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Take a trip outside your mind - that's what I'd like to do, sometimes.
I've tried it as it happens, loads of times but I've not managed it, mainly because how I see it is that I cannot perceive or experience or indeed remember what I've experienced, without my mind.
I mentioned the other day how I am not my body and I am not my mind and I wanted to break that down a little.
I have never heard anyone say "I am my mind", we always say "my mind", as in "it's mine", which leads me to add "it's not me, not who I am". It's something I 'have' or 'own'. It's part of me but not who I am.
Then take the word/concept of body and add the same formula.
What do you think about that?
From there, we can safely see that if my mind isn't me then my thoughts are definitely not me, as they happen in this thing I call 'my mind'.
My car is a thing that drives me around, it has an engine, it goes where my mind and body tell it to go. You may have heard people say 'this car is like an extension of my body!" People get possessive and defensive about their cars because they feel like an extension of the body/mind.
My body is a thing that moves me around my mind gives me feelings and thoughts, meaning and ideas. They are tools, we can manipulate and change them. If we want to lose weight, we can. If we want to get physically stronger, we can. If we can get mind and body working together we can do astounding things like running really fast, really far, going really high. We love that stuff and people who can manipulate their own minds and bodies really well are heroes in our culture.
Is there a point to this? Kinda. Our mind and body are amazing things, designed to make us survive and thrive. We can influence and change them, just like we do so many things in our environment - in fact the more we can change something the more we like it.
So if you are feeling stuck then you can free your mind from the stuckness. It's been happening for me.
I want to share that just last night I was released from a stuckness that had been going on since I was around seven years of age, where part of me felt responsible for what was happening and try to manage everyone's expectations, would then feel overwhelmed and shut down - because it was still operating from the capability of a seven year old who felt responsible for everything. It took 30 minutes to understand and then retire that amazing, helpful, protective 40 year old pattern so I can now move forward in a way I've always wanted to. Today I feel I'm breathing fresh air in a way I've never before experienced - that's the only way I can currently describe it.
The mind is amazing and sometimes it instinctively protects us when needed. That can then go on for 40 years and no longer be a protection but a hindrance. But it's totally possible to shift and change the mind, just like we can work or a car or bike or computer.
And yes, all this is, in a sense an advert for the therapy I've been practicing, which has been life changing for me, both in the perspective of how my mind is there to look after me and in how it helps to release old stuck patterns so I can move forward in a healthier way. Plus I get to assist others, too!
We're stuck with the mind and body we've been given and we've shaped them both with our experiences and we can reshape them to support us moving forward.
Give me a shout and let's have a chat about it.