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Hello, I'm Ivan: travel junkie, blogger, teacher, a student of life. Welcome to my little home on the net, where I hope to share ideas and insights to help you lead a deeply fulfilling life.
This is a journey of discovering both inner and outer freedom. Will you join me on this quest towards ultimate fr...2022-08-2902 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleDeveloping Presence 101: Relaxing The Body and Releasing Its Tensions (Bitesize Wisdom #153)Recently I made a video about living from presence, If you haven’t checked it out here: https://youtu.be/-Px1k1XLJ2A In that video, I gave a brief overview of how our spiritual journey is one where we go from the gross to the very subtle, and the importance of learning to ground our attention in the energy of sensation in our bodies in order to grow and feed our presence.
Today I’ll get a little bit into discussing the initial stage of developing contact with our body, with our body presence which is an...2020-08-2405 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleSpreading Joy: How To Cheer Yourself Up (Bitesize Wisdom #152)Today's quote is by Mark Twain, “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
We're living in crazy times right now, and we all could use a little cheering up. Unfortunately, modern life in many parts of the world has encouraged more selfish ways of living, of being. It’s a dog eat dog kind of world out there. Which has become a big source for stress and unhappiness for many.
To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com
Podcast: https://anchor.fm...2020-08-1003 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleLiving From Presence: How To Really Enter The Present Moment (Bitesize Wisdom #151)Today our topic is on living from Presence.
Our whole self-development journey is one towards a deeper understanding and embodiment of presence. The more presence we invite into our life, the more our life comes alive. Living with little presence our life just slips through our hands and passes us by. We become passive participants in our life and don’t experience it fully.
Presence means to be here and now grounded in our life, grounded in our bodies, through not only the sensory experience but also aware of ourselves doing whatever it may be as w...2020-07-3115 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleThe Importance of Being Thankful During a Pandemic/Crisis (Bitesize Wisdom #150)Today's quote is by the Buddha,
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”
I know it seems as if the sky is falling every day as we hear non-stop about all the different crises going on around the world. Especially if you are someone who has been directly impacted by ev...2020-07-1403 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleLiving More Consciously: The Importance of Right Aim and Mastering Attention (Bitesize Wisdom #149)#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization
I have spoken before on the importance of making an aim for oneself in respect to our self-development work. Our aim is what keeps us on the right track. After careful and sincere self-observation, of being objectively mindful of our behavior we should be able to identify areas that we need to work on in order to progress on our journey of becoming more conscious. This data helps us to formulate an aim for our self-development work. For example, you may discover that feelings of jealousy are especially damaging to you, so your a...2020-06-0910 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleLiving Like You Really Mean It: Being Present Here And Now (Bitesize Wisdom #148)#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization
All of us have heard the importance of learning to be present, of living in the now, but how many of us are actually really living it, how many of us really understand what that means or how to do it…
Today I’ll briefly touch upon this by emphasizing that we need to live like we really mean it. It means we need to learn to identify the silent presence behind all experiences and to live by having our intention in whatever it is that we may be doing. Living from a...2020-05-0605 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleIt's Your Choice To Be Negative or Not (Bitesize Wisdom #147)#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization
Today we will continue our discussion on negative emotions, specifically that you have the choice or right to not be negative.
To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com2020-05-0404 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleThe Art of Manifesting: How To Pray For Better Days (Bitesize Wisdom #146)In recent years due to the success of the Secret, the law of attraction has enjoyed a mass revival. Although it was good that the focus was generally on being more positive, it lacked a comprehensive understanding and also gave birth to many negative outcomes due to this. I Instead of helping people become more free, it subtly enslaved many people as well by enabling them to become more egotistical and the results promised did not materialize for most. Peoples hopes and dreams are being exploited to the max in this age of social media by internet marketers turned s...2020-04-0407 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeoplePurifying Our Emotions To Raise The Level of Our Being (Bitesize Wisdom #145)On our journey of self-development, one of the key themes that you will find across all spiritual paths is that of purification...and specifically of the purification of our emotions.
The emotions that we have picked up through life, that are now part of our false personality, is what keeps us at the level of being that we are currently at.
