When we go through a negative experience usually we form a belief as: “I have a problem,” or, “I am not able to make it,” or “I have to run out of it.” If you believe in these statements, you are allowing imprints in your energy field, and they start having a separate life from the rest of your being. ‘Problems’ always trigger intense emotional reactions of being flooded, in between being numb and unable to feel fully alive; it keeps reinforcing non-thriving, untruthful negative beliefs about you and life; it motivates destructive maladaptive behaviors.

- By Ivan Rados

Today's blog is by guest Stephen Schettini. Stephen was a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition for eight years before renouncing the security of institutional religion in 1982 and pursuing his own path.

Today Stephen teaches and writes about his mindful reflection™ path to peace and clarity.

Just as Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now, Stillness Speaks, and A New Earth speaks of the importance of truly being in our body, in his book The Mastery of Love Don Miguel Ruiz discusses the importance of embracing our body. He says, “Begin with complete acceptance of your body.”

What is so interesting about this statement is how unconscious we are about the dialogue that goes on between out body and our mind, and how much our mind, when it has no other outlet, will take its frustrations out on our body.