Self-Love And The Power Of Gratitude

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Self-Love And The Power Of Gratitude

by Premasudha Janet Hobbs

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How many of us know what our inner child needs or feels like? Yet it is the inner child who has the map to our self-realization in their heart. Who we were at three or so is a lot the way we would be if we were enlightened. Both, small children and spiritual masters tell the truth, play, laugh, and love to the stars and back. When we really love and care about ourselves and listen to our glimmerings and perceptions and do the things that really help us feel more alive, such as telling the truth more, we move forward on the spiritual journey. Because the spiritual journey is about freeing the Creator inside you so you can express your true energy, your inner Amma. We have to deeply love ourselves before we can truly love another. One tip to speed evolution is to focus on Gratitude. This opens our heart and quiets the mind. Another powerful tool is repeating your mantra. So please dare to love your dear sweet self! Speakers: Saskia, Laura, Richard

Meet your Teacher

Premasudha Janet Hobbs

North Vancouver, BC, Canada

Meet your Teacher

Premasudha Janet Hobbs

North Vancouver, BC, Canada

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So, I was talking about Amma in the old days with the students around her, With small groups of students. They would fall asleep during meditation, And she would throw pebbles at them, And some of the visitors were like, Oh, That's so mean, That's so mean, But they're tiny little pebbles. And you see, It isn't mean. It's incredibly loving. What would be mean is to let people sleep. That would be mean. It's sort of like letting a kid not do their homework. You know, When I was homeschooling the kids, There was this family, They just wanted their son to live organically, So he didn't have to do any work if he didn't feel like it. They wanted it to be totally from the child, You know, From the child. So he had to want to do it. So this kid just played computer games, Like, Oh no, You see, That is really not loving. That's so not loving, Because it's sort of like putting somebody in a wheelchair, Stopping them from being able to walk. Because when he hits, You know, Teenagehood or earning a living, He's not got much basis for it. He doesn't have much basis for a life with the hours and hours of video games. It's so crazy. Yeah. So, I told you, The reason that she set it up, She set it up for eight hours of meditation, Because the kids, The people around her, The young people around her, The very small group that were around her at the beginning, They were blaming each other. Like, They were, They're going, And then, Yeah, And coming to her like the mother going, And then, Do you know what they did? Do you know what they did? So then she, She just, She just arbitrarily said, Okay, You're going to meditate for eight hours a day. And so sometimes during this eight hours, They'd fall asleep and she had the late programs, You know, That would go late. So often they'd been up till two or three in the morning, Or she'd throw these pebbles. But as I said to you, That, That didn't last too long. And it started to be the emphasis on Seva, Helping the community. And that was easier for everybody. Right. You guys, I want to talk about truth today. And it's a multi-level talk, And I'm going to speak about it from a lot of different directions. So there is a dear one, Who's, You know, Works with me. And she came from a very outer focused family, Very outer focused. So there wasn't much patterning for this above all to thine own self be true. There wasn't even patterning to be aware of herself. Okay. So Prama Sutta is, You know, Prama Sutta's way. She wanted to work with me. So I've been applying quite a lot of pressure to this person, This very dear person, But really quite a lot of pressure. And she was quite upset with me. And, You know, Anger came up. And one of the things that will happen with a teaching like this is anger at the teacher will come up. Even yesterday, Amma was talking about how anger at Amma comes up for people. And it's the way that the anger, That the complexes show themselves, You guys. Do you see? Like, If we're really angry inside, We will just feel very separate. If it is unconscious, We will feel very separate from life. And we will feel when we look out at the world, It will seem quite hostile to us. Dog eat dog. Okay. So in the spiritual journey, This anger has to come up to be cleared. So often we will get angry at the person who's trying to help us. And, You know, It just, It's what happens, You know? I mean, It's sort of like, I went to the doctor once and I had a boil under my, You know, An abscess under my armpit. And he came up to me and he was hiding like a scalpel thing. And he got very close to me. And then he stabbed this abscess with this instrument. I was going, Oh my God. You know? So, And this anger came up. So this is what happens when the ego is threatened. Anger will show itself. And when our complexes are clearing, We will feel anger often at our teacher. But, So this is part of what this dear one went through. And then there was a moment. Okay. So we were kind of going around in circles. And there was a moment where she said she felt kind of a line across her heart. And she could not take a deep breath. So do you know what we've, What she reached? She reached her child self, You guys. She reached her child self physically. And that is how it showed up. So the state of her child was breathless with fear basically. That was operating underneath her life. Okay. That is the truth of how she's been living her life. In that state. Okay. So you can do all the spiritual things. You can sit through sad things. You can do bhajans. You can do all kinds of things. But unless you allow the deepening, Unless you allow these kind of experiences, You're not going to get anywhere. You see? But we have to feel safe enough to allow them. Okay? So there's no criticism. I just want to spell out the territory so that you're clear about truth on all levels and clear about the truth of how to evolve. So when she was sitting next to me, And when she was going through this, This fear came up, Of