Lesson 7: The World of Relations

When this relation is faulty, the outcome is illness.

We need to have balanced nutrition, consuming all four (4) Elements.
We need to eat more Sattvic food, some Rajasic food, and the least possible Tamasic food.

Gunas	Food
Sattva	Pure, non-processed
Rajas	Very sweet, Very salty, Spicy
Tamas	Tins, processed, with conservatives or chemicals, etc.

Is very important to charge ourselves with vital energy, every day:
- We need to do the Pranic Exercise.
- We need to walk barefoot on the earth soil one hour every week in order to remove the pyrostatic energies and receive the vitality of the Earth.
- We can expose our solar plexus to the sun for 10-20 minutes everyday (before noon).

When this relation is faulty, the outcome is: conflicts, economic and social problems, etc.
Living together with other persons, is a valuable psychological gym.
- In our coexistence, our defects come up to the surface and this helps us to see them and eliminate them.
We must not judge the others.
- What we judge to the others, is something we have within ourselves, but we ignore.
- Anyone who wants to succeed in his/her relationships should not judge anyone, because criticism hurts the pride of people and provokes their resistance.
We must stop saying our “psychological song” to the others.
- We need to stop complaining.
- Stop talking about things that we only are interested in, but we can talk about things that interest the others, instead.
- We need to learn to put ourselves in the other person’s shoes and to help them solve their problems instead of talking about ourselves all the time.
The ideal for us would be to live as close to Nature as possible, or we should go on trips or vacations in nature at every opportunity.

When this relationship is wrong, faulty, the result is a lack of inner enlightenment.

When someone realizes that he has, not only a physical body but also an inner psychology, then he/she has already started to exercise self-observation.

Contemplation

We can contemplate on:
- Things that we observed in ourselves via self-observation.
- Life’s events that we have lived/experienced.
- A teaching that we have read or listened to.

The key S.O.L.

We need to exercise the key S.O.L., more often. And live in a state of alert perception from moment to moment (Here and Now).

Meditation is the daily bread of the wise.
Through Meditation we can:
- Contact the Divine Principles that exist inside of us.
- Receive understanding and strength in order to face life’s difficulties more consciously.
- Know ourselves in a deeper way.
To meditate is to balance.

Every night, before we go to sleep, we can do the retrospective exercise.
Without losing self-awareness, we can see through the screen of our mind all the events of the day we lived, but in a retrospective way, that is, from the present moment backwards, from the moment we started the practice, backwards during the day.
It is important not to identify with the events, but to see them in a state of self-awareness.
- This exercise allows us to become aware of everything we did, said, saw, etc. during the day.
It is a very important exercise to gain self-knowledge.
- It also helps us to discover the “egos” we have, the conditions in which they manifest etc.
- It helps us to see clearly how we behave, where do we make mistakes, etc.