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The reason for human suffering: A Lost Heart
Everyone has problems. People everywhere, and have all the time to answer the great mystery of human folly and suffering caused also searched. As a psychotherapist, people come to me with some of his wisdom, knowledge, expertise and direction to find their way out of the darkness and into light of peace, confidence, success and achievement.
In an attempt to help me, my clients andFor my part, what is called in Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam, or repair the broken world, I tried to find my life dedicated to Confucius as the "red thread" or the psychological theory of everything called. There is a common underlying cause of pain, unnecessary human plague us individually and as a society?
After decades of research, I found the answer. The reason for our struggle is that we lost a heart. To understand this, definesyndrome psychological needs and how to fix, we have four questions: What does it mean for a lost heart to respond? What is your heart? How did we lose heart in the first place? And yet, especially as you can see, the heart?
In the next post I will answer these questions. In this paper, we start with the first:
What it means for a lost heart
We know we lost a heart, if we suffer with problems to solve, we can not find. You could wake uppacked in the middle of the night with terror, or search for us, instead of smoking pot every day to reach our goals. Maybe you eat too much or do not know the purpose of our lives. Maybe I can not get out of bed in the morning or we are alone and can not establish relationships of love. We can face a reversal of fortune, a setback in our lives. Our partner seeking divorce or you're stuck at work, I hate them. Where once we found the success we can not now.
Whatever the symptom, so we can avoidthe reality of our situation for a long time. We walk in a state of sleep, lost in a dream, stumbling in confusion. Sometimes we apologize and playing the victim, the cause of our suffering can be found in others. This is the most dangerous phase of the crisis: we do not yet know the pain we are and what we face when we try to escape from our difficulties. Whether you suffer a vague sense of dissatisfaction or a total pain, we ignore these signs at your own risk. The bells are ringing.We heard the clink of chains. The sound is getting closer. Despite the risk to predict when things go wrong in our lives, we try to minimize the experience, said the problem will, or is it just a matter of luck or chance. But even if we deserve to deny the impending doom, looms the specter of dire consequences to us, our attention. The Universe, their mysterious way, the work will always have the resources around us to awaken our lost condition. Until we realize that the maze weis in a call to confront the truth of our life to live, continue to bring us pain.
"What do you want?" We ask that when the spirit enters our room.
"Thanks!" The voice answers.
When we address these mysteries of our lives that we find in the rule that the answers are not easy to find. Opening our eyes from sleep, remains our vision blurred by sleep. We are trapped in magical alloy involved in seemingly intractable dilemmas. Trapped in lost Depression,without love, torn by fear, we want to know why we are afflicted by the world, but we can not find any apparent cause. Our mind the limitations prevented us from fully grasp the true nature of our state. Nothing makes sense. We are confused.
The code of life is unfathomable questions. What is the secret message is trying to reveal? The great wisdom of the ages tells us that there is a hidden meaning in our lives difficult. And 'the universe so to say,' Alarm!Be careful! "Our suffering refers to a profound loss, a loss we can not recognize at first.
What we lost is the most precious gift us with a universe so rich and generous: our hearts. This loss of the heart known as the source of human strength for thousands of years. 2300 years the largest Chinese legend that has ever inhabited the earth, a man as we know that Mencius
"Pity the man who has lost his way and not follow, and has lost its heart and notand go to restore it. When dogs and chicks are lost and people looking for them, but when people's hearts – or the original nature – are lost, and not go looking for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but try to find the lost heart. "
What we seek is not outside us. And 'inside. We who have lost our heart, as they said a theologian / philosopher Paul Tillich, "alienated from our nature."
Our essential, ororiginal nature, as is to be strong, passionate, creative and loving. The heart is the home of the best of our ability, which is what we thought. We all have everything we need to have in us, we all want. As the acorn to mighty oak that we 'are happy and satisfied. All we want in life and heal the world, we find our hearts.
The problems in our lives are a symptom of a loss of the center of our existence – of our guiding star, our reasonto be the focus of the rest of our lives. This core purpose is the vision from which all our actions. Without this reference point, we are left without direction.
After losing a heart means that do not live by the principles of nature, our human nature. When we go against our human nature that we live in harmony with the laws of the universe. The risk of such a state is never the life we are destined to live.
If we do thisnot to live in harmony with the laws, by the end of our life reflects this sad fact. We can ignore the symptoms, or cover the surface with success, but our emptiness is doing, in general, end up in mental illness known, specific forms of failure in our lives. If the event is a disaster that seems to happen to us from outside, or an inner fear that events conspire to bring our attention to this reality, through our pain.
For some of us,our heart is lost, and our awareness devices so stunned that we did not even realize that we have a central sterile. The most precious thing slipped away from us alone. This cut then find ours, not that we are also looking for what's missing.
"If people dogs and chicks are lost and looking for them, but if people's hearts, or the original nature, lost, and not to go looking for them."
If we lost a heart there will be dissipated. Like a fairy tale, it isas if we fell into a dreamless sleep for a hundred years.
