Are we really all mad?
You have heard people say we are all mad, well we are. You must have thought聽that some people you meet are stark raving mad, when you have no idea what聽they are going on about or why. Well the same is said about you and me out聽there. Our minds are full of junk, chatter, repetition and noise and we ourselves聽put it all there. But we can save ourselves from our own insane minds.
But before I go on I want you to clear your mind of judgment for just a while or聽else you will not be able to accept what I have to say because your mind ego will聽try to reject it. Are you ready?
Before you were three years of age you just saw the world as an amazing place聽because you were in a state of pure awareness. You had not yet formed an idea聽about you or the world. Over the years however you have formed ideas about聽you and everything else in the world. You have opinions and beliefs about聽people, products, nations, religion, gay life, straight life, babies 鈥� you name it you聽have developed an idea about it from your own point of view. And from these聽ideas you see your world. It is not my world, or for that matter anyone else鈥檚, it is聽only yours. Scary huh!
So what happens is your mind is full of chatter, junk, repetition and noise as it聽judges everything around you. It means you never really see anything as it truly聽is. Your lovely pure awareness that you once had before you were three has gone.
The first trick to get pure awareness back is to know this. Once you know you聽are seeing the world through your own filters you can place a space between you聽and your thoughts. That is the second and most important trick 鈥� finding that聽space. Can you do that now? Try to watch your mind think Stuff.
This space is your sanity. Say you feel depressed about all the things that have聽happened to you or worry all the time about the future. There goes the mind聽making up stories or replaying noise over and over again, slowly driving you聽into depressed thoughts. Now place a space between you and what your mind is聽thinking. Does it feel a little easier now? Do you now feel a little separated from聽your mind made problems? There is you and then there is your junk mind.
How did you go with all this mind stuff? It might resonate with you and it might聽not.聽If you get it then I hope you know you can create a space between you and your聽noisy, junk filled mind. Actually it is easier than you think. Ah, isn鈥檛 that better聽already? Look up Eckhart Tolle on You Tube, he might change your life.
Gerry North is a gay couples and general counsellor.
Email: [email protected]. www.gaycounselling.vpweb.com.au