course. She was like, I can't, You know, I can't breathe well. And I started, You know, I don't know, Talking about the child and everything. Anyway, She shifted right in that moment. She shifted. She shifted through this block and was able to take a deep breath. Okay. This will change her life. She will have a smaller ego and more room for truth. And not only that, Since she's gone through this experience, Next time, Next time it won't take so long to get there. And next time when she's there, She'll have more trust about getting through it. You guys, None, You know, Of the people who I've worked with in the course of my life, You know, We never get anywhere near that. I want you to really think about this. Like, That level is a major level. Now, It's totally possible that if you do, You know, Bajans and you're doing meditation, That you could move through that during Bajans or prayers or meditation. If you have enough courage and if you have enough kind of spiritual experience, I personally think it helps if you've given birth to move through these things. It helps. Because you've already been pushed to the end, To the wire, Right to the, You know, You've already been pushed so far through giving birth that, You know, Experiencing a bit of a shortness of breath and a line in your heart, It's not too serious. Okay, So it was fantastic that this dear one had this experience and very auspicious. But sometimes, You know, When I'm, I want you to pay attention when I'm talking to you, How, Pay attention to how you receive my words. Like, You know, You know, It is totally possible that part of your, You might feel something move in your body as a result of my words. And it's totally possible that this thing you feel moving in your body might feel like 10 miles away. Yeah. You will get feedback about how close to truth you are. Even if listening to this and paying attention to how you're feeling, Whether you're feeling sleepy, Whether you're feeling bored, Whether you're feeling like something rings true, But it's like 10 miles away. It's like paying attention to this stuff, You guys. This is, It's like paying attention to the little child's realm. It's the realm of the child. And many of us just ignore it and we try to be spiritual and we're not paying attention to this data that's in our bodies. Some of you might even be having pains coming up listening. Some of you might be irritated. It's the ego that's irritated. There's something else about living this way. So, When we're removed from our child self, Like this dear one has lived so far, We will, Because we don't know how to take responsibility for our spiritual journey, We don't know how to take responsibility for our evolution yet because we're too out of touch with our child self, Who is the main figure of the journey. It's like the child self on the journey gradually turns into the divine child. So, The child in you is key for your journey. So, Someone like this dear one, And there are many who are like her, Who have been out of touch with their child self, Their energy will be sort of directed away from their own self. So, They'll be running from taking responsibility for themselves and they will tend to take responsibility for everybody else. And they'll police things. They'll try to solve problems that belong to other people and they'll make a commotion and a mess. Yeah, This is what happens when we don't know how to walk in integrity. We don't know how to take responsibility for our own journey, Which is the gradual healing of your child self into the divine child. So, You move from the injured child to the divine child. And everybody on earth who is not enlightened is living at the injured child level. They're actually being run by their injured child. They may think that they're grown up, But they're not. All this stuff gets hidden, But you can see it in politicians. They might be acting like a two-year-old, You know. That's where their unhealed child self, You know. Yeah, I'm telling you all this because I'm wanting to make it harder to run, Harder for you guys to run from yourselves. That's why I do the satsangs. Because once you understand this, Once you really get what I'm talking about, You'll stop running a lot. It's like you'll be busted. There's no point in running. There's nowhere to run. You know, You're all going to get your deathbed, And you're going to get your life review. So, You can't run from this. We're so funny. But, You know, Pramasutra 2 has so felt like running. I mean, You know, I would sometimes be like, Well, I'm going to change countries or whatever. You know, Really, When I didn't want to face something, I'd go, Okay, I'm just going to change countries. It's like, No. It was just simpler to face the issue, You know, Which eventually would get faced. So, I see all this with great love and compassion, You know. You know, Do you know who tells the truth? Children, Most times. And people who are dying, Often. They're, You know, Actually a joy to be with, I find. People who are dying, A joy, Because they're so truth-telling. I just love it. It's like, Pramasutra, It's like, I'm just in bliss, You know. Yeah. There's no struggle with the ego, No struggle to get through to them. They know. They're with it. They're right there. They seldom lie, You know. I mean, A really hard case on the deathbed, You know, There's some people who just resist truth right to the very end. But lots of people, You know, Actually, You know, On the work I have done with people who are dying, Often they would prefer to talk to me rather than their families because their families were lying to them. They felt their families were lying to them and also felt like they couldn't really talk the way they wanted to talk to their families. They couldn't, The truth wasn't acceptable. Which is just so sad, You know. It's what, You guys, I really want to save you from that, You know. Yeah. It's, You know, Like with this dear one, Getting down to that cut-off in her heart, Being energetic cut-off. It was a line. As you guys wake up more, You'll feel these lines in your bodies. You'll feel where you've got, Like often people have a line right there, Right across their heart, Or they'll have a line right across their heart right at their hips, Sort of cutting off their lower half to the top