False personality is all that we have acquired from life, all our conditioning from the external environment that has shaped us. False because it’s not intrinsic to our real nature. These emotions that we l...2020-03-0405 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow You Can Use Your Habits To Become More Conscious and Live In The Now (Bitesize Wisdom #144)Today we will talk a little bit about how we can use our habits to help us in our self-development work. In trying to change ourselves to live more consciously we need all the energy we can get. Much of our energy is spent through all the automatic habits that we have developed, and through all our various energy leaks such as indulging in negative emotions, at the end of the day we simply don’t have enough energy left for our self-development work. So we need to become less mechanical, more mindful, and to stop all of our un...2020-02-2105 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleEnergy Breathing: A Simple Exercise To Grow Your Energy Body and Presence (Bitesize Wisdom #143)Energy is all around you. On our self-development journey, one of the primary tools that we use to gain self-knowledge is our attention. We develop a deep and intimate relationship with attention. Which is just an aspect of our true Will. Not what most people take their Will to be which is a constantly changing little “i”, the will of our conditioned personality.
When our attention is refined enough it may be possible for us to be able to perceive and to draw in the energy in the air. This gives you a little clue into the real m...2020-02-1905 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleSimple Exercise To Think On a Higher Scale and Activate Your Higher Mind (Bitesize Wisdom #142)We live in a culture of me, me, me! We all occupy a very small part of the world, we live in our own tiny bubble that doesn’t make any real contact with the greater world. It is important for us to try to conceive of something greater than ourselves. To extend beyond our own little bubble, and in doing so new vistas will open up to us.
For example, if all of us could every day upon waking up try to realize the fact that our time on this earth in the grand scheme of thi...2020-02-0304 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleDeveloping Real Patience With Ourselves And The World (Bitesize Wisdom #141)#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization
Today's quote is by Saadi Shirazi, “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”
In a world that seems to be exponentially moving faster, developing real patience will help us to navigate life much more intelligently.
How can we develop real patience? Real patience can be a by-product of our sincere self-development work like our meditation practices and our active self-observation. On my channel, you always hear me talking about learning to objectively observe ourselves. Where the goal is simply learning to observe and witness the contents of the...2019-12-2904 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleThe Importance of Being Kind To Yourself and Others (Bitesize Wisdom #140)Today's quote is by Henry James, “Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind”
I think we can all agree that our world can always use a little more kindness. Today, I just want to provide a little gentle reminder to deliberately be more kind as you go about your day. If you are trying to be kind to others, do it with the attitude that you will be kind to others without the expectation that they will then be kind...2019-12-2703 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleThought = Time: Discovering Our Timeless Source (Bitesize Wisdom #139)#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization
We live in a world that is dominated by thought. Thought has allowed us to create a materially comfortable world. It’s allowed some amazing inventions to come to life, but at the same time has enslaved us as evidenced by the levels of unhappiness and depression that people deal with despite that the common man has more wealth then even Kings had not long ago. On the quest towards inner freedom, it is essential that we come to an intimate understanding of thought. That we question it. It’s very difficult for many...2019-12-0104 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleLove Yourself First And Everything Else Falls Into Place (Bitesize Wisdom #138)I think if you ask someone if they love themselves, a big majority will say that for the most part they do. The reality though is that many people only love the ideas, the images that they have of who they think they are. These images are very precious to us. They give us a sense of identity. If I have an image of myself of being an honest hardworking person, and someone comes along and says that I’m a lazy lier, I will feel attacked, I will feel threatened. But what in me feels threatened? What is it...2019-11-1903 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleUncovering And Breaking Unconscious Tendencies That Keep Us Stuck (Bitesize Wisdom #137)“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” - George Bernard Shaw
Today I want to touch on a few ideas that this quote inspired. While in our bodies we meet reality in a threefold way. Which is to say that we can only think, feel, and sense the world around us. And based on our own individual faculties and capacities will perceive the world in our own unique way.
