Mind is like a yoyo…

I have a beautiful magnet on my fridge that says: “The heart was only meant to be, a little wild, a little free…” So, where is that wild and free heart? Where is the part of you that has the courage to be wild and free? Are you following your dreams? If not, that part of you has been suppressed. By who or what? If you guessed the mind, you are right.

The mind is like your personal inner nag and negative critic. It stops you dead in your tracks at the first hint of inspiration, before you even finish your sentence in your head. The mind is there with a big club, and your fragile sprout of an idea is dead before you even had time to give birth to it!

I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie “Under the Tuscan Sun.” This lady is on a trip to Tuscany and sees a poster of a lovely little house. Another woman sees her interest and asks, “Are you going to buy it?” And she answers: “Oh, no, I couldn’t possibly, it is a terrible idea!” The other one answers: “Yes, a terrible idea… don’t you love those?”

Those are actually your best ideas! The terrible ones! Those are the ones that makes your mind shiver with fears, buts and great arguments why it will NEVER work!!!

Why does this happen? Why do we have this inner sludge of negativity that stops us from living life with passion and zest? What is this “mind” anyway?

Mind lives in the logical side of your brain, the left side, and it is actually only meant to be a tool for your divine expression. Unfortunately, it has forgotten this, and now it tries to take over your life completely! It rules through logic, reason, criticizm and arrogance, and unfortunately, it has the power to stop us dead in our tracks.

Why does logic have this kind of effect on us? Very simple. When you allow your intuition to speak, it comes from a dimension beyond the known, and it speaks about ideas, things and places that are new to you. Things that you have never done before, or places that you have never seen. It comes from the unknown, and it tempts and ushers you into the unknown as well.

The unknown is not compatible with your mind. To the mind, this kind of behavior looks like sheer madness, so it will convince you that you are either mad, or you must come to your senses! And, then, it starts moving like a yoyo, from past to future and back again.

It convinces you that you have no past experience with what you are about to embark on, which means that you don’t know where you are going either. If you learn from your past, you won’t make mistakes in the future. If you have no past experience, your future will be nothing but a total disaster, with one mistake leading to another! And what is the point of that??? Be reasonable! Think before you leap! And, besides, you are too old, and it is too late, and you won’t be any good at it anyway…

Oh, so convincing. How can you argue with such logic and reason? You make a deep sigh and resign to the fact that no matter how attractive your new ideas are, and no matter how much you want to jump into something new with zest and passion, you can see your courage floating out the window and disappearing back to where it came from in the first place, the source of infinite possibilities and unlimited potential!

However, there is one major fault with the mind, which it hides beautifully, and that is the fact that the mind is never actually here…
It gets its arguments from the past, which is already gone, and it projects its gloomy predictions into the future, which hasn’t happened yet, and it never stops right in between past and future, which is where we are. The past is gone, and the future hasn’t happened. In fact, the future NEVER happens because it is ALWAYS NOW! Now is all there is. And, when we forget that, we give mind all the power to destroy our lives.

The fact is, the mind has no power in the now. It doesn’t actually exist in the now. Only life exists here, and now. So, if you feel that your life is boring, meaningless, and has lost its attraction, and you are no longer excited about anything anymore, it only means one thing – you have allowed your mind to destroy your life!

Once you see this, there is hope. Once you see this, you can start over. New slate, new ideas, here and now… Mind, go away with all your negative ifs and buts… I’m no longer interested. This is my life, and while I’m here, I’m going to make sure I live it! That’s right, life is here to be lived to the fullest! Don’t miss the opportunity… Seize the day….

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