{"id":12360,"date":"2022-09-21T11:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T11:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/?p=12360"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:59:07","slug":"connecting-to-your-inner-being-awakening-through-emptiness-interconnectivity-and-seeing-all-is-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/da\/bevidst-livsledelse\/connecting-to-your-inner-being-awakening-through-emptiness-interconnectivity-and-seeing-all-is-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting to your Inner Being: Awakening through Emptiness, Interconnectivity and Seeing &#8216;All is One&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Connecting to your Inner Being: Awakening through Emptiness, Interconnectivity and seeing All is One\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hQg1Axq5CPg?start=1029&#038;feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;showinfo=0\" style=\"border: none\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The following is a transcript of the video for you who prefer reading:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&nbsp;I&#8217;d like to talk about emptiness. What&nbsp;does emptiness mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of&nbsp;awakening and enlightenment,&nbsp;well emptiness of course refers to a thing that is empty of something, like a&nbsp;cup or a glass is&nbsp;\u2013 it may be&nbsp;half empty, we say \u2013 so&nbsp;emptiness really refers to non-self and&nbsp;to&nbsp;impermanence if you will,&nbsp;co-arising and&nbsp;interdependence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,&nbsp;for example,&nbsp;the wonderful&nbsp;zen&nbsp;buddhist&nbsp;Thich Nhat Hanh,&nbsp;he talked about seeing the emptiness in the flower and&nbsp;it&#8217;s one of the most beautiful&nbsp;teachings that&nbsp;I&nbsp;have ever encountered. Now&nbsp;I&#8217;d like to&nbsp;provide the understanding of it to you as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So for example, if we look at a flower&nbsp;(Vibeke looks at a flower on the table). At first glance we will&nbsp;notice the color is&nbsp;white or orange and&nbsp;we might notice the scent of the beautiful flower. Also we like looking at the flower &#8211; it appeals to us in some way. There&#8217;s&nbsp;something about a flower&nbsp;that just pleases us, we like to look at it. But all those things are the surface of&nbsp;the flower,&nbsp;so&nbsp;what we might learn here is to look&nbsp;deeper&nbsp;into the flower&nbsp;so, as Thich Nhat Hanh&nbsp;teaches us, what do you see, if you look deeper into&nbsp;the flower?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well,&nbsp;if we take a really good look to see,&nbsp;what has gone into this flower, we&nbsp;realize that this flower&nbsp;has a non-self-  it is nothing in&nbsp;itself. We see that it&#8217;s a&nbsp;conglomerate of different elements that have come together to make this flower&nbsp;and once we understand that&nbsp;the&nbsp;we can start&nbsp;seeing&nbsp;<em>in the flower <\/em>the entire cosmos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example,&nbsp;let&#8217;s make it more concrete. You look at the flower, and you see the&nbsp;clouds,&nbsp;you see the rain clouds and the rain that has&nbsp;nourished it. In the&nbsp;flower&nbsp;you see the dirt that it has come out of,&nbsp;you see the sunshine&nbsp;from the universe that has given it the&nbsp;heat that it needed to transform itself&nbsp;and use its universal&nbsp;intelligence to grow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because (you see) the flower is never in doubt&nbsp;about how to become a flower. There&#8217;s a&nbsp;universal&nbsp;intelligence&nbsp;that guides it&nbsp;so we&#8217;ll. You&nbsp;start seeing that different&nbsp;parts&nbsp;such as&nbsp;the rain,&nbsp;the sunshine,&nbsp;the dirt,&nbsp;the nourishment from the leaves that have fallen on the ground&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;and perhaps&nbsp;there&#8217;s been a gardener taking&nbsp;care of it &#8211;&nbsp;all these different things come together&nbsp;and are all&nbsp;elements in the flower. Without these elements,&nbsp;the interconnectivity&nbsp;of these elements,&nbsp;there would not be a&nbsp;flower.