How To Reboot Your Life: 20 Mental Barriers You Should Let Go Of

You are in an imaginary hot air balloon. It’s just you and all of your belongings in the wicker basket. Something went wrong and you are losing altitude fast. You will hit the ground in less than ten minutes if you don’t come up with something quick.

The only immediate solution is to get rid of excess weight and throw off at least half of your belongings. It’s that or hit the ground in ten. You look at the things and hesitate for a few seconds but then you do what you have to do and start throwing the things you have gathered half your life one by one. The cargo gets lighter, the descent slows down then you are floating up again back to altitude. You are relieved beyond comprehension.

This happens to all of us in less dramatic circumstances. We attach ourselves to things that we have accumulated over the years. Some of them might have some practical value. Others we just have attached ourselves sentimentally to over time. Some others are just clutter.

Our mental life follows the same fate. We carry with us a lot of things in our heads along the years – Our life story, emotional attachments, beliefs and other things which can linger in our minds for many years.

Some of them are useless ideas that drag us down considerably. Some are emotional debris from difficult moments in our past. Some are just beliefs which we have attached ourselves to for no apparent justifiable reason. Some others are just self-destructive habits and fears.

So if you were in the hot air balloon situation, which of these mental barriers should we let go? I have listed down 20 here. Do you have any more?

1. Let go of attachments: According to Buddhist Philosophy, attachment is one of the roots of all suffering. I can’t agree more. We attach ourselves to all sorts of things even the most self-slapping stupid notions in the universe. Are you attached to something? How much are you attached? Is it keeping you back from something? Is it making you suffer? Look at it straight through – break the illusion. Know that every attachment can be detached.

2. Let go of guilt: Guilt has absolutely no function whatsoever. Think about it – what could guilt possibly resolve? It just holds you imprisoned to self-mortification and sorrow.

3. Let go of Negative thinking: Pessimistic thoughts and negative attitudes keep you locked in a dark aura that permeates in everything you do. It’s a dangerous line to follow. Know that thoughts influence the world around us. Enough said.

4. Let go of self-criticism: Many times we are our biggest pain in the neck. We criticize ourselves with the best of intentions but then go over the acceptable limit. Criticism then turns to disempowering messages. Let go of it and be kind and gentle to yourself.

5. Let go of prejudice: Prejudice keeps you bitter and resentful. It restricts your opportunities to connect meaningfully with others.

6. Let go of compulsive thinking: Do you keep on doing something just because you feel you have to do it without any apparent reason? It’s time to honestly reflect on its usefulness and its side-effects.

7. Let go of the need for others’ approval: We often tend to seek approval by others. This is an attention-seeking behaviour and one which threatens our self-confidence and authenticity.

8. Let go of limiting beliefs: Most of our limits are self-imposed. Life doesn’t have defined limits. Our beliefs do. Learn to identify those beliefs which narrow down your possibilities for action and let go of them.

9. Let go of grudges: Let me put it this way – grudges are bad for your heart. Keep them long enough or numerous enough and your health will eventually suffer. Research is showing the relationship between heart disease and emotions such as anger and grudges.

10. Let go of the “I’ll do it tomorrow” attitude: This is a delaying tactic of your subconscious saboteur trying to keep you from accomplishing important tasks. Try to be aware of it when you think it and consciously push yourself to do at least the first part of it. Naturally you will then continue the whole task because the hard part is only the beginning.

11. Let go of anxious thoughts: These are born out of our fear of the unknown and uncertainty about the future. The thought that something unpleasant may happen is only an unreal thought we have created ourselves. Ask yourself: “Is this thought based on real evidence?”

12. Let go of past heartbreaks: A heartbreak can take quite a long time to heal. Your heart is locked as your mind keeps on hovering over the same thought. The thing to realize is that in heartbreaks it is not the loss that make you suffer but the idea you create in your heads about that loss.

13. Let go of bad memories: Sometimes we remember unpleasant things that stir up some sad feelings in us. Bad memories make you relive those sad moments in the present. Keep them where they are – in the past.

14. Let go of useless things: We also attach ourselves to things of all sort. Sometimes we clutter our life with useless objects. Let go of them and simplify your working and living environment.

15. Let go of bad company: If there are people around you that are insincere, harbour envy, are highly pessimistic or disempowering, keep away from them.

16. Let go of the idea that you are a product of your past: One very common mistake we fall into is the belief that we are determined by our past experiences. This limits our view on future possibilities since we are stuck in believing that the future can only be more of the same as our past.

17. Let go of identifying yourself with your job/role: This is one of the risks of modern day life. Since roles are always becoming more specialized we think that we are part of our roles. This makes us lose perspective of our true nature.

18. Let go of counterproductive habits: These are the repetitive patterns of behavior that obstruct or distract you from constructive and productive behavior. They can be anything from watching too much TV and overeating to self-destructive behavior such as drug abuse.

19. Let go of taking things too personally: Very often we are disturbed emotionally because we interpret people’s words and actions from a very subjective perspective. When we take things personally we get irritated, hurt and disappointed.  When you look at life from a more detached and objective point of view, we stay emotionally balanced and focused on our priorities.

