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Mind Chatter

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The mind keeps us engaged with its incessant chatter. Its purpose is obvious. It must keep up a constant chattering to hold us captive in our own unique, designed-just-for-us-fear-based story. To allow any space in that mental run-on would be to risk the danger of our discovering that we are not the stressful, limiting, and exceedingly unhappy story that the victim mind uses to define us. And the mind is good at holding us captive to that story!

Just try – right now – to stop your inner harangue. Tell your mind to be quiet! And notice what happens. Does it obey your command? Or does it carry you away so quickly that it's minutes, if not days, before you even realize you've been abducted by the mind yet again?

The key is to quieten the mind with its' relentless story-telling so that the Essence of who we REALLY are can surface. As soon as the mental chatter stops, who we Truly are lies revealed to show us the beauty and peace of Reality.

But HOW do we get the mind to be quiet?

We have learned that we cannot force the mind to be quiet, (what with the right of free speech and all ;)) but what we can do is “witness it into silence.” In other words, we can stand apart from it, observe its banter, and refuse to respond. We simply watch, and as does all conversation when left untended for lack of interest, the mind eventually runs out of fuel, sputters a time or two, and finally goes silent – not for long, mind you, but long enough!

Observing the mind for what it is, and refusing to engage with it, allows us to hear the Inner Voice and therein is found the doorway to freedom.

In the silence of Reality, located in this right now moment, we are fully engaged in seeing, listening, tasting, touching, and fully participating in what we are doing NOW. We have been relocated into what's REAL; we are transported from a less-than-satisfying-story about who we are and what the world is doing to us directly to the only place that really exists – NOW.

We can stand apart from our verbose friend, the mind, and watch it chatter away like a nervous child, and then simply give it something better to do – like for instance, we can suggest that it count our breaths, or ask it to pay full attention to the colors, sounds, and energy surrounding us NOW.

But as soon as we think about any of those experiences – of what we are seeing, hearing, tasting, touching …etc. … as soon as we create a story in our mind about what those things mean, judge them, or complain in our minds about how they should be different, or as soon as we think about something else, or some place else altogether, we remove ourselves from the present Reality, and in so doing, we exchange NOW for a story about it.

Once the mind is engaged in NOW, Reality automatically finds and restores us. We do not aim to silence the mind forever, just more and more often. 🙂

I hope this is helpful.

Blessings,

Lynne

Time Stands Still, Forms Shift & Change

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At midnight
Creative Commons License photo credit: Matti Mattila

A quantum physics sort of musing on time:

We've all heard that time is an illusion, but grasping this concept has been difficult for me. As I was waking up this morning the explanation was available and clear in my mind. It goes like this: all matter is made up of moving atoms of energy. Everything vibrates and is in motion. Every form changes. As it vibrates it evolves into full expression and eventually dissolves. In other words, forms come and go.

All this changing form happens within the steady, ever present and eternal field of Now. It's not time that moves, it's the forms within time that are ever changing. The Now is always present – there is no such thing as the past; there is no future time … only forms that rise and fall like a flower that evolves from bud to bloom and then shrivels and falls away, thus giving the illusion of time passing.

This understanding of time standing still while forms rise and fall might explain how it is that some people know things from the past and future. Perhaps as forms evolve and dissolve the etheric imprint of those forms are absorbed and held within the fabric of NOW where they can be picked up and “read” by those who, perhaps unwittingly, are able to merge their consciousness with this present moment. Perhaps it is even possible for those who want to tap into the all-knowing NOW to do so through a practice of conscious merger with it. What a wonderful thought! Think about the treasure-house of wisdom this idea implies – the knowledge and resources available here and now, never to be lost!

Such pondering about the possibility that this present moment may indeed contain within it the complete memory and essence of every single thing, past & future, brings to mind a quote I memorized and often recite from B.O.T.A.‘s “Pattern on the Trestleboard” (the quote is attibuted to the sephirot “Kether” on the Tree of Life): “All the power that ever was or will be is here now.” And there's another quote that comes to mind as well, this one attributed to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: “All knowledge is structured in consciousness.” (meaning, we already know, it's just a matter of bringing what we know to conciousness.)

I hope you will forgive my little foray into areas I know little about – as I said, just a musing… 🙂

Blessings, Lynne

Authenticity Resides in the Present.

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Someone recently spoke to me about their preference for people who are “authentic” ….
It prompted me to ponder on the word, and wonder … “What determines authenticity, anyway?”….

Here's what I think …

I think we're authentic to the degree that we're able to give our full attention to whatever it is we're doing right now – in this very moment.

… And I think that our ability to give full attention to the moment is determined by the amount of story about ourselves and the world that is currently running in our minds ….

