Captured Moments

Our minds are capable of a lot of thoughts that can speed through at any given time!  Maybe our minds have gone spinning through our past, have raced ahead into our future, has decided to visit old foes just to play out some kind of continued rage!  If we aren’t aware of what our minds are capable of doing or thinking or functioning as, at any given time, how can we possibly understand that we can actually train our brain to behave itself! We are actually not our minds, we are the presence that is aware of it! That presence that we are, is capable of disciplining our minds when our ‘trains of thought’ have pulled out of the station and are taking us along on their journey!  When we focus on the current day, centered and focused, it is easier to request the mind just stay put!  Relish in our freedom to not be directed by it! As we grow and develop, we can unconsciously pick up thinking styles from our parents and other adults in the environment!  A worries mother...

  As we grow, mature and develop, we are ‘fed’ different ideas regarding who we are or, rather, who we’re told we should be!  Most parents have a pretty clear idea of what they are expecting from their children!  We follow these expectations the best we can, until or unless, we are shown another way!  What can happen unconsciously, is we can believe we are that ‘baloney’ we were told we were!  If that happens, we can unconsciously ‘stuff’ it away into our own physical body, perhaps lying and denying its existence!  Why does this happen?  Because we fear it will hurt too much to let it out by actually feeling it again! Much like a bulging closet, though, we can only pretend it is not there for so long!  At some point, we will have to open that door, let out what is now misshapen and most likely distorted, and clear that space out!  The good news is, we now have a new space to refill with our current day recalibration about who we are!  OU...