I M Perfect lady

Life is broken down into our perception and reality.  One doesn't depend upon the other.

Yet, our lives are dictated by our perceptions much more than they are by reality.

More often, we can disregard reality and live a life a few feet from what is.

 

I am wondering if stress and anxiety arise much more from our perceptions than from what is actually going on.

That in our minds we create a whole world that doesn't exist.

I have been almost void of anxiety and stress since I left my mind.

And, when my body feels anxious and stressful, I am usually going into a pretend world.

Where my thoughts make stuff up.

Things that could happen, or should have happened or what might occur. Rarely am I stressed about what is.

If I am, I am fighting with it.

I have learned the hard way, it is better to live in love with reality.

To stay here now.

No matter what is arising, it will be less stressful than wishing it wasn't happening.

You can't do anything within the walls of your thoughts.

It is an endless loop where no action can happen.

The only place you can make a move is in the present.

You can't unchange the past – nor make creative steps in the future.

There are no relationship movements in the past or in the future or outside of reality.

The mind believes it has a world and choices outside of reality

It does.

But, it is fruitless to live there.

It is a space that is like dreamland.

Where nothing real exists there.

What I wasn't aware of, until I left there, was that it wasn't real or really living.

In that space, in your mind, you are not you.

You are a thought of you.

The real you is sitting in the chair, while your mind takes control of your awareness and makes you believe in something that isn't real.

Something that hasn't happened or cannot happen - because the past can't be changed.

I believe the greatest efforts of control we can have, IS on being here now.

Just not succumbing to the cries of our minds.

To not believe it.

I would never have thought, that the mind was nothing but a over-talker for reality.

That it's job was to keep me away from Me and reality.

"Talk to yourself, instead of listening to yourself," was a line I heard on a podcast.

That one slight change will change your life.

I used to, have zero space between what my thoughts said to me. I was all thought.

Once I was shown in a very dramatic way, that who I thought my life was, and what it really was all about, I went out of my mind.

And, into reality.

I then had to keep working to remain here.

My thoughts often wanted to lure me away, with just one thought. "I wish", or "What if," "He should" "She should" etc.

The difference between my old way of living and believing, is between my mind and reality.

The old way, I lived completely in my mind and under the control of a variety of beliefs.

My new way, is to be in breath of reality.

To be where my breath is.

To bring my mind here and have it see reality.

Instead of having my mind create a overlay upon reality.

My first brush with reality was horrifying for it showed me all that my mind had covered up.

I had years to uncover and get right with, and now I am not inclined to look away from reality – ever.

I feel uncomfortable when my mind tries to lead me away.

Reality is where the action is.

You cannot move in your head – you only think you can.

I am not sure I can articulate accurately the vast distance between mind and reality and the absence of life being under control of a belief.

Religions are mostly made up of thoughts.

Controlled thoughts.

That can overtake your whole mind and critical thinking and leave you floating above reality in another world.

Mothers, will mother from a belief – and their natural instincts are null and void.

A child who doesn't capitulate into the religion, will not be seen, except that they need to come back.  A blind eye is looking at their 'new' life and belief.

Anything outside of the belief is dark and unreadable.

I know this, because I came from a dark narrow hallway of a cult like religion. My whole world view was seen through the lens I was born into.  Once the lens broke, I was free.

It broke when I went out of my mind.

Reality is. 

Religion has to be taught.

Nature echoes reality or visa versa.

In yoga, the practice is to bring your mind back to the body.  Our bodies are always in reality no matter where the mind runs to.  

If you and your mind are with the body, you are in the present.

I am not sure you can teach bringing the mind back to the body. It is an inside job and the willpower or strength will be – between you and your mind.

Try talking to you, instead of listening to the mind.