Our lives from the moment we are born until we die is spent r...2019-10-2104 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeoplePursue Goals That Touch Your Mind, Body, And Spirit (Bitesize Wisdom #87)When settings a goal that will be fulfilling and achievable formulate one that will touch your mind, body, and spirit. We need to find inner balance among our various parts to be able to pursue our goals in a deeply meaningful way.
To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com2019-10-1104 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleLearning To Appreciate The Simple Things In Life (Bitesize Wisdom #136)#selfrealization #selfdevelopment #enlightenment #conciousness #spirituality #nonduality
Today's quote is a Chinese Proverb. The proverb is “The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.” One of the big ironies of life is that most of us seem to go on missing what’s right in front of us, right under our noses. We are all chasing something which we deem more satisfying, more pleasurable, then our current moment to moment experience. To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com2019-10-0802 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow To Really Increase Awareness of Your Body: Start By Setting Small Goals (Bitesize Wisdom #135)If you are trying to be more aware of your body, just pick one thing, one physical manifestation and work on it until you master it. For example, let’s take your tone of voice. Learn to be aware of it as if you were simply listening to a stranger. Be an alert witness, that doesn’t judge what he observes. It’s important that we make no attempt to modify our behaviors, we are simply seeing and gathering objective data about ourselves. Work on this until you can be consciously aware of your tone of voice all day.
To...2019-09-1005 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleThe Law of Three: The 3 Forces of Manifestation (Bitesize Wisdom #134)The law of 3 is an ancient teaching known to all the great wisdom traditions of the past. In esoteric Christianity is was known as the trinity, in Indian teachings, they were expressed in the 3 Gunas of tamas, rajas, and sattva.
The law of three can be used to explain how all manifestations happen at both the material and psychological level. It is the 3 forces of creation. We will talk a little bit about why this important for us at the practical level. So for every manifestation or event 3 forces must meet for its actualization.
These 3 for...2019-08-2109 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleLearning How To Make Good Decisions In Life (Bitesize Wisdom #133)So today I want to talk a little bit about how we can make the best choices for our life. In order to make good sound decisions, we need to become balanced and see and act from a place of presence. As I have mentioned many times on my channel most people have their center of gravity in either their intellect, their emotions, or their bodies.
If you make decisions while solely being identified with only one of your centers you will only be acting with a third of your potential. Each center possesses its own unique fo...2019-08-0304 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleReconnecting With Old Friends And Reconnecting With Our True Selves (Bitesize Wisdom #132)Throughout life we have people who can come into and are a part of our lives, then due to various circumstances are out of our life. We really need to appreciate all the people who come into our lives for however long it may be. We need to make an effort to restore, renew, revive. reclaim, and redeem our relationships.
In life relationships are everything. And now in our modern day life loneliness and lack of meaningful relationships are an epidemic for so many. People’s lives are literally being cut short.
To read my self...2019-06-2505 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleThe Importance of Making Effort on The Spiritual and Self-development Path (Bitesize Wisdom #131)Today's topic is on Effort. Specifically, the importance of effort on our self-development journey. When we have ceased to make efforts, we can say that we are now psychologically asleep and drifting through life. Although it may seem that we are not drifting because we are being active in the world, but we are so identified, so immersed in worldly pursuits that we forget everything relating to our inner journey.
Our inner journey depends on conscious effort, it depends on us constantly remembering our work and the aim we have created for ourselves. We must constantly remember w...2019-06-1604 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleLearning To Follow The Wisdom of The Heart: Activating Your Real Intuition (Bitesize Wisdom #130)Today's quote of the day is by Norman Vincent Peale.
The quote is “Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.”
Today I want to take a few minutes to talk about the importance of learning to drop from your head-space, from our conscious thinking mind, into our heart space. Getting in tune with our inner knowing, the wisdom of the heart.
In today’s society thought, has become all important, we have become too head oriented. Most people derive their entire sense of self from their thinking, from the little vo...2019-05-2604 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleTransform The World By Transforming Yourself (Bitesize Wisdom #129)We're going to talk about about how in order to transform the world we need to transform the individual, for the individual is what truly exists. Society is a mental construct, show me this thing we call society?
To transform oneself requires self-knowledge. Without knowing what we really are, there won’t be any foundation for clear thinking, without knowing who you are there cannot be any meaningful transformation.
