How Our Actions Feel

Some of the things we say or do make us feel light, happy, and open-hearted. Others leave us feeling heavy and uncomfortable inside.
When we care about ourselves enough to stop doing things that leave us feeling ashamed or small, we can step back and allow our soul to guide us away from them. Over time, those actions begin to feel so uncomfortable that we naturally stop. The behavior falls away, and we move more and more toward the truth.

This process only works when we are sincere on our spiritual journey. Without that sincerity, we may not fully feel the dissonance behind our actions—and we continue repeating them.

As soon as we decide to stop doing things that make us feel small, uncomfortable feelings like shame will surface so they can be cleared. This can feel unpleasant at first.

Transcript

Sometimes we might want to stop doing something that we know is not very good for us, But we notice that we keep doing it anyway. Okay, So I've got two things to say about this. If you are really sincere on the journey, Your soul will bring you out of it. You will just stop doing it over time. If you're really sincere in the journey, You'll start getting more and more uncomfortable about doing it. And what will happen is you just will end up stopping doing it because it makes you so, So uncomfortable to keep doing it. Yeah, You won't be able to stand the dissonance of the activity of knowing it's not good for you and keeping to do it. You get to a point where the dissonance of it gets so big that you get lifted out of it. The behavior just falls away. Okay, That's if you're really sincere. You see, If you're really sincere, You can lean back a little bit. You don't have to be trying to fix yourself. You can let Amma, Your soul, Help you out of things. Okay, You guys, If you're not really sincere, You will just keep doing them. You will just keep doing this behavior. It'll never get to the point of dissonance. It'll never get you so upset that you keep doing it. You'll just keep doing it because you're not really sincere. You see, This is why, You know, In the journey, You cannot hide. But if you can just love yourselves enough to take care of yourselves and not do the things that make you feel bad, When you stop doing the things that make you feel ashamed, What will happen is the, Inside you, Shame will come up to be released. Okay. Supposing, I mean, I don't know what example to use, But supposing you're going out with somebody who you know isn't the best for you, But you go out with this person, And you spend time with their friends, And you know it's not right, But you keep doing it, And you feel kind of small, Smaller, Because you know it's not right. And there's a feeling about not being straight, Even in talking with this person, Because you know that you wouldn't even be spending time together if it was you were following. Okay, If you decide to stop doing that and go, Okay, I'm not going to do this to myself or to them, What will happen is the ego material that caused you to downgrade yourself will come up for you to look at. And it's that point that you look at it, See it, And let it go. Okay. But what can happen is when this ego material comes up, We can start feeling bad about ourselves, And then phone this person and get back together, Say, Again, Because we don't want to be with ourselves. And that's where the ego's one.