half. We've got all kinds of energetic blockages like this that you're not even aware of till you actually have a physical experience of them, Or maybe you're getting a massage and it lifts that way. But I think it's best, I mean, You know, If you could do it yourself, Like this dear one did, She shipped it. She just shipped it into truth. So, A lot of, You know, What I've done a few times, Somebody's talking to me and I just tell them, Shh, Just stop. Because I can't listen. Because I know it's going to be like something that's totally, Really they're running from their deeper truth and they're just talking. I don't want to listen. Yeah, And you know, I know Prama Siddha can get away with a lot of stuff because I'm a teacher at this point. But you know, I did these things even getting here. But anyway. I'm really wondering who is noticing anything in their body as I'm talking? Anything coming up that somebody wants to mention? Any pain? Any relief? You might be feeling relief? Are you feeling sleepy? Hi, Prama Siddha. I was feeling really cold. Just cold. Cold? Who is that? Saskia. Oh, Saskia, Where are you? Okay, There you are. Cold. So, What would that be? That's probably coldness coming up from the childhood memory. Yeah, It's trauma from the child. But don't go from the childhood memory, Okay? It's just showing you it's trauma that can clear right now. You don't even have to hook it to a memory. Okay? So, We want to feast in our heads about things, But you can just move through it without that. I mean, Just, You know what you do? You feel the cold and you go like, Amma, Help me. Right. Or, You know, Prama Siddha would focus on self-compassion. Once you guys learn to evolve, It can really speed your journeys. It's just a matter of learning how. And this focus includes the body. Because, You know, This stuff is carried in the cells of our bodies. These complexes are carried in our bodies. So, If we don't include our bodies, We're ignoring the main game. Saskia, It's probably the cold is probably related to the trauma that is causing the cutoff that I was talking about just before we started. So, Don't make a big meal about it. Just go, Okay, Like, Please help me. Don't. . . I know you. So, I know you can grab it with your head and you can focus on the trauma and the memories and the. . . Don't. Just go, I want to wake up. I want to. . . Right. I want to be my real self. I want to let my little child in and not keep her outside with her face up against the window trying to get in, Trying to be included in my arm. Right. Many of you guys have real trouble embracing your little child. I said to one fellow, I don't know if he's here. Yeah, He's here. He used to get in trouble when he was a kid because sometimes he would, Like, Upset the table. He'd push the table over. And you know what? When you're clearing, You guys, When you're clearing these things, Sometimes you will do something that's unacceptable as part of the clearing. Okay, So I want you to be really brave. It's not the end of the world. This is how you learn that it's not so serious to tip over a table. This is how you learn that your little kid can be here on the earth. Yeah. And it's really good right now because things are falling apart anyway. So really, What it is, We've got, You know what? We've got an epidemic of these little, Of repression coming up. All the stuff that's been repressed, All the little kids that've been, You know, The little child self that's not been allowed to play. It's all, It's exploding. I just think, You know, Pramasutha has done a lot of things like tipping over the tables on the way to get here, You know? And I just, I just had to, You know, Have compassion for myself. And even if you make a mistake, Everybody forgets like in six weeks, You know? I don't know. It's just not so serious, You know? It's just not so serious. Yeah. Yeah. You're not, You cannot do this perfectly. You cannot evolve without making a fool of yourself at some point. You will. Big Swami. I heard a story that Amma made him wear a placard and walk around the ashram all day wearing, You know, Some placard with some ridiculous writing on it. And it's like, You know, Sometimes we feel a lot foolish, You know? It's not so serious. It's far more serious if you live your whole life in the constraint because you're scared that you'll push a table over sometime. That's far more serious. That's far more dangerous. And it's far more dangerous for your health. Part of the reason why, You know, Prama Siddha had that really rough time in my 30s was partly because my family was so over-controlled. Yeah. It was an extreme. So. The most important thing is finding a way to move into truth this life. So measure everything by that. Really. It's so funny working with you guys because I know you really want this and at the same time, It's you're scared. And it's kind of like, Yeah. And here at the ashram, People fall asleep in meditation. It's kind of, This is why the human race takes so long to evolve. We've been here for like thousands and thousands of years. We've all had many, Many lifetimes. Yeah. But how many more lifetimes do you want? You know, The other thing is, There have been cases where people not on the spiritual journey that I've worked in, Like people who are actually totally ignorant spiritually, Sometimes they made faster progress because they didn't have any religiosity. To make them feel bad about themselves, You know? They didn't have the religious thing. You know, Where we go, I don't know. You all do it. Many of you do it. This kind of, I don't know, I have to be a perfect spiritual student. And the people that are just ignorant, You know, They kind of just, It's easier for them to sometimes just go to the heart. For me to reach their hearts, It's often easier, Which is, It's sad. It's sad. And it's kind of the comedy of life, You know? But then the thing is, After a bit, That person often goes off because they don't know the importance of just continuing on the journey. They start to feel better, And then they go, Okay, Sayonara. You know, Adios. I feel better. Bye. And I'm going, Oh, That's so sad. Yeah. Yeah. I want to, You know, Talk about with this dear one's line through the heart and the shallow breathing, Which some of you are living with. It was very scary for her to get