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you calm yourself&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;and by that i mean:&nbsp;you quiet your mind&nbsp;&#8211; you become attentive&nbsp;to&nbsp;the nature as&nbsp;your greatest teacher&nbsp;about&nbsp;understanding&nbsp;that&nbsp;\u2019All is One\u2019&nbsp;\u2026including&nbsp;the interconnectivity&nbsp;of everything&nbsp;and&nbsp;the impermanence&nbsp;of all things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now&nbsp;I&nbsp;am aware&nbsp;that saying&nbsp;the words \u2018All is One\u2019 has&nbsp;become a popular thing for people&nbsp;to say. It&#8217;s&nbsp;like&nbsp;saying&nbsp;\u2019oh yes i understand\u2019. But&nbsp;what&nbsp;I&nbsp;also&nbsp;notice&nbsp;is that most people&nbsp;understand it at an intellectual level. However,&nbsp;understanding&nbsp;\u2019All is One\u2019&nbsp;in view of&nbsp;the&nbsp;interconnectivity of all things, in light of&nbsp;the unity of&nbsp;\u2019Being\u2019 &#8211;&nbsp;understanding it as an experience based&nbsp;on a practice or the embodiment of it&nbsp;and&nbsp;thereto&nbsp;feeling it and&nbsp;furthermore&nbsp;moving into&nbsp;<em>being<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>part of that unity<\/em>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;that&#8217;s a different day. That is what we&nbsp;want to work towards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>The oak tree is not wishing for being a birch tree<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Again,&nbsp;if you look at the forest&nbsp;&#8211; now&nbsp;I live in&nbsp;denmark, am&nbsp;from the northern&nbsp;countries&nbsp;and&nbsp;come&nbsp;March&nbsp;April&nbsp;May,&nbsp;it&#8217;s going to be an explosion&nbsp;in nature, right! Everything comes out and zillions of&nbsp;leaves&nbsp;are going to show themselves. Yet not one of them is at a single&nbsp;moment in doubt about&nbsp;\u2019how do&nbsp;I&nbsp;become a&nbsp;leaf,&nbsp;how do&nbsp;I&nbsp;become a flower, or&nbsp;a bush\u2019?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the oak tree is not sitting there&nbsp;thinking&nbsp;\u2019ah&nbsp;I&nbsp;wish&nbsp;I&nbsp;was a birch tree\u2019&nbsp;right! It knows what it is and&nbsp;<em>it just is<\/em>. Not I&#8217;m not implying that it&nbsp;has that kind of recognition,&nbsp;but it just is&nbsp;and this is a very great place to be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"591\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Vibeke-Vad-Baunsgaard-Conscious-Life-Leadership-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Vibeke-Vad-Baunsgaard-Conscious-Life-Leadership-3.jpg 591w, https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Vibeke-Vad-Baunsgaard-Conscious-Life-Leadership-3-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Vibeke-Vad-Baunsgaard-Conscious-Life-Leadership-3-480x238.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A place&nbsp;where you and&nbsp;I&nbsp;can practice&nbsp;<em>to be<\/em>&nbsp;as well&nbsp;by&nbsp;just understanding that&nbsp;you just are&nbsp;not that&nbsp;(which you may think you are):&nbsp;a teacher,&nbsp;a business person,&nbsp;a mother,&nbsp;a father&nbsp;a friend so forth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These&nbsp;are the roles you play,&nbsp;the roles&nbsp;you take on in this life and that&#8217;s fine. I mean, there\u2019s&nbsp;a&nbsp;place for that as&nbsp;well,&nbsp;but that is in the external&nbsp;life. In the internal space&nbsp;I&nbsp;invite you to create that space where&nbsp;you just think of yourself as <em>being&nbsp;<\/em>(you were something <em>before<\/em> you became a teacher, a parent, a friend).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we look deeper,&nbsp;we start&nbsp;understanding&nbsp;that perhaps we have misinterpreted a&nbsp;lot of things&nbsp;in the past. So,&nbsp;let&#8217;s take an example:&nbsp;a person comes in the door and starts&nbsp;yelling at you and saying that you&#8217;re an&nbsp;idiot and so forth. Really being mean and saying nasty stuff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now what do we do? If you are not aware and if you&#8217;re not in&nbsp;tune with your inner being in a&nbsp;conscious state of mind then in the&nbsp;present&nbsp;moment, you&#8217;re likely just to react to&nbsp;what\u2019s in front of you&nbsp;saying&nbsp;something like: \u2018who do you think you are\u2019,\u2019how do&nbsp;you think you can talk to me like that\u2019. In other words,&nbsp;you just&nbsp;react&nbsp;immediately to the person.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And&nbsp;it might seem fair at first,&nbsp;but what really you are reacting to&nbsp;is the surface of what&#8217;s going. You\u2019re&nbsp;just responding to the&nbsp;color of the flower,&nbsp;to the scent&nbsp;of the flower, and&nbsp;you have ceased to look deeper,&nbsp;right?