Shutting Down And Out

MAP

What do you want to talk about today?

That was pretty quick.

I wanted to jump in there before you started thinking.

Oh.  Is that what I usually do?

Not always.  Sometimes.  You seemed to be in a thinking mood and might jump away from a really good topic to discuss.  You do that.

Yes, I know.

Well then, how about some practical tools for living.

Do you really need some?

Some people do – they look to the Bible or other religious texts for guidance.  I think people want to know if they’re on the right track.

How do you know.

By how I feel.

That’s a good start.

But what if you don’t know how you feel?

Then work on feeling more.

Feel more, doubt less.

That sounds pretty simple.

It is.

So why don’t we do it more?

Because you’ve been told not to.  You’ve gone into your heads.

Your bodies are great survival tools with built-in radar detectors, sensors, alarms and so on.

But it worked on what you would call now a very basic level.

You have evolved past that so now while your body still has great input for you, you ignore it for what your mind has to say.

And believe me, your mind is a lot more closed to the world around it than your body.

Your mind may be energy but it operates on a much more closed frequency than what your body does.

If you would feel more you would feel more.

The more you feel the more attuned you become to the nuances as much as the blatant.

Let your mind feel and experience rather than justify and interpret.  Let your mind come into alignment with your body.

Your body can open doors to places that would blow your mind.

What happens if you don’t know?

Then listen, don’t fight it, ease back and relax into it.

Pushing harder does not make you know any more than you do now.  Pushing hard makes you undo that you didn’t have to.

So if we don’t know we should do nothing?

I did not say that.  I said listen and ease into it.

When you do this your mind has less control over your actions.

When you push, that is your mind working at full force.  And when your mind works at full force you become closed down and limited.

I just had an image of horse blinkers.

Yes, that is a good analogy.

When your mind is working full force you have blinkers on.  In fact, you should make a pair for yourself.

Earmuffs would work easily.

Yes they would.

And when you recognize yourself pushing hard trying to make something happen, put these blinkers on to remind you of what you are doing.

Shutting down.  Shutting out.



When you listen and ease into it, that which you don’t know (or so you think), you open yourself up, let yourself in.

You know more than you think you do.  You’ve just stopped listening to yourself and listening with all the ways you can hear.

It’s all there.



Start by feeling your feelings.

Don’t be satisfied with being happy.  Go into it and see what happy is made of.

What nuances can you detect?  What distinctions are there for you to perceive?

Does feeling happy in your toes feel different than feeling happy in your hair?

Feel and you will know.