Simran: Self Love or Self Hate
Simran (from Wikipedia): is Punjabi word derived from the Sanskrit word स्मरण (smaraṇa,
"the act of remembrance , remembrance, reminiscence, recollection")
which leads to the realization of that which is of the highest aspect
and purpose in one's life. It is the continuous remembrance of the
finest aspect of the self, or the continuous remembrance (or feeling) of
God, thus used for introducing spirituality. This state is maintained continuously while carrying out the worldly works outside.
Simran is remembrance and we either remember our Higher Self and Spirit, or we remember everything bad about our self and our actions. One is Spiritual Simran, the other is Lower Body Simran. Whether we are aware of it or not we perform Simran all day, every day. We have continuous thoughts all day about who we are, what we think about our self, our actions, behaviors, character traits, etc. Unconscious lower body Simran usually includes self criticism and can lead to depression, anxiety and often is the cause of addictions. Addictions (drugs, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, worry, compulsions, overwork, etc) serve a strong purpose. When we are worried about managing and surviving an addiction, we get to forget about our uncomfortable life emotions. Addiction is not just physical, it is emotional as well. When we stop addictions or addictive behaviors, we have to start (gulp) feeling our feelings rather than diverting our feelings to something out side of our self. We even do this with happiness-- we use outside circumstances (sex, lower body love, activities, money, food) to create a feeling of happiness inside that we cannot find when left alone with our self.
Meditation helps us to develop Spiritual Simran. It breaks the habits of unconscious Simran that tears us down. Meditation creates new habits of consciously tuning into our Higher Self. Through meditation we develop the courage to confront our Lower Body Simran and learn to tune into our Spirit and our Guides on a more regular basis. Our Guides cannot get through to us when our internal self talk (Lower Body Simran) dominates our energy field. It is not easy to catch our self when we are Simran-ing self hate or other critical thoughts and we must catch those thoughts first in order to then consciously make a different choice and put in place Spiritual Simran.
Meditations, energy work, sharing your self with other light beings, working with a true Teacher, and other Spiritual work are all ingredients needed to switch from Lower Body Simran to Spirit Simran. We learn to switch our self talk, our internal conversations from one of self doubt, fear, criticisms........ to listening to the Guidance that is always (always) there. We learn to construct Spiritual Simran of self appreciation, compassion, forgiveness and encouragement of the self to remember that we are a Glowing Spirit having a human experience (not the other way around). Simran is happening all day, every day........ however Spiritual Simran is, at least at first, a discipline which later, with practice, can become your normal state of being. Spiritual Simran brings us self respect, self love of the highest order, inner peace, joy and opens us up to our Divine Guidance.
Namaste. MarieFeuer.Org // Life Path Healings.
Simran is remembrance and we either remember our Higher Self and Spirit, or we remember everything bad about our self and our actions. One is Spiritual Simran, the other is Lower Body Simran. Whether we are aware of it or not we perform Simran all day, every day. We have continuous thoughts all day about who we are, what we think about our self, our actions, behaviors, character traits, etc. Unconscious lower body Simran usually includes self criticism and can lead to depression, anxiety and often is the cause of addictions. Addictions (drugs, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, worry, compulsions, overwork, etc) serve a strong purpose. When we are worried about managing and surviving an addiction, we get to forget about our uncomfortable life emotions. Addiction is not just physical, it is emotional as well. When we stop addictions or addictive behaviors, we have to start (gulp) feeling our feelings rather than diverting our feelings to something out side of our self. We even do this with happiness-- we use outside circumstances (sex, lower body love, activities, money, food) to create a feeling of happiness inside that we cannot find when left alone with our self.
Meditation helps us to develop Spiritual Simran. It breaks the habits of unconscious Simran that tears us down. Meditation creates new habits of consciously tuning into our Higher Self. Through meditation we develop the courage to confront our Lower Body Simran and learn to tune into our Spirit and our Guides on a more regular basis. Our Guides cannot get through to us when our internal self talk (Lower Body Simran) dominates our energy field. It is not easy to catch our self when we are Simran-ing self hate or other critical thoughts and we must catch those thoughts first in order to then consciously make a different choice and put in place Spiritual Simran.
Meditations, energy work, sharing your self with other light beings, working with a true Teacher, and other Spiritual work are all ingredients needed to switch from Lower Body Simran to Spirit Simran. We learn to switch our self talk, our internal conversations from one of self doubt, fear, criticisms........ to listening to the Guidance that is always (always) there. We learn to construct Spiritual Simran of self appreciation, compassion, forgiveness and encouragement of the self to remember that we are a Glowing Spirit having a human experience (not the other way around). Simran is happening all day, every day........ however Spiritual Simran is, at least at first, a discipline which later, with practice, can become your normal state of being. Spiritual Simran brings us self respect, self love of the highest order, inner peace, joy and opens us up to our Divine Guidance.
Namaste. MarieFeuer.Org // Life Path Healings.
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