To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 2019-05-2402 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleLearning To Love Your Real Self: Going Beyond Who You Think You Are (Bitesize Wisdom #128)Today's quote is “I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.” Most people understand that unless you love yourself, you cannot really love anyone else. If we don’t have a loving relationship with our very own self, we will project any of our own weaknesses unto the other person and end up sabotaging and limiting our relationship with another.
It seems basic, that we should learn to love our own selves and on the surface many people believe or think they love themselves but their behavior will sho...2019-05-1805 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow To Stop Drifting Through Life By Making Conscious Efforts (Bitesize Wisdom #127)If you are someone who has embarked on a journey of self-knowledge, of self-development and have found yourself to stop making any efforts in relation to your higher aim, we can say that you are now drifting in life.
You have fallen asleep at the wheel, your mechanical tendencies have you under their spell, and as a result, you have forgotten all about your inner work. Being asleep, we are said to be drifting because we live a reactionary life. We are led this way and that way by the situations and circumstances we encounter in life.
...2019-05-1705 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow To Be The King of Your Inner Castle (Bitesize Wisdom #126)In order to have this higher point of view, we need to learn to recognize and become established in our thought-free awareness. Much like the King in our story, being established in our presence is like we are at the peak of a mountain.
From this vantage point, we look down and can see everything below us. We can see our thoughts, emotions, feelings, running around bumping into each other causing all sorts of problems. Being above them we remain unaffected.
Also as our understanding of our inner landscape becomes more refined we are then a...2019-05-1403 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow We Can Use Sleep To Discover Our True Self (Bitesize Wisdom #125)Today our topic is on how we can use sleep to help us realize our true nature. On my channel, you always hear me talking about being present, being aware, being conscious, etc.
Learning to let go of all that is false in order to discover what we really are.
The problem for most of us is that we are too identified with our thoughts, emotions, bodies and invested into a conceptual story we call “me” that we miss that obviousness of the basic nature of reality.
Many spiritual practices aimed at helping us qu...2019-05-0404 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow Life Can Become The Ultimate Teacher: No Attachments No Aversions (Bitesize Wisdom #124)Today's topic is on Karma Yoga. We will define Karma Yoga simply as the science of non-identifying. This means that we learn to approach life in a way that is equal whether those events are pleasant or unpleasant. That is we approach them consciously. We do not try to avoid the unpleasant things in life, which most people spend their whole lives doing.
When we approach life with non-identifying, we see that it becomes our ultimate teacher. Life gains a whole new meaning. It’s not that life is a teacher, but that through our relationship and non-i...2019-04-2604 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow Negative Emotions Spoil Everything And Distort Reality (Bitesize Wisdom #123) In previous videos, I have touched upon how our main centers...which are our intellectual, emotional, and moving/instinctive center of our body...have a positive and negative half….
For example, the positive part of our intellectual center is its ability to say “yes” (affirmation) and negative part is ”no” (negation)..this natural division makes it possible for us to think...without this division we would not be able to consider and reason…
Our emotional center is unique in that we learn that negative half is not natural and intrinsic to the makeup of our emotional cente...2019-04-1304 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleGenerating New Ideas By Contacting Your Inner Stillness (Bitesize Wisdom #122)Today I want to talk about bringing more original and new ideas into the world. Here we want to quiet and go beyond the purely associative part of our thinking. We want to simply contact our inner stillness and just be open to anything that emerges. If you really learn to be inwardly still and go deeply into it, you will be in a position where an unknown dimension can come into being. You can call it an epiphany, intuition, divine inspiration. Whatever you like. The important thing is that it’s not coming from our associations, but from th...2019-03-3003 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleThings Don't Change Until We Change: How To See A New Reality (Bitesize Wisdom #121)Humans are highly impressionable beings, what happens to most of us is that as we get older we become increasingly conditioned in our minds, emotions, and bodies.
As they say, people get set in their ways. Not only do people have a hard time in changing themselves at the personal level, but also the way in which they perceive the external world becomes very narrow and stale.
