It is phenomenal to know in this life journey:
You don’t need to believe in all your dreams. Yet, it would be best if you dreamed big enough regardless you believe in it or not. It would be a paramount life journey if you believed that all knowledge exists to inform and teach; all wisdom appears to guide, and all insights and guidance happen to show you the path, all in all. That’s it.
DR. Rony Kusnadi Ph.D., LCPC
Notable Life Counseling Services LLC
Be mindful of your breath as you slow down your respiration.
Then move your mindfulness to the center of your chest, and within, to your heart. Be aware of the quietness till you get lost. Move your mindfulness into space between the physical and spiritual bodies wherein the heart exists as the soul’s bed. The quiet stillness in this sacred space is so unique and memorable.
Be centered for a moment. Be kind and gentle with the inward movement. You just “be.” This sacred space is your soul searching. You have left everything else behind because of this.
You become the sacredness of oneness because no words, visualizations, or sensory stimulation are needed.
You become the oneness because you become aware that all knowledge exists, all wisdom appears, and all insights and guidance happen.
When you desire a particular insight, all you have to do is call it forth, all happening effortlessly.
This is the right moment to spend as much time as you desire with this heightened awareness. You are simply noting your own experience without expectations or preconceived ideas.
You can bring your awareness back into your body when ready.
Rony Kusnadi Ph.D., LCPC
Notable Life Counseling Services LLC
Newly buds greet the morning sun.
Ears hear the morning birds’ call.
Eyes see into the sky of the mind.
My sense feels how every smile in the morning has power.
Even every half-smile blooms every perfected bud to the fullness.
The gratitude heart then unfolds on every leaf.
Gradually, the obstacles to freedom start to dissolve.
Clarity illuminates the confusion.
Wisdom prunes ignorance.
Positivities are then reborn to celebrate the day.
Yes, how amazing life is.
Rony Kusnadi Ph.D., LCPC
Notable Life Counseling Services LLC
The total of our being (i.e., existence) is like the seed of a plant or a tree. Things that happen throughout the days are the rain of fertilizer that grows the twigs, leaves, flowers, and fruits. The fruits then bear seeds.
The most potent and remarkable fact is that even though we think about our being with the dichotomy thinking process (dividing one whole idea, thought, or concept into two separate and unrelated ideas), the actual happening is inseparable.
The process of becoming has no duality. In the fruits, there are seeds. Even though unseen, the seeds produce roots, stalks, and so on.
With particular and enough freedom, all of them grow plenty and lavishness. There is an abundance of continuity and discontinuity processes that is beyond discussion. It is abundant because the whole process is not void in time. The past and present together are welcoming and embracing the future. The total being is happening in one miraculous unfolding of life.
There is a reason why we need to just reflect on when the time has come. The total being manifests before us in real-time, causes and circumstances. All the happening always matters and has hidden and magical untold purpose and meaning.
DR. Rony Kusnadi, Ph.D., LCPC
Notable Life Counseling Services LLC
Relax, close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths. Every breath helps you to sink more deeply into a quiet place inside yourself. This is the source of sacred tranquility. Now you can gently and passionately recite this mantra:
“I will discover a new image of myself that I have long longed for. My awareness tells me that I am indeed a part of this universe. I experience calm and healing. I trust myself more and more confident. I gently follow the inner guidance as I feel strong and courageous.
In a moment, I find out that I carry a sense of knowingness into the world. Amazingly, I can envision myself having more trust to be more focused within and surrender simultaneously. I begin to experience that my world is nourishing to myself and others.
I discover what I have created on the outside is much more beautiful and wonderful than I have ever thought because of this remarkable passion. My commitment to the universe is winsome.” Amen.
DR. Rony Kusnadi
Notable Life Counseling Services LLC
When the truth is told, you can experience trust, doubt, or distrust. The differences between doubt and distrust need to be explained.
Doubt and distrust are not the same. Many people get confused about them and think they are the same. No, they are not the same. Doubt is about uncertainty. It is unsure. It is about knowing something is happening but not knowing exactly what is happening. Distrust means condemning the whole thing. Worse, there is no willingness to open up or learn about such things. One has already made up his/her mind. There is a certainty or final decision in distrust.
