I have been scaling back on thinking. Some not so familiar with Practice might respond with, “You mean over thinking a situation?” Not exactly, although my experience is that over thinking is quite often where “run-of-the-mill” thinking happens.
Have you ever noticed that when one is in the process of thinking, the body suddenly does not exist? Also, the external world and everyone in it seem to disappear from sight – leading, in my case, to bumping into things. Oddly, there is a belief that thinking is helpful. How helpful can “thinking” be if it is accessed in a closed-off world of separation?
On occasion it can be fun to watch egocentric karmic conditioning/self-hate scramble to hold on to the importance of this clever “highly-thought-of understanding.” Yet, it is actually nothing more than a distraction and an experience of separation. Conditioned mind yells, “What? How will…? How can…? What will….you do?”
We are blessed because Life is always there holding us. We are surrounded at all times by multitudes of instant antidotes that require no thought, just simple open-hearted presence. A dropped spoon, a gust of wind, a familiar song, the smell of a lilac bush -- all calling us back to presence, the heart.
Back! Connected!
Presence, Compassion, Gratitude.
At these times, I enjoy tossing the head back as a reminder that it is connected to the body and all of Life, along with a gentle smile as a way to offer compassion to the one whose head was in a spin.
In that moment, there is the opening, the invitation to reach for the recorder and in trust, allow Life to inform.
Gassho,
Lynette