) that watches your other part “play” life. It can be tricky at first, but it’s worth it.

2. Impeccability
A concept from Castaneda, impeccability means being strict with the biggest “saboteurs” of personal power:
- Fear of death or losing oneself (often felt as anxiety).
- Self-importance (hello, inner monologues and imagined scenarios).
- Self-pity (the urge to give up and blame circumstances).

3. Intention
We are part of the world’s unified energy, and this energy gives us the power to create reality. But intention is powerless without the first two elements. Awareness and impeccability make it precise and strong.

4. Energetic Nourishment for Intention
Think of this as your battery charge. Practices like qigong or yoga are great, but if you want something simple and always available, try breathing with light. Inhale light, fill each cell, and exhale the light back out. Just like the body, the energetic body needs its “oxygen.”

There’s also a 5th element, but that’s a conversation for another time... maybe over tea.

These 4 steps will already help boost your personal power and bring your desires to life... so you can finally let them go 🫥

06/06/2024

Now i’m in Turkey again!😍
With its beautiful cats, sunsets and sea!

31/05/2024

Mood follows action, not the other way around☝🏼

Indeed, it will not work to change the mood by thinking about how good it would be to change it.

But it changes if we start doing something. The brain reads the signals from the body and goes
into another state. Not to mention the fact that movement — walking, running, cycling — contributes to the release of a cocktail of “good mood hormones”

Do you agree with this theory?)🙈

22/05/2024

Recently, I experienced an event where ancient rituals intertwined with modern mindfulness, merging Slavic and Native American traditions in a picturesque forest. It was a sweatlodge ceremony led by two careful guides, who tirelessly brought us back to the most elusive and unfathomable—the present moment.

It was a pattern of varied sensory experiences: heat was replaced by ice, water by smoke, and the nearly transparent scent of herbs by a solid, ringing touch, familiar from Russian tradition of steaming. The essence of the ceremony was simple: to let go and fill in, to exhale and inhale, to return to the body, immersing oneself in its truth, and to emerge back into the world, not forgetting this truth.

This practice changes something on a very deep level. The entire next day I felt almost powerless, as if my body was undergoing a renewal process, but my mind remained calm and clear. After the depth of physical sensations, fleeting thoughts seemed too lightweight and uninteresting.

Our art of living in the world, playing in it, learning, and exploring depends on our ability to breathe softly, deeply, smoothly, without haste or fuss. Such breathing lives in the belly. We sometimes forget it, speeding up to keep up with the modern world, but how pleasant it is to return to our breath, to float on its waves and look at the world with the utmost simple pleasure it undoubtedly deserves.

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19/05/2024

On Finding Your Path🌗

In life, it’s so important to find your calling, your person, your home. And your death. Dying another’s death is dangerous and unseemly. We head towards our own death from the very first day. The main thing is not to get lost, lured by other’s lights

08/05/2024

for non-lovers of the term “meditation”

“Don’t Think” exercise

PURPOSE: Central nervous system inhibition training. Energy saving.

Lie down and make yourself comfortable

Close your eyes and visualize the image of the “guard”. This is the part of consciousness that will stay awake and guard your peace from your thoughts and desires

To the thoughts and desires that you will have at the moment of completing this task, he will say: “Goodbye!” or “The passage is closed”

📝Do it within an hour. If you fall asleep, it’s even good, you’ll recover perfectly

23/04/2024

I ventured to Lisbon on a hunt. I caught some things, others slipped away. Once again, I realized that stalking is an art that one must learn in absolute “sobriety.”

But it’s also crucial to aimlessly wander along deserted paths, turn into mysterious alleys, strike up conversations with strangers, and give alms. You never know where the next turn might lead you.

One of my goals was to find a Buddhist community. There are many Neo-Buddhists nowadays, and finding someone is not difficult, but I was looking for those who wear maroon robes and have experienced a three-year retreat. I really wanted to be near them, to soak up their diligence—perhaps my three-day retreats could seamlessly extend into ten-day ones.

In the last week of my stay in Lisbon, I unexpectedly learned that a retreat with Pema Khenpo, one of the disciples and close followers of Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, whom I had heard much about, would be held in Sintra. The three-day retreat took place at Lisbon Dharma House—a charming house with a spacious ocean view. There were few of us, but nearly half had come specifically from other countries.

What I like about interacting with Buddhists is that to the three classic (and somewhat tiresome) questions—name, country, job—an additional one is added: “How did you come to Buddhism?” People’s faces (perhaps mine as well) begin to glow as they share their stories of search, spiritual intuition, and decisions that are insane from a worldly success standpoint.

