I was walking along and was outside of or observing my thoughts/emotions about a situation and this thread came to mind, I dug it out earlier and I’m glad I did, I’ve enjoyed reading it. There are some real gems of insight in here, thanks to all involved
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Originally Posted by Edwin
But even tho understanding the true nature of the Self is the first real step, your mind has been conditioned to act in a certain way, react to events in a "safe" way, that is to say, for instance if you have had a bad experience in the past, you will probably try to avoid that event the next time a similar event presents itself to you.
But the word itself allready says it all: it is similar not exactly the same.
So then you are not living in the Now, you are still trying to copy-paste the past.
Your expectations and fear are keeping you from really looking at the situation you are facing NOW.
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“ copy/paste of the past”, that is such a good way of putting it. I guess the trick is to be able to see/observe the emotions that recalling the situation induces (rather than discount them entirely), so that you can still learn from them whilst not be dictated/conditioned by them.
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Originally Posted by Edwin
As long as you remind yourself every now and then about who you are, the real You, consiousness, in time those conditionings will disappear by themselves. And bliss and peace will emerge in their place.
Every now and then you will be hit by a deeper insight, this will come by itself. With me that means that for about a week I will feel total peace and bliss. And then it will be gone again. And then a month or so later it hits again.
Sometimes it takes more time.
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This has been like pea in a whistle rattling around in my head for some time. I knew that I wasn’t always absorbed within my thoughts/feelings but at the same time I still can be, but it seems like this is a fairly natural progression and I’m one the right lines if I just continue try to stay as mindful as possible.
One thing I have found is that during a fairly stressful period last week I was able to almost switch out of the worry for a while. The distraction was pretty powerful as it was a beautiful day and I was walking through some really nice scenery, but as I was watching my thoughts/emotions about this situation I was able to think “I can come back to the worry later”, and push out the worry and focus on the sun, wildlife and general beauty of my surroundings. I haven’t been able to do this since so maybe it was a one off, but after reading above maybe it was another first step…..
I'm sure others will get something out of this thread too, *like* button pressed
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