Instruction
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DURATION: 11 minutes
Stand before a full-length mirror and look at yourself. Take a good look at yourself from the outside. You are the subject, and the reflection in the mirror is the object of your attention. You will feel your energy flowing towards the object. Look at your eyes from the outside. You are looking, and the reflection is being looked at. Now imagine a reversal of roles! Try to imagine that the reflection is looking at you. This can be frightening at first. You are not used to thinking of your reflection in that way, as something that can observe you. Even if the feeling is strange and frightening, keep at it. In just a few moments, you will feel a great change. You will feel the energy start to flow from your reflection, towards you! This can be really frightening, really disconcerting. All your life you have been used to extroversion, to the outward direction of energy flow. To suddenly experience this can be a shock. But you will definitely feel the flow- because you have now closed the circuit. By closing the energy circuit, you have ensured that the energy is not wasted, it is flowing back towards you. You are conserving your own energy for yourself. Practise this technique for a few days, and you will feel a definite change. You will be more energetic, more vital. You will feel more centred, more at peace. You can practise this throughout the day – not just with yourself, but with anything you focus on. When you have passed your energy to something, imagine it as returning the energy to you. It could even be an inanimate object, it does not matter. You will feel the energy flowing back towards you, rejuvenating you, revitalizing you!
Explode 360!
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
We all have a very clear idea about ourselves. We have made a circle called our identity inside which we feel very safe, and we move about inside it. Even if you don't like your identity, you will not have the courage to try something different, because your identity is your comfort zone. Once you get out, who knows what might happen? Break free of your ideas about you!
Have the courage to expand – no, to explode 360!
Instruction
DURATION: Not applicable
In this technique, you can do anything – as long as you feel you can't do it!
If you feel that you just cannot paint, then paint! Take it up sincerely. Do it whenever you can. Doesn't matter what the result it. Just do it. If you feel that you are a very poor speaker, start speaking in public. Just don't listen to what your mind tells you. Beware, it is just trying to tie you down to your old identity! If you cannot sit in meditation for more than ten minutes, sit for an hour. If you have a phobia of water, take swimming classes. If you have insecurity about money – live without money, that's all!
You never enter into the adventure that is life! When you do something you think you can't do, two beautiful things happen to you. One, you will enter into the experience with the beginner's mind. When you don't have any idea how to do something, you will just let it happen. You will flow with it. Second, you cannot continuously break your own limits, your own ideas about yourself, you will see that whatever you thought as your identity was too small. The real you is something more, something beyond. You will radiate a new energy, a new courage, a new consciousness will express in you. You will be liberated from you!