Can mean to be enchanted in this way we have reviewed some awareness of what we feel is lacking in our body, so you lose access to an important source of understanding of ourselves and the world to us. In this trance, we can not evaluate our experiences. We can create a lack of connection to the earth we go much on sentiment. If we want to know the inside of the search for a sense of security, we are empty. We feel helpless at the mercy of forcesdo not understand.
When we are under a curse that we made properties. Life is a great need for us: we have chosen. But if weakened without our heart, and to avoid bothering us. We make the wrong choices. We chose not to choose. And we are sad with the voice of the heart that tells us we are guilty, our potential will never be fully satisfied on the left.
The inability to maintain intimate relationships, another symptom of being under the spell of the lostHeart. As in ancient myth, we turn into animals and do not pose a problem, you can take the plan and are unable to cry, or we are cold as stone. We are part, marginalized by others, unable to buy the world can connect.
If we departed from our essence, we can not show our true self to another person. As a result, we are left alone, needy and frightened by the depth of our need.
We'll see, we are fascinated by a lack ofPassion, enthusiasm and motivation. When we executed the famous Apollo command to "know thyself", the connection is lost, we are free flowing energy and life. We are stuck in the ground, unable to move. We reject God's call out, lost the voice of the heart.
Without this source of their power and we feel anxious unmoored may be afraid. We do not know, our goal in life. We can not even recognize our needs or be able to say what is important to us.
Without aFeeling of inner knowledge, we have no voice. We open our mouth, the beauty in our hearts, but as a nightmare, no sound. We lost our language, our voice, our song.
enchanted with a heart, we can not identify or act on our core values. This is because we do not know between good and evil. You can trust our experience to help us decide what to do, we lose contact with the internal moral compass so that our education should be to act. AsThis allows us to act contrary to our deepest convictions.
If you do not live up to our ideals, we feel the lack of value. This triggers a cycle of self-destructive if we do not appreciate, our behavior often ends up as a self-destructive. We live in shame, broken feel powerless. We hate it.
In this state, we can see even the right choice. Banned by instant gratification, we live by pulse. Although we are in some sense wisdomin us, can lead to no access to these virtues, our lives. We live without the ability to develop, according to the laws of the heart, the laws which, while sacrificing nearby, gives us the only true way to permanent happiness and the realization of living. This distance from our essence brings us to the singular moment to leave forever without end for a car. Instead, we choose, with or without our knowledge, not to live. Thus, under the spell of lost heart means that we lose the ability tohave to live, "our knowledge, our intellect, our emotions, our passion, our creativity, our ambition, our faith, our sense of justice, our anger, our sexuality, our sensitivity, our concerns, our spirituality, our love.
If we lost one heart, we pay an extreme price for the treatment of our lives as if it were insignificant, a toy, a toy. We live in fear of the consequences of having ignored and humiliated life itself. We fear the guilt we feel when we recognize the damage that wedone for us and we feel remorse for Wasted Years. Avoid at all costs emptiness and loneliness lurks outside, which is the natural consequence is cut off from our spiritual connection with the universe.
If so, we can not hear clearly, act or bewitched. Without clarity, we think we know what we do, and we have no confidence in the knowledge we have. Without a connection to our emotional self, fear ghosts, but we have faith that things aredangerous for us. Without the ability to access our aggressiveness, give us impulsive, but hesitates, for our good deed.
After losing a heart means that we have lost access to our eternal welfare: the best of us, our divine purpose of our ideal self. It is a spiritual impoverishment that diminishes our vital energy. This loss of harmony with the principles prevailing in the universe leads to a manifest inability to be fruitful in order to succeed. Our losses in the mirrors outside ainternal defect, a loss of connection to our heart, our great source of wisdom, passion, power, genius and love.
Many of us have achieved an enormous amount of material comfort, and yet the masses suffer from a lack of self-esteem and a sense of alienation from the community of life, fear, thin and unhappy life. Like people in a crisis, the world around us, even lost, and our teenage culture.
We not only our personal struggle with addictions, fears,Failure and loneliness, but we see in confusion, as our leaders steal billions and economic ruin on themselves and society, politicians destroy stellar futures end with a sense sexual escapades and most creative among us, their talents before their time .
Our failure to act with prudence has consequences for society. While we are drowning in debt, our economy is bipolar, manic depressive, and at any moment. With drug abuse is rampant and obesity out of control, ourhealth system is a breaking point. chronic problems such as global warming and energy crisis will be denied or avoided. More than 3 billion people worldwide suffer from malnutrition, if we were able to feed every human on this planet for a fraction of the cost of our last war. We live in a moment of muffled protest, drugged complacency, conformity sync. The fear of economic disaster, such as nightmares, fear of enemies cloaked brought defamation for an original thought, we arepassive as we are force-fed lies, manipulations, distortions and deviations.
Hypnotized, we are afraid to open my mouth for fear of losing this job, bring on the ridicule of our friends drunk, our problems with their spouses, from which we would have been rejected love us. We do not protest. Do not even notice what is happening around us. Tweet us and see the text "American Idol" dedication to porn on the Internet. Bamboozled by noise, we do not recognize those deletedus.