Doubt could have multiple directions, such as toward positivity or negativity. One who has doubt with positive direction and being processed with positive belief systems will lead to the capability to see opportunities and grow—the possibility to experience a deep sense of wonder and awe that scents internal and external exploration.
Doubt with the support of the facts and the clarity of evidence will become reasonable doubt. Reasonable doubt powers the journey further, with confidence and a sense of purpose and responsibility.
Unreasonable doubt happens when doubt is processed by maladaptive thought processes, such as “All or Nothing Thinking,” “Overgeneralization,” and “Catastrophizing.” Through this negative processing, the doubt, now transforming into unreasonable doubt, becomes an existential distrust.
When one sees his/her life through this existential distrust lens, life could be a curse, a never-ending suffering, or a never-ending defeat and debacle—life is experienced as a continuous catastrophe, paralyzing and totally saddening. At this point, one has no way of stepping out of his/her discursive thoughts, no way of stepping out of his/her ego fixation and grasping because one is so caught up in that particular preoccupation.
The necessary intervention is needed when rendering doubt with lenses of maladaptive thought processing. Right then, with well-trained mindfulness practices, one can question the process of thinking, exploring the supporting and not supporting facts with rational evidence. Through this process, one needs to pause, stop, and breathe first while learning to let go of his/her preoccupied thoughts.
Furthermore, one needs to learn to take in his/her own pain and put his/her awareness into the rest of the world’s pain. Surprisingly, one will expand his/her knowledge and heart and further reinforce this noble gesture, leading him/her out from the preoccupation of negative thoughts and emotions.
What does this all mean? It is about how one can liberate his/herself from the potential of self-defeating thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
DR. Rony Kusnadi
Notable Life Counseling Services LLC
The seeds of mindfulness can flourish when one has devoted time tirelessly and happily to prepare his/her internal rich soil. One needs to have the confidence to mastery that through certain attitudes and mental qualities, happy life will prevail. The acts of cultivating and nurturing, along with the rhythm of life, are necessary.
In this process, one purposefully is tilling the soil of his/her own mind to shape character. In this mastery process, one perfects clarity and certainty every day. The process becomes the source of compassion and the right actions, replacing the confusion and maligned thoughts. Endurance then becomes the key here to liberate. As the old saying said, “when you learn or/and practice to love your life, life will love you all the way.”
DR. Rony Kusnadi
Notable Life Counseling Services LLC
The thoughts manifesting from the unsafe and unstable sense of self that yearns to be protected produce a deep affliction feeling. This affliction feeling has great tendencies to repeat the irrational fear, sadness, and anxiety — with repetition and compulsions, internal dynamics become a psychological and emotional disorder.
At that stage, one will try hard to defend him/herself against unwanted events and feelings. Furthermore, there will be a strong tendency to hold on to a certain fondness, which is maladaptive. Automatically the mind filters in only to the favorite ones. These conditions easily lead to overwhelming experiences of despair, anxiety, sadness, compulsions, and addictions.
DR. Rony Kusnadi
Notable Life Counseling Services LLC
Zen Master Unmon said: “The world is vast and wide. Why do you put on your robes at the sound of a bell?”
An old saying is that whatever comes in through the gates is foreign. The gates are the senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. We obey foreign commands if we decide, move, and act by the senses. In response to our environment, we feel pressured, are easily upset, and become nervous. This is one of the characteristics of modern life. But if one settles down firmly in one’s inner life, all actions, feelings, and deeds come from deep within. The unenlightened one does things because he must do them; the enlightened acts because he wants to. Freedom lies in the center of life — Zen Master Unmon points to the center.
[Zen Koans by Venerable Gyomay M. Kubose]
The realization of the core belief system is a realization of the tributaries. The realization of the tributaries is a realization of the source. Seeing and being mindful of the connecting link between them is the path of healing.
Breathing in, swallowing the whole universe… Breathing out, manifesting the virtues within, proclaiming simple daily healing that everything in life is working out for you…
Breathing in, self-respect, and confidence are growing increasingly… Breathing out, replacing every negative attachment with self-control, strength, and confidence…
DR. Kusnadi
Notable Life Counseling Services LLC
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