Why is Changing Old Habits So Hard? | Sadhguru

one reason why change is becoming difficult as you get older is uh you have found cocoons of comfort there are many comfort zones you created any disturbance of that you're disturbed now when you were young you were not looking for comfort you were looking for life now you're not looking for life you're looking for comfort safety [Music] see when you were 16 18 you had wild dreams as to what you want to do with your life by the time you became 25 you cut down all the frills and thought this is all not practical i'm becoming practical now all that you happened is you were becoming a coward but you said i'm becoming practical and cut down many things and said if i get a job if i earn my living this this this is okay by the time you're 35 you're thinking if i don't get into any trouble that's enough you're not looking forward to anything great happening if i don't get into trouble that's enough but that's when you start getting into trouble so you are not looking at life with zest you are looking at life as safety the more security oriented you are the more disturbed you will be with every change that happens in your life the essence of physical existence is change isn't it isn't it so everything is changing is there anything that's not changing everything in the existence is changing isn't it the physical existence is constantly changing the very essence of physical reality is change nothing is constant even the so-called static states are dynamic in nature everything is changing so if you resist change you are resisting life [Music] if you want an unchanging life there's one beautiful place where nothing changes that's your grave either you must go to your grave or you must get enlightened if you don't want change then somewhere inside everything is same but otherwise as long as you're a part of the physical process of the existence everything is changed there is nothing that is not [Music] see this moment you're inhaling next moment you're excelling it's change isn't it if you don't want change you stop it so when you resist change you must understand you're resisting the very process of life not just your life you're resisting the very fundamental process of life invariably you will invite all kinds of suffering if you are living and you want to be dead you will ask for trouble isn't it you must be living when you're living you must live totally if you want to die you must do that efficiently this is inefficient ways of killing yourself really unhappiness and depression are inefficient ways of killing yourself isn't it so so you need to understand this once you resist change you're resisting the whole process of life and you will create unnecessary suffering so once your resist change depression is a natural process frustration when change happens frustration depression frustration and depression [Music] these two are the best of the devil's tools if you want to destroy your life frustration you start with frustration develop into depression you're there there's nothing worse than that you'll work against yourself and the moment you resist change frustration is natural once frustration comes it'll naturally evolve into depression so you put it on sale now once uh [Music] [Applause] we realize somehow survival process is not good enough there seems to be a need to do something more immediately a whole industry which we call as religion and spirituality sprung up all kinds of people trying to tell you what you need to do to fulfill your life or how you can never fulfill your life but you have to go to heaven [Music] this has taken on so many forms so many and [Music] the diversity is wonderful but the deception is quite shameful in the name of religion the name of believing this or that we have broken humanity into so many pieces that we can never fix it almost looks like we can't fix it and then came the spiritual leaders [Music] there have been some truly wonderful absolutely incredible masters of past and present at the same time too many of all kinds of different levels of ignorance and different levels of intention has [Music] grown into it [Music] there's all kinds of deception in the world the religious and the spiritual kind is the grossest kind unfortunately it becomes extremely important to present the spiritual process in its proper light for what it really is spiritual process is just this a deeper involvement with life much deeper than people would ever imagine not just living the surface living the core [Music] this is not some bull that you read in some book this is not some nonsense that you received from somewhere this is going to the very core of life and you cannot go to the core of life unless you are willing to pay attention to the detail of life nothing in the existence will yield to you unless you pay attention to it isn't it yes nothing ever yields to you unless you pay attention to it isn't it so and nothing ever cannot ill to you if you pay enough attention to it the creation and the creator has to ill to you if you pay substantial attention to it so if you are willing to pay substantial attention to something everything will yield and there is nothing in the existence which cannot yield if you pay enough attention to it it's so spiritual process is just about paying attention to life taking this attention deeper and deeper where not just the creation the very source of creation becomes a living reality for you even the source of creation has to yield the beautiful stories in india about how [Music] when a yogi or a rishi sits down and starts his penance or his meditation or something god is just helpless he doesn't want to yield but he cannot do anything he has