The mind is like a wild horse. It needs to be tamed.
As soon as you 'see' yourself thinking, you have awakened from a dream.
Events occur in the world, small things, big things happen all the time.
Things happen to us personally too, big things, small things.
If someone says something to us that is personally upsetting, whatever it may be, we will react, we will take offence. In the world this is what is expected of us, it is the stuff of movie legend. The person insulted will enact revenge on the perpetrator, and we all feel satisfied.
However, if you 'see' that your thoughts are nothing more than habitual forms of nothing, then you will be less affected by so called external events.
How much time do you spend thinking about, what happened yesterday, last week, last year, and what 'may' happen tomorrow, next week, next year?
If you look at this you have to admit that it is a waste of time.
We are here.
You are here.
Pinch yourself - it's true.
What are you doing with this moment?
'The course in miracles' - a book written a few decades ago, was a very long and complex book. It is a course designed to free you from the mind. It (in my opinion) is a very complicated and difficult book, and also a very complicated and difficult process.
Later we have 'The Power of Now' a shorter and much less complicated book, designed to do the same thing, i.e, to show you that you are not your mind, and that you have been conditioned to live the way you do.
To detach from thinking, you just become aware that you are thinking.
And watch it.
Keep doing this.
Spend more time learning how to be present.
Yoga Asana and Pranayama will give you a head start, especially if you have difficult challenges occuring.
Be in your body.
And
Try not to be in your head.
Keep breathing.
Keeping focused on the breath rhythm is another way to give yourself a break from thinking.
And when you choose to think about something, do it with awareness.
WHO?
What?
WHY?
Where?
When?
How?
What?
and then have a laugh ...............
As soon as you 'see' yourself thinking, you have awakened from a dream.
Events occur in the world, small things, big things happen all the time.
Things happen to us personally too, big things, small things.
If someone says something to us that is personally upsetting, whatever it may be, we will react, we will take offence. In the world this is what is expected of us, it is the stuff of movie legend. The person insulted will enact revenge on the perpetrator, and we all feel satisfied.
However, if you 'see' that your thoughts are nothing more than habitual forms of nothing, then you will be less affected by so called external events.
How much time do you spend thinking about, what happened yesterday, last week, last year, and what 'may' happen tomorrow, next week, next year?
If you look at this you have to admit that it is a waste of time.
We are here.
You are here.
Pinch yourself - it's true.
What are you doing with this moment?
'The course in miracles' - a book written a few decades ago, was a very long and complex book. It is a course designed to free you from the mind. It (in my opinion) is a very complicated and difficult book, and also a very complicated and difficult process.
Later we have 'The Power of Now' a shorter and much less complicated book, designed to do the same thing, i.e, to show you that you are not your mind, and that you have been conditioned to live the way you do.
To detach from thinking, you just become aware that you are thinking.
And watch it.
Keep doing this.
Spend more time learning how to be present.
Yoga Asana and Pranayama will give you a head start, especially if you have difficult challenges occuring.
Be in your body.
And
Try not to be in your head.
Keep breathing.
Keeping focused on the breath rhythm is another way to give yourself a break from thinking.
And when you choose to think about something, do it with awareness.
WHO?
What?
WHY?
Where?
When?
How?
What?
and then have a laugh ...............
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