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because what happens when we look deeper? Well,&nbsp;we don&#8217;t know, but&nbsp;we can say that&nbsp;an angry person&nbsp;is almost without exception&nbsp;a sad person. So why is a person sad? Well,&nbsp;a person&nbsp;\u2013 and sadness&nbsp;may cause anger&nbsp;as a result, but to begin with the person&nbsp;is sad,&nbsp;because&nbsp;the expectation in the&nbsp;mind of the person&nbsp;is not&nbsp;corresponding to what is in the external&nbsp;world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,&nbsp;there&#8217;s a mismatch between what&nbsp;is inside&nbsp;(expectations in the mind)&nbsp;and what is outside&nbsp;(actual lived life). Therefore,&nbsp;the person becomes really sad and it causes great emotions. The only way some people feel&nbsp;that they&nbsp;can get let go of these emotions is&nbsp;through&nbsp;anger and that&#8217;s when we become&nbsp;unconscious,&nbsp;right. Because anger is an&nbsp;unconscious&nbsp;reaction to&nbsp;<em>what is.&nbsp;<\/em>Yet,&nbsp;if we understand that&nbsp;as&nbsp;being&nbsp;the receiver of the anger, then&nbsp;instead of escalating it,&nbsp;we can look at it for what it&nbsp;actually&nbsp;is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>When you change your reaction &#8211; you change the outcome<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay,&nbsp;so&nbsp;we have a person here&nbsp;that is really angry. I&nbsp;understand that&nbsp;this person is really sad&nbsp;and&nbsp;disappointed in some way&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;that the&nbsp;reality&nbsp;of things&nbsp;is not what&nbsp;the person&nbsp;hoped for&nbsp;it to be\u2026&nbsp;and&nbsp;now&nbsp;you can turn your own&nbsp;reaction&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;your own anger, that which&nbsp;you might&nbsp;first&nbsp;have felt,&nbsp;because your ego&nbsp;has been hurt by being called these&nbsp;mean&nbsp;words&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;now you can turn it&nbsp;around&nbsp;and say:&nbsp;oh&nbsp;this person really needs a hug,&nbsp;you know,&nbsp;because otherwise&nbsp;the person wouldn&#8217;t&nbsp;be feeling all these strong emotions (and be so sad).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&nbsp;can tell how the the person is totally&nbsp;wrapped up in these emotions. That&#8217;s why&nbsp;&#8211; when we say that an angry person has&nbsp;\u2019lost&nbsp;it\u2019&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;that&#8217;s a pretty good expression,&nbsp;because&nbsp;the person has completely lost&nbsp;connection to the inner being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, you see,&nbsp;when we look deeper, we get a&nbsp;completely different&nbsp;understanding of how&nbsp;to interact with the external world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>To Connect to Your Inner Being \u2013 You must go Beyond Concepts as Concepts are Creations of the Mind \u2013 not of Consciousness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Thich Nhat Hanh,&nbsp;the Zen Buddhist&nbsp;that&nbsp;I&nbsp;mentioned&nbsp;earlier, he&nbsp;lived in in&nbsp;Plum&nbsp;Village in france&nbsp;where he created a monastery community&nbsp;and&nbsp;they would invite people in for&nbsp;meditations and&nbsp;learning mindfulness and so forth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At&nbsp;some point, the monastery&nbsp;had invited a&nbsp;kindergarten,&nbsp;so he tells the story that&nbsp;he&#8217;s walking with this&nbsp;group of kids out in the forest&nbsp;on the trails and he notices that a&nbsp;little girl has been quiet for a while&nbsp;and she seems&nbsp;rather contemplative. Then&nbsp;suddenly&nbsp;she says: \u2018grandpa monk,&nbsp;what color is the bark on the trees?