December Insights
Awakening Presence
How you think is linked to hundreds of years of conditioning. When you are locked in a way of being and thinking (conditioning), you close yourself from the infinite and indefinable universal energy. When you become lost in the conditioning of self-righteousness, your thoughts define who you are, what you want, and you are not able to grow naturally. Rather, you are locked in a perceived structure, a box, of what you believe is truth.
Conditioned thinking leads you to live by that same structured conditioning. When awakened, you recognize those thoughts as conditioned thinking. You become the witness to those thoughts as spirit first. From this place of stillness, your prespective changes to spirit first.
A Shift in Perspective
If you are lost to this conditioning you are not aware of being the witness. When you are awakened you observe the thoughts in the head as part of your human experience and the voice you hear is that of spirit. In some way you discover you hold the key to unlocking a new beginning. Instead of asking yourself what you want, you now ask yourself different questions:
- What am I putting out to the world?
- How can I make a difference?
- Is there something I can do differently?
What Prevents the Shift?
Excessive thoughts. These cause anxiety and stress, as you struggle to identify what you want, and set goals for a new way of being. You get caught up in endless thinking that prevents you from sleeping, leaving you exhausted and unhappy.
A busy mind strives to become, rather than BE.
A still mind nurtures a calm body and soul. It creates room to hear, and to plan. When you sit in stillness and silence you touch into the essence of who you are as spirit having a human experience. In simply ‘being’, you slowly shed layers of perceived reality. That story you are hanging onto is affecting what and how you are creating.
In stillness you become alert in life to experience the present moment with peace.
You take responsibility for shifting your perspective to that of witnessing your thoughts. It is now possible to notice the effects of your thoughts on yourself, and the effects it has on how you relate with others.
Awakened and present, you experience living with choice that is nurtured by spirit, not ego.
- You are not your thought processes. Your thoughts affect what you create.
- Notice if or how you react or respond to everyday situations.
- Quiet your mind to observe your experiences with new found peace and consciousness.
- Allow the unobserved mind and thoughts to dissolve and fade away
Stop. Sit down. Close your eyes. Breathe. Enter the silence.
By Regina Kaiser
Rewritten from January 2012
