Once we have meditated for awhile, or not, we may start to see that we are a little bit unhappy, not necessarily about life per se, but about things in general. There may be a vague sense of unease with life, we may feel uncomfortable with ourselves in certain situations.
What has happened to us? How have we been affected by our lives so far? The psychologists say, some of them, that our personality is formed within the first 6 or seven years of our lives. The framework is then in place for us to act in a particular way for the rest of our lives. We could say that we have been brainwashed or hypnotised in some way to see the world through a particular set of references, habits and ideals.
The above may or may not be true but it is more or less accepted as pretty much the way things are for us by most psychologists (I think).
Then as we go through our life and we start to bang and crash into other people we start to see that we all have our own peculiarities, that we are all more or less the same, but also very different. Socialisation usually starts to occur around the time that our sexuality starts to manifest itself. We go through all the traumas associated with finding boyfriends and girlfriends etc, and run the risk of serious humiliation and rejection all the time. By the age of late teens or early twenties we are more or less fully formed and heading to fulfill our destinies.
Oh if it were all as straightforward as that!! As we all know it is not usually very straight forward at all.
As we move through our lives things happen to us and we are continually shaped and reshaped by our experiences, we create and recreate ourselves over and over again. (Yes I am generalising again). Some of us at a certain point may feel like we don't know what the Hell is going on anymore. We start to question ourselves and our lives, we have strange dreams and experiences. We may go to the doctor who may tell us we are ok, and reassured by that with a little counselling we are back on track and living our lives again. There are others who may have felt these feelings of discomfort or dis-ease for many years and eventually find a way to live with it through therapy or some other way.
We live, it appears in strange times, there are more therapies available now than you can shake a stick at? There is help everywhere. What does this mean? We have more information at our fingertips now (google etc) that at any other time in the history of the world we live in. The split continues to grow between the wealthy and the poor, between the fundamentalists and the and the libertarians. This split could be viewed as a schism within the very framework of the human psyche manifested in the world by these extremes. What can we do? Which side of the split to you stand, do you want to stand?
Choice being the operative word- What would you choose if you could?
Within the inhale and the exhale there are answers to all of these questions. Within the gap between the inhale and the exhale there is an answer. to find out what it is you may have to sit still for a while, you may have to sit still for quite a while. Can you do that ? Do you want to do that?
There is always the pub!
Om
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