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Thich Nhat Hanh,&nbsp;who&#8217;s also called&nbsp;Thai,&nbsp;he knew that if he said&nbsp;to the girl:&nbsp;well,&nbsp;the bark on the trees is brown,&nbsp;then he&nbsp;knew that he would stop&nbsp;her thinking process&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;he would stop her&nbsp;creative&nbsp;thinking process&nbsp;and&nbsp;she would stop being curious. So instead,&nbsp;he says:&nbsp;what color do you think it is? The&nbsp;girl continued to think about&nbsp;it..hmm,&nbsp;as she was curious. He&nbsp;doesn&#8217;t&nbsp;(give her a category \u2013 a label, which stops her contemplation) \u2026and&nbsp;the&nbsp;story ends there,&nbsp;but as you can imagine&nbsp;the little girl continues to be curious&nbsp;about the colors&nbsp;of the bark on the trees,&nbsp;right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now you can&nbsp;also&nbsp;imagine she&#8217;ll start&nbsp;seeing different nuances;&nbsp;she won&#8217;t just&nbsp;see&nbsp;one color that can describe all trees. She will open her eyes to&nbsp;see,&nbsp;find a multitude of colors,&nbsp;some places there&#8217;ll even be moth&nbsp;on the tree bark and there might be insects that leave their little footprints,&nbsp;and&nbsp;so forth. She&#8217;s now exploring and continuing to become wiser and more&nbsp;knowledgeable about trees and the bark on the trees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence,&nbsp;the learning from this is that once we&nbsp;call things something,&nbsp;then we sort of stop being curious and&nbsp;we&nbsp;create&nbsp;the illusion&nbsp;<em>now we know<\/em>,&nbsp;right! That&#8217;s why words can be&nbsp;a hindrance&nbsp;for thinking rather than&nbsp;a&nbsp;help for thinking. Labeling things is one way of stopping thought,&nbsp;so you have to remember that you have to&nbsp;keep &#8216;thinking&#8217; (understanding) beyond thought.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, once&nbsp;you think that you know that things are&nbsp;like they are&nbsp;&#8211; realize&nbsp;that this is not the case. Very likely,&nbsp;you can look much deeper,&nbsp;because&nbsp;there&#8217;s the non-self of the tree as well &#8211; just as in the flower&nbsp;&#8211; so&nbsp;also in the tree, you&#8217;ll see all the different&nbsp;elements. You&nbsp;will see all the things&nbsp;surrounding&nbsp;you &#8211;&nbsp;your apartment or your house&nbsp;or wherever you live&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;all things around you have a non-self,&nbsp;they are impermanent,&nbsp;they are made up of&nbsp;different parts, just as we are as a&nbsp;human beings. Once we start to&nbsp;practice this&nbsp;understanding,&nbsp;we realize that&nbsp;our interpretations of things have been wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Avoid Judging, Labelling and Concluding <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We have been too soon&nbsp;often&nbsp;to judge,&nbsp;to evaluate,&nbsp;and conclude&nbsp;what is actually going on around us&nbsp;and we have to remember this. When you judge somebody or something&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;or&nbsp;you are being opinionated, then&nbsp;you are viewing the world through your&nbsp;own&nbsp;eyes,&nbsp;through your own perception. These glasses,&nbsp;sort of speak that you are looking through,&nbsp;are conditioned&nbsp;by the country you&#8217;ve grown up in,&nbsp;your family,&nbsp;you know,&nbsp;culture,&nbsp;the local community, I mean,&nbsp;your parents,&nbsp;your&nbsp;&nbsp;immediate family,&nbsp;&nbsp;and so forth. Including all the stuff going&nbsp;on as regards social media and&nbsp;tv &#8230; all these things come together to&nbsp;make you look at the world in a certain&nbsp;way. To put specific labels on things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t stop with the labels,&nbsp;as we&nbsp;discussed just before,&nbsp;then you know that you are veiling&nbsp;things and you see very limited&nbsp;&#8211; your sight is very limited, hence, your perspective on the world is lacking much. That&#8217;s why&nbsp;we talk about li<em>ving in an illusion of&nbsp;things<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you start looking deeper into&nbsp;things,&nbsp;understanding what&#8217;s below the surface, and opening your heart&nbsp;to understanding and&nbsp;<em>seeing&nbsp;right<\/em>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;that&#8217;s an important part &#8211; opening&nbsp;your heart to understanding and seeing\/looking deeply. Because,&nbsp;oftentimes,&nbsp;we can&nbsp;easily be too quick to judge, which&nbsp;pleases ego. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are we&nbsp;actually&nbsp;saying when proving somebody else&nbsp;wrong? We&#8217;re actually just patting&nbsp;ourselves on the shoulder saying&nbsp;&#8216;I&#8217;m&nbsp;right&#8217; and that&#8217;s very satisfying to the ego,&nbsp;right!&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet,&nbsp;in the long&nbsp;run,&nbsp;it&#8217;s not going to be good for you. It&#8217;s&nbsp;detrimental to your long-term&nbsp;understanding (and health), because somewhere deep&nbsp;inside you&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;in your inner core being&nbsp;\u2013 you know&nbsp;that this is not right, it\u2019s&nbsp;not right to judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Do I truly understand the other person?