The more story there is (such as, “I'm not good enough but I can never let them know…”, or “They're not good enough, but I'll be nice …”.), the more caught up in attempting to be some version of a “me” we are – for survival or approval, either one.

The less present we are the more likely we are to be reacting out of an inner notion of what we believe an acceptable self must be. We're no longer available for life in this moment.

How much time we spend “living a story” versus being simply present and engaged in the moment – responding to life as it presents itself – determines the degree to which we are viewed as genuine.

Authenticity absolutely resides in the NOW.

Having said that … I recognize, of course, that we all have our moments … of story … and of authenticity…. Times when we are responding to life in the moment and times when we're lost in a totally self-fabricated mental maze.

So I'm not sure I can judge anybody else's authenticity … when my own is so easily lost every time I sacrifice the moment for one of my made up stories.

Authenticity is not a state of arrival … it's a coming and going…. of presence….

Blessings, Lynne

More on Clearing Limiting Beliefs

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I'm still thinking about my post yesterday where I described working with a core belief about being sick. I realized that I don’t have to go to the opposite story in order to align my thinking. That's just another story, albeit a high frequency one …. 🙂

Besides, it's probably not realistic to think that I'm going to be able to leap from one extreme to the exact opposite idea. That won’t really work … I can’t talk myself into a story any more than I can talk my way out of one… but I can stand back from it and question … “I will live forever and never get sick or die …” Is that true?

There is a way to let go of believing in the thought, “I am sick” without going the opposite extreme of trying to convince myself that I will live forever. I can choose instead to let go of the need to know what the future holds. I can refuse to project any sort of limiting, self-defining story about my health onto my future.

Future will be what it is. That’s not my business. I can choose to trust that whatever happens, will be as harmonious and right for me then as my life has been so far. There are no mistakes.

However in this moment, NOW … Today, I intend to align my thoughts with high Frequency by choosing to believe in my own health and wholeness.

Working in the Fields

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As we move towards the end of the year we may find ourselves thinking about our calling. It's a time when stress-creating stories about the need to know what our service is supposed to be come up…. Instead of sugar plums, visions of the “Great Success” we were supposed to be and never did, dance in our heads …. Feelings of inadequacy and failure accompany these stories.

I like to think of myself as a field laborer….

If someone were to ask me right now what I do in the world … I might say ….
“I work in the fields.”
“What fields?”
“The fields for cultivating consciousness.”

The way I see it, we are each designed to carry out some “labor” for the Cause of Consciousness.
I like to think that I work in, what could be called, the “Thought Repair Shop” (sort of like an auto repair shop, but for the ego mind)
People come to me with “broken thinking” and I help them find realignment.

When we ascribe belief to painful thoughts we find ourselves suffering from a breakdown of peace. Helping those who seek my services to attune to a Higher Frequency by clearing their belief in thoughts that create pain is my job.

It is not an obligation or a duty but rather my service or “calling”. I was “made” for the job. This doesn't make me “Somebody Special” … it's just the particular aspect of the Work for which I've been made to do. I don't wish for something more glamorous or to be known as someone “important” … I just give the task at hand my whole hearted attention and take pleasure in “doing a good job”.

You too were designed for a job “in the fields” – and there's a good chance you are already doing it – whether you know it or not.

Thoughts like, “I don't know why I'm here… I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing … or “I've failed my earth mission” are ideas that create a low frequency that actually attracts proof that what you're believing is true. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

There is no faster route to settling into your calling than to trust that what you're doing right now is part of it. Whether you're a stay-at-home-mom or working as a parking lot attendant; a CEO of a big corporation or a public school teacher, find joy in what you are doing NOW. That is how you bring yourself into right alignment with your Service. Your “job” is to show up right now in your moment to moment life. Give full attention to what you are doing right now. This is your life mission. Your life service is not something you have to “find” or “go after” – it is waiting for you to relax into “allowing it”.

Your immediate assignment is to recognize that you are where you are because it's PART of your path not because you are deviating from it. Find a way to accept where you are and what you are doing now. This is your work. We cannot get OFF the path to being ourselves. To believe that you are wandering aimlessly or stuck will simply keep you feeling those feelings.

Without judgment of where you are, you are better able to see how you are already on the Way to being what you came to be. Your present day to day life is part of the preparation. Participate fully in the experiences and lessons that your present life situation brings, whatever they are. That is your job.

“My path is unfolding through my daily doings” is an example of a higher frequency thought that aligns you with your work. Thoughts like this help you to “up” your frequency and manifest your calling.

Go about your day with confidence in Reality as being the way it should be right now. Find joy in the way things are and you will find all the evidence you need that you are on your path and doing what you came to do.

Blessings, Lynne

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