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pausing the brain_unsollicted thoughts
Posted by: C.C. Saint-clair in Spiritual Philosophy, tags: being in the moment, cc saint-clair, meditation, religion vs spirituality, spiritual evolution, spiritual philosophy, zenEvolving means letting soul take control. The only way that can ever happen is if we can *pause* our much glorified brain i.e. pause the unsolicited thoughts it keeps generating and spinning on its own. In other words, if our brain could ever pause and *come up for air*, as the expression goes … our individual realities would be VASTLY different, here and now.
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July 19th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
But that is what the mind which – to my understanding at the moment – clutters the brain with its impulses will most fear, for it likes to fix things, to categorize them…perhaps one of the reasons we as a human lot – with the few exceptions of those whom we know as Teachers or Visionaries – have evolved so less….
July 19th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Ritambhari, hi
Sure, mind/brain strive on their *idea* of fixing things and of processing and yes, the dipping part of the ego is most happy to keep the status quo and concoct ways to get satisfaction/compensation/reparation out of whatever *problem* mind/brain has latched on. The thing is, every situation, absolutely every situation is neutral … no matter how good it seems at the time or how bad it feels at the time.
It is only because mind/brain gives everything a Satisfaction rating according to the needs triggered in the dipping end of our ego, that things become good/bad, pleasurable or dreadful.
AND all the thoughts about these situations that mind/brain keep spinning around and around our head … are not of the problem solving variety.
They belong to the anxiety-producing variety and it is these thoughts that prick us into responding through knee-jerks … on impulse, instead of ACTIVELY making peace with the situation such as it is …. and watching it …. melt away …. in the fullness of time