What is the state of your mind right now? Is it absorbed in one thing or into many things? Is it empty or full? Is it peaceful or agitated? Are there many thoughts racing in all directions or a calm focus?
Observe the state of your mind over an hour. See what types of thoughts are you are eating (thinking)? Are your thoughts carefree, stressful, worried, irritable, wasteful, joyous, loving, confused…? Now observe the knock-on effects of the way you have been thinking this past hour. Do you feel exhausted or energized? Confused or focused? Isolated or part of a bigger world family?
What has happened?
When we are mentally overweight (too many thoughts) then it is not possible to ‘think’ and we become exhausted, confused and low. We go into more and more thought attempting to explain and understand the world we live in. We have moved out of the essence of our being and into the expansion of the external world and the drama that is going on. However these thoughts are just taking us more and more from the truth. To understand the present we need to come back into the present. We need to go on a mental diet.
A mental diet?
Why? – To re-create a healthy, peaceful and easy mind.
To succeed?
1. recognise the current state your own mind is in and its effect on yourself
2. have a deep conviction in the benefit of going on this diet
The diet of 1:
1 conscious = soul
1 support = God
1 attitude = love
1 vision = brotherhood
1 thought = drama
1 word = yes
1 action = benevolence
1 Consciousness = adopting the awareness that I am a spiritual being beyond form and death. Hold this thought, it creates self-esteem and will reveal itself to you. Transfer your sense of identity to your true self, realign yourself with truth.
1 support = we need support as there is so much negative energy around. God gives us this support. God opens the lock on our intellect and we experience His peace and love, of having found something precious that we had lost.
1 attitude = when we move into spiritual awareness we experience love, harmony and healing. When there is love there is light and the energies of darkness vanish. This love automatically settles the effects of the past.
1 vision = love frees the mind from its blocks in perception and from its judgements. This in turn effects our vision and we see that we are all one spiritual family on the great journey of life. Instead of rejecting and judging we experience understanding and empathy.
1 thought = everything that is happening is accurate, it is all part of the bigger play and we are all just actors in this big drama. Let the scenes that have gone by- go. When we say ‘it shouldn’t have been like that’ we become trapped in time. The past is past, let it go and come into the now.
1 word = ‘yes’ = acceptance. Accept everything that happens: there is benefit in everything. Also say ‘yes’ to others – their ideas and initiatives and co-operate with them. Don’t resist change, let life flow forward.
1 action = to give as whatever you give you receive. Give and it will come back to you; so also be careful about what you give. If anything missing it is because you have not yet given it.
Step out of the whirlpool of thoughts and move into calmness, being, experience, contentment and fulfilment.
