Improving Your Life In The Complicated World

Pleeeeeease…….give yourself a chance to feel your real self before you allow your mind to start making plans. It’s very, very easy to do. We are just in the habit of doing things backwards. It’s a learned process from imitating practically everyone else. We perceived our world correctly as children and then grew into this bad habit of thinking before feeling.

Thoughts are generated on top of thoughts, that appear out of nowhere. We all have reaction thoughts to our environment. These reactions lead to thoughts, that lead to more thinking to deal with the original thoughts, and away you go. Emotions result from the process of reacting, contemplating and finally concluding. Or maybe, there is no conclusion, which can result in emotions of fear or stress.

This is how it goes for the majority of people. Thoughts produce emotions. It then becomes natural to try to use this process to create positive emotions. I know from my own experience, that it seems natural to try to think your way into happiness. I’d go over how things were going for me and what the future had to offer, in the happiness category. I would calculate how the day would entertain me and somehow fulfill my soul with purpose. By plotting out strategies, I felt that good emotions would be guaranteed. Thinking would proceed the feelings.

In reality, this strategy fails to deliver the goods. The saying, “live by the sword, die by the sword,” is appropriate here. Sadly, I have found that when you live by the thought strategy, you also die by the thought strategy. While you’re plotting your road to happiness, your thoughts can continually steer you the wrong way on a one way street.

The bottom line on why this happens, came to me from Echart Tolle. His book A New Earth was featured on Oprah’s book of the month program. I caught the live interviews that were broadcast around the world and was astounded by the amazing new insight that was discussed. Echart’s become a bit of a phenomenon as a result of his books and teachings that humbly point to a new path for successful living. I don’t recommend books. That said, I recommend A New Earth by Ekart Tolle. Without getting into lengthy details, I have a few simple insights taken from this book, to share.

We get lost in our thinking. The emotions that are created from this endless thinking, aren’t appropriate or productive for the circumstances we encounter. I have asked myself at many times in my life, why am I not able to be, so very happy with what I have right now? I have been through some difficult times, but mostly I have so much to be grateful for. So much, and yet I don’t feel it often enough. I would rationalize that there was more that I needed, to feel really happy. This is where the thinking and planning came into play. This is where we leave ourselves to journey on a path that actually takes us away from where we really want to be.

The world tells us, this is the way. The world doesn’t really know what it’s talking about. Does it? Think about the complicated world in general. Is this really the best we can do? Notice the horribly high cost of living that has taken place in the last 30 years. Everyone seems to be running in place trying to keep up with this high cost of living. Whatever happened to the leisure lifestyle that modern technology was suppose to provide? Now, after all the heroic efforts to keep up with the ever increasing cost of living, the housing market is having a meltdown and the price of gas and food is soaring. The world’s plan is broke. Thankfully so. Eckhart’s book simply describes a new way to approach living in the modern world. It is based on ancient philosophy from times when people weren’t so confused by the complicated world that we have today. The wisdom is timeless and works immediately. Eckhart has a way of making it easy to understand in today’s terms.

Just being able to get out of your thinking mind and back to who you really are, is all that is needed. This simple act is powerful enough to bring about pure happiness even in the middle of chaos. It doesn’t require classes or a degree. Money, experience in life, relationships are not necessary. All that is needed is to be present in the now. It’s what was natural to us when we were children. It is easy to do, and the benefits of feeling extreme happiness are immediate.

I’m excited to share this, because I live it, and I know how nice it feels. Finally, something makes total sense and you don’t have to believe it, because you can feel it, plain as day. Everything that you have in your life can be appreciated on such a deeper level when you step out of your thinking and get back to you, right now. When you get good at staying in the now zone, you will see two huge benefits. First, you can leave negative thinking and emotion behind in a matter of seconds. The second part is that you get to see and experience things in your life the way they appeared to you the very first time. Everything is new and wonderful the first go around. The first experience is interesting and exciting. As time goes on we experience everything from our thinking mind. The beauty and magic of our surroundings are lost because of this form of processing.

Your body is the gateway to your subconscious mind and the present moment. The subconscious is the source of who you really are. To be connected to extreme contentment, try connecting to your source as much as possible. It’s no big thing. Just periodically, throughout your day, bring your awareness to your body, or the feeling of your body touching something. Be present and aware of how it feels when your hands or your feet or any part of you is touching something. Focus your awareness on what you are physically feeling right now. The more you do this, the more natural and easy it becomes. This is a simple and quick way to break away from your thinking mind.

Your thinking mind wont be too impressed with this. Tell it to shut up and just do it. Feel how a calmness and pure contentment occurs by just switching your awareness out of thinking, and back to being here, right now. See everything for how really beautiful and amazing it is. It feels so nice to see the real world that surrounds you, no matter where you are. Only your thinking mind can prevent you from seeing this. Feel how wonderful life is, by practicing just being, instead of thinking.

Thinking comes before feeling, unless you’re in the amazing present moment. In the now zone, everything is reversed. You feel it…..then,,,, you think it. What you feel before you think, is so natural and beautiful, that you’ll want to continue this process always. These are feelings that your thinking mind could never deliver. All the planning in the world wont get you there.

“Life… is… what happens while your making other plans.”

So.

Stop making other plans.