Are you really empty or it is one of your subconscious thoughts ?

Emptiness!?

Let's empty it.

As natural human behavior, we tend to see more negatives of something than its positives. When you feel empty you tend to see more cons of it than its pros, you mostly see it as disrupting thing for you but what if a tell you that you can turn this entire thing upside down. Yes, you can.   first, a very legit question arises why do we feel empty? And the reasons can be infinite and different for every other being, but I can give you a wider view of your reason. So, every human has a strong desire for at least one thing. It can be anything and most of the time it came out to be very simple like getting that job or building yourself physically more fit or just loving your people. It literally can be any fucking little thing and that's what in Japanese culture people call it 'ikigai'. Ikigai is the thing that makes you get up in the morning and get that thing done. So basically, what happens is that when your desire or ikigai is no more than impactful and tranquil for you and you tend to get more confused about certain things then you start feeling empty from within. You remember that time when you felt so empty that you just want something to escape from reality and you did try escapism and it never helped you heal.

Now again a legit question arises how to stop feeling empty and kind of a bit broken? (Even though you aren't still you felt this way, so I consider this also). I divided the answer into four parts as follows

·     1.  Know your ikigai

·     2.  Learning Peace skills

·     3.  Escapism

·    4.   The golden way

So, let's dive deep into them!

Know your ikigai

Now as we already know what does the term ikigai means let's find out what's your ikigai. If you feel barren from within then that certainly means that your ikigai or your desire to get up in the morning isn't accurate for you. And yes, your ikigai can change over a period of time but it never drastically changes, like initially, you were a fitness lover now you hate the term gym. This cannot happen because that argument is so baseless. So, the strong desire you had may change nevertheless, it will always be related to what you truly love doing. Let me put these all-in simple words, the belief that you had on certain things that you were holding onto had changed, and now your mind needs some clarity to get back on track. so, in that case what you can do is to try exploring little things that seem to have no importance in your life. After some time maybe you come across something that will make you feel kinda complete or in other words it will make you a better person from inside every day.

Learning peace skill

So, many people aren't empty or broken and just need a break from their hadronic treadmill life. But if this isn't the case then you need to give yourself some time, I mean a lot of time. When you start living for the satisfaction and happiness of other people then it will make you hollow from the inside, like there is nothing interesting and fun left within you. And hence you need to learn some peace skills for your betterment. But wait you may be wondering what the hell is a peace skill? The skills by which you can persuade your mind to experience a more peaceful life, that was a very heavy statement what I meant is that learning and practicing these skills will provide you enough peace to cope with the emptiness. Some of my favorite peace skills are the art of letting things happen,, self-reflection, practicing gratitude, and many more simple things.

Escapism

Believe me, this is not a way to heal yourself it just makes you more fragile than ever. I have added this just to warn you because this is like slow poison, initially, everything seems alright, and you enjoy escapism then with time you start realizing that it's not good for you, but you still resist ending it, and finally, it left you with nothing but a fragile human.

The golden way 

Oh my god, you were very anticipated about this and why wouldn't you because Afterall it is the best way, isn't it? So now let me put forward the harsh reality of feeling emptiness

You cannot stop feeling empty, broken, nothingness or whatsoever until the time you understand that you are quite in a vulnerable condition right now and it is a very human thing to be vulnerable sometimes, in fact, it develops our personality and provides a wider view of the same old shit. But it gets worse when you think of it as a pain that cannot be ended instead of thinking that I am enduring some experience and I just need some time for myself and it will be alright in the end, because remember

"You're not broken,

You're just a bit confused"

And lastly, let's talk about some mathematics. Do you know about the invention of zero? Aryabhata an Indian discovered zero back in the time when society was already so much advanced in many things but still at that time no one thought about zero, why so? have you ever wondered why?   me tell you, so majorly in the western culture at that time either something was good or was bad, this or that, black or white. You know because of this typical differentiation the people of the west were not even able to think of something in between black and white, in between good, or bad and that's where the ancient thinking of Indians came into the play. Meditation was a very big key to the monks in India at that time and if you ask what meditation you are will get to know the answer that meditation is very much related to emptiness. When someone says that they are having thoughts about certain things while meditating, it may be acceptable as meditation in the west but in India meditation is vastly defined as feeling the true emptiness within. And that's where Indian monks were able to draw a fine line between feeling emotion and not feeling emotion, having thoughts about something, and not having any thoughts and that was EMPTINESS. They practiced meditation like a devotional activity to get to this level of it. So, Aryabhata came up with none of something, Zero! He considered nothingness as a part of something and called zero "SHUNYA- the nothingness" and then it changed the world and opened new doors for math. What can you interpret from this? I think I get the answer,

We have this mindset of either feeling the happiest ever or feeling you don't deserve this world, but there is a fine line between them and that's where healthy human emotion lives. If you're not happy one day that doesn't mean you're sad or if you're not sad that doesn't mean that you have to be happy. It's just some dumb shit. No matter what situations are there is always one midline to rely on and it's called feeling the emotions, not the emotion that makes you feel.

Thank you

Loads of strength

Seeking querencia

 

 

 

 

 

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