A Life for Liberation

Shinohara, Ryuu. A Life of Liberation: A Spiritual Guide to Break Limiting Beliefs and Awakening Your Potential for Enlightenment. Independently published, 2020. Ryuu Shinohara is the best-selling author, spiritual teacher, researcher, and father. He has been excelling in the spirituality field for almost 25 years. He’s also the author of The Magic of Manifesting that expresses his passion and knowledge of life. His inspiration comes from entering a deeper state of awareness of the true reality he is living in, and how much it influences his life. As a little boy, raised in Ashibetsu, Japan, he was taught about the Japanese religion and the ancient teachings of Buddha by his family. Through passions and a curiosity for life, Shinohara moved to Amsterdam where he met his wife and raised a family. He began his career initially as a therapist and did one-on-one spiritual consulting later. A Life of Liberation by Shinohara speaks about the connection between science and spiritual concepts, making us realize that all is one. In this ever-changing world, Shinohara teaches us that due to a lack of understanding of the universe, we cannot free ourselves from our ego, and get rid of the anxiety, depression, and sadness. He claims that when it comes to experiencing true reality, we find our dreams and create the life we desire. Moreover, Shinohara talks about the distinction between Eastern and Western philosophies, and explores the differences between these two schools of thought. How ego is a false construct that twists things into negativity and manifests them in life. The spiritual connection with the mind, the thoughts and patterns provide us with good insights, and guide us make positive changes to lead the fulfilling lives. He encourages us to fully embrace our emotions, both positive and negative, and gives them the space to change the outlook towards life. Then, we can transform our world in a good way. In today’s world, children are born and raised into different cultures with a variety of different belief systems. Beliefs are ingrained in them by their parents, friends, teachers, and all the people that surround them daily. The environment that we grew up do influences the subconscious creation of our own identities. They, indeed, establish some limits what we can do and we cannot do. Hundreds of millions of people live their whole lives attached to their identities that do not resonate with their true inner values and, thus, stop them from living a free life. Unconsciously, living against the values of our true inner selves is resisting our spirits’ intentions to prosper in this world. In fact, there are laws that control our minds and realities in our daily lives just as there are laws of gravity and laws of growth in the universe. It does not matter who we are, what we look like, where we live, who our parents are, and what ability we have. Therefore, we have to change how we view the world and how the world views us. In other words, it is important that we can change our thoughts and emotions to become the best version of ourselves. Shinohara claims that we all have indispensable wisdom passed down by our ancestors. We have to discover our true inner selves, and try our best to free ourselves from depression, anxiety, and social phobias. We really and actually create our own realities. Everyone has access to intricate universal connections and knowledge. All we need to do is to learn how to use it. In the universe, we have birth, existence, change, aging, illness, destruction, emptiness and void that we cannot control. However, we are so smart to discover the resources in the universe. Similarly, in our bodies, we have autonomic nervous systems that we cannot control. Nevertheless, our brains can create our thinking, feelings and emotions solely by our own will. Aldous Huxley, the famous British writer, said, “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” That is, where we put our intention matters more than anything else we do. This is why some people manage to travel, even on minimum wage, or do some crazy, uncommon things because they believe they can do it, and then they really have done it. When we expand, grow, become more self-aware, and loving, we share the positivity (positive thinking, good intentions) with everyone we come into contact with. Given this, we spread positivity back to us, and then we can love ourselves and love the universe. We are more powerful that we think, and we have the exact power to create our own reality. Powered by Firstory Hosting