Yes, this is true. We are the ones who dissolve our limiting beliefs. The practices only help. This is why at the end of every AYP lesson it says “The guru is in you”.
Another thing I don´t understand is why Yogani says that the old feelings and thoughts will stay. I have the feeling the more I am in love the more my thoughts and feelings are love- and my entire environment is love. I am now pure love, manifesting only love. Isn´t this outpouring of divine love?
When Yogani said that our thoughts and feelings stay, this was in reference to a certain stage on the spiritual path. It is the stage when the witness is being cultivated. During this stage, instead of getting caught up with our thoughts and feelings, we begin to be able to observe them as objects in the mind, arising and falling away on the screen of consciousness. So, the thoughts and feelings stay, but our relationship to them changes. We come to know our self to be the silent observer, always present whilst everything we are aware of comes and goes.
Thank u for your answers…it is still very good, even work is good.
I get it, that we are not our thoughts and feelings and we are not caught up with it when the witness is cultivated. But isn´t it wise to work with our thoughts and emotions? They have so much potential for beauty… since a view days I work with them, espacially my beliefs. It makes so much a different.
I have the feeling that I am bc of my decision to work with them the creator of my life. Our beliefs create our experiences. I somehow “manipulate” myself into happiness, through repetition of my new beliefs. Is this spiritually okay to do so? Is it good to make good use of our thoughts and beliefs?
I am very much identified with my thoughts and feelings, the only way to stop my suffering is through creating new thoughts and beliefs.
Yes, we can certainly work with our thoughts and emotions. And our actions as well! All thoughts, emotions, and actions can be elevated to a higher level and used it ways that gradually bring us closer to liberation and realisation of the true nature of the Self.
If you have not done so already, I would advise you to read Yogani’s book on Bhakti and Karma Yoga. It is a book devoted to this topic.
here is a little update to me. I am doing amazing. My daily life and my daily practises are amazing at the moment.
I could added cosmic samyama, and I am stable with it. So, my practises are 4 postures of asana with samyama, 5 Mins of SPB, 10 MIns DM with SHREE OM SHREE OM AYÄM AYÄM NAMAH NAMAH, 5 mins Saymama, one breath heart breathing and cosmic samyama.
I feel amazing mostly during practises, and afterwards. I am so thankful for it.
My work stayed the same, but I am able to do it with much more joy.
My question today is, that I have lots of stillness sometimes, but I am not that stillness. It´s hard to discribe. I am still Timo, even there is lots of stillness somehow. But that stillness is in space and time. Can u relate to it? I have done that self inquiry course, which was a breakthrough for me in form in self love and affirmations. But I would love to experience more of my true nature… I think the way to go is to keep going…and eventually I will find my identity in stillness, and not so much in Timo. At the moment I am just Timo with lots of stillness and ecstasy.
I would say to continue as you are doing. Gradually the stillness and silence will come more and more to the foreground, and identification with thoughts and feelings, such as identification with the idea of being a separate person, will move to the background. The more they move to the background, the more often they simply go unnoticed. Then one day we realise they are simply a memory.
One of the things about maintaining the process of identifying as a separate limited self is that it takes effort. We do not usually realise how much effort it takes, because we are so used to doing it, and often cannot even imagine not doing it. But, it is a bit like always holding a rock. It takes some effort to hold the rock. One day, we would probably think: “I could just put this rock down and my life would be easier”. It is the same with identification with a limited self. We start to notice that we can simply stop identifying with it, and every time we do, our life becomes easier.