How to Release Youeself from Yourself

      By performing any of these, we increase our opportunities for seeing what it means to live in the first person:-

1.       Look for and enter into unfamiliar conditions that have the power to challenge you psychologically or emotionally.

2.       Sit quietly for yourself, secluded from all forms of stimulation. Don’t let yourself go to sleep. Don’t even meditate. Simply sit there with nothing familiar to do or hang on to and become aware of how something inside of you keeps telling you to do something or tries to pull you off on one thought path or another.

3.       Deliberately drop one cherished idea and meet life without it. Refuse to judge others behavior. Drop all expectations and demands regarding other people’s behavior. Simply observe and make no personalized judgments as to the value or meaning of their actions. This way every interaction becomes a first person experience and the effect of this on all your relationships may surprise you.

4.       Attempt to spend one whole day when the only time you speak is when spoken to our conversations has always been self-sensing. We also become aware of other people whom we now really listen to for perhaps the first time.

5.       If you have a task to do that can be completed in five steps or one, take the longer way. 

SLEEPING OUTSIDE THE CIRCLE OF SELF

·         Self is the only prison that can ever find the soul.

·          The only cure for this self-imposed isolation is to loosen ourselves, to release ourselves from the circle of self.

·         The secret of winning a new life is to refuse turn in on yourself. Instead, turn it loose. Turn loose your despair, your fear, your false excitement. Turn loose the self-image that seek to entrench itself in the moment and take temporary control.

·         Turning it loose mans becoming aware that we’re cutting ourselves off each time we turn in, and then, when the challenges come, to refuse to do it. Each time we turn it loose, we find ourself psychologically floating in a kind of unknown space, uncertain who we are supposed to be in that moment.

FIND THE MAGIC OF ORIGINAL MOVEMENT

·         There is more to reality than meets the eye. There is more to reality then meets the I.

·         Those experiences that we habitually see as our “normal” lives exist within an already larger universe that is largely unseen, learning to stay awake within ourselves is the same as having the opportunity to glimpse a new and expanded reality whose new view naturally lifts us up and out for our presently limited ideas about who we are.

·         We see virtually nothing other than what the false self of the moment wants for us to see. “Been there-Done that “syndrome.

·         The new car, the new relationship, the trip, the beautiful day, the enjoyment of all is marred through by the unconscious reaction that ‘I’ have been through that. People go to extremes seeking new thrills, believing the spontaneity and real pleasure they seek will be found in the next activity. They never realize that no matter what they do it can never be new, because that which experiences the event within them is mechanical and old, twisting everything new into what has already been.

·         By contrast, in real life, everything is original. Even moment is an original moment. We can only be happy when we live in the first person.

THE FREEDOM OF LIVING IN THE FIRST PERSON

·         When we seek the truth, we think we are far from it. When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original self.

·         The pain we feel at any time, no matter what we believe to be the cause , is dice only to the fact that we are indeed cut off from knowing our connections with the true source of our own lives.

·         All the doors that lead inwards to the secret place of the next high are doors outward, out of the self-out of smallness –out of wrong.

·         We all are experts on the topic of ourselves and given the smallest opening we well turn everything into an opportunity to expound on that topic. People do not talk to one another, they talk to themselves. When other twists there that topic to their own needs, the originator of the topic gets irritated. And each time people turn the topic to themselves or feel annoyed because the topic has been turned away them, they cut themselves off.

·         It is usually TPIC’s who converse and not individuals genuinely interacting with one another. There is rarely any real communication. The word communication has as its root “commune” which can be understood as non-interfering, inter relating energies.

·         We mistakenly believe that we’re cut off from a feeling of approval, or a feeling of well being we could drive from possessing things. We compound the error by believing that if we could just fill in the gap we would feel right ourselves.

LET THE LIGHT FIGHT FOR YOU

·         We can’t advance on the inner path if we believe our thoughts can and must determine for us where that path will take us. The beginning of the real path starts when we see there is no path where we always sought it in our own minds.

