If you try to sit quietly for a while in complete solitude and silence, you will hear a constant chatter within yourself: "Why am I doing this? I have more important things to do.
This is a waste of time. What is all this?" Is?"
This is your inner roommate talking inside you.
So, how to get rid of that annoying inner roommate?
In today's post, we're going to find the answer to that question from Michael A. Singer's New York Times best-selling book, "The Untethered Soul." So without further ado let's begin.
Smart Idea 1: Your Inner Roommate Is Ruining Your Life
You may have clear intentions to stay quiet inside, but your roommate won't cooperate. And it's not just when you try to keep quiet. It has something to say about everything you see: "I like it.
I don't like it. It's good. It's bad." It just talks and talks. You usually don't notice because you don't back down from it. You're so close that you don't realize you're actually hypnotized into listening to him. Basically, you are not alone there.
There are two distinct sides to your inner self. First there is you, the awareness, the witness, the center of your willful intentions; And the other is the one you see, your inner roommate.
The problem is that the part you see never closes. You have to realize that you're locked in there with a lunatic. In any situation or circumstances, your roommate can suddenly decide, "I don't want to be here. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to this person."
You will immediately feel stressed and anxious. Your roommate can ruin whatever you're doing without a moment's notice. It can ruin your wedding day, or even your wedding night!
That part of you can ruin anything and everything, and it usually does. You buy a brand new car and it's beautiful. But every time you play it, your inner roommate finds something wrong with it.
The mental voice keeps pointing out every little squeak, every little vibration, until eventually you don't even like the car. Once you see how it can affect your life, you are ready for spiritual growth.
You're ready for real change when you finally say, "Look at this thing. It's ruining my life. I'm trying to live a peaceful, meaningful existence, but I feel like I'm on fire." I'm sitting on a rock.
At any moment this thing can decide to be stupid, shut down and fight what's going on. One day it likes someone, and the next day it decides to do whatever it takes.
Pick it up too. My life is a mess just because this thing that lives here with me wants to make a melodrama out of everything. Once you see it, and identify more with your roommate. Learn not to, and you're ready to break free.
Smart Idea 2: See Your Inner Roommate to Break Free FromIt Spend a day looking at everything your roommate does. Start in the morning. And see if you can see what it's saying in each situation. Just try to watch whenever you meet someone, whenever the phone rings.
A good time to watch him talk is when You are taking a bath. Just watch that What does the voice say? You will find that it never lets you have a peaceful shower.
Your shower is for washing the body, not for watching the thoughts of the mind. See if you can remain conscious enough of what is happening throughout the experience. You will be surprised to see.
It just jumps from topic to topic. The constant chirping sounds so neurotic that you won't believe it's always like this. But it is. If you want to be free from it, you have to see it.
So now let's summarize all the smart ideas we learned from today's video. Smart Idea -
- 1: Your Inner Roommate Is Ruining Your Life
- 2: Discover Your Inner Roommate to Break Free
If you want to get more smart ideas from this book, you can read Michael A. Singer's You can buy the book "The Untethered Soul".
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