The Power of the Mind: Thinking and Abiding
Thinking is a really powerful thing
to be doing.
If we realised how powerful it was,
we’d do it differently.
Your mind will shape itself
around your deepest desire.
It will form itself
around what you think about the most.
Your body will then
take the shape of your mind.
From there
your life will shape itself
around your mind and your body.
This is how we create
our own existence.
That is the power of thinking.
This is why it is important
to bring awareness to our thinking.
Start treating thinking
like an activity
you have a say in.
Be aware of the distinction
between thinking and thought.
Thoughts aren’t an activity,
they just go on by themselves.
Thoughts have no real power
until we decide they have power
by linking up with them
and starting to think.
Thinking is the action
of engaging with thoughts
and perpetually re-energising them.
Thinking isn’t bad in and of itself,
you can do wonderful things
through thinking.
You can ponder deep truths,
reflect on the meaning of your existence,
and sort out situations
that require the mental faculty.
It is a truly brilliant
and powerful thing.
Most of the time however,
we are not doing those things
with our thinking.
Instead, we are thinking
whatever comes up
and as a result,
we take the shape of something
that is completely
out of our control.
Worrying about yourself
all the time
is not a good use of the mind.
When you worry persistently,
you shape yourself
around your worries.
You end up with
a ‘worry’ mind,
a ‘worry’ body,
and a ‘worry’ life.
Thinking is your superpower,
use it like the gift it is.
You can create a world
with this faculty.
You can create
your health or your illness,
your wealth or your poverty,
your freedom or your imprisonment.
Spending time
exercising your power
to not think unnecessarily
is taking your life
back into your hands.
Your energy is usually going out
with whatever your mind is doing,
so when you decide
to bring your mind back inside,
your energy will follow.
Every moment you choose
to bring your mind back
inside your body
you cease to outsource your power
and bring it back home.
Remember
whatever you are outsourcing
your mind to,
TV, music etc,
will become the shape of your mind.
If you can accumulate
enough energy inside,
you can change
the trajectory of your life.
So spend every moment you can
being inside yourself.
You will inevitably catch yourself out
in useless thinking,
so you just bring it back inside.
In any given moment,
that is the most powerful thing
you can do for yourself.
Not the food you eat,
not whether you are going to the gym
or getting a massage.
The most powerful thing you can do
is to bring your prana back inside.
Energy accumulation.
You keep investing energy
back into your body
and out of this investment,
you will build a new life.
The amount of fuel you have
in the form of energy
will determine the life you can have.
Some life paths
are prohibited to you
without that fuel.
Don’t get down on yourself
for already having wasted so much.
Life is about exploring
different energetic pathways
in order to realise
that the ones that go out
just deplete us
and bring no satisfaction
until we discover
that fulfillment only comes
by bringing our energy back inside.
Then what Life
always had planned for you
to fulfill
can happen.
When you make the decision
to fulfill that one,
then the energy will come.
It will take work,
dedication,
and time
but it is inevitable.
It might not look anything
like you think it will look,
but it will be authentic and real
as a result of your connection
to Life inside yourself.
So don’t underestimate
your sadhana.
You might think
that nothing is happening,
but you are building an account
that will take you deeper
than you can currently fathom
right now.
Be with Life.
If you only know your psychology,
then Life doesn’t exist for you,
but when you choose Life
over your psychology
then reality opens up to you
and a new life becomes possible.
Your mind is only
repeated patterns,
it is so limited
in what it can create for you,
but Life is infinitely deep
and can create far more
than you can comprehend.
Find the relationship
inside yourself.
When you do this
the relationships outside yourself
will start to change.
Firstly
you won’t need them
like you used to need them.
You will be liberated
from your neediness.
The ‘desperate’ you
will die.
Then you will be able
to love people
for the first time.
When you cease to need people
then you can love them.
Love and neediness
cannot co-exist,
they are the antithesis
of each other.
They cannot live
in the same camp together.
Love replaces neediness
and neediness replaces love.
To do this
you will have to become powerful.
To become powerful
you will have to get a handle
on your mind.
Stop thinking crap all the time,
stop watching crap all the time
and fall back into yourself.
Everyone is trying
to be different
with their minds,
which actually
makes them all the same.
How boring.
Everybody is trying to stand out
because that is what egos do,
but when you see through it
it is just boring.
We are creating a dead world
where everybody is the same.
The high street looks the same,
people dress the same
and do the same stuff
while trying to stand out
and be noticed.
How about we actually
do something different?
Not from a need to be seen
but from
an abhorrence for mediocrity
that is created
out of compulsive thinking.
Come out of the collective mind
and be in yourSelf.
The energy inside of us
is currently dictating
what is possible for us.
The conscious level of energy
inside you
determines the possibilities for you.
You cannot know
what is possible for you
from the energy level
you are currently at
and this problem of not knowing
occupies a lot of our thinking time,
have you noticed?
We are trying to guess
what is possible for us
and our lives.
But what is possible for us
is only possible
from this level of energy,
which is basically
what you are already experiencing anyway.
So rather than thinking
and trying to figure out
what is possible
from that level,
why not create
a new level of energy
from which that possibility
will become available
and obvious to you?
It makes no sense
to ponder and worry
about what the future might look like,
it is much better
to be energetically creating
a new future
in this moment.
If you can raise your energy
to a sufficient level
then what needs to be known to you
will be made known to you
on that level of energy.
You can never know
what is on the next level.
So there also
you have to raise your energy
to discover
the next possibility.
A life lived like this
is continuously growing.
It exists outside of worry
because it is already
creating the future energetically
in the moment.
That is a life
magnificently lived.
Thinking is a very powerful thing to do.
So is abiding back into yourself.
If your thinking is right,
it will inspire you.
If your abiding is deep,
it will build energy inside.
you can create a future
for yourself
energetically.
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