Loneliness and How to Uplift Yourself

good afternoon everyone greetings from New York City welcome to another episode of conversations in the spiritual path thank you for those of you who sent in your questions last week I hope you had some good insights from my responses this week our question comes in from Vito's very cool name by the way from Brooklyn New York and she has two questions first question is how do you keep your spirits and all your faith up when life gets you down and your goals seem far away this is a very challenging thing v-dog quite often when we're feeling down it's not so easy to uplift ourselves and sometimes we can kind of get stuck in that funkiness funky area of the mind just wallow in that sorrow so to speak and one of the things that my guru used to recommend to me and to cinema in general anybody that asked him to help him get out of a place of funkiness so feeling down is to uplift somebody else so what he would say is you uplift yourself by uplifting someone else and there was kind of the essence of the message you uplift yourself at live uplifting somebody else find a friend uplift them you can uplift them by doing something nice for them something that you know they need help with or when they need in their life but they may not have asked you but you know by you offering your help and just doing it for them would make a big difference in their life reach out and do that for them and as you provide them with the selfless service and act of love you uplift the experts and I see uplift yes Peretz you uplift to you so this is something that works really really well something that I've done myself and continue to do whenever I'm feeling a little down on a funky place I'll do that I'll find somebody that I can lift and by just uplifting them I find myself being uplifted as well okay so I hope that something that you can try and let me know how it goes the next question from nev alex is what do you do about loneliness because my feeling is that loneliness stems from placing your happiness on something or someone else basically you're leaning on something or someone else to make you feel complete a full and when that person and that thing goes away you fall down quite often if you really reflect on your life you find that the reason you're feeling lonely is because you've placed your happiness on someone or something else and then that person and that thing has gone away and you feel an emptiness inside of you and hence the feeling of loneliness my guru would always advise to me lean on your own spine so you tell me to leave the lemon spine he would even go to the extent of saying don't lean on him because he says you lean on me and when I go away one day you're going to fall down so place your happiness place your contentment on yourself lean on your own spine turn inward and not lift yourself so the way to avoid loneliness is stop placing your happiness and contentment on someone or something else in your life learn to lean on your own spine and realize that everything and everyone else in your life is a gift a wonderful gift to you you're a complete and whole as a person as it is and everyone and everything else is a bonus in your life and you start adapting that attitude you'll no longer start to feel lonely because even if you're by yourself at home traveling where we may be you always feel content as a person and this feeling of loneliness just doesn't come to a person who's feeling content and then look at everything and everyone else as an additional mode in their life so that's something that I hope you can try to implement in your life again let me know how it goes send me an email and I'd love to hear your feedback if any of you have any questions please send an email to the admin and dump the bodies above you'll see the email coming up down below yet with your presence please be concise and specific and also state your first name and the city and country that you're emailing from thank you very much for watching another episode of conversations in the spiritual path I hope it has provided you with some insights and I look forward to seeing you next week thank you and happy

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Keywords: Conversations on the Spiritual Path, Dandapani Talks, Dandapani Videos, Loneliness, Feeling down, Feeling sad, How to uplift yourself, how to fight loneliness, what is loneliness, overcome loneliness, overcome loneliness and depression

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Length: 4min 35sec (275 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 04 2014