Have you ever notice that your life turned out exactly like you thought it would.  Not how you hoped it would, but how you thought it would.  That’s because of a phenomenon in the “Being” of being human called the “Drift”.

That Drift usually takes the form of what ever cultural conversation you were born into.  The implications of this are really very fascinating, and a very long conversation.

This next part should really bake your noodle.  

It isn’t even your life anyway, it’s “Its” life and the “You” that you really are is not required for the living of “Its” life.  If you are resisting the domination of the possibility that this brings up, stay with me for a minute.

Consider the possibility that the “You” that you really “are”, shares existence in the realm of the relative with an entity we shall call “It”.  Also consider the possibility that, “It” actually lives the life that “You” think you have.

Saying the same thing in another way: Consider that the “I” in the phase “I” think, “I” want, “I” like, “I” breathe, and “I” feel is not really “You” and is really a deep superstition you have (and this superstition is capable of living life completely without you).  Also consider that this superstition is so deep that you don’t think “It” is not you, you are, that it is you.

“It” wakes you up in the morning.  ”It” brushes your teeth. “It” has kids that it fixes breakfast for. “It” (maybe) has a significant other that it snuggles up to at night. “It” drives to work. “It” has friends. “It” has Your life!

Lets get this notion about the “I” that you are for yourself handled once and for all.  If  ”You” are the “I” that is referenced in the phrase I think, I breath, I feel then “You” stop thinking, “You” stop breathing, “You” stop feeling.  When you find that you can’t, you might want to re-consider the possibility that “It” is not “You” anyway.

If you can “Be” with the “bucket of cold water” that, this fact is (in a way that doesn’t dis-empower you) a space of possibility for a future that didn’t exist (for the “You” that you really are) before then, will begin to open up, inside of which, “You” can play with the question “What do YOU want?”.

Here’s the dose of reality I promised in the beginning: “It” really does have everything else in life handled, freeing the “You” that you really are, to do what ever “You” really want to do in life.

Cup O Joe.

What does it mean to be self aware?  Exactly “what” is aware of “what“? Where do our experiences in life come from? How can I use this to gain mastery over my thoughts and feelings? All of these are great questions. Understanding the following post will help you gain mastery over your thoughts and feelings.

The content that makes up your experiences in life comes from two places (or centers) in the body.  It would also be accurate to say, these two centers in the body are your two centers of “Being“. ~o)

The mind is the logic center of the body and the solar plexus is the feeling center of the body. The solar plexus is a unique bundle of nerves located deep in the chest behind the lungs.  The solar plexus is also where the subconscious lives. The solar plexus was named this because (like the sun) it radiates (drawing from source energy) the life energy necessary for the force field of the S.O.U.L. to exist in the realm of the relative. The energy (from Source Energy) used to create your force field is distributed along certain meridians of the body called “Chakras”.  Both “centers of Being“ are capable of independent non verbal communication with the body.

It would also be accurate to say the mind is the clearing for our thoughts (to show up) and the solar plexus (subconscious mind) is the clearing for our feelings (to show up). These two centers of being are in a constant competition for the expression that is your life. Your two centers of being are connected by a single channel called the Vegas nerve. It is this channel that allows your two centers of being to become aware of each other and form the duality you know as “you” (the little voice in your head that never shuts up). The Jamaicans call that duality “The I in I”.

Most if not all of the incorrect logic (harmful thoughts) and the breeding of insane human behaviors can be attributed to the collapse (or blending) of these two experiences into one experience called the “vicious circle of life” where your thoughts and feelings about something are so mixed up it becomes difficult to make a decision on some issues we sometimes have to deal with in life. The collapse of your thoughts and feelings into a single experience is the basis for the conundrum we experience when the heart and the head are of opposing view points on an issue. The collapse also makes it difficult to think or feel your way through a problem in life.

If we hold one experience distinct from another (i.e. separate what one feels about something vs what one thinks about something) it then becomes easier to find a solution to one or more of our life’s issues or concerns.

It is the blending (at the speed of thought) of these two centers of being that we achieve the state of BEING we call self aware, where the self (the mind) becomes aware of and enters into a life long conversation with the self (the subconscious mind). When the self becomes aware of the self, the conversation they enter into is centered around two topics “survival of the being” and “what things mean”. Survival and meaning is the game we all play in life.

There are only two types of experiences in life. If one takes time to notice, there is only what one thinks about something or what one feels about something.

All of this is great Leonard, and what can I do with this knowledge?

First, you can realize you are not your thoughts. Second, you can realize you are not your feelings. Third, you can realize you are not even a combination of your thoughts or feelings.

What you are, is a “clearing” for your thoughts and feeling to have expression in the world. What’s important about knowing that is this, thoughts and feelings are something you have, not something you are. It sounds simple, however most of us relate to our thoughts and feelings as tho they have us, not the other way around. Coming from that point of view will leave you “at the effect of” instead of “the cause of” your experiences in life. Not a very powerful place to stand, especially if what you want to experience is your natural state of happiness.

Mastery over our thoughts and feelings begins with the knowledge that we are an empty vessel for Life to express itself. Having dominion over both our thoughts and our feelings, lives in the practice of holding one type of experience distinct from the other. Further mastery comes with the knowledge that thoughts and feelings actually show up in the empty space we are and do not necessarily require any action on our part. Especially if that action goes against the grain of our internal compass.

Mastery over our thoughts and feelings will be attained when one can simply notice whats there (what one thinks vs what one feels), without the need to act on what one notices. It is the patterned inclination to “do” something with what we notice that is the cause of most of the upset we experience in life.

I hope you have enjoyed this Cup-O-Joe.

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I am of the belief that nothing I write is true. My writings are nothing more than the rantings of a pseudo eclectic and are therefore only “my point of view” to be tried on or not, with no more thought than you would try on a coat for functionality in your life.

On Happiness – One of my favorite teachers once said. You will never, ever “get” happy. By accident, anything else may leave you feeling happy, but the “pursuit of happiness” is the only guarantee against it. Warner Erhard – Landmark Education

Happy, happy, happy! We all go nuts over the “Pursuit of Happiness”. I agree with Warner. “The Pursuit of Happiness” is the only guarantee against it. Here’s what I mean by that. The very phrase itself is given life from the assumption that you don’t already have it!

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