The day the world ended for you
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Why do we start applying our own filters to life?
What is it that first makes us separate life into pleasant and unpleasant, known and known, welcome and unwelcome?
As an infant, the only thing that existed for you was yourself. There were no two separate experiences identified as ‘me’ and ‘not-me’. Everything was part of the same undivided experience of reality. An infant knows only one world - no separate outer world or inner world. Then, slowly, you started learning the signs of communication as a baby. With this started the world of duality for you – the experience of what is you and what is not you. When there is no cognition of separation, you always experience life from a state of completion.
But for most of you, SOMETHING happened one day in your life that caused a dent in this completion. It could be as small a happening as a harsh word from a parent or teacher, or a fight with a friend. Or it could be a shattering event like a loved one’s death or childhood sexual abuse. When it happened, it felt as if death was happening to you. It simply shook your whole world.
You are living with a constant hangover
Listen: any action that is unfulfilled as per your expectation, either because of a hindrance outside or a hindrance inside, forms an incompletion in you.
Let us take an example. As a child, you would naturally have longed for your father to be loving and caring, but for whatever reason, let us suppose he did not honor that expectation. From this experience, you create a casual cognition or idea about yourself – I am not lovable! This may have been your experience only with your father, but the cognition settles as a strong experience in you, leaving you incomplete. It leaves a hangover in you.
And you carry the hangover of this cognition all your life! - I am not lovable! This becomes your experience of you - not just with your father, but with life itself! You create, act and respond to life from this incomplete cognition you have about you – I am not lovable!
So you will find yourself constantly attracting people, places, events, circumstances and situations that strengthen this wrong understanding in you, this wrong cognition in you - I am not lovable! Again and again, your experience of life will be this – I am not lovable! This becomes a dangerous pattern in your life – a root pattern that governs your entire life!
Ironically, your entire life is a struggle to fulfil that incomplete part of you – but because it is an unconscious effort, what happens is exactly the opposite. You continue to make important decisions in your life based on this root pattern, and end up attracting more such situations into your life. It becomes a vicious cycle! This will continue until you become aware of your pattern and break it.
So, how can you turn this vicious cycle into a virtuous circle - where you attract the best people, places, events and situations you want, to create the life you truly desire – to create fulfilment in you? It starts with completing all the incompletions inside you.
In our programs, through a process of ‘conscious past life regression’, you are helped to identify the incomplete cognitions that have created the root behaviour patterns governing all your responses.
Because you enter into the past from a state of high awareness, you are empowered to alter your past cognitions and liberate yourself from the pattern.
Once you find your root pattern, you will complete with that pattern, so that you are released from its influence over your life.
By living these four tattvas – the sacred principles of Life – you will not only become aware of your patterns, but you will develop the tools, techniques and intelligence to break free of your patterns. With completion, life be freshly experienced again.