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Rabih Hammoud
How Can We Be Certain Our Life is Changing For the Better?
It’s important to understand that most of us are conditioned to find our situation unacceptable. We are always bombarded with all sorts of influences that tell us what an ideal life should like, and why we should step on each other to get our piece of the pie.
Self-Care Practices to Deal With Overwhelming Emotions
As you may well know, anger as well as overwhelming emotions in general are a delicate matter to deal with. Before going into practices that help cope with anger and strong emotions in general, it’s important to understand why we feel them in the first place.
Can Our Thoughts Really Attract Things in Life?
This is one of the most interesting questions we can ask ourselves. Can we truly attract things through our thoughts? It’s a puzzling question because its implications are as frightening as they are exciting — that’s why they say there is close to no difference between fear and excitement.
If We Lack Ego, What Have We Gained?
We can’t lack ego if we’re still thinking about gains…. As long as we’re living on Earth, which is assumed to be the case if you’re reading this, we can’t lack ego. The ego and life on Earth comes in a “package deal.” Those who tell you they lost their egos or went through an “ego death” are trying to fool you, but especially themselves.
Why Do You Keep Hiding Your Genius?
Would you believe it, if I told you that you were a. Would you believe it, if I told you that you were a genius?. You see. Most of us have been compared to others. Our parents may have told us that we weren’t as smart as the neighbor’s kid (maybe we didn’t really care about it). Maybe we were told that we weren’t good looking. Maybe, we were always pressurized into being number one.
The Ego Is Not the Enemy
Most spiritual communities preach that in order for you to progress on the spiritual path, you need to go through an “ego-death.” Such teachings certainly came from people with a higher awareness of the situation; unfortunately, unless we look at those teachings from the same level of awareness, we misunderstand them and it creates challenges in our lives.
How Does Understanding Yourself Impact Your Spiritual Growth?
Most people tend to believe spirituality is something separated from their “normal” lives. They believe that there is a place where they can be spiritual; at home or in retreats, and that there are places where spirituality doesn’t dare to penetrate.
How to Remain Peaceful Despite People's "Attitudes"
First of all, we must understand this: We have all been given free will, which means, every single one of us has the birthright to choose how we want to live, what we want to do, and what we want to believe in. Most of us don’t exercise this free will however because we’re compelled to follow the herd. It takes a lot of courage and conviction to break out of collective dynamics, and live as an individual. This is the work of many years.
What is Karma, and Can it Be Changed?
If you have a challenging relationship with your father, let’s say that your father is very controlling by nature, and that growing up, he always tried to control you. It’s normal that as an adult, you become difficult with yourself. You may question your every move, you may doubt yourself, you may feel irritated with yourself, and all this frustration may get bottled up within yourself.
Do We Need to Be Religious in Order to Follow a Spiritual Path?
It is surprising to observe that to this day, many people still confuse spirituality and religion. Religions started with spiritual teachers. These spiritual teachers realized that underneath all the beliefs that had been poured into their subconscious throughout their lives, something remained pure, untouched, clean — their essence. This essence is often called the soul, consciousness, the divine, awareness, and so on.
Procrastination Has Nothing to Do With Laziness
Desires are natural. Desires give us goals. It’s by acting on our goals that we get to experience more of life — that we grow. Most of us have unfortunately a lot of desires, but not enough goals — and if we do have some — they rarely come to fruition.
The New Stoic: Merging Emotion With Logic
Greek god statuePhoto bySimone Pellegrini on UnsplashonUnsplash. If, for many years, all the weight we could lift was five pounds, but now, somehow we decide that we want to lift ten pounds instead — obviously, our muscles will have to undergo stress.
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Hi, I'm Rabih. Every now and then, crazy insights come to my awareness from a source that is yet unknown to me. All I do is to share this information in the hope that it brings more peace, clarity and happiness into your life.
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