·         We must begin where we begin and put away any other concerns about where that beginning is. It’s enough just to make a start. Where at what point you enter into a great river? Sooner or later, all its water reaches and pours into the sea.

·         Never let the discouragement have the final word and one day there will be nothing left to discuss. Besides, you can have just as many new beginnings as you are willing to leave behind all your ideas about your ideas about yourself. Nothing in this world or any other, can stop you from discovering your original, free being. This has always your destiny.

FOUR INSIGHT THAT GARUNTEE SELF-SUCCESS

1.       View every unhappy ending or defeat as the continually passing condition

2.       Meet every moment of self-defeat with the realization that there is no end to your ability to learn about yourself.

3.       While seeing a failure in your mind’s eye, just remember in that moment who it is that put it there. See through the painful feeling by seeing its root as arising from within your conditioned self.

·         Each moment that self-study shows you how spiritually asleep you are, use that. Some moment to wake up and remember that you can always slant your whole life over.

·         The negative thoughts urging you to cease your self-exploration come only from the mind of the intimate enemy.

·         Starting over is always possible because now is always new.

·         Life is continuously new in the present moment and so are you.

MAKE YOUR ESCAPE TO A BETTER LIFE SELF-STUDY

·         During our social gathering no topic of conversation is ever completed. Because, each of the participants unconsciously redirects the conversations, drawing upon something occurring within his or her own immediate world.

·         While watching TV or a movie, make an aim to notice how much your emotional strings are pulled by the kind of music that’s underscoring the scene.

·         Step outside the stream of our own thoughts. This mental or emotional stream is the only force that ever carries us away. Little by little it dawns on us that everything about this life is an opportunity for self-study. Even taking a walk is no longer just a walk; it’s a journey for SELF-DISCOVERY.

·         When we see that world as it really is, we no longer want to stand within the stream of its painful thoughts & memories. We want to be more constant residents of the larger world of Reality and be what truth wants us to be.

HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR HEART’S DESIRE

·         The most critical factor in determining what we find is where we place our attention. We always place our attention on what we LOVE.

·         If we don’t undergo the changes within in ourselves that we say we desire, it’s because we are not awrae to those unfolding opportunities. In other words our attention is on someone else.

·         As long as we remain unaware of just how venerable we are to negative influences while asleep to ourselves, it seems easier to just remain in this psyche slumber.

·         We must not fall under the power of these deceptive voices coming to us from within our own minds. We must refuse to accept that the weakness any TPIC claims as being ours is the same as our own.

·         When it comes to defeating the intimate enemy, “Tomorrow’s victory never comes. Now is always the only time there is. “

·         Our resolve to live a real life is further strengthened when self-study reveals that at any moment we’re not consciously in command of ourself, something mechanical is in charge of us. In such a state of psychic sleep. We’re vulnerable to be taken over by whatever TPIC may appear to run the show.

SEEK THE SELF-KNOWLEDGE THAT IS LIFE’S TURE TREASURE

·         Concerted efforts to increase self-knowledge can lead to more effective behavior. We must learn the difference between self-complacent and self-conquering.

·         In this world it’s possible for you to find physical gold, but without winning the war within yourself. This wealth could not do anything for you other than perhaps produce a more comfortable place in which to continue your struggle with old conflicts. However, there is an inner gold you can find whose possession fulfills you, regardless of your external circumstances we can call this inner gold “REAL SELF-KNOWLEDGE”; truth you know about yourself for yourself through your self-study. It’s yours because you have visited the world where this new kind of gold exists; you have mined it yourself, and you have to put it in your pocket. This gold can never be taken from your. Its goodness is yours forever. This new inner wealth enriches you by transforming your very own ideas about who you are and what you really want from life. With it everything gets simpler. And the nicest thing about this special spiritual gold is that you can have as much of it as you’re willing to pay for.