To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com
2019-03-1904 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleReleasing Fear And Anxiety To Live Happy Fulfilling Lives (Bitesize Wisdom #120) Anxiety and fear keep us on a very narrow path. These limitations are an invisible prison that many of us are unconscious too. It becomes part of our identity, therefore, we no longer see it or question it, although we sense something is quite right.
This is where we need to be able to clearly see if anxiety and fear are a major problem in our life. In order to start heading in a new direction we need to identify how fear and anxiety have limited us. We need to see that we in our prison, the kin...2019-03-0804 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleFinding Inner and Outer Balance In Life (Bitesize Wisdom #119)Today our topic is on finding and appreciating balance. As the quote says happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
The problem is that as we go through life and we have a few amazing experiences, we then seek to only want and to maintain only good feeling states and avoid what we would label as bad experiences. We live in a world of seeming duality, of contrast, without the other side we wouldn’t be able to evaluate and appreciate each experience for what it is. If we only had blissful exp...2019-02-2704 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleFinding Your True Self: What's Your Original Face? Understanding Your Persona (Bitesize Wisdom #118)Society is artificial, we slowly get conditioned into having many faces. To be yourself in society can cause you great inconveniences, hence why almost no one ever shows who they really are. Many of us don’t even know who we are anymore, we just think we do.
The word persona is a very significant word, it is a Latin word meaning mask. This is where the word personality originated from, our personalities are the masks we use to participate in society.
To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 2019-02-2306 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleQuote of The Day To Have A Great Day! Wisdom by GK Chesterton (Bitesize Wisdom #117)I think we have all heard the expression that sometimes people feel like they are carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. Physically you can also see it.
For many of us regardless of our physical weight, in our inner space, we feel obese. We are weighed down by our thoughts, emotions, feelings, our addictions, our past, our expectations of the future
To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 2019-02-2102 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleBalancing and Understanding Our Intellectual, Emotional, Instinctive Brains (Bitesize Wisdom #116)Today's topic is on understanding the wrong work of our bodies centers, that being our intellectual, emotional, and the instinctive/moving centers.
In a recent video we talked about the importance of observing and really knowing your centers because doing so gives us a lot of self-knowledge. By properly observing our centers we can determine how conscious we are being in the moment, we can see if our centers are doing their appropriate work and the quality of energy they are using by understanding the different levels of our attention in relation to our centers. We also we...2019-02-2007 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow To Be Consciously Creative In Art: Reclaiming Your Childlike Creativity (Bitesize Wisdom #115)If we want to reclaim the creativity that was once ours, we need to get rid of all our social conditioning’s, otherwise whatever we create is truly not our own unique creation. Our social conditioning only allows us to modify and copy ideas that were never really ours. To be creative in the purest sense is to be an individual, to not allow our creations to be colored by mass psychology.
To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 2019-02-1506 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow To Deal With People You Don't Like: Seeing Yourself In Others (Bitesize Wisdom #114)Today I want you to take the time to think about someone who you really dislike, nay, someone who you may even despise.
What is it that irritates you most about them? Is it that they are inconsiderate? That they don’t listen? Or maybe that they are overly narcissistic?
What if I told you that it is entirely possible to even learn to like these people and that it’s actually in your best interest to do so. Don’t believe me?
Well, if you give me a few minutes of your time and...2019-02-1308 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleSimple Tips On How To Start Journaling For Your Self-Development (Bitesize Wisdom #113)Journaling can be a great way of freely putting your thoughts, feelings, ideas on paper to be able to look at and explore them in a deeper way. And as our quote above highlights, writing can be a way of relieving inner pressure. It can be a cathartic exercise.
Journaling consistently can also help us tap into our inner creativity which can be a source of potential problem-solving in our day to day lives.
Through journaling, we will also increase our own self-awareness and as we reflect on our day we will start to notice an...2019-02-1103 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleClearly Seeing Our Addictions And Going Beyond Them (Bitesize Wisdom #112)Our mechanical addictions keep us locked in place. Take a good look, what little compulsions and drives have power over you, by you not being able to live without them.
We can start by looking at everyday things like our daily coffee, video games, social media, or gossip at the office. Is it a harmless indulgence or is it now running your life?