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Do I truly understand the other person,&nbsp;you may ask yourself? Because if you do not,&nbsp;then&nbsp;how can you judge another person? Very few times can&nbsp;we&nbsp;say&nbsp;that&nbsp;we have&nbsp;the privilege of truly understanding&nbsp;another person. We don&#8217;t know their background. We&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;know their context.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this&nbsp;sense, we can&nbsp;free ourselves&nbsp;from&nbsp;this&nbsp;kind of judgment&nbsp;and free ourselves from&nbsp;pretending to know&nbsp;what&nbsp;kind of reality&nbsp;another person lives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Connect to your Inner Being \u2013 Your Inner Wisdom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It is moreover&nbsp;an invitation&nbsp;to always look deeper,&nbsp;to always search&nbsp;for more in that sense,&nbsp;you know\u2026search for that greater understanding\u2026&nbsp;connecting your knowledge to&nbsp;wisdom&nbsp;since&nbsp;knowledge in itself can only get you so&nbsp;far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see that now right&nbsp;\u2026these days&nbsp;(referring to what goes on in the world)&nbsp;knowledge without wisdom&nbsp;is a dangerous cocktail,&nbsp;right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, you want to be sure&nbsp;that you tune into that greater being&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;your inner knowing&nbsp;and access that wisdom&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;for you to make&nbsp;wise choices&nbsp;about&nbsp;how you want to&nbsp;go about living in this world,&nbsp;how you want to go about&nbsp;unveiling&nbsp;the path to your soul,&nbsp;which is&nbsp;as&nbsp;such not a path,&nbsp;because&nbsp;your soul and your enlightenment are&nbsp;there&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;it&#8217;s just they&#8217;ve been covered by all the&nbsp;conditioning and you believing different&nbsp;narratives about your life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are free&nbsp;to let go of these narratives,&nbsp;right,&nbsp;and in the end you are free to&nbsp;gather all the information about how to open up into&nbsp;this greatest source&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;your higher being&nbsp;and your all-knowing self and stand&nbsp;comfortably&nbsp;in that knowing of your inner being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When&nbsp;you do that&nbsp;you connect&nbsp;with&nbsp;your inner peace,&nbsp;the collective soul,&nbsp;which you will find inside, and you will&nbsp;find with that an inner peace and the joy, which you are searching for. A lot&nbsp;of people are searching&nbsp;without being able to exactly pinpoint&nbsp;what they&#8217;re searching for,&nbsp;but they just&nbsp;feel like&nbsp;there&#8217;s some kind of lack in their life. They need something more!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you connect to&nbsp;your&nbsp;inner being, which is&nbsp;what you\u2019ve been&nbsp;searching&nbsp;for&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;once you connect to that and calm yourself&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;do the training and the&nbsp;practice&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;then the search will stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Do some Seconds of Practice, Tune in, Let Go and Take your Energies Home<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a fantastic feeling (to be truly connected). So, I invite you&nbsp;to do a little bit of practice,&nbsp;to be quiet, you&nbsp;know,&nbsp;sit&nbsp;in stillness,&nbsp;no telephone, no tv,&nbsp;no computer. Sit&nbsp;with yourself&nbsp;and breathe. We breathe&nbsp;continuously throughout our lives&nbsp;and yet,&nbsp;we don&#8217;t pay much attention to&nbsp;breathing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just quiet your thoughts,&nbsp;don&#8217;t judge your thoughts. Just&nbsp;quiet your mind down&nbsp;and you&#8217;ll start feeling yourself. You&nbsp;can start feeling your body,&nbsp;right,&nbsp;and all of a sudden you allow yourself&nbsp;to tune in\u2026and it takes a little&nbsp;bit of practice. You can&#8217;t just&nbsp;(snap your