MEDITATION
CHALLENGING THE ILLUSION
Of Your Limiting Beliefs
MEDITATION
are in literally your ego. As
though under a spell, you
are temporarily attached
to a passing perception,
generated by your ego,
which only knows to divide. In that moment, you
are seeing life through a
limited, distorted lens.
The ego is both attached
and tricky. But it has its
own Achilles heel. It dissolves when questioned
and witnessed. Willingness
to grow involves the courage to question the reality
of the painful voices that
keep you feeling small. Ultimately, you need to fully
understand that they are
not true.
I
t is the New Year. The year ahead feels like a clean, clear slate, full of possibilities. You may
have a list of things you would like to see happen in the coming months. You may feel open,
ready and willing to grow. Yet, high hopes can soon feel dashed when you meet naysayers
in the world around you or internal limiting beliefs that say you can’t be truly happy.
Of these two, your internal chatter is most like Superman’s Kryptonite. People’s negative
comments only have power if you believe them to be true. You believe in them only because at some level, you likely hold a core belief that validates their words.
For the purpose of cultivating wisdom in the practice of meditation, you must go deeper
into exploring the truth of these core beliefs that can undermine your best intentions with
mesmerizing speed and efficiency.
When you see painful thoughts thwart your heart’s joy, draw upon an age-old key truth
on the path to freedom. Know that when you believe that life is happeni