·         To read certain books that build our self images as being wise and spiritual. These spiritual, “fool’s gold” that keeps trapped in an imaginary world. By contrast, real self-knowledge can be little difficult to take at first delivering well armed blows for our vanity as it shows us how limited and artificial our self-centered thought world has been. But it also provides a glimpse of the expensive world that awaits us. If we will treasure the truth about ourselves that it alone can reveal.

·         Great endeavors & hard struggles await those who are converted, but afterwards inexpressible joy. If you want to light a fire, you are troubled by smoke and your eyes water. But in the end you achieve your aim. Now it is written:” OUR GOD IS CONSUMING FIRE “, so we must light the divine fire in us with tears and struggle.

START ENLARGING YOUR WORLD WITH SELF STUDY

·         Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

·         If you want to know or find yourself, there is no substitute to self-study.

·         Self-study is what leads to coming to know ourselves as we truly are. It is the only way we become familiar with the thought self & its many feeling TPIC’s.

·         Self-study is how we begin empowering our self not to just automatically go where every TPIC (Temporary person in charge) would lead us. It allows us to hear and heed that still small voice within us which not only corrects your life course but connects to ever higher and happier experiences along the way.

·         Reading certain inner life books or listening to lecturers on self-transformation, these materials, as encouraging and informative as they may be, are really only preparational tools and they have their place. This however, cannot raise you one inch above the valley floor to bring you any closer to the mountain top. There is one way to reach the peak: you yourself must make the climb.

·         Self-study is personal individual work that sincere seekers must do for themselves. For more intricate  and at least as rigorous as trying to scale  real mountain.

·         SELF-STUDY ASKS US TO BEGIN WITH:

1.       Honestly observing others.

2.       Actively meeting each moment of life.

3.       Living from a new centre of gravity in ourselves.

4.       Taking small definite steps into personally challenging situations.

5.       Being willing to step outside some TPIC’s point of view.

6.       Suspending negative emotional reactions long enough to learn something about their real origin.

·         Money, relationships and good fortune cannot guarantee future happiness or inner contentment. Even if all these desires are fulfilled, they do nothing to expand the restricted world of our self. These trappings only tighten the secret grasp of the thought self. If we do, what we call spiritual work for these “Selfish reasons, we simply remain in our tiny world, seeking the ends that world calls valuable. The only way out of that world is through self-study.

FREE YOURSELF FROM EVERY FALSE AUTHORITY

·         All the inner voices have false authority. Break their control. Instead of tolerating them, we can challenge their right is to exist altogether. It is not possible for two authorities to rule. When we challenge and reveal for ourselves the false authority we make an opening for the true one to take its rightful place.

·         Our mental & emotional suffering has no right to have authority over us. We must resolve to no longer suffer unconsciously. Our purpose of life will be challenge and rise above every wrong feeling by finding the higher ground within.

·         A true authority lives inside each of us that would no more submit to a false state than any creature would voluntarily jump off a cliff into our lives. Be assumed that everything we do to free ourselves and discover who we really and produces a positive result.

·         Just because something is pervasive doesn’t necessarily make it powerful.

·         Never fall for the truck of discouragement. We may have knock on the door of truth ten thousand times before it will answer. But it will answer and then all the effort will be rewarded thousand fold.

THE AUTHORITY OF RECLAIM OF YOUR LIFE

·         Orders mean light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one’s self; order is power.

·         The good I wish to do, I do not do, and instead I do the evil I wish not to do.

·         Freedom finally comes to that mind which has reached the state in which the opposites are seen as empty.

·         We must learn to use our troubles rather than being used up by them.

·          Let us fall in battle, And not upon the run. The enemy is before us, we know what must be done.

·         The only way to finally be relieved of the torment and begin enjoying a free life is to question the necessity of any negative condition.

