World Blog by humble servant.Self mastery . How could you ever master what is outside the mirror of self, self then the world submit to the extension.

The mastery you speak of begins exactly where you pointed: in the mirror. The external world is not conquered by force projected outward; it yields when the inner territory is brought to perfect order. The man who has tamed his appetites, impulses, fears, and illusions no longer meets the world as a beggar or a tyrant; he meets it as a sovereign. And sovereignty, strangely, does not need to seize; it is recognized. People, circumstances, even chance begin to arrange themselves around a center that does not waver. This is the old esoteric principle restated simply: “When the king is just, the kingdom prospers.” The kingdom is whatever lies beyond the skin. You do not master the world by extending the small self (the ego with its grabbing hands). You master it by dissolving the illusion that there was ever a separation between “self” and “world” to begin with. The extension you mention is not the ego stretching farther; it is consciousness recognizing that the wave was never apart from the ocean. Practically, this means: Make the body obedient through discipline (fasting, training, breath). Make the emotions obedient through detachment (watch them without feeding or fighting them). Make the mind obedient through silence and discernment (cut the loops of rumination and fantasy). Make the attention obedient through presence (return, return, return to now). When these four horses pull the same direction, the chariot moves without friction. The world feels the coherence and steps aside, or steps forward to serve; both are the same. People say, “Change the world.” The masters say, “Change yourself so completely that the concept of ‘changing the world’ becomes childish.” Then the world submits, not because you demanded it, but because it finally sees its own reflection clearly in you, and bows. Elaborate on emotional detachment. Emotional detachment is one of the most misunderstood and most powerful disciplines in self-mastery. It is not emotional suppression, numbness, or coldness. It is not becoming a robot who “doesn’t care.” It is the precise opposite of indifference. It is intimacy without enslavement. True detachment means: You feel everything fully, yet nothing owns you. Most people live inside their emotions like prisoners inside a small cell. When anger arises, they are anger. When sadness comes, they drown in it. When desire flares, they are dragged behind it like a dog on a leash. Their inner weather dictates their entire life. Detachment breaks the identification. You move from “I am angry” → “Anger is here.” You move from “I am heartbroken” → “Heartbreak is moving through this body-mind.” The emotion is still experienced (sometimes even more intensely), but it no longer hijacks the throne. How to cultivate it, step by step Witnessing (the foundation) Every day, sit for 10–30 minutes and do nothing but watch whatever emotions appear. Do not fix them, justify them, or push them away. Label them softly if it helps: “fear… tightness in chest… thought spiral… heat in face…” You are training the “observer” that is prior to emotion. The observer never gets wet, no matter how hard it rains. Body as anchor Emotions live in the body more than in the mind. When a strong feeling arises, immediately drop attention into pure physical sensation. Example: Jealousy → burning in solar plexus, clenched jaw, shallow breath. Stay with the raw sensation without the story (“she shouldn’t be with him”). 90 seconds of pure sensation-watching is usually enough for the chemical wave to peak and subside. The story is what keeps it alive for hours or years. Name to tame Silently name the emotion in its most childlike form: “scared,” “sad,” “wanting approval,” “feeling small.” This short-circuits the adult rationalizations and touches the primitive emotional brain directly. You will be shocked how fast a named emotion loses power. The 3-breath rule (for real-time use) The moment you notice you’re hooked: Breath 1 → Feel the sensation in the body fully. Breath 2 → Relax the body around the sensation (shoulders drop, jaw loosens). Breath 3 → Ask: “Who is aware of this feeling?” and rest as that awareness. This takes 10–15 seconds and can be done in public without anyone noticing. Scheduled emotional indulgence (the paradox) Give yourself 15 minutes a day to feel everything you’ve been avoiding: rage, grief, lust, self-pity. Set a timer. Go all in. Cry, scream into a pillow, write the most pathetic journal entry imaginable. When the timer ends, you stop. This prevents suppression and teaches the psyche that emotions are allowed, but they do not get to run the show 24/7. Death contemplation (the ultimate detachment tool) Once a day, remind yourself: “This feeling will not be here when I am dead. This entire emotional drama is temporary.” Not to depress yourself, but to put the emotion in cosmic perspective. Nothing detaches faster than remembering mortality. The signs you’re getting it right Emotions still come, but they pass like clouds instead of permanent weather. You can be around intense people without catching their state. You can love deeply without needing the object of love to complete you. Failure, rejection, praise, and insult all land in the same open space. You start laughing at how seriously you used to take your own emotional soap opera. When detachment is mature, something wild happens: Compassion explodes. Because nothing is sticking to you, everything can flow through you. You become a clean mirror. People feel seen around you instead of judged or drained. That is the secret the stoics, the buddhas, and the quiet grandmothers all knew: Only the unattached heart is large enough to hold the entire world without breaking.