Why, among all religions (and philosophies too), do I resonate most with Buddhism? Because it teaches us to first notice, then accept, and finally embrace impermanence. When the mind sees the truth of impermanence, it becomes calm (after all, not only will everything pass, everything is already passing right NOW).
And when the mind is calm, it becomes clear.
And when it is clear, the mind becomes kind.
And when the mind is kind, it is happy.

Sarva Mangalam! May everyone find their path to the Truth.

22/04/2024

📌Exercise: Living the Future

1. If you have some kind of fear, then the first step to deal with it is to look it in the face.

2. Imagine yourself in the future in a situation where this happened. For example, you are afraid of breaking up and it happens. Your husband tells you: I’m leaving;

3. Live through the emotion that will arise. 10 calm breaths during which you just let this emotion be. You don’t explain, you don’t clamp down, you don’t suppress, you don’t change it. It’s just there.

4. Now the body. What does the body want to do? How to react? Don’t hold back.

5. Now mind, what thoughts are passing through your mind? Let them be.

6. If you did everything right, then your fear will decrease. Just because we are afraid of the unknown, we avoid pain. It is this avoidance that makes the situation even worse, increasing our fear.

But if we just accept that discomfort is possible, look into the face of our fear - it will already decrease significantly.

Fear is afraid of awareness and living.

19/04/2024

“Everything that we are not aware of within ourselves comes to us from the outside, like Fate.”

You know this Jung quote, it very accurately describes the reasons for the Pattern of our lives.

We can either shape our own Destiny through the power of intention and the power of work, or become an actor in a script that was “accidentally” recorded in our subcortex.

The process of gazing intently and often uneasily into the depths of oneself can be called the beginning of healing.

13/04/2024

Disturbing Thoughts💭

Have you noticed that a person is much more critical of external speech than of internal speech?

We allow our inner voice to drive at full speed, either not questioning its conclusions at all, or considering them not significant enough to challenge.

Meanwhile, anxious thoughts continue to rush...

One of the important steps in dealing with anxiety is the cognitive (mental) factor.
We learn to be aware of our thoughts and analyze them.

After all, any thought can be:

1. Correct or not
2. Useful or not

And ideally, our mind is filled with correct and useful thoughts. For example, “I will learn from my mistakes and one day I will succeed.”
And compare this with: “I am a nobody, I have always been and always will be. Something bad is waiting for me in the future.”

Therefore, the art of reading one’s own thoughts is a very necessary and underrated art.

Let’s start with a simple one. For example, you may have noticed a constantly nagging, disturbing thought. Questions can be asked about this thought:

-How realistic is it that this will happen (as a percentage)?

- Is the situation really exactly as I imagine it to be?

-What other explanations/causes of the situation can there be?

- What is the probability that I will not cope with the situation if it comes?

- Is it profitable for me to think and imagine that I am not coping?

- What will help to overcome the situation if it arises?

Cognitive behavioral therapy has even brought out a special diary to track their thoughts. Did you know about that?

05/04/2024

More words about Istanbul..🇹🇷

I liked the regular mosques. You enter a little enclosure for women, choose a spot on the carpet (ideally next to a cat), and think «eternity» - that God is, of course, One, and there is no god but God because, besides Him, there is nothing at all. Then you step out into the pouring rain to drink freshly squeezed pomegranate juice, which seems much more humane than other juices.

Was there a lot of blood in Turkey’s history?

Yes, very much. While sitting and steaming in a hammam with high ceilings made of the thinnest white marble, I read about the history of the Ottoman Empire. After Suleiman the Magnificent and his famous concubine Hurrem, a shadow loomed over the empire. All rulers were either bloodthirsty, drunkards, or madmen. Traditionally, upon ascending to the throne, they killed all their male relatives (considering the harems, there were many). Starting with a «clean slate» meant ruling without fear of being displaced. In extreme cases, one could even execute one’s own son if he became too popular among the soldiers (a real case, and not just one).

Can you meet a genie?

If you find an old and dusty lamp on the market, you must rub it because there might be a Genie. If the Genie appears, it’s better to know your three deepest wishes in advance. These should not be just any wishes but only true desires of the heart, otherwise, they will not come true.

On the other hand, if the wishes are true, they will be fulfilled anyway, without a genie. After all, the most important thing in life is to know what you really want. The rest is a matter of chance 🙃🌊

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