Step away

You need to be kind to yourself. Kindness to yourself is a very important skill set, and it requires you to understand that even if you might be doing things that you know you shouldn't be doing, you keep that awareness. Right, you keep the awareness that you're compelled in body and mind, not your spirit though, but your body and mind have these needs that have been indoctrinated, or you've been conditioned. Our mind and body have been conditioned by society to be dependent on certain things in our lives. There are a lot of vices. And this discussion isn't about analysing what the vices are. It's the fact that these vices exist. Yet why do so many people still go to their vices when they know spiritually and in their soul that it's inconducive? It's not conducive with who they are. Yet they continue to do that. So what that means is who you are is someone who remains stuck on vices. You actually haven't gotten out of the identity of the person who needs these vices.

So the only way you can truly get rid of any vice that you know is not good for you is if you simply just stop resisting. What I mean by that is you stop resisting your spirit wanting you to stop. You just stop. And you listen to that. And in listening to that, you then have to negotiate with your mind and body, which will naturally gravitate to these existing vices in life, right? You'll naturally always find yourself brushed up against them. Your body and mind pull you there, away from your soul's true knowing that you shouldn't pick up that thing. You shouldn't do XYZ, as an example. But yeah, there are these vices, right? You're dealing with them, you're living through them, but the awareness that you have will constantly come back to reminding you that this is not right, and there's something that is deeply fundamental about that. You can't ignore it.

And the more you use the vice, the more you continue to suppress your truth. Normally the most successful vices are the ones that give you so much pleasure and numbness that they're shutting out the truth of your soul. And in the course of doing that, you know it too. So there's this guilt that arises. And then to suppress the guilt, your body and mind naturally gravitate to just taking more of it to further numb so that you don't feel the guilt. So hence why, when you have a vice, you tend to use that up to a certain limit. Because if you don't, let's say you're a gamer, if you only game for 10 minutes, you're not going to feel it. But if you game for 10 hours, yes, you're very much a gamer, aren't you? That's my point. Some vices, you have to entertain them to the point where your mind and body say, ah, I've got my vice. Then your soul comes out and says, ah, I didn't really need that. And that's true. You didn't need it. Your mind and body tricked the soul into thinking it needed it. And there you are, doing what it is that you know you shouldn't be doing for the 100th or 1,000th time. Whereas all you had to do was just step away. All you have to do is move aside so that you can see the truth of your soul, and you action that. You choose to action that. Action.

You can choose an action from the perspective of mind, you can choose an action from the perspective of body, or you can choose an action from the perspective of your soul. And only one of them is the true you. Because the mind is a tool for your soul to experience in this world. Your body is the vessel for you to get senses, the 3D senses of this world, so that you have something called an experience.

There are some things that are definitely a vice which trouble me, and what it means is simply I haven't done enough inner work to listen to my soul, to step away from those vices, because the pull to those vices is too strong for my mind and body. It overrides the soul. So there's always work to be done. You know, I'm working on myself just as much as anyone else is. It's just the fun of writing about it and talking about it is ultimately to connect with people who are on this path, which is what my content is always about: to instil inspiration or motivation in people who are also having some difficult moments in their life, and to know that they're not alone.