There are many things that you see at any given moment, yet you merit few of them. The ones that you discuss in your mind are the ones that matter to you.
- With this subtle form of pre-processing, you manage to control the experience of reality, so that it all fits together inside your mind.
- Your consciousness is actually experiencing your mental model of reality, not reality itself.
Example: You are walking outside in the winter, you start to shiver. What does the voice in your mind say?
“It’s cold.”
- How did that help? You already knew it was cold. You’re the one experiencing the cold.
- Why is it telling you this?
You recreate the world within your mind because you can control your mind whereas you can’t control the world.
- That is why you mentally talk about it. If you can’t get the world the way you like it, you internally verbalize it, judge it, and complain about it. And then you decide what to do about it.
- This makes you feel more empowered.
- When your body experiences the cold, there may be nothing you can do about the temperature, but when your mind verbalizes its cold you feel better
- In the thought world, there is always something you can do to control the experience
You recreate the world inside yourself and then you live in your mind.What if you decided not to do this?
- Decide not to narrate and instead just consciously observe the world, you will feel more open and exposed.
- This is because you won’t know what will happen next
Your mind is accustomed to helping you by processing your current experiences in a way that makes them fit your views of the past and visions of the future.
- All of this helps to create control because if your mind doesn’t do this you become too uncomfortable.
Re-source: Re-envision
You will see that the mind talks all the time because you gave it a job to do. You use it as a protection mechanism – A form of defense. It makes you feel more secure. You use yourself to buffer your life instead of living it.
- In trying to hold the world together, you are really just trying to hold yourself together.
True personal growth is about transcending the part of you that is not OK and needs protection.
Your inner growth is completely dependent on the realization that the only way to find peace and contentment is to stop thinking about yourself.
- You are ready to grow when you finally realize
that the” I” always talking inside will never be content. It always has a problem with something.
- When was the last time that you had nothing bothering you?
- You will never be free of problems until you are free of the part within that has so many problems.
craving and resource from “The Untethered Soul” be Michael Singer
