Article: Practice Detachment to Rise Above Your Issues

No matter what highs and lows life may send our way, there is a limitless part of who we are as human beings.
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Lesson no. 1
If you are not conscious, careful or caring about what is happening to you, within you, for you in this present moment, then you do not have the power of awareness.
Practice: focus on your self.
Become conscious of who you are and what are you thinking. Connect with your body. Be in touch with your feelings. When you accomplish this by giving yourself a little time for reflection, your mind and heart will reach a higher level of understanding. This is called staying in touch.
Example: When you are fixated on the loss of a loved one, passing that exam, starting a business or a new relationship, there is a tendency to get lost or absorbed by your object of fixation. You could get swept away by fear, sorrow, anxiety, jealously, pain, joy. When this happens your awareness is out of focus.
This, because you forget who, why, and where you are. To be aware of everything in a wholistic manner puts you behind the streering wheel. You are centered. You are beyond emotional involvement because you have achieved emotional awareness.

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Philippine Daily Inquirer: Practice Detachment to Rise Above Your Issues

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