There’s a thing that happens a lot, and it’s in your interests to be wise to it.
It’s the mind, raising what I call “legitimate concerns.”
(Legitimate, to it, naturally 🙄)
How the mind responds to presence
I was coming towards the end of a really great session with a client. We’d spent 90 minutes or so out in nature and realised some profound truths about the nature of the condition they’d presented with.
An edifice of belief, innocently built up over a lifetime, was crumbling, right there and then, in front of our very eyes, to reveal the well being that had been there, all along.
Insight in action. It was quite something.
This had happened in that space of quiet reflection that is our deepest essence; a place I’ve devoted myself to helping others reach. Because that’s where the answers are found.
So we’d been silent for a bit, walking side by side, resting in presence, where everything made total sense; where life was seen as it is.
And then the mind started raising legitimate concerns:
“The thing is Giles, while I don’t disagree with any of this at all—I’m absolutely, 100% on board with it all—I know what I’m like. I know what’s going to happen the next time I…”