down there. Yeah. So, What I'm wanting is to kind of help open your minds so it becomes less scary to get down to the truth of you. Yeah, Like what, Many of you act as if you've got a lot to lose. You kind of, You listen to me or work with me like, Well, I'll make a small step because I've got a lot to lose, But I look at you and I don't think you have anything to lose. I'm going, What are you holding on to? It's not much. Sorry, It's being blunt, But it's kind of like, Hello? What are you holding on to? It's not like you're, I don't know. Yeah, What are you holding on to? And I'll think, What stops you from just kind of just admitting the truth in a big way? It is such a relief, You guys. Your body goes, Yay. You know, Anybody who does the petals meditation, Which I highly recommend, Amma's petal meditation, There's one in there where you focus on all the cells of your body receiving divine light and dancing with the love of your soul, Dancing with the love of your universe. That's it. That's it. You can live like that. It's so interesting. There's a little bit of a snoozy quality. It's kind of like not feeling a lot of excitement coming from you guys. It's sort of excitement that somebody is like spotlighting truth, Spotlighting how to, You know, Clear things like drop down and have these kind of experiences where you're right in your inner child again, And having an experience like feeling that line across the heart. It doesn't last long. But we're not machines, And it's, You know, The thing about the satsang is this, You sort of soak your psyches in this for an hour. If you do it like every week, Soak your psyche in this, It will change you. It will just change you. Yeah, So it is what works, The gradual approach. No, We're not machines. And we have these complicated lives in a complex society. But you can be interested in truth. Like this is the thing on the journey, You know. If you have like that really sincerity, A sincere heart, You will make progress despite yourself. You know, It doesn't matter how big your ego is. If you are sincere, You will make progress. And only you know how sincere you are. And, You know, At 3 o'clock in the morning, That's when you'll know how sincere you are. You wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning, Just desperate to find a way to connect up to your truth more. That's it. That's what works. Yeah. It's that. That's kind of the most important. It's like how much room that child within you is signaling to you. You know, How much does the child within you get through to you? Even when you don't want her or him to get through to you. But how much does that child get through to you? Because that will be it. How strong that child is in you. And it will be inconvenient sometimes. But if that child is strong, You are very lucky. You're really, Really lucky. Because that child will surface. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And if you learn not to give yourselves such a bad time, You know, If you do something wrong or whatever, It's like, Oh, Well. Oh, Well. You don't have to, Like, Suffer for two weeks because, I don't know, Your skirt got caught in your pantyhose or something, Which is every woman's worst nightmare. You know? Oh, Well. You know, One time I was at, There was a teacher at Waldorf, And unfortunately he lost his son, And we went to his house. You know, All the parents of the kids went to his house. We were there. I saw this man, One of the dads looking at me and smiling, And I looked down, And the buttons of my dress had come undone, And my bra was showing, Like, Very, In a big way. No wonder he was smiling. And I zipped it up or back-buttoned it up, And I thought to myself, You know, I could really be embarrassed about this, Or I could just go, Oh, Well. You know? Oh, Well. So that's what I did. It was funny. I'll never forget. I'll never forget his face. Anyway, What a comedy. Yeah. Yeah. Like, Life is a big joke, You guys. Like, Yeah. I remember, You know, I spent some time with a New Zealand Maori in Vancouver, And I adored this man. I just adored him. He had more love in him. He reminded me of Ama. It was kind of Ama energy, Although I don't think he'd met her. But we were walking along, And everybody was really serious. It was a spiritual afternoon, A spiritual day. Everybody was very, Very serious. I'll tell you. Serious. Super serious. And there were all these beautiful cherry blossoms on the ground, And I just got the feeling. I bent down, And I picked up as many, And I threw them all up above us. You know? Above us. And the New Zealand Maori, Mac, Mac Ruka, Looked at me with such relief. Like, Love. Like, Sort of, It was like, Oh, Thank God. Thank God. Somebody's loosening up and not being so spiritual and everything. It's like, Yeah, This is, We can, You know, This is, You know, It's that. It's kind of that. You know? And I just got the impulse to do it, And I learned to not second-guess these impulses. You know, That was part of what I worked with in myself. I, As part of not repressing my little kid, I practiced not repressing these kind of impulses. Yeah. I did them. And, You know, Sometimes I got in trouble, But in other cases, You know, It's like, I got this validation from him. Yeah. Yeah. And the other thing I remember about it is, Later on, We were talking in a circle, And everybody was talking about Lemuria, And Atlantis, And all these kind of questions about, Like, I don't know, So kind of esoteric. And it came to my turn, And I said, I just want to know how to raise two compassionate boys. And he got up and came over and hugged me. Again, The relief. This is what I'm talking about, You guys. Like, Just, You know, It's a big relief just to be real and not try to pretend and just actually be your real self. Because, You know, People are going to criticize you no matter what. But if you show your real self, The people that matter will validate you. Okay, This is a getting to frame this lesson, Like this nugget. You're going to get criticized either way. But if you follow your true impulses, The people that matter will validate you. Yeah, And just be, Like, Loose about it. Like, You know, Don't be heavy with yourself about giving yourself more freedom. Just experiment, Experiment. This work is a lot to do with experiment. Experiment with