On this episode of Residing with Actuality, Dr. Robert Svoboda speaks to the significance of being conscious of our habits and growing wholesome rituals.
Breaking Habits
We start by discussing language and the etymology of the phrases behavior and routine. The foundation of ‘behavior’ comes from a Latin phrase which means to have, maintain, and contemplate. Habits might be created unconsciously and never essentially profit us. A profound religious follow is to check and establish what sort of habits you will have. We should contemplate our habits as a result of then we are able to decide which habits usually are not helpful and break them up. Dr. Svoboda says that if we are able to study to interrupt our damaging habits, we are able to then study to behave as a substitute of react. We need to maintain the habits which might be helpful and constructive to us. Constructive habits give our minds and our bodies one thing to depend on.
“Benefit from routines, rituals, and habits. Don’t allow them to benefit from you” – Dr. Svoboda
Residing Consciously (10:05)
Dr. Svoboda says that one of many risks of habits, even when they’re helpful, is that we are able to turn into too reliant on them. For instance, if we’ve a behavior of driving to the identical park to meditate each morning, we could go into muscle reminiscence of the drive and never concentrate. We could begin to let our minds wander or have a look at our telephones after which get into an accident. An necessary component of Ayurveda is at all times being acutely aware. If we keep acutely aware, we’ll keep conscious of when one thing is serving us and when it isn’t.
“When you’re acutely aware of what you’re doing and if you find yourself acutely aware of how you’re doing it, then it’ll be possible for you to have the ability to detect what sort of modifications could also be occurring inside your organism because of the issues you’re doing and to detect when your organism has determined that it wants to alter issues round.” – Dr. Svoboda
For tips about staying acutely aware take a look at Ep. 41 of Therapeutic on the Edge: Cultivating Pure Consciousness
Growing Rituals (22:40)
A ritual differs from a behavior in that it’s meant for worship. The ritual could not inherently be spiritual or could solely have ritual which means to a person. It’s merely the devotion to or worship of one thing regularly. If a ritual doesn’t have our full consideration, it loses it’s which means. As we go deeper right into a ritual and develop our focus, we shall be naturally pulled within the route we need to go.
“All of those totally different buildings that we create for ourselves might be worthwhile buildings as long as we’re sustaining our consciousness of them.” – Dr. Svoboda
To listen to extra about devotional practices akin to puja take a look at Ep. 106 of Pilgrim Coronary heart: Lord Shiva & Devotion
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