It gets harder to see with things like our psychological suffering. We may not look at them like addictions, but how many people do you know that if they gave up their su...2019-02-0604 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleIntroduction To Our Subtle Energy Bodies: The Five Koshas (Bitesize Wisdom #111)In modern psychology, they refer to the three dimensions of the mind as being the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious. From Yoga and Vedanta, they are known as the gross, subtle, and causal dimensions of the human personality.
These three aspects are then subdivided into the five koshas or bodies that go from the grossest to the most subtle dimensions of existence. Kosha is a Sanskrit word that means sheath, you can think of it as a layer of an onion.
Many spiritual traditions identify and classify our subtle bodies although there will be some variance am...2019-02-0504 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow Present Are You To The Present Moment? Simple Exercise (Bitesize Wisdom #110) We always hear how important it is to be present, to live in the moment. In order for us to become more conscious and aware, we need to realize just how unconscious we may be currently living. We need to realize our lack of presence. So, just how present are we in our lives?
Today I want to share a little useful exercise that help you determine just how present you are to the present moment and the level of awareness that you possess. Having this baseline can help you realize many things and can provide a sh...2019-02-0404 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleReflecting On Your Spiritual Journey Through Life (Bitesize Wisdom #109)Everyone is at a different stage in their development, but were all on our own journey from lower to higher, from ignorance to wisdom.
It is a journey of discarding all that is false and discovering what is true, the source of our very own beingness.
We all have different starting points, we all resonate with different ideas and teachings, but anything that helps us to move our center of gravity from the external to the internal is useful on our journey to awakening our connection to the source of all that is.
To...2019-02-0403 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleIncreasing Self-Awareness of Our Three Brains: Head, Heart, and Gut (Bitesize Wisdom #108)On our self-development journey, our goal is to become fully human, which means to become balanced in all our various functions. Right now most of us are unbalanced in various degrees.
You can think of our centers as each being a different kind of mind. We have an intellectual, emotional, and instinctive mind.
Each mind was designed for a different purpose and use. And since most of us never got a proper education on our highly complex and delicate machine, we don’t know it’s intricate workings and therefore use them wrongly.
To read my...2019-02-0309 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleConsciously Creating Your Own Opportunities In Life (Bitesize Wisdom #107)Today our topic is on creating opportunities for our life. Let’s take a few minutes now to see how we can create more opportunities to live a happy conscious life.
From an esoteric point of view, we learn that if you are living life from personality, the most exterior aspect of you, then you will be living according to the law of accident. Things just happen.
When you are in tune and in touch with your inner self, when you know who you are at a deep level then you will be living according to t...2019-02-0203 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow To Make Your Life Meaningful: The Importance of Our Self-Development Work (Bitesize Wisdom #106)Meaning can come from life or we can find meaning in imagination. When we derive meaning from imagination we are functioning through our identification to our conscious thinking mind, through our personality.
When we derive meaning from life we are functioning more through our essence, what is real and unchanging in us.
When we start to sense the meaning that we derive from tapping into our essence, our self-development work, our spiritual work can then become the greatest source of meaning for us.
Making your self-development work a priority you will be well on y...2019-02-0204 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleLiving In Imagination vs. Living In Reality: Man's Search For Meaning (Bitesize Wisdom #105)One can get tired of something that it no longer has any meaning for the person. So what is the meaning of meaning? What is the source of meaning? When you look back on your life on your experiences, what is it that made them meaningful?
We need to realize that what we take for granted doesn’t have any real meaning for us. And many of us take our very life for granted, so we are simply just carried along by it.
We get a certain amount of meaning from life and a certain am...2019-02-0105 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleThe Seven Functions of a Clear Mind by The Stoic Epictetus (Bitesize Wisdom #104)On our self-development journey, our goal is to become a balanced human being. Balanced in our various centers or functions.
In today’s quote, Epictetus gives us a good look at how our intellectual center should be used.
