Jedi Mind Trick
Being Yourself, Being Enough - Is That Enough For You?
Your mind is an amazing resource storing so much information and leading you towards information you might never have seen. It's also a complicated resource when you allow yourself to think you are your thinking mind.
What do I mean?
Your mind can take you for a loop on any tangent you like if you allow yourself to get caught there. In fact, people get caught there all the time.
Have you ever experienced depression, sadness, anger? Where your thoughts are in a constant loop back to how inferior you are, or how bad you are?
I certainly have. And the insight that came to me today was just how our roiling thoughts and emotions are so much like a tornado. Once you are caught in the loop, how difficult it seems to move out of the funk.
When you allow yourself to think that you are that loop, that roiling storm of thoughts and emotions.. It's nearly impossible to move out of it, to get back on track with your day to day, to live a functional enjoyable life.
When you realise you are more than your thoughts, then you can move beyond them.
Which brings me to my Jedi mind trick.
How do we realise our true selves?
That is, to say, how do you recognise your worth and ability, your expansive Spirit, your Being-ness?
Two roll into one:
As soon as you notice yourself falling into an emotional thought loop with thoughts like: "I'm not good enough because __(whatever stick you're beating yourself with)__"..
Use the Marissa Peer special Jedi mind trick. Repeat "I AM enough" to yourself over and over.
This not only refocuses your mind in another direction, it points you in a direction that will fulfil you. And is a penultimate method for truly recognising your expanded self, your inner being, your Spirit.
Too simple?
Well, before you shun it, use it. Keep using it until your heart opens with love for yourself. That's the only way you will know that it works.