giving your child self more room. Yeah. It's these things, You guys, You see, We're taught to be very, Very passive about very important things. So, Many of us, We act quickly about money, Something about money, We will be right on it. Or something about, You know, Making sure that we're in with the people that we think we should be in with. We're very quick to take an action. But when it comes to something that's related to your child self, That your child self needs, Something you need deeply, Lots of people are very, Very passive. They drop that. Premasuddha was not passive about that at all. Yeah. It was on my mind a lot with, Like, Giving my child self what I needed as much as possible. I know someone who needs touch. He needs touch unusually strongly. Unusually strongly. So, He should really get a massage once a week, Kind of. He doesn't do anything like that for himself. He doesn't have the energy to do it. He doesn't have the inclination, Even though it's like it makes such a difference when he gets touch. This is what I'm talking about. And without touch, He tends to go get stuck in his head. So, It turns into the full mess, Getting stuck in your head, Not doing the thing that would help you more into your heart. Because it's just like it's not really allowed. Partly, He's got a lot of the English in him, And also part of it is that I think he doesn't love himself. He doesn't honor these self-healing information that we get from our souls. Like, We get steered to what would help us. We get the intuition. There's another woman in my work, And she was holding on to a relationship with a guy who I felt like if she went off and traveled for a year, He would come to a census and propose to her. And I had the feeling that she needed to, Even if not going for a whole year, That she needed to do some kind of shamanic training. She was very interested in it. She had spoken about it. Her child self was enthralled with it. So, You know, I suggested why not at least go for a summer, Get some training, Leave this guy to see what it's like without her. And really, I felt she'd get a proposal. She didn't do any of it. And it's still the same situation. And actually, She's getting treated worse. She's getting treated worse because she didn't treat herself well. She did not honor her own true impulses. You see? This actually sets us up to get treated worse by other people. Sets us up to get disrespected by other people. I'm not kidding you guys. A lot of how we treat ourselves, If you honor yourself, You will get treated better. I promise you. This is what my experience was. You get treated better, And certainly by the people who matter. Yeah. But also, Even if you go into a store, You'll be walking tall, And you'll have the kind of the energy of, You know, I'm somebody. Yeah. And people, Like even in shop, They'll just treat you better. Yeah. I'll tell you a reverse of this. Remember I told you my mom had been beaten and everything, And had this fear? And I remember going into, She never felt good enough. And we went to one of the snobbiest stores in Vancouver at that time, Because I needed clothes. It was some thing coming up, And I had to have, We all needed to have really good clothes. I can't remember why. So she took us there. And the sales lady, When my mom was giving the address, And it was Angus Drive, And the sales lady said, Oh, We have an Angus Drive in Vancouver too, Which is where we live. But my mother was getting treated like, Not very well, Like, You know. And that would happen to her. Yeah. Yeah. If you, You know, Get interested in your child self, And even ask for memories, Come up. You know, Write about your childhood, I'm big on that. And you will open the door to get more perceptions from that child. And those perceptions will be solid gold. So, The more you open your arms to your child, The more the child feels it, Feels safe enough to really talk to you. Right. See, If you do this enough, And this is where psychology meets with the spiritual journey, If you really do this a lot, What happens is the voices in your head get quieter, Your mind gets more peaceful, You get more silent. The more you love your child self, The more silent your head will become. See, It's where psychology and spirituality meet. And the more you have these experiences where you feel physically what your child felt like, Like often you guys lately have been talking to me about hopelessness. When you feel hopeless, That is how the child felt. And it's ego, And it's kind of unfixable. What you can do is just be compassionate for yourself and watch it. Because if you watch it with love, This hopelessness, What will happen is you will start getting signs of spring. You will start getting the new understanding gradually, Gradually coming in. If you can go like, Okay, This hopelessness, Like not buying into it fully, But going like, Okay, This is hopelessness, This is child material coming up. It's not very pleasant, But you can, You know, Watch it without dying. You just go through it and you get signs of spring and a bigger understanding. Premasuddha went through periods of, Many periods of hopelessness to come to this understanding. And it was the hopelessness and learned helplessness clearing. You know, I don't expect you guys to get this overnight. It's like gradually as you hear it, What will happen is you will start coming into like a comprehension of what I'm talking about. And it will make your life easier. Even a little will make your life easier. And you'll be a little more oriented towards this, Allowing this healing of your child self. Any spiritual master is just like what they were like at three in a grown-up form. You know, Just being kind of a, Yeah, Be their personality at three. You know. Yeah. It's like a three-year-old in adult form. And that person has fought all the battles to find out that it's safe, That you could live and you can even pay your taxes. You can end up being supported somehow, Even as a three-year-old. That's kind of how it is. That's kind of what it, What happens. Yeah. Yeah. If you take care of your child self, I'll tell you, You will have less trouble with money. You will get more physical support because it's your true nature's in there. This is, You know, It's why Amma says, You know, Meditation can even help you