12 Ways We Waste Our Vital Life Forces

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Date: 22/03/2010 18:35:00

Subject: 12 Ways We Waste Our Vital Life Forces





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Subject: 12 Ways We Waste Our Vital Life Forces

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12 Ways We Waste Our Vital Life Forces

by Guy Finley


Following are 12 Ways We Waste our Vital Life Forces, and for whose loss we remain sound asleep spiritually. Study these thieves closely and catch them in the act of stealing your chances for Higher Life as they drain away your vital life forces.

1. All forms of useless talking: Useless talking is a plague. Not only does it waste your life forces, but it also drains the force of any hapless soul you corner to bend his ear. Besides, most idle gabbing serves only one thing: a false sense of self. Useless talking wastes our vital energy, and until we stop wasting it, we will never hear what Real Life would have us learn.

2. Being wrongly involved in the lives of others: We get all wrapped up in the life of everyone else around us -- even commenting to ourselves about how strangers dress -- because we have no life of our own. Until we can stay out of other people's lives, we will never know the pleasure or the power of what it means to be ourselves!

3. Daydreams of any nature, past or future: It makes no difference whether our daydreams are filled with pain or with pleasure. Daydreams always rob from us because in exchange for them we are paid only in the coin of our own past sensations. And in exchange for these false fulfillments we throw away the possibility of receiving new impressions that are Real Life themselves.

4. Using excessive emotions: Do you know people who are always on the edge emotionally? Everything is a big deal, a crisis. When we live like this, not only do we drain ourselves by allowing our centers to be pumped up and then drained mechanically, but we also tend to drain everyone else we meet with these same unconscious actions.



..5. Useless thinking, such as speculating "why?": When we ask, "Why did this happen?" in that very moment we throw away what we need to change the nature that caused the conflict we question. "Why?" is after the fact; it is only in the middle of the fact, only when a person is present and awake to himself, that he can catch the parts of himself that compromise him. Stop useless thinking.

6. Being identified with anything: To be identified with something means to merge yourself with it psychologically... We never identify with anything other than what are our own images about people and events. When we are identified like this we are connected to something beneath us, because thought is a lower aspect of our being, not its Divine character. In this way, we pour ourselves out of ourselves.

7. Overindulging ourselves: Overeating, smoking, drinking, over-anything is a killer. It is the result of an imbalanced nature seeking balance in what it claims will bring it the comfort it needs. When we overindulge in something, no matter what it is -- whether it's emotion or Eskimo Pie -- we are at that moment costing ourselves our spiritual lives, not to mention our physical well-being.

8. Being concerned with how others see you: Why do we care what human beings think of us? Because our present level of self derives its sense of being by thinking about what others are thinking about it; and the more this self can feel that the picture it holds of how others see it is a good one, the better this pathetic self feels about itself! What a lie. What a waste!

9. Puttering around in order to keep yourself feeling productive: Do you want to know what it would be to be productive? It would be to be awake to yourself right now. Then you wouldn't have to try to figure out ways to busy yourself so you feel like you're doing something with your life, because God's life itself would be busy doing with you what you are intended to have done with you.



..10. Rushing through or to anything: Rushing about is a way of life on this planet! Why is this? We feel incomplete; we don't have what we think we should to be happy and whole, so we rush to get "there" -- to what is imagined as missing. Why do we feel this way? We have holes in our souls. And the more we rush, the more we drain ourselves of the only thing that can make us whole in our soul.

11. Becoming frustrated, impatient, or angry: When we're frustrated, we think we're frustrated with something. We are never frustrated with anything other than our own understanding, period. All impatience and anger is an act of lashing out at what our present nature calls the object of our pain, when our own unenlightened state is the cause of our conflict. Want more light? Stop wasting fuel!

12. Wrestling with anxious feelings and trying to think our way out of pain: We wrestle with anxious thoughts and confused feelings, trying to pin them down. To us, it feels like this struggle is mandatory to be free of their pain. This is a lie. The more we wrestle with what is wrecking us, the more we get wrecked for our relationship with them, so that we lose both the fight and our vital forces.

For extra benefit I highly recommend that you make your own list of the ways in which you are letting your life be stolen. Everything we do to discover where our vital life forces are being drained out of us ensures we will have that much more Real Life of our own.

Our time has run out. Remember, your wish to awaken must be supported by your inner work to that end. The Truth wants us to succeed in becoming whole and higher human beings. Let it help you by helping yourself to a sincere study of these ideas. Persist with your wish to be free.




Love & Light,
♥Angel Love♥