Your spirituality is about your conscious, everyday self and your larger, higher or deeper, self.  It is not about religion, although religion certainly can be a part of a spiritual life.  It is absolutely personal, subjective and all-inclusive.  It provides a way for you to be more conscious, more powerful and more in control of your life.

Yoga of the Mind offers a few principles to assist in that. Understand that they are not offered as “truth”, rather they are some suggestions that have proven to be useful.  You are invited to consider them as tools, some of which will feel appropriate for you and some of which may not.  Choose what works, don’t bother with what doesn’t. Play with it.

Basics:

  1. You are in charge of and responsible for only your own life.  All responsibilities beyond that are negotiable.
  2. God (Allah, Great Spirit, the Buddha Mind, the collective consciousness, etc.) is all inclusive and unlimited, in the same way that infinity extends to both the infinitely large and the infinitely small
  3. The only meaning anything has is the meaning you give it.  And all meaning is context, or perspective, dependent.

More Basics

  1. You and your larger self communicate by way of your emotions. When you feel good, you are focused on what is appropriate for you and your life. 
  2. Your feelings are information from your spiritual self about the effects of your attentions.  They are one hundred percent reliable and trustworthy.  You can be fooled by what you think, but not by what you feel.

So, you have a binary (two possibilities) and digital (either/or) communication link with your higher, spiritual self, a navigation system.  Either you feel good or you feel bad (not good).   Reminder:  the most complex computer system in the world works on just two possibilities, 1 and 0; binary, digital.

A key to your psychological and spiritual well-being is that nothing matters so much as that you feel good.

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