It’s a Sunday, so let’s slow right down, stop trying to fix our psychology and instead look at some spiritual home truths, shall we?
Fewer answers, greater potential.
I say “slow right down,” because part of the problem—the whole problem, really!—is the mind’s tendency to live outside of reality (which is Now) and in a little time-created world of its own.
One could even go as far as wondering whether it’s possible for the chatterbox mind to operate anywhere but outside of reality, but let’s leave that wondering to another day, for now.
(D’you see what I did there? 😉)
To be clear, none of this time travelling—this leaving behind of reality—is a problem.
Because this thing we’re labelling as “reality” or “the Now” or “pure presence”… it’s unknowable. Utterly inscrutable, by its very nature. (Because scrutiny itself is a mind-thing, yeah?)
And yet, in that strange and beautiful way that we’re here to explore, it’s absolutely essential. It’s life. It’s the source. It’s formless energy that manifests as our experience. (It's the 3 Principles, if we feel like donning that particular hat, today.)
It’s where change comes from. It’s creative energy, that brings to life new ideas, fresh perspectives and solutions to problems. It’s direction and purpose. It’s connection and wholeness.
It’s who and what You really are.
Which is why I bang on about it so much.
Because to see this, is the end of suffering as we know it.
Literally just shifting our attention from “outside” (which is the world of form, and includes our bodies and our thoughts and emotions) to “inside” (the creative source; awareness of all that stuff) is all it takes.
From suffering, to presence.
But you gotta know it’s there!
Hence, the Daily Reminders, pointing, pointing, pointing…
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What's a mind to make of all this?
Well, minds can't really “get their head around it,” because presence is the absence of mind-analysis. As Syd Banks pointed out:
So when they've had a taste of it, they react in all sorts of ways. They often start by raising legitimate concerns. Not a problem. To be anticipated.
They might conflate presence with avoidance, or just feeling good, albeit temporarily. Again, no biggie – just what you might expect.
Or, as a mind did recently in a client session, having been lulled to sleep and then suddenly rising from its slumber, it asked,
“But how is this going help me, when I find myself procrastinating, later on today?”
And it's away to the races, creating time, whizzing off into the future, ‘what iffing,’ trying to predict what's going to happen and how we're going to react when the thing it's imagining happening, happens and it's. all. made. up.
So the honest answer to that question is a gentle, loving, compassionate
“It's not going to help you, mind. It's not going to help you at all.
And that's the thing to see.
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Giles
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