Saturday, February 5, 2011
Subtle Mind
This exercise is much less complicated to do and the past 2 but sometimes this can be the most difficult. How often do you think we calm the mind and think of absolutely nothing without trying? Not very often unless in a setting which is calling us to do so, why is this so hard for us to practice naturally? Is it just because we are not conditioned to let go? Is it because we become so detached from our nurturing and relaxed state we fear the silence the realization of what we have become and how we let ourselves get here... ? I can do this practice simply because I have been trained to do this since I was 18 years old but its never easy to submit and surrender control of the mind and body to just let be. I feel in time I will be able to do this while riding a bus, while eating dinner, while shopping, even while sleeping and I'm sure it never will be easy for me but I hope that one day after I'm done meditating and letting my mind fall into a bliss of nothing I will learn how to live in the calmness of the conscious mind as well.
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What a beautiful way to describe this exercise. I think I too can do this exercise because I began practicing it while I was in my hypnotherapy classes. In order to help someone else reach this state of mind, you have to experience it for yourself. I agree that the reason most people have trouble with this exercise is because of the difficulty is in releasing control. It would be much easier if people understood you can maintain your personal power without the control strings.
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ReplyDeleteYou so in tune. So 18 years and still working on it we all then have hope. ;)
I wish that I would have been able to have something like this when I was a teenager I know that the anxiety attacks that I use to have would have been less and maybe not even have happened at all. But I am so thankful for those anxiety attacks because through them I did learn that I have control over my mind body and spirit and that things only get out of control when I let them. Thank you for sharing with us and I look forward to staying connected and walking with you on this journey...
Love & Light
Jamillah~
Thank you Mary, yes I agree I feel like for people to understand this sort of feeling you must experience it, can be explained and one can teach this to others but it can't ever be understood until once experienced. I also think the first time experience this type of clarity is the simplest and best experience one can reach. Why because the first time you are understanding there is more, but your not certain of how to attain it to comprehend it and there is a bliss of knowing nothing only that there is something beautiful in that nothing. The following experiences will bring more wisdom and knowledge but we will let egos hunger for more, this is where the initial experience is lost because of our hidden drive, but hopefully we return full circle. Hopefully we will continue to produce wisdom, knowledge, and bliss without seeking it and without regret of letting it go. Thats what I hope to get to some day on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteJamillah, thank you for your post. I too am looking forward to sharing this connection with you and walking through this journey with you as well. I think we are given gifts that at first seem to be problems and issues but then through them they bring us to find the beauty in other things and ourselves. I too used to get anxiety attacks not as often as I used to but when I do it can really harm me if I don't harness my mind and body but luckily I can detect before I will have one and I will displace myself from the situation that put me in that distress, f I cant then I have to just sit until it passes, I can't speak to anyone and because I fear engaging in conversation or activity with people and lose that harness. I don't get them as frequently now which is my blessing but I hear you and see you when you say they have helped you to learn and to understand what control of the mind is. I hope you are strengthen daily and your mind is a sharper object to you and your body through these unpleasant attacks.
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