fingers) ,\u2026there&#8217;s&nbsp;no quick fix! We like quick fixes these days right;&nbsp;we like efficiency, 10 tips for doing this and learning&nbsp;that&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;learn a new language in 10 days&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;we&#8217;ve all seen it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It does take a little bit of tuning in. You don&#8217;t have to sit for a half hour or&nbsp;so. No,&nbsp;just&nbsp;take a few seconds during the day and&nbsp;make it a habit perhaps when you get&nbsp;your coffee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make it a habit that every time you pour&nbsp;yourself a&nbsp;cup of&nbsp;coffee or tea just ahh..breath\u2026tuning in,&nbsp;let go&nbsp;of&nbsp;everything you&#8217;re&nbsp;holding on to&nbsp;and just tell yourself:&nbsp;all the energies&nbsp;I&nbsp;have&nbsp;\u2026when&nbsp;I&nbsp;was angry at my boss,&nbsp;my&nbsp;friend did this,&nbsp;my husband or girlfriend&nbsp;or boyfriend or whatever did that&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;you have all these energies&nbsp;\u2019sitting\u2019&nbsp;out&nbsp;there&nbsp;\u2013 spending your energies,&nbsp;you know,&nbsp;because the thoughts continue to roll in your head ( &#8211; take them home).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So&nbsp;then just,&nbsp;when you drink your coffee,&nbsp;make it happen,&nbsp;just take that second and say&nbsp;I&#8217;m gonna&nbsp;take all my energies home,&nbsp;because you need those energies right,&nbsp;to be in a positive state&nbsp;and a high frequency&nbsp;(state of mind).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>(Deep breath)&#8230;I&#8217;m taking all my energies home<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s&nbsp;all&nbsp;energy right,&nbsp;everything is energy.&nbsp;20 years ago people would say&nbsp;that&#8217;s mumbo jumbo. Today we&#8217;ve given&nbsp;a&nbsp;nobel prize for it&nbsp;(evidence of all things being energy),&nbsp;so if you don&#8217;t know&nbsp;about things being all energy,&nbsp;we can talk about that another day if you&nbsp;like,&nbsp;but&nbsp;(for now)&nbsp;take your energies home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every time you have some&nbsp;kind&nbsp;of&nbsp;a &#8216;talking&nbsp;thing&#8217; going on in your mind,&nbsp;you know,&nbsp;you\u2019re&nbsp;a little upset&nbsp;about somebody or something that&nbsp;happened or drains you&nbsp;\u2013 then&nbsp;you&#8217;re staying in the past. You&#8217;re worried about the future, stressed about the future:&nbsp;<em>oh,&nbsp;I&nbsp;need to&nbsp;do this and this and this\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your fine without those&nbsp;worries,&nbsp;I&nbsp;mean, let go of them for a while, they\u2019ll&nbsp;be there in in 30 seconds to&nbsp;return to&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;they&#8217;re not going anywhere. Don&#8217;t worry,&nbsp;so just take that little space of time&nbsp;to tune into your inner being,&nbsp;make it a habit&nbsp;that&nbsp;once you go up the stairs,&nbsp;go down&nbsp;the stairs,&nbsp;have a cup of coffee&nbsp;or&nbsp;whatever&nbsp;works for you&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;it doesn&#8217;t matter&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;that&#8217;s my invitation to you today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;understanding the emptiness of things,&nbsp;understanding the interconnectivity,&nbsp;understanding that the flower is made up of a thousand elements&nbsp;and&nbsp;that when we look deeper,&nbsp;it&#8217;s not just one color,&nbsp;one scent\u2026&nbsp;then&nbsp;we see&nbsp;so much more than what we do in our daily&nbsp;surface&nbsp;view&nbsp;of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a great day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>A rose is not a rose &#8211; that&#8217;s why it is an authentic rose<\/p><p>&#8211; Thich Nhat Hanh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding inner peace, joy and calmness within yourself for the benefit of you and all people around you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[24,10,31],"tags":[38,37,36,35,33,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12360"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12462,"href":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions\/12462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vibekebaunsgaard.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}