THE ETERNAL OM — AN ETERNAL SOURCE OF SECURITY, COMFORT, AND POWER 🕉️
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I enjoy updating you all on my crazy spiritual journey. I swallowed the red pill and now you’re all screwed 🤣. Kidding.
My journey is ever evolving. And being an analytical, thoughtful person — especially someone who wants to do things right — the mind can be a great asset… but it can also be a great enemy.
My greatest enemy besides attachment has always been the wayward mind and the critical mind. Two modes that have produced so much unnecessary suffering.
Restlessness.
Second-guessing.
Narrating everything.
Trying to optimize existence instead of living it.
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So I started a new practice.
And I had to be courageous, because the tradition I learned from doesn’t explicitly teach this in the way I needed. Which goes to show you: sometimes you have to search on your own. Sometimes you have to be your own guru for a season. Even strong systems don’t always meet the exact moment you’re in.
The technique is simple.
I repeat Om silently in the mind.
Over and over.
Whenever I feel unsettled, wayward, or critical.
It functions almost like a background phenomenon. I can walk, make coffee, listen to someone speak. Unless something requires intense focus, Om hums quietly underneath experience — just occupying enough mental bandwidth so the mind’s tricks don’t hijack the moment.
It doesn’t suppress thought.
It steadies the nervous system.
It gives the mind somewhere sacred to rest.
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But here’s the important part: unless you develop a relationship with Om, this won’t work.
Just like falling in love, you have to get to know it.
Everything has vibration. Everything carries subtle energy. Certain places calm you, certain songs open you, certain people regulate you. That subtle field is not random. It is participation in something deeper.
Om is the symbolic doorway into that.
Not magic.
Not superstition.
Orientation.
A reminder that beneath the noise there is continuity. Beneath fragmentation there is coherence. Beneath anxiety there is a current that is not anxious.
When Om becomes familiar, it becomes security. Comfort. Power. Not power over others — power over reactivity.
The wayward mind loses its grip when it is given something ancient, rhythmic, and trustworthy to hold.
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My guru Yogananda emphasized that sacred sound reorganizes consciousness. Modern neuroscience would say it reduces rumination loops. Honestly, it just feels like a comfortable blanket for my mind to rest on.
Develop a relationship with Om. Let the universal sound carry you instead of the narrative mind carrying you.
You don’t need to escape your life.
You need a quieter center inside it.
Reflection question:
I shared mine. What’s your biggest enemy of peace?
Blessings to all of you.
Om and Amen.
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