We are our minds, aren’t we?

I mean our mind dictates what we do, what we say, where we go and how we get there.

How often do you say to yourself that you need an escape? You need to get out of whatever situation you are in. Is it not just ourselves and our thoughts that we are seeking an escape from?

Our thoughts dictate our entire lives and have a tendency to do so in a manner which doesn’t always serve our best purpose.

What if someone were to tell you that we are not our thoughts, we are not the voice in our head telling us who we are or what we are?

There is a deeper truth. Like walking through a building complex filled with clutter and hoarded items covered in dust, filled with pasts and futures situations and items, with speakers blaring the same songs over and over. We cloud ourselves in a messy, noisy atmosphere because we believe that this is us, that this is the ultimate truth. We listen to those songs on repeat because we can’t seem to find the source of the power to switch them off. We hoard these items because we feel as though without these items we are nothing.

Let me ask, why would you listen to something that creates un-ease and unpleasant feelings of something that hasn’t even occurred yet? Why would you dwell on past experiences and constantly repeat the same thoughts over and over again to maintain that pain inside of you?

We are addicted to our thoughts, an addiction to our mind that gives us a sense of importance and provides a false sense of security and feeds a potentially dark side of ourselves. We know by the laws of nature that what we feed most will grow the most.

It is a well-known or potentially unknown fact to some people that intelligent people are often most unhappy. Why is this? Why can someone people with seemingly nothing feel as though they have everything and others who outwardly look as though they are succeeding in life are in fact suffering the most. This is because people dubbed as “intelligent” depend most upon their minds and their thoughts so much to the point where it does them a disservice. The association with the sense of self is based on these thought processes.

Although it is a simple concept, it is quite a complicated and difficult thing to comprehend.

"But the voice in my head tells me who I am does it not? Without it I would not exist?”

Yes, you as you know yourself now would not exist. But something much more expanding and deeply satisfying will exist, a feeling of bliss that is experienced in moments where the floating mind is shut off and you are present. You are experiencing not what was or what will be, but what is.

We must use our minds as the tools that they are to aid ourselves. Like using scissors to cut paper we would never think to turn those on ourselves and harm ourselves.

Unfortunately, that is exactly what we do with our mind. It has a purpose to serve, to tap into learning, to tap into knowledge to tap into creation and production.

When we let our minds take over and concentrate on negative circumstances or look into the past or future and worry we allow our addiction to consume us.

What we are able to do is focus on what is happening at the moment, the wind blowing through the trees, the warmth in your hearts, focus on your deep breaths taking you into the moment. Let your thoughts pass through you as if you’re riding a wave, know that they are there and let them fade into the distance, do not get consumed by them and let the silence and feeling of bliss overcome you.

Our natural, true state is a state of undeniable bliss and we have all been there before, maybe for just a glimpse of a moment but you were there. Use your mind as this tool to help you as best as it can and break the dependency you have on it, become the self that radiates beyond these thoughts.

Be free.

(Artwork: Unknown Artist)