The way in which the mind can take control is a great illusion.
Like watching a magician and trying to figure out the trick as he does it - how successful are we at seeing through the mind’s ways?
Little do we realize, the mind is never in control. It has no power to control. It cannot even make a decision.
It is us that choose to be fooled, handing our power over to the mind as a way of relieving the pressure we put on ourselves.
Why wouldn’t we hand over that power? The mind can be a persistent bitch. Again and again making suggestions, demands, and other inputs that lead to us feeling victimized by it.
The truth is… the pressure we initially put on the mind is now being returned to us from the mind, a perfect balance.
The mind has no clue that things that may have been important to us in the past no longer are. It doesn’t realize that we may be trying to break habits, change our lifestyle, or evolve in some way. It just does as it is told.
“How can that be??”, you may think. “I never told my mind to consistently overwhelm myself. I tolerate it but there is no way in hell I did this!”
Whether we like it or not, the mind is the result of us and we are the result of our minds.
At some point, we subconsciously accepted alternatives to painful feelings, traumas, and triggers, which our minds gladly accepted to protect us and keep a status quo for us.
The problem with this is, any sort of delineation from these patterns will cause the mind to act in an uproar. It will scream at us (if that method works) to keep us on track with the beliefs we took on long ago.
There are many modalities in removing these barriers of the mind, but how are we supposed to know how many deconditioning processes, how many healings, how many ceremonies we need to attend to decompose the ancient roots that have taken hold of our minds?
Maybe it is zero.
The mind is what we exist in. How could it not be? The words that fly through it and reflections that come about show that these words whirring through our heads do not exist in us, we exist in them.
Our existence, personalities, and identities are shaped every day by what runs through the mind. More specifically, our world is shaped by what we choose to listen to and identify with in ourselves.
There are endless streams of thoughts meant to protect us from feeling, and many painful feelings based off of believes that have shaped our worlds. Without the mind, how would we as children shielded ourselves from the infinite conditioning around us? Of course, we couldn’t stop it all, but it is important to note that the mind was initially our greatest ally in a world of fucked upness.
We gifted our power to the mind. It did a much better job at protecting us from the strict rules our parents lived by and the painful traumatic instances we would never want repeating. In doing so, it shaped our future by witnessing patterns of the past.
It learned that being angry was not okay and led to punishment, so it pushed anger down for us so we could avoid it.
It saw the pain received from men or women and created a reality in which only those who have earned your trust are allowed in, otherwise all are predetermined, and our reality shows us the truth we need to see to confirm this pain.
It was told that crying is not allowed, so it held back our tears for us.
The things the mind once did for us, it continues, as it follows the logic of the first belief systems installed into it.
Uninstalling these programs are life changing, and you doesn’t need to ingest copious amounts of ayahuasca to do so.
Understanding that the mind holds no power whatsoever is the first step into breaking down the bondage of the mind’s grasp. Doing so can convert the mind from your greatest foe into the greatest ally.
After all, the mind is only acting on our behalf.
This may sound crazy, but the constant suggestions and pressuring of the mind are to ensure your perceived stabilization. Whether we act on the suggestions is wholly our responsibility.
Your response ability is entirely dependent upon the practice you have put in to relieving the pressures of the mind. This is an easy practice considering the activity of the mind.
Detaching from identification with the mind and its suggestions will allow you to see that what the mind speaks really is innocent in nature.
We initially believe we literally are these suggestions. While the mind can speak fast and we may react instantly, the relief of pressure through an awareness of self-care and self-love creates the space needed to see the mind and yourself as distinct things.
The pressure of the conditioned mind is one of conditional love, for those were the circumstances in which the directions of the mind were created.
Imagine what an unconditioned mind must then create for us.
Find compassion for yourself and gratitude for your mind. You have come a long way, regardless of the mind. It is time to regain your true, inherent power.
Let go of the mind, you’ll be okay. Reassure it, and reassure yourself.
With love.
The reflections of you includes me, and I include you.
Our journeys so different, yet our evolutions are similar.
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"The pressure of the conditioned mind is one of conditional love”
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