Reacting Mind Triggers

No one truly reacts to what happens in life, you react to the mind becoming triggered and wanting that moment to be different. You are alive, but your triggered reactions block you from truly living…

I have found certain things that are needed to be mindful of life occurrences so it can be lived to the fullest. One of these is the development of discipline of what to do when the mind becomes triggered. The hardest thing to do is nothing, but that is exactly what’s needed when the mind becomes triggered.

When the minds becomes triggered, how you are conditioned to react is what shapes your life. You don’t react to what happens in life, you react to the mind becoming triggered. If the triggers weren’t in place there wouldn’t be the knee jerk reactions; without the reactions the only thing there would be is peace which does take discipline. The only reason we react to anything is because of our mind triggers. Try and do nothing, I mean nothing at all, just sit and be mindful of the moment. Without the practice of sitting, this discipline is nearly impossible. If you want to change things, learning to recognize your reacting triggers will have to become your life’s practice. Without it, the agitations will continue to be a block to living your life to the fullest.

This is why you reach for whatever it is you think you need; you are just reacting to a mind trigger. Without it there would be no need for the reaching. Objects are not the only things reached for, talking about others, beating ourselves up, trying to enhance our well-being by doing instead of being, searching for what it means to live, assigning our so called roles to ourselves, these are but a few of the reacting mind triggers; everyone responds in their own way. You will need to investigate this for yourself if you really want answers, most won’t go that deep inward. Looking at yourself is the hardest thing you will ever do, but it is where you will find out how not to react when your mind becomes triggered…

Inner Anxiety

The inner anxiety that keeps you from your peace has nothing to do with life. The anxiety is a creation of your own mind that makes you believe you’re not at peace…

There are practical ways to minimize the inner anxiety that causes one to sabotage their own existence, but it has to be understood that the mind creating the anxiety can’t quiet itself. You’ll have to find out why your own mind is telling you anxiety is needed to cope with life; a life that is controlled by the conditioning to create inner anxiety. Your own mind creates all the inner anxiety you have by choosing to attach to thoughts that give the anxiety energy. This unconscious conditioning is why anxiety arises. The Conditioned Mind creates this as you do things that are destructive to your own well being. Why this anxiety mind set is developed I’m not sure, but I do know it can be described only as insane because your own mind does this.

I know now it was my own mind that created anxiety which arose from within myself. Because of the shift that occurred some years ago there‘s now awareness so inner anxiety doesn’t have to be created anymore. I sit for the sole purpose to develop discipline which allows the mind to settle. If there isn’t discipline, your conditioning won’t be understood nor will the reason why anxiety arises. This will lead you to being led around like a puppet on a string. Life does nothing to you, it’s your own mind that does this. Living in a place of anxiety as opposed to a place of peace will never be different until the conditioning that makes it so is different. All I ever wanted was to be at peace, but it was always elusive because I wasn’t aware it was my own mind that created the inner anxiety that made peace elusive…

Created Destruction

Nothing that happens in life affects a person unless their own mind allows it. This is the insanity of a Conditioned Mind, its destructive solutions are from within which means one creates their own destruction…

For me, when all is said and done, regardless of what it’s called, I have found a way to minimize the conditioning that created my own destruction. It’s my own mind that tells me this conditioning is needed to cope with life; a life that was controlled by a destructive mindset. My own mind created all the destruction that went on by choosing behaviors I thought I wanted to do, but my choices always caused issues. I developed a mind that told me to do things that were destructive to my own well being. From relationships, to drugs, alcohol, gambling, and a slew of other things, nothing was ever chosen that was beneficial to my well being. I always seemed to do things that caused more harm than good. Why this mind set developed I’m not sure, but I do know this, it can only be described as created insanity.

Sixteen years ago although it wasn’t a white light experience, an inner shift occurred that revealed a way to reverse the destructive conditioning. Regardless of what it’s called or what attached label is put on it, when I have issues with something, it’s my own destructive mindset that creates it. When there’s awareness of this, and there isn’t attachment to this, there aren’t created issues. I have found without issues I’m at peace, so the bottom line for me is to not create issues. All I ever wanted in my life was peace, but I didn’t know it was my own mind that created all the destruction…

Attached Perspectives

Attached perspectives keep you imprisoned in a world where there’s very little freedom because there’s very little room for truth. If you want freedom, the attached perspectives will have to be let go of…

The more a perspective is held onto, the more you’re attached to that perspective. It’s difficult to experience the openness of something if you’ve already decided how it is. To remain open one needs to limit the attachment to their perspectives. This is essential if there is be alignment with the Universe and be free from the things that you‘re attached to. Being attached to the things that have a hold on you will need to be let go of if there’s to be freedom; this hold is very subtle. Even the perspective on whether you like this post or not will keep you attached in the same place. This post can resonate with you without attachment, but perspectives seem to make the world go round. That doesn’t mean it’s a good thing, but that’s just a perspective.

