SHACK 4044 THE QUIET

Courtesy The Restless Mind 

 Oh restless mind how do I still thee? It is your nature to think, twirl and produce the fantastic, the mystic, the horrific, the drama and run away from stillness.

It is natural so they say to think, think boy, don't be a mindless vacant idiot or a smiling compliant nobody, you hear this or at least I did in psychotherapy patients. Why are you filling your head with these foolish notions, man up, be a person, get a life, be successful, make me proud, you should get married, have a family, be somebody and yet there is this quiet person, not timid, just quiet and listening to their heart.

Sometimes being true to yourself does not comply to others who want to live their life through you or be aggrandised through their impact on you and lead a life they never achieved through you and so denying yourself the life that destiny has for you to be usurped by another especially if they have inveigled and groomed one and so they reap the emotional reward of a leaching stolen glory and yourself the benefactor of a second hand deceit and at the time seemed so genuine.

This is not to say there are really genuine benefactors and really love you for being yourself. However the biggest leach is denying the mind to be still and quiet and to to taste and sample the delight to meet and touch as it were another dimension of a contact and eventually realising that feeling of being one with the Universe as if feeling joined and loved by a feeling perhaps not definable in words, adjectives and art but an assurance of life on Earth and in the flesh is not the end of life but a stepping stone to a realm of consciousness the is beyond the norm if there is such a thing.

At first one may wrestle with the need for quietness, not a running away from stress and the wordily duty and cumbersome awkward duties or a feeling of the meaningless of hoarding and unnecessary attachments which desire and to enhance one in the face of others and to seek safety in more and more of things which may rot and decay and can be like a shield, barriers, which can become shrouds and veils that can hide the face of the true you. 

First become aware of the cause of disturbance and the triggers and many of such things are from childhood and many more from the collective incarnations and like traces left from pressing heavily on a paper and the underneath one showing faint traces or the old carbon paper and imprints, these are buried deep in the collective unconscious and lay buried deep in the sands and caves of the mind, like the desert plant that hibernates for years until the chance drop of rain stirs it to growth. 

With the internet and digital devices, the fiendish, nefarious, iniquitous, heinous media and political intrigues, the drugs, the lack of role models, the religion of technology and logic, the lack of the moral compass all these that many of us have lived through in past incarnations and now the graphic displays and arrays trigger off the restless mind which may not recognise or understand the past incident or event and so cause a behaviour which is not commensurate to one's lifestyle as per this incarnation.     

This is the age of purification and burning up the crud and waste of the past, however the data and triggers are so attractive although horrific or astoundingly gorgeous desirable and beautiful that the mind is overwhelmed and gives into the ancient refurbished images which produce the adrenalin and kundalini and stir up the psyche to do almost every good and bad thing.

We live in a feverish world and we need the quiet and even quiet nature places are being sort by those wanting refreshment and the tourism is destroying these havens for those who want to get away from it all. I feel to stay in at the present to face my demons as I have many years in Forensic, with patients, with family disowning me and just being me, I faced many fears and emotional stuff and now is me time as it were and watch the demons of the world and that are in me and not to do much about it only to be aware of them, not even trying to dispel them and not really deliberately meditating and to let my natural intuitive awareness become naturally aware of the restlessness and not to try to and push them down, or encourage them, but to be aware of them or it and that just makes the awareness aware of the trauma or disquiet dissipate and often leave a feeling of  'what an Earth was that' and it is gone like a cloud and one cannot even remember that like a dream gone by, I would suggest that even though I am not deliberately meditating, trying to understand the past or the present trigger, the years of meditating perhaps have somehow facilitated an awareness that is the 'real me' (I'm kidding--or am I?) and I do not have to 'do something in order just to Be----certainly not to be something.

I really don't know why I wrote the above, this really just fell out of the back yard somewhere.

SHACK aka GEOFF