“The proper work of the mind is the exercise of choice, refusal, yearning, repulsion, preparation, purpose, and assent. What then can pollute and clog the mind’s proper functioning? Nothing but its own corrupt decisions.” - Epictetus
To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 2019-02-0103 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow You Spend Your Day Is How You Create Your Life (Bitesize Wisdom #103)How do you spend your day? Are you doing all the things you need to be doing in order to live a fulfilling life? Learn to tap into your inner self, and as you get in tune you will use your time wisely. Acting from what is real in you will bring you fulfillment and you'll be expressing your own uniqueness.
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To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 2019-01-2307 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleMarcus Aurelius: Realizing Your Potential By Not Worrying What Others Think (Bitesize Wisdom #95)Shift your focus from the external to the internal. Realizing your inner potential you will worry less about how others perceive you. Not depending on the external world for your sense of security you will be living from your intrinsic nature. You will be living authentically. Learn to use the external world to develop your internal world through sincere self-observation.
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2019-01-1905 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleBeing Grateful For Being Alive (Bitesize Wisdom #93)Don't take your life for granted. Learn to slow down and acknowledge your existence. This reality is truly a miracle. Learn to see the world with new eyes, your life can be a never-ending adventure. Develop an attitude of gratitude.
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2019-01-1703 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleSwami Vivekananda: We Are What Our Thoughts Have Made Us (Bitesize Wisdom #92)Learn to rise above your mechanical unconscious thinking. Notice your thinking moment to moment without becoming identified to what you observe. If you see it, you don't need to be it. You don't need to be dominated by your thoughts. Master your thinking, master your life.
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To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 2019-01-1505 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleRalph Waldo Emerson: Making Others Happy Will Make You Happy (Bitesize Wisdom #89)Learning to be loving and kind will be a blessing to ourselves and others. In a world that is becoming more self-centered, we need to learn to consider others and be more loving individuals.
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2019-01-0602 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleSeparation Is An Illusion: Seeing That We Are All One (Bitesize Wisdom #82) The Illusion of separation. On our spiritual journey, we can directly perceive the oneness of the Universe as a palpable existential reality.
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2019-01-0402 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleConscience vs Consciousness: How To Awaken Real Conscience (Bitesize Wisdom #80) In today's episode, we talk about the difference between acquired conscience vs our real conscience that is buried under our personality. Through sincere self-observation, we can awaken our real conscience and become a balanced human being.
To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 2019-01-0407 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleMarcus Aurelius: Who Are You? (Bitesize Wisdom #79)Today's quote of the day is by Marcus Aurelius. Where he encourages us to inquire into who we really are. Who are you? Ultimately this is something that only you can discover and realize. When you know everything that you are not, you are on the threshold of discovering your essential and real nature.
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To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 2019-01-0107 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleSeneca On Goals: Start With The End In Mind (Bitesize Wisdom #76) It's important to formulate an aim, a target for one's life. Start with the end in mind and make your plans accordingly. Your target in life will give you direction so you don't drift aimlessly in life.
To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 2019-01-0102 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleFocus On The Essential: Releasing The Source Of Stress and Anxiety (Bitesize Wisdom #75) Learn to focus only on what is necessary. Releasing unnecessary thoughts will help us to lead healthy, happy lives and also to realize our higher nature. Through proper self-observation you will learn to distinguish between was is true and false.
To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com 2018-12-3105 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleOvercoming Mental Distractions To Discover Real Happiness (Bitesize Wisdom #74)The mind is pure movement and therefore will constantly seek ways to keep you entertained. Learn to become established in your inner stillness to discover who you really are and dissolve your false identity with the conceptual egoic mind. Beyond mental distractions, you will find peace, happiness, and fulfillment.
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2018-12-3108 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleWilliam James: How To Be a Genius (Bitesize Wisdom #73) "Genius..means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way." - William James
Bringing a little more awareness to your daily tasks will transform them and help you see life with new eyes.
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2018-12-2605 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleKnow Thyself: How To Really Know Who You Are Through Self-observation (Bitesize Wisdom #71) Through proper objective Self-observation, we can really come to know thyself. This is a key tool for us to awaken spiritually and evolve our consciousness. We go from being less mechanical to more conscious and awake. In order to start our practice of Self-observation, we need to establish an observing "I" within us.
