C³

Talking to yourself is essential to find out about the nature of what is going on in your brain. If you think this is a futile effort just become quiet and listen to yourself. You will discover an ongoing stream of thought babbling, sometimes overlaying each other, usually having not much effect.  At least that is what we think because we consider ourselves terribly aware of our mind. Yet we tend to confuse what is going on in the mind with our plans, goals and rules, deeply rooted in learned culture. In fact we are much more driven by this stream of unconscious thought than our belief in free will would allow us to accept. Sometimes this stream grabs our emotions and then may even form new behaviour which in turn creates actions. Those actions are driven by the unconscious content of our mind or elements of it.

The problem is that emotionalized thoughts – especially if they were generated by past pains – tend to repeat themselves, probably in search of finding a resolve. And they have an effect that we can experience all the time: mood swings, loss of concentration, failed actions (compared to our intentions), energy-wasting compensations or even cover ups for our self-judged imperfections. Usually we see this as something ‘belonging to life’, something we have to accept or to suppress.

What about regaining this energy? What about freeing it from erring around in our minds and instigating chaos, insecurity and fear?

To a certain extent this is like a chess game: we have to be alert to our ‘positions,’ make smart moves in order to gain territory. So we have to listen first to what drives us and then take back our creative intentional power by replacing the negative, energy-intensive, self-destructive thought-patterns with healthy and nurturing thoughts that connect to our deepest – and therefore strongest – emotions, such as  love and compassion. Then we use our individual  intention to put all this into fluent and (energy-) efficient actions. Nothing has to be ‘integrated’ into our ‘busy schedules’ if it comes from our soul, our deepest inherent wisdom. You don’t have to integrate what you already are.

The best thing is that this process has a natural ‘side-effect’: it is utterly enjoyable!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 at 12:22 pm and is filed under Cultivation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.