There is always a method in doing something. Whether you are doing a job, playing sport or playing a musical instrument. Some of the methods used in singing a song would be learning the pitch of the notes, timing, speed, and committing the words to memory. Following the practice of all the methods you are ready to sing on stage. Have you ever thought about the principles involved in the performance of the song? or a game of football or golf? a swimming race? baking a cake etc.?
There is one principal that many people naturally adhere to and it is sometimes referred to as “being in the zone” and all elite sports people, musicians, artists use this principle to excel in their endeavours. Most do not know the self evident truth that makes them great. This is my interpretation of “being in the Zone”
Human beings are of two minds. The one most predominant is our thinking mind which is finite (that means it dies when our body does) and belongs to Self. This makes us separate as individuals as we all have a mind of our own and it is our separate mind which we use to learn and practice methods.
What we are overlooking is the Universal Mind from which our self centered mind is a modulation of. The universal mind is ever-present, has no dimensions, has no beginning, no ending and has many names like consciousness, awareness, presence, mother nature to name a few. It is an immense energy field which is within everything including you and is the same field of energy outside of us like water is to marine life. In the zone happens when the energy field of the body comes into resonance with the Universal Mind or Mother Nature. The degree to which this resonance occurs depends on many factors to be covered later. Resonance will only begin to happen when the thinking mind comes to rest.
Seventeen year old Michael has been learning high board diving at the local pool. He has practiced all the methods and every dive he now makes is really good. Walking around the swimming pool one day he notices Wendy (or was it Maggie) from school and she is very attractive. So Michael heads to the diving area to make a dive which he believes he will do well and in doing so she will notice him. (show off)
After imagining a good dive in his head, Michael settled down (heart space) did his final bounce off the board and suddenly wondered if she was watching him and the next thing he knew he had made a really bad belly-flop. Can you see what went wrong? Instead of going into his heart space and staying there as he did in the past, he momentarily went to his head space to think whether Wendy was watching him or not. His thinking separated him from the Singularity. The thinking mind disrupted the energies of mother nature resonating with the energy fields of the body in this instance doing a high board dive.
We only need to notice the silent emptiness between our thoughts and then to merge with our thoughts to provide a method of living and then meld back into the silence to live in a perfect peaceful happy place.
That always has been you. It is you right now. Stop searching! Give-in! …………….. you guessed it, my flamin’ coffee has gone cold again……….Alan.
PS
I remember reading many years ago and also watching this scene play out in a movie where Jesus held up his hands and created a gap in a flowing river and told his followers when they pass through to the other side they will find the promised land.
My interpretation has now changed. Jesus held up his hands and created a gap in the flow of thoughts in the river of our minds and told his followers when they pass through this gap of silence they will find the promised land. That’s my view and I am more than happy. Just a little add-on. ’Till next time…..
A Virtual Coffee with Alan 
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