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Can you be fully present when you do something? May sound like an odd question…

This past week seemed to be a vehicle cleaning week…must be in the air. After I vacuumed out the car, I decided to vacuum out the truck. Little did I know the lesson I was in for!

As I started to vacuum…my mind started to bring up thoughts around cleaning. It played the same thoughts over and over. My mind took me out of the now moment and reminded me about the last time I cleaned the truck. It was spotless…or so I wanted to believe. It was about a week before my husband took the truck hunting with a number of hunting buddies. At the time, I wasn’t aware he intended on taking the truck. After being in the bush for a number of days, the truck came back looking not so clean.

When I had first started to vacuum, I wasn’t even thinking about the last hunting trip. In no time, there I was…thoughts started to run through my head about all the work I did for nothing….about not getting to enjoy my cleaning efforts…about how no one will even appreciate having a clean truck. The thoughts didn’t stop there. My mind continued to tell me that I was the only one who cared about keeping the truck clean. How is that for the power of the mind? Was I in the now moment of being with what I was doing?

Have you ever experienced that? Have you ever experienced being in a great space where you are feeling the joy of doing something and by the time you are done you wished your mind would stop already?

The mind can take a perfectly peaceful joyful moment and toss you out of that moment feeling bothered and agitated. That can happen so many times in a day. The interesting thing about the mind is most of the time we aren’t even consciously aware of what is taking place.

It was in those first few minutes of vacuuming the truck that I realized first hand what was truly going on! After about the fifth time of hearing those repeated thoughts, I said to my Divine, ‘I ask You to silence the mind.’ In no time my mind had become quiet and I once again experienced the joy of what I was doing in the moment.

You will know your mind is at work when you start thinking about justifying and exaggerating. I knew it was my mind speaking when I started to think that I was the only one who cared about keeping the truck clean. That is not a truth. Words like ‘everyone is doing….and all the people….no one else…’ are signs that the mind is causing discord.

As you go about your day, when the mind starts to ‘take over’ in a not so wonderful way, I invite you to talk to your Divine…whatever that may be for you…and ask for assistance in quieting the mind. Then feel the difference as peace takes over.

Sheila Unique

This story keeps coming to my mind so it must be time to share it.

Last year while we were visiting Jimmy’s mom in the hospital, a nurse came into the room. Jimmy got talking to her about hunting. In no time this nurse started to talk about how her boyfriend hunts so much in the year using a rifle and now wants to get a bow and arrow to hunt even more. She continued to talk about all the hunting things he was doing getting louder and more agitated as she talked. After a bit I said to her, ‘are you aware that bothers you?’ She so quickly replied, ‘I’m not bothered; I just think he is hunting too much.’

How many people in our lives rant and rave about things that are a huge issue and aren’t even aware there is a problem? I was one of them! Before I learned about how my reactions changed when I used energy clearing, I was one of those people who didn’t think I had issues. Oh how I have learned.

How do we know we have a problem? The Universe is so perfect about helping us to know. We know we have conflict when we are really bothered about something. We can feel the intensity when we talk about our problem to friends or family. ‘They did this… they are doing that…I can’t believe he keeps saying that…she never hears me when…’ and the story goes on. It’s like we get ‘all worked up’ about it. Have you ever experienced that?

Every time we share our stories with intensity and emotions…we are feeding the energy of that story. If we say, ‘I just hate when they do that,’ the feeling of hate goes into the story. Every time we talk about a body part with ‘not great energy’, we are sending that not great energy to our body part. If we say, ‘I hate what my butt looks like…grrrrr,’ where do you feel that energy goes? Over time we will start to feel that ‘not great energy’ in the form of pain of some kind. It would be like the body saying it’s time to deal with your stuff.

Do the things in our life have to get to the place where they cause us pain? Maybe and maybe not. The Universe is so perfect in giving us the messages we need to hear to help us move along on our journey. Our journey is for us…our learning and growing.

Sheila

Minding the Mind!

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