13 Nov 2007 —
Question
Q19: Change a habit?
Question 19:
“Do you have a habit that you would like to change?
Why not start today?”
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Question 19:
“Do you have a habit that you would like to change?
Why not start today?”
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Picking (biting) my nails. I don’t know what started me doing that, but it’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever tried to stop. Now that I’ve put it under the catagory of desire, I am having much more success in stopping then I’ve had before!!!
It is all Amma’s grace that I’m even able to get this far in stopping!!!!!
coffee
That’s an interesting question. I have a habit which I would like to change, but would rather not share it. It is bad, but is a bit hard to let it go. How do you let go of a bad habit?
I’d like to change the reactive nature of my mind and the tendency to come to a negative conclusion when in doubt. Amma has helped me tremendously in understanding the nature of my mind and with the confidence She has given me I hope I can continue working on this.
Yes I need to change many habits
Every thing is in perfect harmony. Just need to Understand it… Since AMMA found us.. There is nothing we need to do… AMMA is there to do what ever change we need… ONLY thing in our part is to ACCEPT !!..
for us, as AMMA s children ” all habits leads to MOM ” …. 🙂
Yes, more than One. Today and now onwards will try and pray AMMA to remove one of my habits which is not good to share. May AMMA give strength to overcome it.
yes i do agree with silentyogi…AMMA is there to make us her perfect children…cheers 🙂
I have so many bad habits that need to be changed. Amma’s grace had helped me in changing a few habits. I think it is our vasana’s which take the form of Habits. If we are able to control our vasana’s then we can definitely change our bad habits.
i use to love to eat. On family outings, whenever a video is taken, it would capture me eating something, munching something. heehee…
In the recent years,….the change from Amme’s grace has been one where food is prepared by myself and i watch with bliss as it is enjoyed by others and the videos now show others eating something, munching something while i serve. 🙂
I would like to change my habit of procrastinating over university assignments/exams. The habit has been to wait until the last possible day to start the assignment or study for the exam, and then engage in a 24/7 type of frenzied lunge to get it done. It doesn’t help that I am not happy to ‘just pass’ either… what a strange self defeating habit!
I would also like to drop the habit of judging other people, especially if I’m aware they have been judging me; this is a big one for me.
yes, i must change using more water.
finding fault with others…..
yes, I think I am limited to individuality
ys, i have to understand that i am the change-less. i have been trying. now i should stop that. may be..humm
Seeing -ve
I do have bad habits that need to change, but I had a lot more, but, because of Amma’s Grace and my efforts, they have lessened. Amma says, you put in the effort, and I will help with Grace. For those who believe we need to accept even our bad habits – is not what my understanding of what Amma says. Amma wants us to work on our vasanas and ego, and She will help us.
“Procrastination”… I have been living with it too long now… whenever I think I should change, I say to myself – Let me start tomorrow 🙂
I would love to get rid of this habit of mine…
I want to and in fact have being trying very hard to constantly remember divine Amma during my everyday chores, but I keep forgetting every now and then. Someone tell me how?
If I could feel and remember Amma’s presence constantly, and that it becomes part of me, it would be like heaven on earth. How should one do this? Ah! I need to see Amma again and get more Grace!
definitely have a few habits that I’d like to stop/change. so hard to do so today because the ego seems to enjoy them whether mental or physical. At most, I can be thankful to Amma for having the awareness, but as She says, we must make the effort so that the Grace can come.
My multitasking. I would like to pay my attention only to the thing that is happening now. So far I have been an utter failure !!!
Cricticizing others. I have to change this habit. But unfortunately I am in such circumstances that I am forced to this habit. I feel guilty after cricticizing others. I hope AMMA will help me to change this habit.
Bad habit? Oh so many! However one does stand out and that is learning how to surrender. Although I realize that by surrendering Amma will take care of matters, but I am always second guessing. With Amma’s help and grace I will learn to overcome this very bad habit
Luxury / leisure becomes necessity then it becomes routine and habits or problems. I believe that the problems need to be solved from the route level for permanent solution; otherwise it may raise up again.
The vasana’s we carry forward from previous janms, which lying dormant deep within everyone, activites through appropriate situations. One has to pass through it to get rid of it.
I would like to change my habit of getting up late in the morning .
The deeply ingrained habit (due to vasanas/prarabdha/…?) of diving/reverting back into material pursuits rather than focusing on the spiritual goals and aspects of human life on a daily basis at every moment – this is a habit that requires a great deal of constant awareness and devoted effort to root out, so as to transform consciousness to gradually rise above the material view of the world and go closer to Amma.
I’m now deep in the throes of trying to change some bad habits. Knowing that I will be seeing Amma very soon, it is helping me to stay on track so that I can feel infintisimally more “pure” when I face Her.
Identifying with the junk in the mind, and believing that it defines me or other. Only with Amma’s grace and the discipline of meditation and awareness can this be overcome.
Procrastination is something I want to change.
I’ve worked on many bad habits, but the root of them seems to be simple laziness. This is the issue that I need to work on the most right now. I’m lazy because it is easy…but then I’m bored and unfullfilled as as a result.
Of course!!! I want change many bad habits. Amma is working on me, for burn my “vasana”.
i’ve a few i can think of right now, which i’m working on, quite successfully & sure Amma will help remove. but i’ve this obstinate habit of assuming that i’m the body & my master, the ego. Amma has uprooted many a difficult habit from its base, but this one bothers me still. Amma says it involves effort. what stone have i left unturned in the attempt to remove this one?
Of course, the bad habbit has become deep rooted and got into this present life also, only AMMA can compassionately remove it…. Its name is ‘LUST’, the enemy of the spiritual aspirant…
I think that I should cultivate a new habit so that all the existing ones drop by themselves. And that habit is… “Holding and kissing Amma’s Divine Feet deep within my heart”.
The very horrible habit of the clouds of ignorance covering the Only True Sun of Truth each morning I wake. Ah, Amma there is much un-doing to occur!
get employed right now with my own biz..that would be nice
laziness…inattentiveness…etc…ok.. am going to start today…
I think all bad habits make me Soo……… much .To get rid off,as ammas children please give me sugeestions HOW TO GET OUT FROM THESE Evrything is there jlsy,telling lies finding negs ogf others etc…….to long ..
In this mobile world SMS is my bad vasana. Yes i have to change, i will try my best. But if we surrender ourself at the Lotus feet of our Amma, no need of worring about a silly habit of Sms. I have the faith that she will protect(save) us from dangerous situations.
Since AMMA is with us ,just surrender our self ,rest of the thing she will take care.There is nothing we need to do AMMA is there to do what ever change we need with out knowing our self. amma take us to right path only thing in our part is to surrender ,trust and acceptance whatever comes in.