financially. Because if you bring in more of your true nature, It's like you get supported by the Creator. I mean, This is what Prama Sutta's life was. It's how I managed it. I just got supported by the Creator. Yeah, And it's easy to, You know, It can be daunting and everything, But I don't know. Like, Things are turning so upside down. What do we have to lose? And like I say to you guys, Like, I often look at you and I go, Well, What do you have to lose so much? What are you holding on to, You know? Anyway, It's this life or next life or another life, You know, It's all good. But just hearing this. I mean, There's some people who've been listening for years and I see great progress, Enormous progress. And maybe they're not just studying with Prama Sutta, Right? There may be other teachers. But still, Great progress. Some of you just been, You know, Coming to Satsangs for a couple of years and I see enormous progress. Yeah. And the other thing is, You guys, You cannot judge your own progress. I over, All across the board, I feel people still underestimate their progress and give themselves, Kind of, Cruel reviews when, As a teacher, I would be far more positive and giving, Like, Far higher marks, You know? Yeah, So remember that. You can't judge your own progress. And sometimes when we're having a really tough time, We feel like we're going backwards. You're never going backwards. It's always, You're always making forward motion. It's just deeper levels. Just like Amma says, You know, When you sweep the floor, Looks clean, But it's not till you start mopping it that you see the dirt that you're carrying. Yeah. You know, The lie detector machines measure the stress of lying on the body. That's how they work. It's like our lies and our games are hard on our bodies. Truth, Love, Our physical processes get done so much easily, More easily when we're not carrying, When we're not in our egos, You guys. I told you, I think, Years ago, I worked with this woman who was, She had terrible trouble digesting. And it was so serious that when I worked on her, I could feel that she was heading towards death, But it was leading towards death, Eventually, You know? And it all came from her self-hatred. So it made it like, So she wasn't even digesting her food properly. It's all very healable. It was healable. You know, I worked on her and I could feel that within six months, Everything was going to change for this woman. She moved into a huge acceptance. It makes total logical sense that if you don't like yourself, That you will have trouble getting all the nutrients out of your food. Think about it. It's like the no-brainer. How could that not be? Because we're working against ourselves. Like this stuff, It's like, Clears the nose on our faces, Like, Duh. Yeah. And, You know, The more you love yourself, The more easy it will be for you to eat good food. Good, Healthy food for yourself. You'll be less attracted to food that isn't good. You won't want to do that to yourself, Actually. Yeah. Yeah. Really, May all your children, You know, May all of your children just feel loved. And, You know, Tonight when you sleep, You'll all have a wonderful, Wonderful healing dream, Whether you remember it or not. Sometimes we can get these incredible healing dreams that just do a lot of work for us. The other thing is, You know, You could imagine yourself being inside Amma's body. This is so, You know, It's such a powerful thing to do. It doesn't take a lot of time. But look what you're telling your psyche when you do that. You're basically bathing your psyche in unconditional love. You guys, It's actually so easy, You know. You may not want to do it. I mean, This is a rub. It's sort of like I've said, You say your mantra for three years, Amma says, You'll be enlightened. Saying your mantra is one of the most ultra, Ultra, Ultra powerful things you can do. It's just sitting there as this power tool. And if you say it, Even when you don't want to particularly, But you just do it, It will help that inner child. It will help your health. It just takes a while to show up. And so that's why we don't. But Prama Sutta knows the results will be inevitable if you do those things. The third thing, Drown yourself in gratitude. Sonic, Drill yourself with gratitude. Have signs of promoting gratitude all over your house. Interrupt all negative thoughts with grateful thoughts. Really, You guys, Imagining being in Amma's body, Saying your mantra, Focusing on gratitude. If you want to get the supersonic speed on your journey, If you do those things, You'll have enormous power. Your ego will go, No. So, You see, In a year when I mention this again, There'll be some of you that really did it. And then you're like going at supersonic speed. I just want to tell you, Like, It's doable, You guys. It's doable. And even if you're like feeling hopeless, If you just can find the energy to say your mantra, Even when you're feeling really hopeless, It's just like that. Yeah, It's really doable. You know, Prama Sutta didn't like the mantra thing. But now I realize, Like, With what I know now, It's like, It is such a quick way. So when I say like, Oh, I did 40 years, Well, You know why? Because I didn't say my mantra much. Oh, Look. Learn from, You know, Some people it's like, What not to do, Right? So learn from Prama Sutta, It's like, Say your mantra, Really. Yeah. Okay, Ladies and gents, Question time, Comments, Question. You're still here. You all seem to be here. Nobody's left. This is good. Yeah. That's so cute. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just want to, Can I? Sorry. Yeah. Can I just apologize to everybody if I interrupted the Satsang? I'll put my phone on do not disconnect. Let's start next time. I didn't hear anything. Yeah. No worries, Sweetie. No worry. No worries. Yeah. Okay. You see what I mean? There's no. Yeah. All good. Anybody got anything coming up? I have the question, How do I connect to my inner child? How do I distinguish if it's my inner child, Which is hopeless or something else? Oh, Like to even know how the child's feeling? You mean? Yeah. You pay attention to your own feelings. Yeah. So it's the same with the own feelings? Is it always one? Yeah. You're like, This is what I'm saying. We are in our inner child. So you, You will be feeling your inner child's feelings now. Okay. Right. Yeah. You guys, You're all walking around as injured children in adult form. Do you understand this? You think you're adults, But the way that you live your life is like. You will be illustrating your complexes all the time. You will be repeating what happened to you as a child. You will be repeating it in your lives. And you won't see it till maybe there's a crisis. And then you might see it. So some of you, Like Richard, You're in a big growth period right now. You know this, Right? Yeah. Yeah. So you are growing beyond some of the heavier wounding of your inner child. Do you understand that? I'm growing beyond. Sounds really good, But I don't understand it. Yeah, You're, You are transcending the, Yeah, The heavier wounding of the child. It's like you're, You're waking up more to who you really are. Mm-hmm. Even in the time that I've known you, You made some very big shifts. Maybe it can also be a boost to watch like children in action, To have like flashbacks or. Sure. It feels like for me, There's lots of room for realization. To spend time with children. Sure. It's kind of, It's like, Okay, So you could. Okay. Hold on. The most important thing is that you're sincere about wanting to understand and embrace your child self. Okay. That is the most important thing. So it's like, If you've got that sincerity, Then even just anything you do will steer towards that. Do you understand that, Richard? Yeah. Yeah. It's good. So if that's your goal, Supposing you, You, You, You want to get to know, So you might be shopping and you might see a cereal that you used to eat when you were a kid. And you buy it, You, You feel like, Oh, Buy that. And I'll eat that stuff again. Just for fun, Really, You know, To in, In kind of a light way of just, Oh, That's what I used to eat. I wonder what it'd be like, You know, Just play. But don't do a serious adult thing about like, Okay, I'm going to spend time with children because I really want to get to know my inner child. Like that will backfire. It has to be kind of a lighter, Like I really want to know my inner child. And you'll just, Things will just pop up. Like you'll just get guided for what to do. Or, You know, You might get the impulse to play a sport you used to play. Just let yourself be guided. Okay, Yeah. Which requires trust of self. Okay, Now that's interesting. That requires trust of self. And that's what we tend to lose in Archipelago, Richard. So that's what you're to work on, Trust of yourself and follow these, You know, If the impulse seems true, You know, Like, Follow it. Your injured child would make you distrust yourself. That's part of what you, Like, Why you say, Well, Should I, Should I, Asking me what to do. Because your heart knows. You will be guided. You will do those things. And the rest of them know that premise, You know, Like, You know what, I tiled the whole top floor of my house with tiles that were my favorite color was gray green in my childhood. Like, It made the house unsaleable. But I just did it. It was so strong to do it. And every day it would remind me of my childhood because it was such as the color. And luckily developers brought my property so it didn't matter. Thank goodness. But I was just wild like, You know. You know, I don't know. Have it lightly in mind. Not too serious. Okay. Thank you for that. Yeah. Okay, Good. Yeah, We get we get serious and try to fix so quickly. And then that takes us into the adult and we're lost in the adult again. You see, This is what I want you guys to see the subtleties of it. You don't notice. Something starts off as light and then we start getting really serious and trying to fix ourselves and that's not right. So we have to then give it to Amma because we're getting so serious about it all. Yeah. Can you stay aware of yourselves like that you guys really with yourselves? You notice when you get serious and off. Just give it over. I'm feeling this. This love and compassion for you all. You guys, You know, The spiritual journey is not easy, But life in the ego isn't easy either. So I'm feeling this huge compassion off. You know, Bottom line is any step you take this life means that even if you don't achieve self-realization this life, That next life, It will be better, It will be lighter, It will be, You know, More auspicious. You might have spiritual parents or I don't know, Whatever. Or live next door to a self-realized master who gives you hugs. Yeah. Yeah. And, You know, Use your imagination, You guys. Like, Use your imagination to help yourselves. Yeah, Because we can, You know, We can imagine monsters or imagine angels and it's kind of like go with the angels. I'm just getting this like, Tell them that they're all just so fine. I'm just getting this bullet and tell them they're just all so fine. They're all so wonderful. They're just fine the way they are. Just being here and listening. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just beautiful the way you are. You're just, It's like, You know, With little kids, You know, When they're about three and everything and they're just adorable and they knock over their milk and they, I don't know, Whatever. Cause chaos and everything. But they're just so adorable. It's like that. And Alma says that she loves the way we walk and talk. How could she? But she does. She does. And all our shapes and sizes. She just loves us. We're so loved by the Creator. Yeah. And really, You know, We can't do anything really wrong. We can just take a long time coming off the earth plane or a shorter time. There's no real sin, You guys. It doesn't matter what we do here. It doesn't matter. It's just a dream. It doesn't have any, Anything, Any lasting thing at all. Doesn't matter what we do. It's just that if we play in the negative, We will stay here longer than if we, You know, Remember gratitude, The mantra, Those things. Remember our little child self. Do the things that make you feel like Richard, You know. Whatever it is, You know. Just do those things. Yeah. I used to really need massages. I would do that. Yeah. Be your own best friend, You guys. Just be your own best friend. That's it, You know. And it's gradual, You guys. It's gradual. You know, I started doing two minutes of plank and these 25 minutes of resistant exercises. Man, I feel like, I feel