Our world is marked by intolerance, violence and poverty, and fear. Overcoming the world's problems seem insurmountable. We know what we should do to fix things, but the entire system is under a spell.
Our feeling of helplessness, useless, and the lack of power to fuel our depression, anxiety, obsessions, compulsions, addictions, phobias and self-destructive behaviors. child abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence and divorce are common in our families scary. Children are otherwiselearn, and are increasingly diagnosed with emotional disturbances. Our prisons are overcrowded. Doctors prescribe drugs like candy. People are looking, but some of us still know what to look for.
See "lightheartedness lost" everywhere we look. The problems we had throughout our lives, both in our relationships, our families, our culture, our economy, our jobs, our policy or in our environment are all rooted in the same desertGround.
Neglecting to have our true nature for so long, you see with horror as our dreams get out of hand. If we recognize that we can not find the key to the beautiful country, home of the self is in power, our first reaction is shock.
faded after the bite of the first shot, we feel a dull ache, a yearning. Just knowing what is really gone, but an infinite void of remote sensing, are convinced that we can not live without the recovery of what has disappeared. Thisflew to us looking for something.
Search all stories is whether the magic of the brocade, the Holy Grail, the Golden Fleece or the life force of God in the dark underworld can research the celestial palace, lives are compared to us, has been lost.
It 's like we come from, and belong to heaven, but were banned from our home. We live in desire and frustration, knowing that what is best and true about us somehow eludes ourto grasp. Our lives are the eternal quest.
We can only realize that something is missing, if we're in a place of horror, trapped in a nightmare from which there is no awakening, our life the realization of our greatest fears. Like Dante's Inferno, we are lost in the dark wood, with no idea of how we got here:
"It was lost for the easy way. I can not repeat well, as I entered, was so full, I sleep when I leftthe true way. "
Lost in the woods, we are in the realm of lost heart. Drawn to look for our place of connection for the mead tonic of life, hope against hope that the exit is clear. But soon they discover that are blocked at every step.
Compressed, trapped in a web around us without end, it turns out that beneath the surface manifestations of our problems that we have from the philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson are worried as a "profound irresponsibility". Onlythen begin to understand what we lost, and how difficult the return journey.
Our first attempts to retrieve unprepared for what was lost often brings us into trouble. After an indefinite period from our infinite source, the way back to the city center within the center obscured by the dark, musty choked with tangled roots, thorns. Howling winds, bitter cold, the dark and pathless forest, all places where we, if we try to startlost heart.
The inability to return to our core casts a shadow on our lives. The world may seem to offer no satisfaction. We are suffering from pain, fear and bitterness. We only see what is wrong with everything. The world lit by the sun and the beauty of the stars have no impact on us when we are in this place. Without a connection to our source, we lack the ability to find the sacred in our world. Even truth, beauty and goodness can leave cold, confused and empty. We believe that noNo matter what we do, everything will be useless, pathetic. The same can not be addressed with vigor and strength.
The distance between us Which we imagine that could be our life, and the reality of our existence makes life a pain, you are consumed with fear that we will never be able to get what we really want: to be what we are thinking internally. The search for light, the darkness that we find. We hear a voice from the realm of emptiness, and learn what it is that we have lost:our essence, our soul, our heart.
Since he has seen flying brocade Our magic, our fall golden ball into the well, which we hope for the floor for us something to believe in something, something that we can choose, select, act. You engage in straw after straw, only to discover that everything we try we need, no matter how deep or more sheets. Because the thing we're trying not to be found outside of us, without external solution to cure our ills: the disease is inside. Our insatiable need to hearbecause we are looking in the wrong place to meet them.
The more we go, the more we lost. Because of the increasingly intricate, dark and locked, and we are faced with black vacuum, our hope gives way to a way out of terror.
We discover that exile is now our destiny, we long for what was taken away, must ask how to recover it. The search for home haunts our dreams and songs.
Powered by lost garden, for our most preciousThe possession, we believe we are cursed from the earth, a fugitive and vagabond. We fear that could bring more of us.
Not knowing how our light, our hope, to recover our self, our heart, our secret fear that there will be cursed forever.
As the search for the Holy Grail, the country is close to death waiting for the healing words of the protagonist. As in the fable of Sleeping Beauty, the whole world went to sleep, waiting for a kiss back to life. The risk of having aheart'm serious. But if you listen carefully, we hear, the heart is called distant echo, the actor.
Despite the difficulties, the search continues.
"But for everyone," said she, "would be a joy to know where your heart really lies." Then the poor giant is no longer able to support himself, but said: "Far, far away is an island in a lake, the island is a church, this church is good, so well a swimming ' duck, this is a duck egg, and in this egg-Here is my heart. "Early in the morning, while still at dawn, the giant step towards the woods." Now I must go, "said Boots," if only I knew how to find your way. "
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