At many classes I teach I am asked this question: “How can I quit my mind?” As an alternative of focusing on stopping the activity of the mind, I encourage people to redirect the power of their mind to assist them acquire rather than deplete power.
1st, what is the all-natural function of the thoughts? 1 of my dear teachers, Cerridwen Fallingstar, points out that the thoughts was an essential tool for assisting our ancestors don’t forget which plants heal and which plants result in illness or death. The mind helps us make choices by sorting through information we have gathered and stored.
When the thoughts is clear and operating to serve us, it discerns out of adore and care. When the mind is cloudy and unruly, the inner judge begins to taint the clearness of the thoughts, and we become numbingly repetitive and rigid in our pondering.
The judge sees things in terms of black and white. Rather of, “This plant will make me sick if I consume it,” the judge says, “That plant is negative,” simplifying and judging a plant that may possibly be beneficial in other situations.
Judgment: “That individual is negative.” (typically paired with, “Consequently I am very good.”)
Discernment: “I do not like that person’s actions.”
Judgment: “I am worthless and undesirable.”
Discernment: “I am feeling vulnerable and weak nowadays.”
Judgment: “I am a terrible spiritual warrior, simply because I preserve fighting with my boss. She is such a bitch and so uncaring.”
Discernment: “I need to have to stay out of my boss’s way when she is angry, or I have a tendency to get angry myself and make things worse. She seems to get angry most typically in the mornings.”
When our minds are agitated we worry about how other people will perceive us if we have sufficient time, money, courage, stamina if we did one thing appropriate and if anybody noticed if we did something incorrect and any individual noticed. When the thoughts is chaotic, we look back more than conversations and actions to find fault or victimize ourselves, or we creatively envision worst-case scenarios and fears of what will come about in the future.
When the mind is at rest, it conserves power and waits till it is needed. Picture a dancer who dances consistently, without having rest, day and night, and ends up missing his cue when it is his turn to perform. This is the mind: operating without having listening or pausing for a breath. When the mind is grounded in the moment, it is responsive to the wants of its human. When we are trapped in the chaotic dance of our thoughts and beliefs, we miss our cues for when the thoughts may possibly truly be useful.
When we judge, we polarize what we perceive and do not leave space for magic and adore. A gorgeous Chinese quote reminds us of the power of becoming in the moment with no judgments: “Now that my barn has burned to the ground, I can a lot more easily see the moon.”
When you ground the thoughts in the wisdom of the physique, the mind becomes a pal rather than an enemy dragging you deeper into chaos and self-destruction. We can try to heal the thoughts by cursing it, attempting to repress its thoughts, or quit it entirely, but it is the mind’s natural tendency to perceive and give the physique data about its surroundings.
The difficulty comes when the judge or victim places a wedge in between the mind and physical body’s wisdom. As an alternative of relying on our body, heart, mind working together to perceive and make selections, the judge and victim get all the consideration. They are great at hooking our focus, to the exclusion of all else, by manipulating our emotional physique.
By shifting our perception and focusing on what our mind is up to, we can start to retrain it to serve the higher whole rather than create suffering.
To see what the thoughts appears like energetically, sit in a quiet location and invite your mind to do its thing. Start by imagining oneself when you have self-doubt or judgment. What images come? What does your power appear like when your thoughts is wild? Now imagine yourself when you are calm, grounded, and in your center. Notice how you perceive items about you. What pictures come? What does your energy appear like when your thoughts is calm?
For me, the busy thoughts (or “monkey thoughts” as the Buddhists contact it, from our mind’s ability to leap nonsensically from issue to factor) is like becoming caught in the waves and foam of a storm at sea, restless as the windy torrents. There is no place to rest, only a constant battering of the judge and the victim.
When we dive deeply into the ocean of our mind, we locate silence and peace. We are conscious of the waves and storm above, but our focus is on the vastness, which is connected to all factors. When we find out to rest the mind in this spot, the judge and victim dissolve into an underground existing of enjoy. When we need to make a decision then, our actions come from a wide perception of physique, feelings, and life force in balance with the tool of the mind.
As multi-dimensional beings, we are composed of energy, feelings, thoughts, and inventive force woven across time and space. Your mind is only a tiny fraction of your ability to perceive and know. It may possibly be that your judge-thoughts has been lifting weights and your other strategies of perceiving have atrophied, but by becoming conscious on an energetic level how your thoughts uses energy you can adjust the energetic patterns that keep the judge held in location.
Mind FIELD: ISOLATION
What happens when your brain is deprived of stimulation? What impact does getting cut off from interaction with the outdoors world have on a particular person? What impact does it have on me, when I am locked in a windowless, soundproof isolation chamber for three days? In this episode of Thoughts Field, I take both an objective and a really intimate look at Isolation.
Special thanks to our guests:
Dominic Monaghan @DomsWildThings
Dr. Keller Wortham @DrKellerW
Dr. Ron Mossler, Chair and Professor of Psychology, La Valley College
William Brown, and of course, Marnie and Mom.
Music by Russell Spurlock and HMX Music
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Thoughts Field theme song by Jake Chudnow
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Reaction Time Test – Human Benchmark
http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime
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