Imagine living with someone who followed you around ranting nonstop babble in your ear? Would you accept it as a
necessary evil, choosing unconsciousness of most everything in order to avoid noticing the clamor?
Sounds silly doesn't it? But that's exactly what most do, thinking nothing of the insanity of it.
This obnoxious voice is our misguided identification with the sense of who we think we arethe thinker. It rants every moment, 24/7/365 comparing how our present reality relates to past recorded circumstance (that may or may not have happened) and how this past interpretation might or might not affect our future and (catch your breath) what we can, can't or ought to do to affect our future so that it does or doesn't turn out similarly.
And it goes on unconsciously nearly every moment of our waking and sleeping life without reprieve.
We don't have to listen to this nonsense. We can notice: this thinking and how we're supporting it, the insanity of the message, the abusive delivery, the irrationality of playing audience to it, and the power within us to release it with a simple, "No thanks, I'll take my chances with raw, live reality over tortuous, convoluted reasoning."
September 7, 2010