🎬 today we continue an important series of 3 parts about MODULES AND QUIET YOUR MIND ✨💙 In this second part (2/3) we see that if you evaluate your feelings mindfully and objectively, you can then decide which ones you’re going to let get traction. You can then decide which feeling you’re going to engage with. When you feel something, always view that with discernment, do you know why? Because feelings can’t be trusted as accurate.
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Today I want to talk about what happens when nothing happens.
I can’t tell you not to think about your anxieties, expectations… about love and sadness. Because as soon as I ask that you’ll start thinking about everything. You’ll think about yesterday, tomorrow, you’ll remember many different things coming from your childhood, you’ll think about everything you want to bring into your life, for your future. If I ask you not to think about anything, the default network that exists in your mind will take control and send you many different thoughts. It’s not only one thought. The default network will feed you with as many thoughts as you can engage at once.
5 - THE DEFAULT MODE NETWORK TAKES ADVANTAGE OF FREE TIME
I’ll repeat because this is important. 5 - THE DEFAULT MODE NETWORK TAKES ADVANTAGE OF FREE TIME. When you’re walking on the streets, when you’re cooking in your kitchen, when there’s a moment that you’re not doing absolutely anything, and you just don’t want to think about anything, your mind is going to be connected to the default mode network. And this DEFAULT MODE NETWORK takes you and your mind to a place other than here and now. Your brain is trying to make that free time USEFUL for you, because you’re not engaged in any particular activity. So it takes you to the PAST or to the FUTURE, but never to the most important time, the PRESENT.
Some studies show that meditation can help make this DEFAULT MODE NETWORK quieter. More silent. But our brain, our mind is something extraordinary, it’s a holy organ that we barely know. We know just a little bit of this organ that many try to understand and even try to copy. We try to copy that as a computer… We try to copy our mind in technology. We even add a “default mode” to the electronics. Our phones come in a default mode, and then we adjust the settings… the wallpapers accordingly to what we want, accordingly to what we like. That’s what we have to do with our mind! Change the settings!
6 - YOU CAN DECIDE WHICH FEELING YOU ENGAGE WITH
Sometimes we can’t even distinguish what are sensations, what are emotions. We don’t notice the neural connections, we don’t know the various levels of our consciousness. We have different internal sensations: well being, happiness, sadness, the whole world of emotions. Wanting something, not wanting something. So when you are finally able to recognize what you’re feeling, what sensation you’re having, please, feel that you’re lucky and think of what you’re going to do about it in the present moment.
If you evaluate your feelings mindfully and objectively, you can then decide which ones you’re going to let get traction. You can then decide which feeling you’re going to engage with. When you feel something, always view that with discernment, do you know why? Because feelings can’t be trusted as accurate.
I want you to always remember that:
1 - FEELINGS AREN’T RELIABLE GUIDES TO REALITY
No, feelings cannot guide your reality. You cannot let what your feelings are telling you SHAPE how you see the situation, the past events and the present world. Try to understand which feelings it makes sense for you to engage with and which feelings it doesn’t make sense.
Well, you can ask me about anger for example. Let’s say you’re driving and someone commits some transgression. Of course you’re going to feel the anger. And you can, you have to allow it to come. Feel it. Feel that anger in your body. However, that is the moment where you cannot let that anger take control of your body and make you do things like… you start screaming at the person or even start chasing them down the road to keep screaming and showing the middle finger.
The same with anxiety. The same with sadness. It doesn’t matter what the situation is. Feel it. Feel like you want to send that text message for your crush now at 1am. Feel it but look at that feeling with discernment. Feelings cannot be trusted. Sometimes they are right. You have to follow them. We’re humans, and feelings help us live in this world, but it’s not always that you can trust them and let them control you.
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