Namaste to you all who are working on you inner self and have intention to maintain true value of Steemit to change society for better, by getting from others what they are offering and sharing what you can provide to community in the same time. My account on Steemit is almost one month old and by this post I wish to contribute by spreading awareness on how our true intentions on Steemit can show - are we truly creating value or no.
As I came across so many different profiles, posts and comments, I have realized Steemit has both ends of the coin when true value is concerned. I have seen amazing writers, artists, creators who are genuine, but in the same time I saw posts from people who present themselves the best possible but take care of their interests, in the same time preaching that they respect the value Steemit has. I decided to connect this observation of mine with some knowledge that I have learned in my spiritual journey.
I would like to share with you a really simple, yet powerful technique that is connected with who you really are as a being and how you are presenting yourself to the world, to be more accurate, here on Steemit. Moreover, I hope by the end of this post you will realize why it is so important to actually be aware are your words and thoughts here on Steemit genuine or no.
Connection of being genuine with energy within you
Firstly, I would like to remind you that you are the creative energy that has energy centres within us, which are balancing our well being. All of you who work on yourself must have heard about chakras, as different energy centres in the body. Chakras are engine for our spirituality. Opening and awakening the chakras is very important and there are many techniques to do this. Each chakra must have hundreds of techniques. There are so many programs that I was being introduced by while living in India for opening each chakras, as they have different meditations, different asanas, yoga poses, mudras and mantras. Usually practicing all of it is quite difficult and you need to have strong self discipline.
Integrity
I have heard one definition from Swamiji, famous guru from South India, which I would like to share. “THE BEST WAY TO OPEN ALL YOUR CHAKRAS IS INTEGRITY.” This got me thinking deeper about it and for that reason I am crating this post. Swamiji is teaching that we should just practice only this one thing called integrity and make that part of your life and all your chakras will be open. On the first instance it sounds too simple, I know. Without you having to know all this tecnical knowledge or yogic body and all the knowledge how to open each chakra.
What is Integrity?
The definition Swamiji gives for integrity is – “You fulfilling the words you give yourself and to others.” This means both the words, you speak out loud as your thoughts – words you are speaking inside of yourself in your head. To be more precise, whatever word you give, from small to big, you fulfil it. From giving a call to you friend if you promised so, to committing yourself to your partner for life. Hence, pay close attention in words that you are speaking, as words have power too. So if you present yourself to be genuine contributor for Steemit community, I am asking you from all my heart, please follow your words.
Furthermore, the thing which is very important, which happens when you practice integrity is that confidence is yourself will grow and confidence other people have in you will grow. For example, I have heard a lot of praising from so many Steemians about some whales, which makes me so happy, that “big guys” are actually seeing all as family and want to help other rise. You can confirm from you life example, if you always fulfil your words, when you speak a word you will also believe yourself. If you tell yourself you will start writing posts every day, from tomorrow, or creating new discipline in your life, whatever that might be, but then tomorrow comes and you just feel like not doing that, and the next day you say to yourself “from tomorrow I will start writing every day”, and again you skip it. The result on the third day - you won’t have confidence in yourself that you will actually make it happen. Without integrity we will lose our self confidence. With integrity we build confidence and completion in our words, completion in our being.
What does integrity have to do with the energy of our being (chakra centres)?
All our chakras are connected with some kind of emotion and with some kind of thought pattern. That though pattern is blocking chakras and different emotions are blocking different chakras. For instance, the first chakra, root chakra is blocked by fantasy. When we spend too much time in fantasy, thinking how our life should be, how we and others should be, or how others should see us, the first chakra will get blocked and I will explain how integrity is an antidote for this.
As integrity is fulfilling your words and thoughts you have, and making them into reality, fantasy cannot longer exist. A whatever you think whatever is happening in your head that you want to create, it has to become reality as you have to take action on that in order to live as per integrity. All other chakras are related to integrity as well if you want to awaken you Kundalini energy, to make energy go up, all chakras need to be open like a clear passage.
If you really start practicing integrity, it is very powerful spiritual practice and the results will be immediately visible in your life. Gaining more self confidence, you will feel you can do any task. Moreover, other people will come to you trusting you will make it happen when something needs to be done. Your voice will be more heard here on Steemit too, as you will attract all that you want to experience by just fulfilling what you have in mind or telling to others. Those are first steps of integrity and later on, if you stay fateful and high in your practice, it will express spiritual powers in you.
How to bring integrity into your life?
From now on you can start being very aware of your words and your thoughts. If you promise yourself to write for Steemit every day, do that! You need to have high awareness what you are saying to others too. Other thing to pay attention on, all the words that you have left unfulfilled before, like incompletions, you have accumulated in your life that you gave to others or yourself, but you didn’t fulfil yet, those need to be fulfilled for you to regain you confidence again. The biggest blockage for us is self doubt! In the situations where you cannot fulfil the words you have given there is an “emergency” option that you can take your “word back”. You complete your word also by completing it with your word. I know it may sound silly, especially for people who are not spiritual but, all, small or big, affect you energy. Use this only when it is really impossible to do it other way, for instance if you made a promise to someone who has died.
Finally, if you practice integrity you are becoming aware of your thoughts, so you don’t let you mind wonder from here to there, as we call it monkey mind. Next will happen that thoughts will come down and this will help you to practice awareness and with the more awareness and it will be easier to practice and live integrity. I am suggesting you to start practicing integrity here on Steemit first. We have a good field to practice as we connect and interact with people all over the world.
Make integrity your lifestyle. Be integrity and gradually cosmos will do it’s best to keep you aligned with it by manifesting what you say.
I wish all of us to rise and respect each other.
Be blissful.
Photos: private collection, location: Nepal (photo 1.) and India (photos 2. and 3.)