Reading yesterday’s Daily Reminder—about how there’s nothing wrong with anxious feelings—you would definitely be forgiven if the mind observed it and then piped up,
📦🗣️: So what’s he saying here? Just put up with it?! You’ve got to be kidding me!!
And here we come to perhaps the most significant stumbling block for anyone on this path (you know, the path to just getting on with life, without struggling unnecessarily).
Because of course that’s what a mind would say, coming at it from a mind’s frame of reference.
But this is the whole deal.
It’s coming at life from the mind’s frame of reference that has us struggling in the first place!!
😖
There’s a massive, inconvenient, bloody frustrating paradox at play here (and in all sorts of other areas of life) and that’s this:
For as long as the mind bothers you, it will continue to bother you.
Obvious, huh?
But logical.
“For as long as the mind bothers you…” (i.e. it upsets you; is seen as something to take seriously; or to deal with, or repress, or change, or get rid of; or is interpreted as a reflection of there being something wrong with you, or needing fixing)
“… it will continue to bother you.” (i.e. make your life a misery, in all sorts of ways – mental health symptoms, crappy habits, procrastination, addictions, feelings of stuckness, crappy relationships, the works)!
Ever heard this phrase?
Well, this is what they mean by ‘What you resist, persists.’
(Given that Thought taking form is literally the ONLY thing you can EVER experience as a human, this inconvenient truth is the very definition of it!)
So what's the answer? What do we do?
Given that there's only ever really one thing going on, that means there's only ever really one thing to do.
The answer to the paradox above is therefore just as inconvenient and bloody frustrating, and that’s to:
Stop being bothered by it. Stop giving a flying yahoo what it does or does not say.
🤷🏻♂️
And here’s the delicious paradox that lies at the heart of the Innate Health understanding:
When you stop being bothered by what the mind says, it stops bothering you.
(That one’ll twist your melons if you think about it too hard, LOL.)
It’s almost like the more you want it to change, the less likely it is to change.
😳
Instead, we have to just become somewhat disinterested by it (which is the direction the Daily Reminders point you in… every day).
One of my all-time favourite quotes comes from the 19th Century Yogi, Sri Yukteshwar, who said,
“An ignored guest quickly leaves.”
And that’s where I’ll leave it today.
One for you to ponder until we pick this thread back up in a couple of days.
So much love – you’re doing just great!
💖
Giles
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…having just alluded to ‘one solution’