Technique: Complete with your Patterns
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ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
The next step is the process of self-completion – swapoornatva kriya. The purpose of self-completion is to make you whole or complete. When you are complete, you will feel light as if the heaviness inside you is lifted. You will also feel energized and feel your inner space expanding.
When you are incomplete or not whole, you will feel powerless, upset, lifeless, and have low energy.
DURATION
As much time as needed.
INSTRUCTIONS
Have a medium-sized mirror in which you can see your face comfortably. You are going to have a conversation with yourself!
With the mirror in front of you, sit in a relaxed way and cognize that you committed for completion to happen. The complete part of you is holding the mirror. The incomplete person is the image in the mirror.
Look at the image in the mirror and bring up the situation again that caused you conflict. Listen intently to what the incomplete person in the mirror has to say to you about the conflict.
Keep listening till there is nothing else the incomplete person has to say.
Now, as the complete person, say to the incomplete person in the mirror 'that you heard what has been said, and that the incomplete person was functioning from a cognition that was created in the past, and that it is not the cognition you now have as a complete person'.
Say to your mirror-image, 'that you are functioning from this new cognition, and that you will not be functioning from the old cognition you had at that time'.
Heal the incomplete person in the mirror completely. Tears may come and/or laughter may come. Allow both to happen.
On completion, you will feel a lightness, an expansion or a deep feeling of relief or a sigh. You may have sudden clarity about other past events, which are based on the same pattern you were dealing with during the completion process.
Repeat the same process for any other major pattern you want to complete with.NGo on completing every day if needed. This technique is especially useful when done at night before sleep where you can review your conflicts or patterns or actions for that day!
Questions and Answers on Tapas
Beloved Swamiji, I am not able to maintain a constant state of motivation. Even though I have had many glimpses, sometimes the mind and body just give up, and I feel that it is not worth the effort.
Understand, Tapas means sacrificing everything else without compromising. Whenever a cognitive shift happens in your life. When your internal understanding is trying to set a new routine for your body and mind, naturally they will protest, because they don't want their old way of life to be disturbed.
Whenever a cognitive shift happens, you will suddenly see that your regular routine is a little disturbed. It becomes a little chaotic. Your body and mind will be struggling to cope up with this change.
If you try to live your life based on this new understanding, many things are going to be thrown slightly out of gear – it may be your job, your relationships, your routine. At such times, have the courage to go through the disturbance, to go through the chaos and settle into the new understanding, establishing yourself strongly, permanently in the new understanding, is what I call tapas.
Swamiji, even internalizing a new understanding demands a lot from me! Somehow, a lot of fear comes up whenever I feel that I might have to make many changes in my life to accommodate a new truth.
Have courage. For a few months, even if you feel your life is completely shaken, okay, nothing wrong! Call sick if you want to. Better call sick, otherwise you will be sick! And let that understanding churn you.
The non-mechanical parts of your brain will be awakened. That is what I mean when I say that even in your dreams, you will remember very clearly the great ideas and teachings which you heard, which have become part of you.
If you have heard or remembered my teachings at least a few times in your dreams, it means the non-mechanical parts of your brain has already awakened. The awakening has started. I tell you, surely you will see a beautiful new order arising out of that awakening.
