I’d like to introduce you to someone that you may not be too familiar with: You. This wonderful person, in many ways very similar to you, is, right at this moment, waiting.
They are waiting for you to let them out.
Where is this Person? Inside the present you.
What is keeping me from finding this wonderful Person inside me? Mostly bad habits.
Spiritual Practice is the process of getting rid of bad habits so we can discover ourSelf.
Here’s a New Years experiment:
Imagine that your mind is just a tool. And the seemingly endless variety of thoughts, feelings, and emotions are not you. A lot of that mind traffic is just habit. And most of what is not habit is just neurons automatically bouncing around.
Here’s the practice: when you think a thought that you recognize as being something you think about frequently, possibly a negative thought such as – ‘I’m unattractive’ or ‘people don’t like me’, simply WATCH the thought. You may be tempted to feel something – feel bad, feel unworthy, or feel depressed. DO NOT allow yourself to start feeling. Stop… and WATCH > the thought. Just WATCH it.
What happens to the thought if you just watch it? That’s the test. What does happen?
What happens if you give in to a feeling or emotion, perhaps a sad one – or a scenario in which you feel sorry for yourself?
You don’t have to fight to progress in this practice. You just allow yourself to pause, breathe, and watch your thought, before making an action, feeling, or emotion. Give yourself time to make a choice about your response.
You can just watch your mind spin around. Try it. Don’t react. Just watch.
Then you might ponder about how much of what you just watched is You. You might wonder about the You that can be discovered when those thoughts fade away.
The mind can be a fine tool – and it will run with whatever you’d like to feed it: thoughts, feelings, emotions…
But You are something different entirely.
And once you realize that you can control your minds ‘diet’ so to speak, you can start serving different foods if you choose.
A grandfather is talking with his grandson. He says there are two wolves inside of us which are at war with each other.
One of them is a white wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery, courage, and love. The other is a black wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred, anger, and fear.
The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”
The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feed. link
http://basicgoodness.com/2011/the-black-wolf-and-the-white-wolf/
