Inner Battles

Nothing that happens in life creates an inner battle unless your own mind allows it. This is the insanity of a Conditioned Mind, its self destructive solutions are from within and they take away your peace…

The bottom line for me is I’ve found a practical way to minimize the inner battles in my life that caused my own destruction. Which by the way is my own mind creating an inner battle telling me it’s needed to cope with life; a life that was controlled by a destructive mind set. My own mind created all the inner battles that went on by choosing actions I thought I wanted to do, but my choices always caused suffering. I developed a mind that told me to do things that were self destructive. From relationships, to drugs, alcohol, gambling, and a slew of other things, nothing was ever chosen that was beneficial for me; my choices always seemed to cause more harm than good. How this mind set developed I’m not sure, but I do know this, it can be described as pure insanity.

Many years ago although it wasn’t a white light experience, an inner urging occurred that was tired of all the destructive behavior. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen, but I did know I needed to find a way to bring peace into my life. A label didn’t need to be applied to what happened to me. All that was needed was for me to know was my behavior which was once totally self destructive was no longer this way. This is why labels and what others do isn’t a concern of mine. Because I know for years my own mind allowed these things to create battles within myself and because of the shift that has occurred, there’s an awareness that inner battles don’t have to be created anymore. The bottom line is this, when I have an issue with something it’s my own self destructive mind that creates a battle which means I’m not a peace, but now because there’s awareness of this I don’t allow mind created inner battles so there’s peace. So again the bottom line is to not create inner battles. All I ever wanted in my life was peace, but I didn’t know it was my own mind that was the cause of why there wasn’t any…

Thought Trap

Thought traps are endless, but understand the traps come from your own mind. Even though there are conditioned triggers, it’s because of the attachment to thoughts is why there are traps…

If you’re practicing living a spiritual life, but you don’t know your own mind, it’s like wanting to be healthy, but not reducing the amount of junk food you eat; your results will be non existent. If you don’t notice the thought traps, the whole point of any practice will be missed. This is because the trap of thoughts for things outside makes looking inward difficult. There are so many things in place that prevent looking inward from happening, if it doesn’t happen you’ll remain in bondage to your thought traps. The traps aren’t real because when there’s even the slightest opening to allow what’s within to be seen, the expansion beyond the thought traps begins.

Thought traps are very enticing, if they weren’t the percentage of conscious and unconscious beings would be reversed. It’s not this way because the thought traps are in control; these traps are only real because of perception. There’s no denying they’re there, but they’re in control because there’s a fictitious belief the traps are needed. We alone are the creators of this and if one doesn’t have an open mind, the thought traps will continue their onslaught of control. To me, the only way around this is to develop awareness of the thought traps…

Hearing Life

If things aren’t done that put you in harmony with life, it will be impossible to hear what life has to say. For this to change it’s imperative to learn about one’s own mind which will go a long way in allowing one to hear what life is saying…

Just observe how the mind justifies all that it does. It has never been trained to be still so it creates most of our problems just so it has something to do. It says to do something and turns around and questions why it was done. It should be treated as a separate entity as if it’s the enemy because upon further review it will be seen that it is. The mind is not truly the enemy, it’s the way it has been conditioned, that’s the true enemy. 

This conditioning blocks the true nature of the mind from arising. It’s only conditioned to be this way because of all the surrounding noise, but it is we ourselves (unconsciously) who listen to habitual mind patterns. Learning about one’s own mind is a way to undo what we ourselves have done. This learning of one’s mind is not about great secrets, it’s more so about getting an understanding of why the things that are done don’t put one in harmony to hear what life is saying. When this is understood, why one responds to things a certain way will be known. After all, if one doesn’t do the things in their life that allows harmony with it, one will never hear what life has to say…