It is how you see the world, which leads to suffering. Learn to see the world as it is. See both the sides of the coin.2 people, lost job, one observed the situation, the other just resents. The first got another job, the other just depressed.The latter chose to suffer.

You Choose To Suffer

When I find my soulmate, I'll be happier. When I'll buy a Bugatti, I'll be happier. When I eat that piece of chocolate, I'll be happy. When I drink coffee, I'll be happy. This is what we keep saying to ourselves. But the thing is that Happiness lies inside, not outside. It is when you accept yourselves, you become happy. Happiness is not an external factor, it's internal.

Happiness Is Not What You Think It Is

Do opposite. Opposite you emotions. Opposite your actions. Everything.Every time you change your thought or action into its opposite, you’re removing control from your lower self and redelegating it to your higher self – that is, to your sovereign self.

Other Than Meditation

Cigarette isn't a healthy desire. You will get irritated without it. A cup of tea maybe a healthy desire. You won't get irritated without it. The thing is to develop healthy desires. Which can be toggled when needed. If you have an unhealthy desire like sleeping in the afternoon, and you have it bad, you can't live without it, then just drop it for a month. Go for a walk or read a book.

Healthy Desires

A king built a palace of mirrors and placed a rare rose in front of it whose image was reflects by hundreds of mirrors. The other day he released a pigeon in the palace. The pigeon, in a very powerful desire to attain the rose, kept finding it and kept hurting his beak into every mirror. He thought this one or that one would be real, but none happened to be. His beak was paining, tired by the mirages, he laid down in the courtyard where he noticed the actual rose. He found it when he stopped searching it at the outside.

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You can only have strong ties with yourself when you have one within. Self-love. Have yoga (union) with yourself.

Relationship Starts Within.

Now get comfortable and close your eyes. Picture a tortoise withdrawing into its shell. Like that tortoise, you’re withdrawing your attention from everything around you and channeling your focus inward.  Imagine a light, warm and radiant, emanating from the center of your forehead. Take your time and visualize this comforting light in great detail. You should feel yourself growing more restful, relaxed, and self-accepting. Now you can turn your mind to your chosen thought. Dwell on it and gently return to it when you find your mind straying. "I am fearless""I use the body, I am not it

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Claim your spiritual birthright of freedom, wholeness, and joy through the perennial wisdom of yoga’s ancient spiritual texts What would it be like to have complete sovereignty within your own life? To feel confidently aligned with the power of your true Self? The beloved texts at the heart of yoga offer us timeless pathways to this experience, yet without years of formal study, accessing the depths of their wisdom can seem overwhelming. In Sovereign Self, Acharya Shunya demystifies yoga’s most influential texts: the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita, making their profound teachings both accessible and immediately practical for modern seekers. The first female lineage holder in a 2,000-year-old line of Vedic spiritual teachers and the first to teach in the West, Shunya has a personal and authentic understanding of these classic scriptures. With Sovereign Self, she shares a comprehensive guide to their essential teachings, expertly adapting their wisdom and spiritual practices for Western students. Filled with hidden insights and engaging guidance, Sovereign Self will help you align with your greater Self—the Self that is always present, all-powerful, ever-joyful, and completely sovereign.

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Unshackle your mind and claim your spiritual birthright of freedom, wholeness, and joy through the perennial wisdom of ancient yoga There’s a reason that the Vedas, a 5,000-year-old collection of celebrated verses from ancient India, have given rise to several world religions and influenced Western thinkers from Emerson to Ram Dass—they provide us with a uniquely accessible and effective path to liberation and sovereignty. With Sovereign Self, Acharya Shunya shares a groundbreaking guide to the wisdom of these classic texts so that each of us may emancipate ourselves from restrictive belief systems and discover our true nature—that which is always whole, joyful, and free. As the first female lineage holder in a 2,000-year-old line of spiritual teachers, Shunya provides a rare opportunity to receive these authentic teachings from a genuine Vedic master—one with a distinctly down-to-earth, feminine flavor who never lets us forget that our humanity is to be embodied and enjoyed. Throughout Sovereign Self, Shunya adeptly guides us through the core concepts and practices of the Vedas, demystifying and contextualizing sacred concepts for modern life. In this masterful guide, you’ll explore: • Beginning the journey to radical self-acceptance—recognize your innate worth and wholeness • How we create our own prisons of shame, compulsion, blame, and obsession—and how you can begin to break free • Learning to embody personal autonomy in your life and relationships • Clear advice from a Vedic master for avoiding countless obstacles on the path to liberation—from spiritual bypassing to the true meaning of guru • Original meditations and contemplative practices taken directly from Shunya’s 2000-year-old lineage • How to wake up from being a “sleepwalker” and find authentic freedom, everlasting joy, and unshakable sovereignty Filled with hidden insights and engaging guidance, Sovereign Self will help you awaken and recognize your potential to be joyful, resourceful, abundant, limitlessly expansive, and sovereign.

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