World View Perspective: Understanding beyond the mind
When we choose to meditate, contemplate or sit in silence, quieting our mind, we are choosing to go beyond our thinking ego mind. If we are too identified with our mind, this can sound like a frightening prospect. The mind would like us to think it is a frightening concept because then we won't do it. However, what the mind won't tell us is that it has many, many ways to distract. One of the favorites is to keep us living in the past and the other is worrying about and projecting into the future. When we allow our mind to take us to either the past or the future, we are not conscious of the current now moment, which, in truth, is the only place where we actually are present. Positive change happens in the present moment. It happens in the now because only the 'now' exists. Being conscious of the now, keeps our focus here and then releasing the mind's distractions becomes easier. It has been said, that when we sit silently, we ca...