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Keep the heart open. That is the key. All else follows. TWIM is the key. Keep attention and love pouring back in on yourself. Then immune is boosted. Health. Focus. Energy. Enthusiasm. Hope. All positivity. Then you are like a tree doing well. You are fruitful. You end up being helpful, useful, a source of support, all because you turned attention back in on itself, and made that the habit. Loving yourself continually. Seeking stimulation externally to hide from dis-ease within is the source of all misery. Dissolve desire and restlessness through loving awareness. Then you become abundant. Then actions become expressions of fullness instead of expressions of lack and desire.
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This is the way. Zero stress. Just equanimity. Just peace.
Love yourself. Care for yourself. That is your main job. That is your priority. Your core responsibility. To take care of this organism that you are temporarily piloting. You take care of the body-mind. You love yourself. Be a good friend to yourself. Be a good parent to yourself. Be a good lover to yourself.
Love yourself using TWIM. Make peace and contentment your baseline. This is the antidote to compulsive living. To the autopilot, where you are basically enslaved without realising it. Your free will gone, because you perpetually stimulate yourself with the external world of form. Then patterns form and most of your thoughts feeling and behaviours are the result of the past. Of past actions. You end up running from every moment. Perpetually trying to distract yourself from reality by perpetually stimulating yourself. Losing yourself in whatever is currently stimulating you. But it all ends. It is all fleeting. And it is dissastisfying. And your heart closes when living like this, so you are cut off from certain beautiful emotions like deep love and awe and wonder. Your emotions sort of narrow down. The spectrum becomes stress to pleasure. Bounce between the two. Hope and hopelessness. Pleasure and stress. Very limited, repetitive.
Life opens up when you surrender. When you detach from external reality and connect with presence. When you turn attention in on itself. Then the energy you are always generating turns in on itself, instead of being constantly drained, sent outward. It’s like you have an income, and you are in the habit of compulsively spending it on fleeting pleasures. Doing TWIM is like learning to invest the energy. Bliss comes in abundance, along with peace. Restlessness is dissolved. You are capable of resting more deeply than you perhaps ever have before. Your immune gets a major boost. Your energy builds. You come back online for the first time since maybe childhood. You’re shocked because you didnt realise so much of you had gone offline. You didn’t realise how limited your experience of Self had become. You had become so depleted. As if you went years only charging your phone up to 10%. When phones are under 15%, they go into low battery mode, to preserve energy. Full functionality of the device is stopped. We are the same, only it’s more complex. If you are only ever at 10% battery all day, so much of your being is offline. Charge fully. Rest deeply. Turning attention in on itself. That’s energy. Turn your energy in on itself. Sit in bliss, by using TWIM. TWIM ceases mind wandering. It calms the mind. It collects your consciousness. Calm and collected, your energy grows, becomes bliss, and then you sit in it, like sunbathing. This is healing. This is medicine.