Mind Versus God
Today I want to share some thoughts about the mind, how it works and how to use it. My own mind is the reason of my suffering. And the only way to stop the torture is to be mindful. I am sure that I am not the only one who has this problem. Thanks God the solution is pretty simple and the only thing you need to do to overcome the difficulties, is to know the truth. And the truth is that your mind is lying to you all the time and that you cannot trust it. And that you are not your mind, you are the one who is watching it, who is listening to it.
If you start paying attention to what you think, you will notice how often you can change your mind and how crazy some of your thoughts are.
Today you can think that you are in love with your husband. Tomorrow he comes home late from work, and you think that you want a divorce. A week later he buys you a cute necklace and your mind tells you that he is the best man in the world and that you should never leave him.
Your sales performance exceeds budget and you get huge incentives, you love your job, you feel success and you want to share your happiness with everyone. Next month because of hurricane, or some changes in China purchasing behavior, or Bitcoin craziness you lose half of your accounts, and your mind tells you that you need to get drunk or leave your job, or even kill yourself. It is the same mind that loved the job a month ago!
You can look at the snow through your window and enjoy the picture and then you can be stuck in traffic, and your mind would tell you that you need to move to Florida.
How many crazy things does your mind tell you to do every day? Watch it and you will see.
Now let's talk about mindfulness. What if you all of a sudden become conscious of all your thoughts and if you understand that most of them are either useless, or even dangerous? What if you stop listening to them? You probably will ask - then how can I make any decision? I will tell you - the decisions will come to you by themselves, but not from your sick mind, but from God, Universe or Quantum Field, whatever you would like to call it. You need to relax and in this relaxed and creative state you will get all the answers. I promise!
What do we know? Seriously? What do we know? How do you know what is good for you or what is bad? You just hear the mind talking, but this mind is just the part of your body. You got some initial setup, you collected experiences, learned something from your environment... But what can you know about the whole Universe which was created billions of years ago and somehow survived and created you? How can you be hundred percent sure that when you lost your job, you would not find something better? Or how can you know that if your girlfriend left you, you would not meet another one few months later and wouldn't fall in love even more?
I wasted so much time because I thought that I knew what I needed. Because I was listening to my mind, my desires, my likes and dislikes. And it was just stupid! When I look back I see that the best things happened to me without my involvement. Of course I should try to be the best version of myself, and I should not hurt anyone. But in general the best thing I can do is to surrender to life, to love my life and to trust it.
I remember that when I got my green card I had no concerns that I needed to move from Russia to the United States. I left my job in Moscow (which was pretty good), packed my stuff (I took almost nothing with me, because my ex-husband asked to bring him Mercedes headlights, maybe I will share this story one day), and I moved to US. That was it! I had no fear, no concerns, no doubts. And you know why? Because I was not thinking! My mind had nothing to say about it. And I cannot explain why. I think that God helped me back then. I was absolutely free and peaceful. Almost immediately I got a job offer, I found apartment in a day or two and I started a new life without any problems. And I was happy and free until I met someone I wanted to be with. This is when my mind went crazy and didn't let me live in peace. I constantly wanted to do something about my relationships and eventually I got so stressed that I ruined everything. It was painful, but through this suffering I realized that the best thing I could do was to let things go the way they should go. When I am trying to resist the flow of life I get into trouble. When I let it all go, I get something that I couldn't even dream about. ALWAYS! God knows so much better what I need than my limited in experience mind. And Universe always helps me. Again - ALWAYS! Simply because I have no idea about so many things! And there is some greater intelligence which knows everything. And we only get in trouble when we block this magical energy, when we listen to our weird mind.
If you want to make a change first of all you must be honest with yourself. If you let your mind lie to you, you will never be able to improve your life. Your mind will find the reason you should continue suffering. Your ego will try to protect itself because of fears that it has. "How can you let it go? You must do something about that! Let's get drunk and text this woman!", - this is what your mind can tell you. And if you don't get drunk, for example, or don’t call your ex-boyfriend, or don’t yell at your kid, it will keep talking and talking, it will keep creating action plans in your head, driving you nuts. Just let it go! Admit that you don't know the solution. Accept the fact that you cannot fix everything. You cannot change other people, even your own kids. You cannot even change your own mind! And unfortunately even God cannot help all people because we resist his will, we are so afraid of something bad, that we cannot let it go and with our human brain we are trying to solve unsolvable problems. When faith and trust are not there, when only thing you can rely on is your average human brain with it's limitations, you cannot be successful. The best things happen to us when we let life to do its thing. So be honest with yourself, admit the fact that you know nothing compare to what God or Universe know and let it go. It will be the best change you can make in your life!
But I want to say that of course there are a lot of awesome ideas that our brain is capable of. I think that we can use it to do things we are really good at. Everyone has a gift, it can be everything. So, for example, I don't know if I ever get married, I don't know if I ever have kids, but I want to. And my mind creates action plans how to get a man. But it is stupid! How does it know how to get a man? What man? Where is he? When will I meet him? Should I go to the book store, or should I go to the beach? I have no idea! Only God knows things like that. But I do know how to create different types of reports in excel, I know how to sew a skirt, I know how to cook a chicken. So instead of listening to my mind trying to give me advices on how to find a man, I should create a report, sew a new dress, cook a dinner, etc. Got it? Use your mind for the things which will bring the benefits to you and others. And don't let it tell you what to do with the stuff it has no idea about! Unfortunately usually we are focused on things we are more concerned about, and we try to solve not the problems we really can solve, but stuff we don't know how to work with, so ridiculous! It's just funny how brain works! You should train yourself how to be mindful.
If all people will follow this simple truth the world will be a better place. We will suffer much less. People will be so much less stressed and depressed! And we will be able to get information from Universe. We will be open to life's gifts! Instead of blocking good energy with fear created by our own mind, we can become free and happy by letting life flow through us! And it is so beautiful! Once you get there, you will see it!
Don't trust your mind, trust God (Universe, Quantum Field)!
Be mindful!
Be Strong And Love Yourself!