The Quest For Our Truest Self

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The fundamental dimension of our being and ‘mindful’ mindfulness holds the key to realising our truest self.

There is this whole progression in our being. It plays a central role in safeguarding our health and well-being, or combating illness, largely because any, or every, change in our consciousness brings with it physical, emotional and mental inferences. It also helps to maintain balance — from good insight, outlook, positivity, harmony, self-confidence, success and fulfilment to inattentiveness, misunderstanding, anxiety and indigestion, aside from other functional and systemic disorders, like hypertension and diabetes.

Such functional elements and variations bring a waft of change, also balance, in every tissue and cell of our body. This prods a surplus of surging secondary effects — good and bad. The ensuing effect for the latter is obvious — a disturbance in our activity configuration or flow of energy. When this subtle deviation occurs on a prolonged basis, it leads to compromised health. This is why the whole process of recovery, or restoration, of health and wellness, may, at times, take a long time, more so when one gets confined with chronic health concerns. The result is extended therapy, including its inescapable sequelae — depression and frustration, not to speak of drug-related (iatrogenic) side-effects.

The best thing that any of us could do is making, not just endeavouring, a persistent and resolute effort towards good, optimal health while paying qualified attention to our body signals and refining the quality and gravity of our conscious awareness. In other words, we should learn to extricate ourselves from pointless thoughts and anxieties. To achieve this position isn’t easy. The best thing we’d all do is: use our instinctive and logical mind with better judgment, prudence, and sensitivity. This will take us to a new, high ground — it will allow us to disentangle ourselves from our artificial emotions and moods. It also helps us to understand ourselves as spiritual elements — not just a physical body with a mind, spirit or soul. The rest is obvious — when our sense of self-consciousness surges, it elevates us to a higher form of consciousness. Call it spiritual, or universal, consciousness — or, what you may.



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