Heys
Heys is a collection of my letters I send to myself. It's a way for me to step out of me and reflect on me, and life.
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash it's okay to have desires. It's also okay to not have them.
It's important however that you're conscious about them and actively try to engage with them, either by pursuing them, or sitting with them and learning why they exists, or consciously releasing them.
Unexamined desires lead to unconscious inaction and frustration in you.
Have a lovely evening my deer friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash when you go the gym after a long break, you don't feel intimidated or overwhelmed by the work even though the amount of work you and beginner is going to do is similar (similar weights, similar exercises). So what's the difference? It's the knowledge and experience you've gained over the years. You know the terrain, you know the drill, you know what needs to be done and you're not afraid to experiment and start working.
Same thing applies to failure. You think you're afraid to fail but you're never actually starting from scratch. You always start with all the experience and knowledge you gained along the way.
Have a lovely day my friend
Akash
Hey Akash, how are you doing?
Akash, appreciating the positive traits in others helps you develop the same traits within yourself!
Whereas seeing negative or being jealous blocks learning, It creates a veil of ignorance that stops you from seeing how they embody those traits.
Always try to find the positive traits of people and appreciate them.
The best part is that you don't even have to do the work to embody the traits, just noticing and appreciating is enough!
Have a lovely evening my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash, *I* have to do all the work, *I* have to make all the adjustments, *I* have to take care of this, *I* feel tired, *I* did this, *I* don't like this, *I* ...
This heaviness you feel is not because of the actions, it's the heaviness of doership of *Ahamkara* (Ego / I). And it's utterly tangled in your language and everything you do.
Akash, your body is completely capable of handling itself, doing the work, sending signals when it feels tired, hungry, or sleepy, etc. Likewise, your intellect is completely capable of efficiently making adjustments, doing great work, helping others, etc
So how do you get rid of it?
You don't get rid of it cause getting rid of it is another form of ahamkara :)
What you want to do is just observe and notice.
But what do I observe and notice? That's again doership :)
Have a lovely evening my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash, things are never as bad as it seems, nor are they ever as good as it seems. Vyavasthit is always trying to bring homeostasis.
That malaise you feel when you’re sick or the runners high you feel when you do long runs, both are temporary and you return to a baseline after a bit. But when you’re in that moment experiencing it, it feels like too in the nose, too overwhelming.
Try to remember that this too shall pass.
Don’t cling, don’t resist, Just witness.
Have a lovely evening my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing?
Akash you utterly and clearly know everything you need to do to achieve what you want. And I literally mean every. minute. thing. Yet I don’t see you take any action towards your goals.
What gives?
1. Each action is simple, but not easy.
2. Your reward circuitry is kinda busted.
3. You’ve essentially lost trust in yourself to take on difficult tasks
4. You’ve gotten complacent to mediocrity.
What do?
1. Schedule a block of time each day for one task and then just work on it. No compromises and no disruptions allowed. You’ve to learn to sit with the problem.
2. Learn to love the process. Good news is that you already kinda do this (going to gym, running, walking, etc). You have to apply the same mindset to your work!
3. Declare trust bankruptcy! You can’t move forward with a broken system. Let go of current system and start from scratch, again. Start small, say what you’re going to do and then do it. Want to drink water? Say I’m going to drink water and then drink water. This matters, you have to earn your trust back and starting small helps you build momentum.
4. You’ll stop being complacent once you notice how insidiously it eats at your soul. Just sit and notice my friend 🙂
Hope you find this helpful
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash all problems are frame problems.
How you frame, or reframe, dictates the solutions you’ll find. You must cultivate this framing muscle, always be looking to reframe, things, events, problems, etc with a different perspective. If you don’t flex it, it’ll atrophy.
Have a lovely evening my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash I notice that sometimes you say you’re going to do something but you already know internally you’re not intending/able to do it. i.e. you lack conviction. I think that’s setting a bad precedent for yourself. It’ll slowly erode your trust in yourself, and more importantly your respect.
Always say what you’re going to do and then actually do that. Or at least pour all your energy into doing that. You’ve to earn your respect, be the man of your word.
If you feel you’ve lost that respect than a simple way to quickly earn that is to make small promises to yourself and keep them!
What’s the one tiny promise you’ll make this evening?
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash If you really want to see people for who they are, you've got to let go of all the opinions or prejudices you have about them. Opinions and prejudices warp your perception about them, it's like looking through a distorted lens.
When it comes to people, you should really just have information about them, not opinions.
Thanks, and have a clear and calm evening my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash, a single seed of doubt or negativity and can change the entire calculus of circumstantial evidence. Be very ruthless in pruning any negative or self doubting thoughts about yourself or anything you're trying to achieve. They don't to get live in your head. Never.
Thanks, and have a beautiful day my friend
Akash