15 Oct 2011 —
Question
Q189: Changing habits?
Question 189:
“What is your worst habit? Have you succeeded in trying to change it?”
Please make your answer brief and clear (maximum 5 or 6 lines).
Question 189:
“What is your worst habit? Have you succeeded in trying to change it?”
Please make your answer brief and clear (maximum 5 or 6 lines).
Short temperedness. 99 % Succeeded in trying to change it.
There was this tendency of revisiting past regrets and bitter memories. As she says, past is a cancelled cheque 🙂 Been trying hard to grab,live and savour the present moment. 🙂
I had one worst habit which i hated alot.but i feel blessed and happy that I’ve being successful in changing it..I pray May Amma always help me to surrender..and let me not to be victim of anything worst ,again.
Three deadly habits that come life after life are, addictions to Ahara, Nidhra and Maithuna, Food, Sleep and Sex. Now, I am just a slave of all these. But trying my best to get over these deadly animalistic habits.
Anger, immense wrath. But by Amma’s grace, I have somewhat tried to overcome anger. Praying to Amma for more control over my emotions.
still on the road to freedom.. ( from old habits 🙂
Still not able to get over lot of things, not able to recognise my self. AMMA bless me. you are a divine magician u can do anything, Lovbe u MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Short Temper, Egoistic attitude, uncompassionate Stubborn views, mad craving for sensual pleasures were the worst habits I had. I am very happy to say with Amma’s abundant grace I am able to considerably minimise these habits. On my journey to the Ultimate Freedom, Amma has assured me that She is there with me always. That is my strength.Once I requested Amma, Please don’t leave your hold on me. She asked a question. Is it Mother or You? There lies the point. We have to be very careful in holding Amma’s hands with us. She will not leave us. But we should excercise keen awareness.
Lying to protect myself and trying to cover up mistakes I’ve made. I try to remember to see things from other people’s point of view – that I am not the centre of everything, and I should admit that I’m wrong if I am.
the belief that God was outside of the body and that i was separate. i know now there is only God and practice in that.
My worst habit is laziness and my effort to justify my laziness. I have been trying to get over it by dedicating all works to the Lord.
In the past all mistakes I would make I would blame them on others, or my situations, or the environment. After applying Amma’s message “See Amma in everyone and everything” changed my life tremendously. I am very aware of the things I now do and how.
my bad habit is negative attitudes and i wish amma should save me from that, another worst habit is jealously that i should be good in all things then others in which am competing.
I was thinking that i was the victim of the ourside material world. the first 5 times i walked over fire, i burned myself severely, but i kept walking because i knew it WASN’T the fire, it was me.
when i changed my perception and my belief about fire, i stopped burning myself.
I think lack of humility is my worst habit. Always thinking about myself, what is best for me and how to change others to make them better. I have slowly changed by loving Amma and wanting to be more like her. Amma showed me how my ego was harmful and if I really wanted to be happy I should try to be humble, that is about how far I have gotten in making change.
While I too have some of the same bad habits that have been mentioned by folks here which I am working on with Amma’s help and Grace. In addition there is one thing that comes to mind which is of being a “worry wart”. Anything and everything worries me and my mind goes into a spin. While I have come quite a way on this bad tendency mainly thanks to Amma’s loving presence in my like, I still have some ways to go. I truly hope I can get rid of this once and for all.
Amma knocked one out, the very first time I meth Her. Within a week it stopped. The one I stopped fighting to kick out is anger. It just doesn’t want to go.
miserliness,ego,selfishness,thinking only i am good in this world.and every bad habit existing on earth. but i am sure that with amma’s grace i will be able to get over all these. love you amma.
Keeping all burdents and remembering all is my worst habit . When ever i meet amma on those days i am getting relife .Still i am trying .Thank you amma
chandramohanan
Om Namah Shivaya
my worst habit is lying in order to get time off work to spend with AMMA, i need AMMA’s grace to help me change this habit completely.
ANGER, Yes to some extent; that too by AMMA’S GRACE, still a lot more to be done. Which too will happen soon….
i would like to share my wonderful experience. i have mentioned here in the above post that I have lot of anger in me. I was so tired of my anger that i was planning to see a counsellor and was convinced after reading Amma’s therapy in this website. Amma is the greatest therapist and i do confide everything to Amma, but i did go to a counsellor and believe me, just a meeting of half an hour and i feel so relieved. I no more feel angry. I am feeling so light. The counsellor listened to me and gave me some suggestions and lo! I am feeling great. But thanks to Amma who guided me through that post to see a counsellor and to see Amma in that counsellor too. thanks Amma.
Aum Namashivaya
Several bad habits amma removed and yet some to be ripped off
trying hard it need morre viragya and AMMAs Grace Hope that
AMMA will do it with HER MAGIC power.
Amma… please help me
My dependence on drugs for sleep and my habit of gutka chewing,both I still could not do away with.Perhaps with Amma’s blessings I might be successful in kicking those habits away.Impatience is my second bad habit.I have stopped enjoying my work too.
My vasanas attained from previous births. I believe AMMA will help to get rid of these vasanas.
All the negative thinking. Trying to overcome it. Haven’t succeeded much. But when I think of the complexity of the habit, I think it will take time. But, if Amma tries to remove it from my mind, she can do it in seconds. Need Amma’s blessings……
MY DESIRE FOR WORDLY PLEASURES, WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT SPIRITUAL ATTAINMENTS………., AMMA PLEASE HELP ME
In-spite of my long attempt I am yet to succeed in overcoming the worst habit of not keeping back things in their original place after use and have to search all over the place when i need them again. No one but only AMMA can help me.
My desire for bodily pleasures is a deep rooted vasana very tough to remove
Most of my habits are very bad or worst.What to do .I always parying at the Lotus feet of my most beloved Amma to help me to get rid of them.Some of my habits are not harmful to me or others. So i don’t bother about them.But some of them are dangerous.Trying to find out justifications of the deeds of others,un necessarily involve in the matters of others, but not for my benifit, but for the benifits of others only, still it leads some kind of enimity,find fault with the fate ,destiny and circumstances etc. These are some of my habits.I can’t able to shut my eyes against deeds of Adharma. But somhow ,some what, i mananged to reduce this kind of activities with the Grace of my Lord.
when i have accepted desires and habits for what they are, the attention becomes more freely available for the practice of understanding who we truly are. Amma, God, Ram, Life force.
Judging others 🙁
i think/hope i changed it 90%, and still hoping to get rid of the remaining 10% .
With Amma’s help and blessings i am sure everything is possible!
I have 3 bad habits, and they are equally harmful. One is making promises and not keeping them. With Amma’s forgiveness I remedy that immediately.
Another one that will be remedied, with Ammma’s Grace, is remembering who I truly am, and who is the Doer and the receiver, who is Everything, and who is nothing at all but an illusion.
One remaining habit is losing faith that suffering will end, and sunshine is always behind the clouds. I need to remember that Grace and my own hard work are two shaking hands.
I have been with Amma for more than 21 years now and still find myself with some of the bad habits I asked Amma to remove on my first meeting with her. It seems that some Vasanas are so stongly rooted in our mind that it will take perhaps many lives to remove; but I keep faith in Amma that she will destroy them in this very birth. We unconsciously hold on to many habits and make it even more difficult to remove. WE CANNOT DO ANYTHING ONLY GRACE OF MOTHER CAN CURE AND SAVE US!!!Our Sadhana is like an approval that we give Amma to start working on us… She needs our approval and remember her Grace sets things right at the proper time.
Indulgence in angry, hatred, sensuous thoughts have considerably reduced since meeting Amma.