The Higher Vantage Point
We are not our minds. Our thoughts are not our identity. No matter how convincing those thoughts may be. Mastering the objective perspective over our negative thinking patterns brings us back to our own precious seat of awareness. Our true seat of self; our Soul. In this space of calm and clarity, we can view our "selves" remotely, without the need to jump into our reactive responses to life's triggering situations. This is a new habit of being that takes time to build. Meditation will help bring more observation into your life. By setting aside 15 to 20 minutes a day to quiet the mind, you'll find that the mind itself becomes easier to witness and easier to step away from. This is when true healing can begin to enter your life.
When you can maintain this neutral state of being, you'll find that you'll begin to experience life from the all-loving vantage point of your own soul. By stepping away from the endless drama of the mind, you'll finally begin to come into contact with your heart. This is where the fun begins. As your heart begins to feel safe enough to open, life becomes easier to enjoy. When the heart is free to express itself with no self-imposed limitations, that is when co-creation with the divine is at its absolute best. Wether you call it vulnerability, allowance, or openheartedness, living in this liberating way is how you were meant to enjoy life.
The trouble for most of us is that our awareness is constantly consumed by the stress producing thoughts of our minds. Whenever we engage in negative thinking or become "triggered" by an external circumstance, our heart becomes withdrawn for its own safety. This is how most humans are taught to deal with life. What we don't realize is, negative fear-based thinking is a trap for our own consciousness. By engaging in the reactive mind and constricting our heart, we in essence shut down the connection to our higher selves. This keeps us locked into the painful cycle of reactivity and at the same time, keeps us identified with suffering on a personal level. This is why it can feel so hard to break free from patterns of powerlessness, blame, and victimhood.
Chronic overthinking is a habit that's learned from childhood. It's a way to disassociate from the heart in order to numb out to the pain we encountered in our early stages of upbringing. This was the only way we learned to cope with discomfort. Because we weren't taught otherwise, we became fully identified with our problem-solving mind rather than trusting the inner knowledge of our divine selves. Instead of using our mind as a tool for conscious co-creation, we used it as a device to disconnect from pain and the perspective of our soul. In this way, the mind can be more accurately seen as the problem-creator of our reality.
A piece of advice that first helped me gain some objective clarity was this ~ The heart communicates in a gentle whisper, the mind communicates in an attention seeking scream.
By becoming more of an objective observer, you'll begin to easily differentiate the mind from the heart. This is when your newly discovered power of choice comes back into play. You'll realize through trial and error that you actually have the ability to choose to listen to your troubled mind or instead, honor your powerful heart. It all comes down to a split second decision in a trauma triggering situation. Our awareness is naturally attracted to that which creates the most disturbance within ourselves or our environment. This is how the primal fight-or-flight brain keeps us alive... but as you well know by now, your brain can easily become hyper focused on what's "wrong" rather that what's right in your reality. The trick is, to pivot our attention from our mind to our heart during times of extreme discord and actually allow ourselves to feel, release, forgive, and heal. This is Emotional Transmutation in a nutshell. (more on that topic in another post).
Whenever you encounter an upsetting condition or thought pattern in your day to day life, that's your opportunity to drop your guard and dive deep into the feelings of your heart. As children we learned negative feelings were "bad", hence why we learned to avoid them. This caused us to stagnate our souls natural evolution; locking our 12 year old thought patterns into a 35 year old body. If you can teach yourself not to avoid bad feelings, but instead, embrace them, you'll find valuable lessons in each emotion that arises. By bringing your awareness into each emotional upset, you'll find your body and soul naturally begins to mature and evolve. Eventually, you'll learn to integrate your mind and heart through the power of your presence. This is when the mind becomes an ally rather than an enemy.
Living with this new perspective over your "self" you'll find clarity and ease arising within you. You'll begin to observe your mind through turbulent conditions and be able to gently guide yourself through those conditions with the perspective of the divine. It's like being in the directors chair of your own life, uninvolved with all the drama of the actors on the set of your personal experience. In this way, you can create your vision under any condition that arises. By staying true to your essence even under pressure, life begins to surrender to your personal desires. Breaking free from old self-defeating thoughts is a giant leap toward becoming fully integrated with your own soul. Learning to drop your defenses, distractions, and doubts, causes you to enter the raw-state of living in full allowance. This is when your heart begins to blossom and you begin to claim back your right to thrive on this planet.
Don't be hard on yourself. It's easy to mistake the mind for your truth. The mind is only creating by habit and the habits it's creating from are rooted in from early stages of your development. Until a new basis of creating your life deliberately is established, the mind will simply try and default back to your individual comfort zone. There's nothing wrong with the mind itself, it's simply the user of the mind that needs to be recalibrated. Your mind is powerful. Your thoughts are powerful. But they are not your identity. You're the creator of your thoughts. You're the creator of your reality. This means you're not "Insecure". You're not "Unworthy", "Poor", or "Unlovable"... those are simply the thoughts you've been letting your mind habitually run with throughout your entire life. Take back ownership of your mind. Take back your power to feel your real self underneath the constant chatter of your thoughts.
Living as a fully embodied soul requires learning to drop your guard to reality. So long as a person is attached to their mind they can never truly be free. Mind-based living is a very shallow way to spend one's life here on earth. Not to mention, it's full of extreme ups and downs. Learn to soften the mind so you can receive your spirit. If you can create just enough space for your soul to be heard on a daily basis, you'll find that divine connection will alter your life in more ways than you can imagine. Since childhood, you've been taught to hide your emotions, deny your impulses, and suppress your dreams. But what if you simply let all that go and just allowed yourself to actually BE yourself? Imagine the possibilities for your life... Where would you go? Who would you become? What would you do for your career?
Just some questions to ponder about.
Much love.
~ Austin
