{"id":22,"date":"2010-05-09T18:51:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T18:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2015-09-06T04:52:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T02:52:50","slug":"soul-connection-2-why-most-people-have-no-connection-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/09\/soul-connection-2-why-most-people-have-no-connection-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Connection #2: How to establish the connection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to establish the connection with own Soul?<\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons and possible answers to that question,<\/p>\n<p>in this posting I will focus on one of the most fundamental reasons most of us are not connected 24\/7<\/p>\n<p>and suggest a practical way to deal with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent postings will look at the question from other angles.<\/p>\n<p>So, Why don&#8217;t most of us by default have a connection to our Neshama?<\/p>\n<p>The primary reason is that we are too absorbed in our ego-drives to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to get rid of them immediately forever, but we can temporary shift them to &#8220;the back of our mind&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously this requires minimal control over one&#8217;s thoughts &#8211; but it can be achieved with some meditation training<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brainwave_entrainment\" target=\"_blank\">Brainwave Entrainment<\/a> music can give a good start to people having trouble even initiating the practice).<\/p>\n<p>If we divest ourselves from all our concerns, worries, fears, attachments and pleasures only for a few minutes, we can create an opening for our Neshama to squeeze in a thought or two into our mind :).<\/p>\n<p>This approach works for some, others meditate till they turn blue, and still all they hear is silence and their own thoughts breaking in<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s address it in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/25\/how-to\/soul-connection-3-overcoming-the-myths-and-listening\/\" target=\"_self\">subsequent postings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main reason of inability to hear own soul is constant absorption in our ego-drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,14],"tags":[27,102,33,24,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}