Taming the Wild Nature of the Mind (Part Two): DAY 468
So, what Cerise needed to build the relationship with her
Horse was: Knowledge and Information, Technique and Tools to establish a
communication with her Horse – a language
that both equally understand to come-together in equality within and as their
relationship.
This same process goes for the Mind: we first have to
understand the mind, get to know it (the Knowledge and Information), then have
the Tools with which to work with it and the Technique to place the Knowledge
and Information with the Tools into practical living change with regards to who
we are within and as the Mind.
Now, if Cerise had the knowledge, information, technique and
tools only within herself – and didn’t take the initial first step of starting
the process: the relationship with her horse would not have developed in any
way whatsoever. With horses, one often do an initial ‘relationship assessment’
– to see how the horse responds to you, what is their nature etc. – one
essentially see/assess who/how one is, who/how the horse is and who/how you are
together. From here one start with the basics of establishing a relationship,
stabilizing the relationship and practise in the basics before one get to the
more complex forms of communication/interaction
in the relationship.
This is the same with our relationship to the Mind: if we
only hold the knowledge, information, technique and tools within ourselves in
relationship to the Mind, but still accept/allow ourselves in the Mind to ‘run
wild’ – no change will ever manifest within who we are / in the Mind and so
also not in our life/living experience/application. Therefore, in process – one
always start with the basics to analyse/assess your relationship to thoughts,
emotions/feelings, backchat, imagination.
To be able to ‘see yourself for who/how/what you are’ – you need to
self-honestly know how quickly you tend to follow thoughts, what particular
thoughts you tend to follow more easily than others, how/why/when/where you
give into emotions/feelings and what particular emotions/feelings you tend to
give into more easily than others. The same then goes for imaginations /
backchats. One need to have a ‘map’ of who you are in/as the Mind to from there
start with the basics to be able to establish a relationship with yourself, the
Mind and your life/living experience/application. From here, the process starts
with applying the knowledge, information, technique and tools step by step, day
by day – working with and changing what you’re able to at this stage based on
your current, self honest, relationship to
yourself and the Mind and your life/living experience/application.
See, again – if Cerise had an idea in her mind in relation
to the relationship with the Horse that she WANTS and she held onto that
projection and had tried to throw herself into the ‘deep-end’, so to speak,
already starting with complex forms of techniques / tools without having made
an realistic assessment of who she is/who the horse is and what their
relationship are in the current moment of interaction: she would have created
what we all so often face – the Illusion of ‘Failure’. When, all the while – it
has nothing to do with failure, but everything to do with not walking the
Process, not Preparing and not taking it step by step – but trying to manifest
the Mind’s Projection of the Future,
onto the now / here / present of physical reality and so not remembering what
it would in fact take to create a relationship in/as Physical Reality.
We often do the same in our Internal Process with the Mind –
we already ‘project’ who / how it is we’re going to be from the get-go and then
we try and immediately manifest that Mind Projection into Physical Reality and
so not remember that the Physical moves with space and time, with breaths, with
sequences of events and that – to Create in the Physical – takes time,
patience, commitment and dedication. Starting with the basics and establishing
a foundation to BUILD on that foundation as we continue walking and changing
and so, in this process, one can stop the Illusion of Failure – through
remembering the PHYSICAL PROCESS that has to be walked to change one’s
relationship to self, the mind and so who/how one is in one’s life/living
experience.
We’ll continue more in the next post with specifically
having a look at the ‘wild nature of the mind’ as it now exists because we’re
not the directive principle of our own thoughts/emotions, for example and so
why/how we’re not in control of our own Minds and our own life/living
experiences/decisions. In this, we’re going to see how we can assist / support
ourselves to rebuild ourselves, recreate ourselves within and without.
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