Overcoming Holy War

Today's Truth Card

The ability to bring our higher selves into this world, to overcome the Holy war within ourselves. This is self mastery.

By Nicole Martin

I was inspired by something Rumi said in one of his books.

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Who is Rumi?

The general theme of Rumi's thought, like that of other mystic and Sufi poets of Persian literature, is essentially that of the concept of tawhīd – union with his beloved (the primal root) from which/whom he has been cut off and become aloof – and his longing and desire to restore it

The Masnavi weaves fables, scenes from everyday life, Qur’anic revelations and exegesis, and metaphysics into a vast and intricate tapestry.^{[citation needed]} In the East, it is said of him that he was "not a prophet — but surely, he has brought a scripture".

Rumi believed passionately in the use of music, poetry, and dance as a path for reaching God. For Rumi, music helped devotees to focus their whole being on the divine, and to do this so intensely that the soul was both destroyed and resurrected. It was from these ideas that the practice of "whirling" dervishes developed into a ritual form. His teachings became the base for the order of the Mawlawi which his son Sultan Walad organized. Rumi encouraged samāʿ, listening to music and turning or doing the sacred dance. In the Mevlevi tradition, samāʿ represents a mystical journey of spiritual ascent through mind and love to the Perfect One. In this journey, the seeker symbolically turns towards the truth, grows through love, abandons the ego, finds the truth, and arrives at the Perfect. The seeker then returns from this spiritual journey, with greater maturity, to love and to be of service to the whole of creation without discrimination with regard to beliefs, races, classes, and nations.

In other verses in the Masnavi, Rumi describes in detail the universal message of love:

Today's Truth

Happiness and freedom are achieved by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Thought was provoked after reading about Epictetus

Epictetus was a Greek-born slave of Rome in the first century. He became a great philosopher and teacher, and was eventually granted his freedom. Although he didn't write his teachings, which are based in Stoic philosophy, thankfully, others did.

Epictetus had a good handle on what we might today call Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Here at Truthcards we predominantly use CBT in our cards. www.truthcards.co.nz

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Helplessness

Today's Truth Card.

If you come to a place of total helplessness, don't resist just observe. You might find something that until now has been missing...

By Nicole Martin - inspired by Mooji

Self esteem - accepting ones self

Truth card for today

"I choose to stop allowing my mind to participate in words of self hatred - I replace these words with praise. I accept myself as I am"

The truth of who I am is much deeper that what my mind can tell me anyway ♥

By Nicole Martin

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What does Wiki say about self esteem

The capacity to develop healthy confidence and respect for oneself [and for others] is inherent to human nature, since the mere fact of being able to think is the base of its suitability, and the mere fact of being alive is the base of the right to make an effort to achieve happiness. Thus, the natural state of human being should correspond to a high self-esteem. Nonetheless, the fact is that there is a lot of people who, whether they acknowledge it or not, whether they admit it or not, have a level of self-esteem below the theoretically natural.^[6]

That is due to the fact that, during development, and through life itself, people tend to move away from positive self-conceptualization [and conceptualization], or even not to approach to it. The reasons why this happens are diverse, and they can be found in negative influence from other people, self-punishment for breaking one's values [or one's social group's values], or shortage of understanding or compassion for one's actions^[6] [or others' actions].

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John Powell, a known psychology popularizer, confesses in one of his books that, when somebody sincerely praises him, instead of toning down his own merits, as used, he replies: “go ahead, please, go ahead”. It is a reply that is unusual and makes an audience laugh when told in public. It is also a reply that makes you think.[7]

Expectations

Expectations....... where there is anger there are always unmet expectations. Could you renegotiate your expectations for self or another? Well worth thinking about.

When you expect and don't get
You get frustration
When you get expect and get
It makes you want more
But
When you don't expect
You get fulfillment
Joy and happiness

If you can
I expect you to not expect.
Anything
Nothing from me
From anyone

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The filters we look through.

We all view people through our coloured lenses. Is it possible that you have viewed a situation or person through your lenses today, which may be tainted in some way?

Imagine what it could be like to view another through clear lenses, without your past projecting onto the screen... Each moment we have a choice to re-evaluate our beliefs.

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For a more in depth description here's what Wiki has to say about projection (Psychological name for filtering & then placing these beliefs on to another).

According to Sigmund Freud, projection is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings onto someone else. 'Emotions or excitations which the ego tries to ward off are "spit out" and then felt as being outside the ego...perceived in another person'.^[4] It is a common process.^[5] The related defence of 'projective identification differs from projection in that the impulse projected onto an external object does not appear as something alien and distant from the ego because the connection of the self with that projected impulse continues'.^[6]

In one example of the process, a person might have thoughts of infidelity with respect to a spouse or other partner. Instead of dealing with these undesirable thoughts consciously, the subject unconsciously projects these feelings onto the other person, and begins to think that the other has thoughts of infidelity and that the other may be having an affair. In this way, the subject may obtain 'acquittal by his conscience - if he projects his own impulses to faithlessness on to the partner to whom he owes faith'.^[7] In this sense, projection is related to denial, arguably the only more primitive defense mechanism than projection, which, like all defense mechanisms, provides a function whereby a person can protect the conscious mind from a feeling that is otherwise repulsive.

Projection can also be established as a means of obtaining or justifying certain actions that would normally be found atrocious or heinous. This often means projecting false accusations, information, etc., onto an individual for the sole purpose of maintaining a self-created illusion. One of the many problems with the process whereby 'something dangerous that is felt inside can be moved outside - a process of "projection"' - is that as a result 'the projector may become somewhat depleted and rendered limp in character, as he loses part of his personality'.^[8]

Compartmentalization, splitting and projection are ways that the ego continues to pretend that it is completely in control at all times, when in reality human experience is one of shifting instinctual reactivity and emotional motivation in which the "I" is not always complicit. Further, while engaged in projection individuals can be unable to access truthful memories, intentions and experiences, even about their own nature, as is common in deep trauma.^[9]