like I'm 30 years old. I'm not kidding. I just, I just did such great shape from this, From this little like 25 minutes a day. And it's quite meditation, Meditational. And it's, It's kind of like I'm going, Well, We don't really have to get old, You know. Really. Not really. You just stay in truth, You know. Stay in truth. Be happy. I'm so, I'm in such good shape and I look at myself and I was thinking, You know, I walked around with 20 extra pounds during my 50s and 40s and I'm going like, I could have been a stunner back then. I wasn't, I was plump. But it was kind of part of it was that I was focused on moving into truth, And I didn't want to get distracted. Yep. Method in my madness. You have a long life, You know. And we can go through so many phases. And we can feel like we're never ever going to get anywhere. And I'll tell you, Every spiritual master has felt like they were never, Ever going to get there. Yeah. Every spiritual master will have felt like sometimes like just the worst human being in the world. I'm not kidding. All the stuff you guys go through, I know it all. I do. I know it all really, Really well in myself, My version of it. The same, Same, Same crap. And that's why I can spot it and why I can help you. Because it's not, It's not anything. It's just kind of habit and illusion. And we are so loved. Yeah. You are so loved. Yeah. I want to hear that again. You are so loved. Good. No matter how you're feeling, You're so loved. It's like a little child. The child might not be feeling very happy, But that child's very deeply loved, Right? Any parent, You know, The child who might not be very happy, But the child's just adored. But the child might not feel that, But they are. Right. You guys are really loved. And when you feel that, Your mind will go quiet. Mind will be quieter. So it quiets the mind. And the other thing is, It's when your thoughts get so, You get to the point of you cannot stand your thoughts anymore. That's when they, You grow out of them. You know, If you ever had a shift where you just, You just can't stand the way you're thinking, You just get to the point of you can't stand it anymore. And it's like the darkest time just before dawn. And then over the next few days, Something changes and you feel lighter. Things clear. Just let yourself go through these periods. There's no way to control them. You just have to flow through these periods. You flow through periods of helplessness and hopelessness. Just don't stay in it too long. You know, Keep your focus on, You know, Where you want to go. You want to go to the divine. You want to love yourself. Do something to comfort yourself if you're stuck in hopelessness. You know, That spiritual psychology book can be useful because you can read about how you're feeling and it can help you move through it. Please don't be passive, You guys. Many of you are quite passive about yourselves, Whereas Prima Sutta, I really did things to help myself. Whatever I could, I would try to help myself. Yeah, Please copy that. Don't just be passive about it. Yeah, Help yourself. Yeah, You're precious, You see. You're precious. You're beloved. You're so valuable. Yeah, So do something to help yourself. Yeah. Even I am moving through this. I am moving through this. I am moving through this, Really. Does anybody else got a question? I used to get up in the morning and I would go, I give the whole day to God. It's a very powerful thing to do. You do that. All these things, They just add up. And it's the level of sincerity, You see. We can do these things if we're sincere. We will just do them. And what you'll notice is if you feel like you're not making progress, Then this is how we start getting more sincere. We start helping ourselves more. You know, We realize nobody else can save us, Really. So, You know, We just find the energy to help ourselves more. Even small things. I told you when I was studying, I used to take 10 minutes out per hour and look at nature pictures. I just instinctively did that for myself. And it kind of, You know, I tended to be really anxious in my teenagehood. So it kind of, You know, I think what it did is it got my left brain going, Or my right brain going when I did it. And so it actually helped me learn. Taking these 10 minutes just staring at a nature picture. And then I'd go back to studying. Yeah, Just simple self-help things. Just follow your instinctual. Yeah, But let yourself love yourself deeply, You know. And Prima Sudha got herself out of academics so I didn't have to study. That was selfless, Really. Not having to have exams. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Okay. And using your imagination, You know, You can imagine Amma being very pleased with you or giving you a hug. Like use your imagination this way. You know, Lots of times the way we use our imagination, You know, We worry. Worry is negative prayer. Okay. Let that echo. Negative prayer. It's like dark praying. You don't want to do it. If you're stuck in worry, You know, Don't guilt yourself, But just, You know, Try to. It's, You know, Your worry is coming from the little kid within who doesn't feel loved. Truly. Truly. You love the little kid within and your worry will go down. You'll move into the present moment more. You'll worry about the future a lot less. And you'll handle your life like a pro. You'll just get smarter about how to handle your life. You'll get more information, More intuitions. And, You know, That's the goal that comes with going through fear. You start being happier. Yeah. And you function better. Yeah. No questions? No comments? Just keep going, You guys. It just adds up. Just adds up. And, You know, The universe will make sure that you get to where you need to go. You know, We get help. We get, We just get help. You will get what you need. You will get to where you need to go. I promise you. You just will. Okay, Remember gratitude, You guys. If you focus on gratitude, It is a good way to see the rope, Not the snake. Gratitude trains you to see the rope rather than the snake. All right, You guys. Thank you. Thank you so much. Blessings. And remember, You're all beautiful the way you are. And you're all loved. That's it. You guys got that. You're loved. Yeah. Yeah. Just as you are now. Just as you are. Okay, Bless your hearts, You guys. Bye. Bye.