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-2005 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleHow To Not Live At The Mercy Of Other People (Bitesize Wisdom #69)By understanding your higher nature you will learn to stop worrying about what others think about you. Being established in your presence you will not depend on the approval of others for your sense of fulfillment and security. Being happy in your own skin is understanding that you are Pure Awareness, Beingness itself.
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-2004 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleMeister Eckhart: The Seed of God Is In Us (Bitesize Wisdom #68)"The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly, its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God." - Meister Eckhart
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-1405 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleFear Separates Love Unites: Learning To Experience Higher Emotions (Bitesize Wisdom #67)Fear separates love unites. By becoming more conscious and aware we can experience higher emotions that will help us realize how the real energy of love can unite us on all levels. God is love, can be a direct realization.2018-12-1205 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleBe A Lover of Higher Wisdom To Discover Ultimate Freedom (Bitesize Wisdom #66)The Philosophy of Epictetus. Become a lover of real wisdom to discover your higher nature and real freedom.
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-1202 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleWhat Is The Most Meaningful Thing In Your Life? (Bitesize Wisdom #65)What has meaning in your life? Whatever we find meaningful we derive force and energy from. Higher wisdom has tremendous meaning that we can extract for our spiritual awakening. Through higher ideas, we can learn how to make life more meaningful.
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-1203 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleAttracting Higher Influences To Expand Our Consciousness To Wake Up (Bitesize Wisdom #64)In order to grow our inner-self, we need to assimilate higher influences that will nourish and grow our Being. The influences of the world can only develop our personality. Higher influences are spiritual food for the Soul.
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-1207 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleLetting Go of Trying To Control Your External Environment For Inner Growth (Bitesize Wisdom #63)Learn to apply the wisdom of Stoic Philosopher Epictetus to live a happy conscious life. Learning to let go of what you can't control and focusing on what you can will help you to lead a deeply fulfilling life.
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-1203 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleDoing Nothing: The Way To Discovering Who You Really Are (Bitesize Wisdom #61)In today's quote of the day, we discuss how by doing nothing we can come to realize our True Self, our higher nature, the source of reality. We need to take action, until we don't and arrive at the effortless effort and discover who we really are. The pathless path.
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-1206 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleFinding The Time For Your Spiritual Journey (Bitesize Wisdom #60)Quantity vs Quality. Learn to use your time wisely and concentrate all your energies to progress on your spiritual journey. No conscious effort if wasted.
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-1205 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleWhat Should I Do Next? Intuition vs Gut Feeling (Bitesize Wisdom #59)When you are not sure what direction you need to take in life, learn to get inwardly silent until you hear the whispers of your intuition.
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-1203 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleVery Special Meditation To Conserve Energy and Realize Your Higher Nature (Bitesize Wisdom #58)Learn a secret meditation that will help you get into a more collected state and also to help conserve your psychic energy. You will learn to feel the subtle energy in your environment. This can help you in learning to understand and read peoples auras.
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-1207 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleA Simple Awareness Exercise To Combat Fear and Anxiety (Bitesize Wisdom #57)Practice this simple mindfulness belly breathing exercise to bring more calmness into your life. This simple awareness exercise can help you with the daily fear and anxiety that many of us deal with.
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-1203 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleWhat You Resist Persists: Learning To Allow Reality To Be As It Is (Bitesize Wisdom #56)Don't resist resistance. Learning to create the space to allow reality to be as it is will help you in letting go of emotional baggage that keeps you feeling stuck in life. With the right understanding and spiritual exercises, you will become the Witness to your life that embraces everything.
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http://freedomfromtheknown.com2018-12-1207 minBitesize Wisdom For Busy PeopleWhat Type of Person Are You: Find Your Life's Purpose (BiteSize Wisdom #1)Hello, I'm Ivan. Welcome to my little home on the net, where I hope to share ideas and insights to help you lead a deeply fulfilling life.
I write and talk about my experiences in: self-development, psychology, traveling, living abroad, meditation, yoga, lucid dreaming, entrepreneurship, lifestyle business, language learning, and how to be in the now.2018-12-0812 min