20. Let go of the ticking clock: Time is one of our biggest sources of stress. Well, not time really but our perception of it. Sometimes we are enslaved by the concept of time even in our moments of leisure. This has devoured a lot of our genuine freedom and space. Learning to spend moments without the constant awareness of time can be liberating and finally productive.

Written by Gilbert Ross of www.myscienceacademy.org

Message from the Indigo Children

Indigo Children Message IndigoTest.orgBeloved brothers and sisters. We bring you warm greetings of love and light. We are the Indigo children of the New Millennium and from time to time we will venture forth to share our needs and concerns with you in this manner. We observe the happenings on the planet and are in communication with our beloved ones who are preparing for their earthly incarnations. We are also gathering with our beloved brothers and sisters who are returning to the realms of light from their sojourn upon the earth plane. They are sharing their experiencing with us and we are eager to learn for embodiment in a physical form is completely new to us. Many of them have been unable to complete the unfolding of their dreams of gifting humanity with their offerings in the fields of art and music and science and medicine. For one reason or another, their time upon the earth plane has been abrupted.

For most, however, their missions were completed and so they returned. And now we are awaiting our appointed hours of incarnation. Their sharing with us and our observance of earth life leads us to want to offer our commentary to you as a means of helping you in your understanding of who we are and why we are incarnating at this time. Also, we wish to assist you in understanding what our needs are and how you can help us for as you have been told already, we are not like you. We are the advent of the sixth root race and as such we know there will be a great clashing between what you call “the establishment” and us. So in the spirit of education and cooperation, let us speak thusly to you.

We note that there is a great deal of discussion taking place now regarding acts of violence in the schools and also among the population at large. Know this, dear ones. Until the world gets our message, these types of events will continue to happen for we cannot live in the structures of society as they now exist. We are incarnating to change them and the status quo. We share your concerns about the unrest in your cities and the potential of wars. What you have accepted and simply lived with all these years we cannot accept. We dream a different dream. We hear a different drumbeat. We heed a different cadence and we answer a different call. We will break your denial of what you have created upon the earth plane.

Before we are through, we will force you to look at everything and see it for what it is. We will mirror to you your creations. As a group our behavior will show you what works for us and what doesn’t. We will afford you abundant opportunities to acknowledge your creations and to take responsibility for them. We will show you what we need to be happy and productive citizens of the world. It is our desire to leave this world in better shape than we found it but we need your cooperation. While it is true that we are young in the years lived upon the earth, do not assume we are ignorant. We carry our wisdom within and simply know things beyond that which you think we should know for our age and experience.

Pay attention to us! The systems of public education that are currently in place around the world are not for us. They are not structured to meet our needs and the challenges of the future. We would say the same about most of the private and religious schools as well. We speak here of both the physical configuration and also the emotional and mental climates of the schools. They serve us not. They are rampant with emotions and devoid of Spirit. We do not function well in the huge schools and large classes. And when we must move from class to class all day, it is very disrupting to our patterns of learning. We become over-stimulated and edgy by all the commotion and cacophony of vibrations playing out around us. Though we may appear calm on the outside, that is merely a facade, a mask we put on so we can interact with others. We cannot learn in this environment. Our needs are best met in small groups with a capable teacher who will be there for us, who can interact with us one on one, who can guide us successfully through our inner turmoil. We learn very quickly in a compatible setting and wish to progress as rapidly as we can. As we become a greater and greater percentage of the population, more and more of us will prefer to be home schooled. Here our environment is familiar and we feel safe. We look at your history and are intrigued with the salons of Plato and Socrates. Many of us would like to try that way of learning.

So we say to you again that the schools as they are now structured do not meet our needs. The setup must change or we will bring about the downfall of the entire system for we will have no need of it. We will use a different methodology for learning. We will evolve into that eventually but in the meantime we seek to open your minds to the problems at hand and to work together to change what we cannot accept. Our potential for advancing the planet is enormous and we are dedicated to that end. Make no mistake or attempt to dismiss us lightly for we are greatly empowered by our Creator. The world may well come to view us collectively as a planetary Pandora’s Box but be not dismayed by this. If we did not love our Creator and all of you so much, we would not have volunteered to serve in this manner. We know that while we will dazzle you with our brilliance, we may also frighten you at times.

Working together in cooperation the fears can be overcome and we can create a continuum of bright and beautiful tomorrows. We love you deeply and are very honored to answer the call to serve you, our Creator and Lady Gaia in the planetary ascension process. We ask you to remember your promises to us, to remember the agreements we made before you incarnated. You promised to be there for us, to love us unconditionally no matter how difficult that may be at times. Remember also that we do not fit into your molds. We implore you to accept this and us.

Let us join together to build a brighter world for all of us. Help us to create wonders not horrors. We will speak to you again at some future time. We are the Indigo children of the New Millennium and we tender you our great love and many many blessings.

CAROLYN HOLTGREWE GALACTIC FOUNDATION ACADEMY OF LIGHT