Five Techniques for a Leo Mind🔗

Be who you are!

Learning the art of being self-sufficient is the ability to be alone without feeling a need to crave for attention or too much entertainment. You may be seeking much of outer recognition of your talents and performances. Nothing wrong with that... But to expand to a space where there is no more reaction to other's appreciation or depreciation about what you do is much better. To be at your creativity and potential's peak, you need to be content, utterly filled and fulfilled with yourself. All good things start happening effortlessly once this happens.

Relax!

Whenever you feel constrained or irritated by the responsibilities you are shouldering, whenever you are not able to forget your work and family issues and carry their remembrance wherever you go, then you forgot that these responsibilities were your conscious choice in the first place. Because you remember them continuously, you feel they are imposed on you and then develop irritation and violence towards those things: they constantly bind you in the present moment. Those choices you made became like a knotted rope around your being. Start to loosen the knots one by one; review them and acknowledge that you are the one who chose them in the first place. This simple technique will relax you from the suffocation you sometimes feel.

We are constantly protecting our identity, but our identity is completely social. It is not existential. It is created out of our comparison with what is around us; it is a comparative reality. Whatever you think as your identity, your money, your relationships, your age, your sex, whatever you call your identity is just societal. Being afraid of existential reality, we try to protect our comparative reality, and we think we are protecting something which has a solid existence. In fact, we try to protect what is not from what IS. We try to protect our identity from the reality. The neutral zone, the space existing between two breaths, is the reality. One can go back to it with awareness. Moving into your relationships with that deep understanding will help you to overcome flooding emotions or unnecessary tensions.

Be Grateful!

The main reason why you miss experiencing gratitude is that you take everything for granted. Understand, people could be doing something else instead of doing things for you. So it is really a gift from them. You have to thank them for it. When we start feeling grateful for small things, our whole sensitivity increases. We will become more refined. Psychologists have studied the effects of the feeling of gratitude on people. In their first study, they concluded that gratitude played a major role in a person’s well-being. Understand, if ever you feel life is dull, that it is not as juicy as it should be, it is because gratitude has not yet flowered in you. Gratitude is the energy that makes your life intense and exciting every moment. This is a basic secret of life.

Developing friendship and friendliness can become a spiritual technique. Friendship is a relationship, whereas friendliness is a quality, not a relationship. It is not subjected to anybody else; it is basically your inner quality. You can be friendly even when you are alone. But you cannot be in friendship when you are alone - another person is needed. A beautiful friendliness can exist with the whole of existence, with a flower, with a river, with the moon. Friendliness is infinite, because it is not dependent on another but on the quality of your consciousness. As you develop friendliness in your friendship, extend that friendliness to the whole of the universe!

Sūrya (the Sun god) as represented in Tiruvannamalai Ashram (India). Around the Sun stand the other 8 Navagraha deities (deities associated with the nine planets), along with their Navagraha trees (trees associated with the nine planets), to bless all with abundance. The circle of deities is placed around the main deities of the temple, Sri Anandeshwara and Anandeshwari; located near a powerful energy field of 1008 Śiva lingas radiating Śiva's cosmic energy in an extremely auspicious atmosphere.