I lived an attached existence that limited me for most of my life, this caused much conflict with people who didn’t have the same perspective; wars are started over people having different perspectives. If you’re really honest with yourself you’ll see that every disagreement you ever had with someone was caused by being attached to the different perspective about something. I’m not saying you shouldn’t stand up for truth, but truly knowing about something and attaching to a perspective about it is totally different.

There’s a place of no perspective. If it’s not understood, you’ll never become unattached to your perspectives. When this is the place lived from there’s very little freedom. When you can just be with life as it unfolds and not label it as this or that, you’ll be on the verge of truly experiencing life, perspective free. When you’re not attached to forming a perspective, there’s freedom to be with life as it is without the need for an attachment that keeps you from experiencing truth…

Life Moments

The difference between learning from each moment of life or not is living it to its highest quality or being stuck where life is the same old same old. You will either break free from the conditioned lies or remain their prisoner…

Life happens in moments, at least this has been my experience. You will have to go through these different moments if you’re not to get stuck in the one that’s in place now. Not everyone goes beyond the moment that’s in place. Some remain stuck for years, even a life time. Although the moments themselves happen naturally, learning and going to the next moment does not; the quality of your life will be determined by what is learned in a previous and current moment. Life is something that happens on its own, but there is a certain responsibility in making it of the highest quality. A simple example of this would be when you were at a moment of your life when it was time to learn to read. If you didn’t take responsibility to learn this, to say that life would be difficult today would be an understatement. So at this moment of your life you did what was necessary to make it of a higher quality.

As I’ve grown up over the years, I’ve noticed  there were many moments in my life, but not all provided the highest quality of living because of the things I did which didn’t allow it. The moments of life will come, but what’s being learned is where maturity comes from. To me the biggest lesson was learning to expose the conditioned lies because that’s what I found was the biggest hurdle to living the highest quality of life possible. It’s not that I’m now all about helping others, but what I learned was life is just not all about me and what I think. Therein lies the difference between learning from each moment or being stuck in a moment where life is the same old same old…

Foolishly Conditioned

When you’re foolishly led around by the Conditioned Mind you behave in ways that aren’t beneficial; not because it’s how you want to be, it’s because it’s how you have to be…

It was a lack of understanding of my conditioning that led me to remain foolishly controlled by it. What I was foolishly led by was a mind that was conditioned to self serve. The issue with this type of conditioning is it causes your own destruction because the destructiveness is unconsciously disguised as something needed; this needing is pursued by many to their death. It was foolishly pursued by me in this way and I was at its mercy. It said to use drugs, alcohol, gambling, lying, cheating, stealing and so on. This is how the foolishness of the Conditioned Mind is developed except for some who are fortunate enough to see this at a young age.

The way I was conditioned wasn’t the fault of anyone, it was indirectly implemented by the inner and outer influences of my life which molded me to behave in the ways my conditioning developed and foolishly controlled me. You cannot behave in any other way except in the way you have been conditioned. Change the conditioning and change your entire existence or not and remain the same. The value of knowing my own mind is in the understanding there was no where to turn but inward. What I learned is when the Conditioned Mind is understood, you’re no longer foolishly led by it. Its control slowly dissipates as you develop discipline; the mind actually slows down. Once this slowing occurs, the possibilities are endless because there is no longer distractions that keep you foolishly attached to the conditioning. With this solid understanding of what you’re truly up against, you’re able to develop the discipline so your foolish conditioning falls away…

Restless Mind

Understanding the nature of a restless mind is one of the attributes of waking up. But it’s not the restlessness of the world that one wakes up from, it’s the restlessness of your own mind…

What is a restless mind that runs your life? The restless mind manifests because there’s attachment to your thoughts. The thought that arises about something is inconsequential, it’s the attachment to the thought that forms the restless mind. To understand the restless mind one must be aware of its attachments, desires, confusions, and the way your mind works. Without this awareness the puppet on string pattern prevails. Certain practices turns one inward to see this. If what you’re doing doesn’t turn you inward, you’ll remain trapped to your restless state of mind. This is why nothing from the outside truly changes a person because anything from the outside is part of the restless mind. A restless mind can’t fix itself and as long as it’s reaching for something on the outside, it remains trying to fix itself and thus it remains restless. Until this truth is seen, things would stay as they are because nothing is being done to make it different.

We can only go beyond the surface view if there’s awareness of it. What this means is one has to develop mindfulness of what they are doing as they are doing it so there‘s awareness of what’s being done. If you know what you’re doing as you’re doing it, it leaves little room for the restless mind to arise. Mindfulness is probably the single most discipline to develop as it anchors you in the moment of what is being done. A restless mind only occurs when one lives in the story of a past or future. These restless mind made constructs keeps the restlessness active. The present moment can be seen without making it a story even though it passes as quickly as it arises, but the past and future can never truly be seen without a story. Because of this lack of discipline to be present, most people live a restless mind existence…