Step 1
Regularly check in to see which Operating system (OS) is running your life.
The default OS that is usually running your life in this stressed-out world - and we're usually unconscious of this - is the fight-flight-freeze (FFF) instinct. We're basically just trying to survive, to get by, day-to-day. Our understanding (worldview), again mostly subconscious, is that we're essentially alone (personally, as a family, or 'tribe') in a competitive, and at times hostile relationship with other humans, animals, environment, life itself. This worldview includes the materialist belief that life is nothing more than a meaningless accident & that we're meat-machines which die, end of story.
This OS helps lower life forms survive occasional, brief life-or-death situations, but is an awful, unsustainable way for humans to exist. The associated nihilist worldview is the underlying cause for our profound personal & societal unhappiness & dysfunction.
The FFF OS feels unpleasant, stressful, anxious & depressing.
But the OS in which we feel wonderfully peaceful & truly at home in is the tend-and-befriend (T&B) 'instinct.' We find ourselves in this OS when hugging a loved one, looking into the eyes of a baby or puppy, standing in awe of a sublime sunrise that 'takes our breath away,' and whenever the noisy, fear-based FFF OS isn't drowning out our peaceful, silent, love-based T&B OS. In this OS we experience loving intimacy, even oneness with whomever / whatever we're with, life itself. As we learn to live more & more in this OS, we increasingly resonate with the great sages, mystics & saints of every civilization throughout history: http://www.johnlovas.com/2024/10/true-nature-perennial-philosophy-and.html .
This is the OS with which evolving humans can awaken, heal, thrive / flourish and with which our environment can recover.
Step 2
As soon as you feel the discomfort of being in the FFF OS - rarely useful for humans - learn to let it go & keep returning to & re-embodying the T&B OS.
I HIGHLY recommend freeing yourself from the unnecessary suffering of FFF OS, and return home to & stabilize in True nature.
There are excellent current spiritual teachers and others to help guide you in this awakening process. Their message is strikingly similar, but their style unique to their individual personalities, so find the most compatible one(s) with whom you resonate.
My current favorite guides & my blogs quoting them:
Amoda Maa http://www.johnlovas.com/search?q=Amoda+Maa
Eckhart Tolle http://www.johnlovas.com/search?q=Eckhart+Tolle
Helen Hamilton http://www.johnlovas.com/search?q=Helen+Hamilton
Adyashanti http://www.johnlovas.com/search?q=Adyashanti
Michael A. Singer http://www.johnlovas.com/search?q=Michael+Singer
Henry Shukman http://www.johnlovas.com/search?q=Henry+Shukman
Louise Kay http://www.johnlovas.com/search?q=Louise+Kay
Richard C. Schwartz - Internal Family Systems (IFS) http://www.johnlovas.com/search?q=Richard+Schwartz
Iain McGilchrist - Hemisphere Hypothesis http://www.johnlovas.com/search?q=Iain+McGilchrist
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