a message from today’s meditation:
”The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” – Caroline Myss
“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.” – Rachel Naomi Remen
I have learned to trust that our souls know exactly how to heal us once we get the mind out of the way. But as much as “silencing the mind” is the perfect description, silencing the mind as a goal or as a practice seems to not be very useful.
We are given a busy subconscious mind as a tool for survival, and it’s a very successful tool at that. And so trying to will or force a mind to be quiet, is literally a threat to it’s survival and will be resisted by trying to fight the source of this threat which is you…
“Silencing the mind” is rather a side-effect of forming a new relationship with your mind, your thoughts. The new relationship that you can form with your “self” is one of being the observer, being able to witness those thoughts that are so worried about all the expectations and who you “should” be – while being able to just hold them without judgement or criticism. When you don’t react and just watch, it eventually becomes clear to your thoughts that there is no threat here. That is when the mind becomes quieter in and of itself.
Join us at the link below for today’s meditation which is a very simple exercise of exactly this – being the witness to what your body is experiencing.
Have a beautiful Saturday.
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Come to your senses.