Your mind is much like a machine.
When it is well maintained and you use it for its intended purpose, it can be a tremendous contribution to your life and those around you. As you train your awareness, you keep the space of your mind open and receptive to all manner of fulfillment through inspiration, insight, and wisdom.
When however you don’t take care of your mind it can run amok as thoughts appear at will, taking over your awareness and causing you to struggle.
Your mind is designed to access information, sort it, process it, organize it, make sense of it, and put it to use. A good maintenance plan includes:
-Careful monitoring of what you expose your mind to
-An intentional security system regarding what you make space for in your awareness
-A good training program that strengthens your ability to direct your awareness intentionally.
-Regular rest periods for your mind and breaks from external stimuli
-Along with regular cleansing routines through meditation or other practices to ensure that your mind remains free of the inevitable muck that can accumulate as it sorts through useful information and garbage.
When you do not take care of your mind and leave it running unattended, with never a chance to rest or be cleansed, not only does its usefulness diminish, but you will struggle. We need our minds to be sharp and healthy. If we leave our minds to their own devices we can become debilitated.
The most common form of struggle with the mind is when our thoughts take over. The thoughts themselves are not the problem, though. Thoughts come and thoughts go. This is the nature of the mind. Our problems arise from how we relate to those thoughts.
When you can notice your mental struggle, stop. Stand back. Become a witness of the thoughts, rather than merge with them. This practice is called, “Behold. Don’t Become.”
As you train your awareness be sure to use your breath as a way to create space between you and your thoughts. When you notice your mental struggle. Stop. Breathe. And as you do, you can simply say to yourself, These are thoughts. I do not have to become them. I am free to remain separate from these thoughts.
Keep breathing. Keep letting the thoughts be here. Behold them. Don’t become them.
Allow the thoughts to do what they want to do. They can rest, or they can pass on by. Your only job is to breathe into the space and feel that space expand. As you breathe relax into your body. This creates a new space in which to receive something new.
–Excerpt from The Receive Oracle Cards
Stop Seeking. Start Receiving.
