Feelings

So you have jobs to do around the house or you’re about to start work for the day and you’re also feeling a little uneasy, after all, life does have challenges. Does Life have to always be this way? Well it always will be all the while you are waiting for something or someone else in your life to change. Maybe you expect to feel better at day’s end after it’s all done for now. After all, I can have a positive mental attitude can’t I?

Do you realise that living your life that way you are allowing everything and everyone outside of you to contribute and affect your feelings? Well if you believe you will feel better when something finishes or someone changes their mind about something aren’t you living at their mercy?

Are you going to continue living like that which is slowly destroying you or would you like to learn something from what life is offering you. You will only move from experiencing life’s doings to the experience of learning by noticing what is happening to you. You have to notice your feelings and notice what is happening outside of you that causes you to feel that way.  ‘It’s too hard to change’ I hear you say. Now ask yourself ‘ what makes me say that? What has happened in my life that makes me not want to notice my Life? ‘why am I allowing the happenings of life to control me like this to the extent I’m so overwhelmed or unhappy when other people are so content with life? They always have a smile on their face.

Well maybe it’s your upbringing!

Growing up as a child and all through your teens and beyond, weren’t you told ‘what was what’ by grownups of all descriptions? So you have to expect all those ideas stored in your brain to be true. After-all, those ideas you have of yourself  and how you see life happening for you has taken years of experience and that is who you are so it’s okay to say I cannot change that. Maybe you are so used to being unhappy, complaining about an illness that won’t get better that you don’t want to change anyway. Just notice your feelings and ask why you are that way. Can you see your life has not been determined by you but by people and things outside of you? If you haven’t been shown how to notice the true realities, your life has to be at the mercy of others.

Isn’t it interesting to notice that your life to now has been created for you from the thinking and ideas from other humans? Ponder that!

So that being the case and there’s no other way to learn how to live life as a human, you have to understand that unless you change, you will continue to be at the mercy of things and people and you will continue to react to everyone and everything.

You’re standing making a cup of Tea and while waiting for the water to boil you notice you don’t feel happy at all. You notice you are really bored with life at this moment so you ask yourself “why am I feeling bored”? Well maybe there is nothing exciting happening in your external world so while sipping on the cup of tea you’ll flick through the TV channels and see if you can find something of interest to get your mind activated again. We are so used to having to do something  in order to get something. To be a noticer you don’t have to do anything, it’s more about letting go. As an example, to get anything in the external world, you have to think about what to do whereas a quiet mind is paramount to have an inward journey as a noticer.

Here’s a great exercise to understand what’s been written.

You are aware of your surroundings aren’t you? Can you tell me “what is the nature of you and your surroundings”? If you answer with a story, that story is incorrect as nature has no thinking mind, so now with your thinking mind at rest, “can you tell me the nature of you and your surroundings”?

Do you notice an emptiness that appears very quiet and peaceful. Believe me that quiet place is totally different to being bored. Boredom is a result of no external stimuli to activate your thinking mind.

As your body is a byproduct of evolution which happens naturally and you turn away from the external world and you notice anything that is of nature like your breathing, your thinking mind comes to rest leaving you in a pure peaceful place which we call Awareness. It’s impossible to notice Awareness and think about something at the same time. One is finite the other is infinite. One is false as it is polarised the other Truth as there’s only Unity which is unconditional love. Life in the external world will die. The Real life, that is being aware of Awareness cannot die as it is infinite and eternal with no beginning or ending. How blessed is all of humanity to be able, only from the external world of doing, to awaken and live from the nature of Creation.

It’s all about letting go of being mesmerised and becoming a noticer. A Noticer is the real you and the external world is also only noticed. No reaction to any stimuli, no boredom, no false love or happiness as the Noticer lives from the unconditional love of creation. Therein lives the Real Truth.  It is noticed in the pure innocence of a baby. Stop clinging, remove the covers of upbringing and let the light of consciousness shine through you. A God given gift missing from your life waiting for you to Awaken to the Truth.