RISE ABOVE ALL RUNAWAY REACTION

·         Fear is dark.  Anger is dark. So is anxiety, dared, self-pity and feeling the whole weight of the world upon our shoulders. Add to this list the dark horses of hatred, revenge, insistence or being right, impatience and depression and you have most of those negative states which, if not outright trampling us under their heartless hooves, are certainly sources of unconscious torment.

·         You can be sure you’ve taken the wrong horse and carriage whenever your inner state has you feeling :-

1.       Like you have lost control.

2.       Frightened by what you see.

3.       Angry with yourself or another.

4.       Confused or anxious about where you’re headed.

5.       Pained in your present condition.

6.       Hatred or resentment for someone else.

7.       Sorry you were even born.

8.       Envious of anyone.

9.       Desperate for a solution

10.   Certain nothing else counts besides fixing how you feel

·         If we were aware of what we were doing, nothing on earth could convince us to hop on what is hurting us.

·         This Royal power to discern dark horses from right ones is already yours but to wield it, there is a key, a secret step that must be taken. This higher power to choose what will carry us and what wont is only as powerful as our willingness to come to a special kind of psyche pause , an inner halt. Momentarily anchoring ourselves in the fully present moment, we bring our own thoughts and feelings into the light of consciousness to see them for what they are.

·         The proof of the horse is in the ride.

·         To make real inner progress, get spiritually reckless. Avoid nothing. Let whatever shaking you must do be your waking. And listen to me, you don’t have to be strong; you just have to be tired of trembling before life. The only way to defeat the intimate enemy is by deliberately stepping into its domain armed with light of reality.

HIV/AIDS AMONG THE UNIFORMED PEOPLE

Introduction

            In the late 1970s, many individuals with rare types of cancers and infections started reporting to doctors in various part of USA.  It was found out that these patients were homosexuals whose immune systems have been weakened.  Such illness were also occurring in those with multiple sex partners, drug users and those receiving blood transfusions.  The evidence created suspicious that a germ carried in blood might be causing these diseases.  Within a few years, similar cases were reported from Africa, Australia, Europe and Asia.  Active research for defecting the germ responsible for the disease gathered momentum and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was first isolated in 1983 by Luc Montagavier in Paris.

The Modus Operndi of the Virus

            Like modern Guerilla the enemy (HIV), specializes in low intensity conflict (LIC).  Instead of frontal attack HIV infiltrates the Defense Forces of the human body, by entering and replicating with in the white Blood cells (the arms component of our immune system), and insidiously over a period of time with failing number of these vital immune cells, the body is left undefended against a host of bacteria, viruses and parasites present in the environment.  These take advantage of the weakened state of the body and lodge a frontal attack, causing a host of infections.  It is when these infections occur that a person is said to have AIDS.  That is why many of the illness that people with AIDS gets are called opportunistic infections.  It is like ravaging and plundering armies entering a country whose Defense Forces are in dismay due to unchecked Low Intensity Conflict over the years.

Major/Minor sings of AIDS

1.      The Major Signs of AIDS are

a)      Weight loss of more than 10% of body weight.

b)      Chronic diarrhoea of more than one month duration.

c)      Constant or intermittent fever of more than one month duration.      

2.      The Minor Signs of AIDS are

a)      Persistent cough of more than one month duration

b)      Generalized itching all over the body/skin

c)      Herpes Zoster seen as small blisters localized to small areas of skin.

d)      Oropharyngeal candidacies seen as whitish patches inside mouth and throat due to fungal   infection.

e)      Swelling of lymph nodes at many parts of the body.

A person is said to have AIDS when he/she has a positive blood test for HIV infection and the presence of at least two major signs along with at least one minor sign.  HIV like a true Guerilla doest not kill any body directly, but kills through other infections and cancers, which may affect any part of the body.  In India it has been noted that 83% of AIDS patients develop tuberculosis.

Entry Point of the HIV

There are three main ways the HIV enters the body.

