Preserve the Good Moments in Life

 

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Preserve the Good Moments in Life

We all live our life more or less on our own terms, and as we set out on our journey, we choose to remember mainly the scary and traumatic moments which we come across during this journey. Why is that? This, I feel, is because our minds are trained and attuned since childhood to remember and to preserve deep within our consciousness all the bad incidents and people that we come across in life. Some of the memories come from past life experiences – some of the phobias for instance – past life regression techniques help us get over such phobias and deeply entrenched memories.

If we want to progress spiritually, we have to surrender all these bad memories at the Lotus Feet of our Satguru if we have one, or to any higher power whom we believe in or to nature – basically giving back to nature what we got from it. The tribals performed all their healing in nature itself, and in many remote parts of India, continue to do so even today.

My eldest brother fell seriously ill recently and coincidentally he started meditating seriously during the past 4-5 months. Swamiji has explained that for some people who start meditating and have accumulated karma of this birth – these karmas start unfolding at an enhanced rate and the logical mind attributes this to meditation and then some people who cannot endure the real-life bad incidents which start happening give up on meditation! I told my brother to just endure the illness, nothing will happen and he should be fine and to continue meditating. He is getting some beautiful spiritual experiences. It is all about faith and samarpan!

We all get beautiful experiences and spend some really joyous moments with near and dear ones – these could be with family, friends, colleagues – anyone – learn to preserve these memories in your chitta and whenever any untoward incident happens recall these joyous memories and tide over the current experience. You will find that recalling joyous experiences alleviates the pain of the current bad experience, uplifts your spirits and gives you the fortitude to face your current problem It’s just a trick we have to play on our mind which invariably brings up the bad experiences, to stop doing that and recall the good moments. With awareness practise you can train your mind to do this, then you will never be in a traumatised state even when ‘bad’ things happen.

With time, with regular meditation, after cleansing of all your chakras and meridians, you will notice that the bad memories do not come to the fore anymore, and even if they do, they just come as memories without any emotional trauma attached. So, to conclude, I would say just remember the good times, stay in the moment, and enjoy life to the fullest.