I bumped my head and it was like life, in a nutshell.
I’d left the house and when I came back, my wife had hung something out to air in the back yard.
Brushing past the washing line – SMACK!
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My head hit the hanging metal peg basket that I’d not noticed. It was a painful shock.
What happens first
Well, interestingly, the first way this mind-body responded to the situation was to yell,
“Ouch!!”
I had no control over that, it just came out.
This is important to see. Because this is our conditioning. It’s like a trauma response or something. I can’t change it; it’s a sort of reflex.
(Remember this, the next time you have an instant reaction to a situation, and start beating yourself up.)
It’s the just the mind-body, responding in a way that’s appropriate to it, and all the information it’s already got, stored away in there.
That’s your stuff. Own it.
Now, does this mean I’ll always shout “Ouch!!” out loud, in such a situation?
(Will you always react the same way, in that situation you always seem to react to?)
No! To believe things will always be the same is just a mind, with its black & white, this-is-just-how-it-is, algorithmic, judgemental thinking.
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Things change. Perspectives change. We change!
So maybe there’ll be a time when it doesn’t turn out like that. I don’t know. I can’t predict the future.
(I mean, what might change is that I slow down a bit and look where I’m going? Maybe that’s the change that leads to no “Ouch!!” 🤷🏻♂️)