1.      There are unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person, ie., intercourse without a condom.Sexual intercourse refers to penetrative penis – vagina, penis – anus or oral sex.The highest risk is for receptive and intercourse with an HIV infected person.

2.   From exposure to blood, blood products or transplanted organs or tissues. Exposure to HIV infected blood may occur as a result of the transfusion of unscreened (untested) blood, the reuse of contaminated needles and syringes e.g. drug addicts.

3.      From infected mother to her baby, before, during or after birth.

HIV is not Transmitted By

1.      Ordinary Social Contact

(a)          Physical closeness (short of sexual intercourse)

            (b)        Staying in the same house/barrack

(c)          Breathing the same air, coughs & sneezes

(d)         At work

(e)          On the bus and while travelling together in other vehicles

(f)           At the market and other places where people get together

(g)          At School and other places where children get together

(h)          Playing together

2.      Touching

(a)          Shaking hands

(b)         Hugging

(c)          Kissing on the cheeks, hands or fore head etc.,

3.      Sharing

(a)          Toilet seats

(b)         Towels

(c)          Washing water, bath water

(d)         Swimming pools

(e)          Eating and drinking utensils

(f)         Work tools                                                                   

4.      By Bite of

(a)          Mosquitoes

(b)         Bed Bugs

(c)          Other insects

Global Estimates

As per the global estimates by the UNAIDS/WHO working group, the HIV/AIDS statistics at the end of year 1999 were as follows:

(a) People with HIV/AIDS – 34.4 million.

(b) AIDS death in 1999 – 2.8 million.

(c)  Cumulative AIDS death since the beginning of the pandemic – 18.8  

                  million 

(d) It has also been estimated that by the year 1999, there were 13.2

                  million AIDS orphaned in the world.

(e) The 1993 World Development Report of the World Bank ranked HIV as the forth    main cause of death among men and women aged 15-44 in the developing world.

Indian Scenario

(a)  Estimated HIV/AIDS cases at the National Level – 3.7 million.

(b) Surveillance findings from the states show that by June 2000 out of 3662969 persons  screened for HIV, 98451 were HIV positive giving positivity rate of 28.88 per thousand.

(c)  The cumulative number of AIDS cases in the country has risen to 12389
(d) It is realized that there is wide gap between the reported and estimated figures
              

            

What Needs To Be Done

           

Since HIV/AIDS is closely linked to Human Behaviors and has socio-economic implications for the affected persons, their families and the enemies, the whole problem should be viewed as an important developmental problem in the context of uniformed personal especially the Military community. The problem that can jeoparalise the armed forces readiness if not dealt with determination and perseverance.

The experience gained by various international and National Governmental and non governmental organizations in many countries of the world identifies some key factors for success of HIV/AIDS Control programmes.There are given below along with the explanations to the specific setting of the Armed forces.

1.Placing HIV/AIDS on the people agenda. HIV/AIDS should be on the commander’s agenda  who in turn could play a pivotal role in devising innovative ways to tackle the problem among their troop depending on the ethnic background of the unit.

2.Empowering people to deal with HIV/AIDS effectively – knowledge is power as Bacon said effective information, education and communication (IEC) activities will raise the common soldiers ability to discriminate effectively between potential routes of infection as a guide to the adoption of specific form of safer behavior.

3.Capacity building and strengthening people with leadership and communication skills in military units can be identified to impart peer group education.  The fight against AIDS needs effective leadership at junior levels also.

4.Targeted intentions, newly enrolled recruits, younger soldiers, troop separated from families, troop deployed in foreign lands are high risk of contracting HIV infections.  They should be targeted for IEC activities.

5.Creation of enabling environment for practicing prevention troops should feel free to communicate about sensitive topics like human sexuality, STD and AIDS. Winning their trust by accurate information on these aspects is essential, condoms should be easily available.

6.Training unit personnel.  Maximum number of unit personnel should be trained to communicate accurate information on HIV/AIDS to their peers specially new inductees.