Controlled stopping🔗

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

This is also a Stop! technique. But the difference here is, you will not be stopping suddenly, stopping in the middle of the action or the impulse. Here you will practise a slow, controlled stopping of impulses or desires.

Stopping an impulse is a beautiful way to catch yourself off-guard.

As of now, all your responses are conditioned. Whatever you call an 'impulsive' action usually arises out of layers of unconscious conditioning. The conditioning has gone so deep that you are aware only of the effects, not the cause. So it appears to be an automatic response.

When you stop an impulse suddenly, in a single moment, layers and layers of conditioning can fall away, exposing you to yourself.

You never like to be caught off-guard, because you are afraid to fall into this space!

A single moment of spontaneous awareness can be more effective than all your planned responses.

All your planning, your preparedness, is just one more impulse - one more impulse for your survival. You always think you will survive only if you are cunning and constantly on guard.

Now suspend that cunningness.

Be innocent and trusting.

For a change, stop leading life. Allow life to lead you!

When there is nothing you can plan for, nothing you can be sure of, nothing outside that you can hold on to, naturally your awareness falls into your center.