to come to many stories like this this is just to tell you if human consciousness is substantially focused even the source of creation cannot deny to you even that has to heal so this is a choice we have either to exist here just as flesh and bone as a piece of creation or as the creator himself this is the choice we have when you exercise this choice when you do not waste this choice when you actually exercise this choice then we say you're in the spiritual path i cannot understand how anybody can not be on the spiritual path because this is everybody's aspiration everybody wants to be something more than what he is right now isn't it chum that something more happens he wants to be something more this is a spiritual path conducted in a foolish way if you conduct it the right way then it produces results otherwise you will die as an aspiration most people die as an aspiration unfortunately very few people die as a realization an aspiration is good as a starting point but an aspiration is not a good thing as an ending point isn't it so [Music] yes and aspiration is a good thing as a starting point an aspiration is not a good thing at the closing point closing point should be realization beginning point is aspiration that's okay the potentiality of being human is just this as i said every creature has captured a certain amount of consciousness but what they capture is not significant enough to become conscious of our consciousness where we can begin to expand this other creatures also conscious but they cannot expand this so the reason why an individual human being may feel trapped in their own limited ways simply because they are super identified with their memory so one of the first steps in yoga is always this that you start identifying with your ignorance never with your knowledge because your knowledge it doesn't matter how vast it is it is a minuscule in this cosmos but our ignorance is boundless [Music] first and foremost thing is you do not identify with your knowledge that means you do not identify with your accumulated memory accumulated memory on a superficial level may be just what i learned but on a deeper level it is my genetics it is my evolutionary memory it is all the different dimensions of memory we do certain things with people so they'll become free from their genetic memory as far as possible except for the physiological factors we want them to be released from their parentage this is the purpose the entire eastern cultures were focused on this now it's all messed up people have forgotten this otherwise one thing is we are always seeing how to distance ourselves from the genetic memory because we saw that if you are identified with your genetic memory you will just be a replay of your parents life you will not be a fresh life if you want to be a genuinely fresh possibility you have to distance yourself there are many types of processes through which we distance ourselves from genetic memory you must see this it's so dramatic in the sense in 24 hours time [Music] the human being changes completely the very way they think feel understand and perceive life with some of them even their facial features will change suddenly they look different within 24 hours time the change is so dramatic so that your functionality is not limited to your genetics that you are not a copy a copy of the parents who produced you yes they have given your body they have nurtured you to a certain adulthood after that their business is done now your business is to become a totally new potential of life that's what it is but this will not happen you will see this happening with people when they were 16 18 they're very rebellious about how they want to be but you watch the same people after they're 45 they're behaving just like their parents they walk like them sit like them talk like them everything coming back catching up with them because the genetic memory overpowers the initial desire and exuberance of youth once it begins to receive you will see you start behaving just like your parents because the genetic memory overpowers you so one of the first fundamental things that if one is striving towards becoming more conscious is to distance yourself from your genetic memory if that doesn't happen the power of this memory is not simple it is it's to put it very simply in today's world it's easy to explain because it's your software it's not the brand of the computer that you're using which decides what happens on the screen it's your software what is the software that's how it functions so your memory is software you have a certain kind of software unless you disengage with that nothing new will happen you try whichever way you want the same things will happen over and over again the same things will happen when same things happen slowly this is not a conscious process but it's happened to nearly 98 of the human population because the exuberance of life has sank because of the repetitiveness of memory the same things are happening you may not be conscious of it but the same things are happening when same things are happening within you slowly you lose all your exuberance only if something new is happening now people think something new means they must fall in love they must take up a new job that's not it something new needs to happen within you in the very mechanics of who you are if something new is happening all the time you will be exuberant otherwise without knowing why slowly your face has become grave your face has become grave means you're practicing the posture for the grave [Music] [Laughter] you

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Length: 16min 19sec (979 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 12 2021