“When we begin to walk the path of a seeker or a mystic, it means we’ve come up against some aspect of our lives – of ourselves – that’s no longer working for us. For some who come to this work, it’s a crisis: a dire diagnosis. Or the end of a relationship. Financial hardship. For others, it may be a general sense of dissatisfaction or unease. Not necessarily an emergency, but – an emptiness.
Whatever brings us to the point of choosing something different, it’s because we finally realize that continuing to choose the same – the same thoughts; same feelings; same habits; same emotional reactions – will bring us only more of the same experiences.
To choose something different is to choose to leave the past – to leave our old selves – behind. It’s the only way we can enter the present moment – and give ourselves the opportunity to create something new.
It takes a tremendous amount of energy and courage to walk a new path. When we’re learning something new, we have to give that new area of study our sustained time and attention. We must etch what we’re learning into our brain by constantly weighing what we know against what we don’t know. We must understand the what and the why – so we can begin to naturally rehearse in our minds how we’re going to apply it.
… we have to stay conscious. We have to employ restraint – so we don’t fall back into our old programs.
We have to practice with our eyes open so we can actually perform the new behavior. We keep doing. We keep learning from our mistakes. We keep self-correcting. And we refine the act.
When we’ve actually created an experience, there’s an enrichment of circuitry in the brain – and an emotion that’s created from that experience. And that emotion is instructing the body to understand chemically what the mind has understood intellectually. At the same time, networks of neurons enhance the philosophical mind through the experience.
Now, the information is further etched in the mind – and conditioned in the body. And it takes some time – and a lot of awareness and energy.”
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