How are you going to be up to the not-too-onerous task of getting the
very best out of life if you are mentally unfit? Unfortunately, many
years of research confirms that the normal mind is not just unfit for
effortless living, it has been living on a diet of clapped-out old
movies (from your childhood) all of your adult life. It's the ultimate
couch potato. And, if, for all of your adult life, you had sat like a
lazy slob on a couch, would you really expect to be able to spring from
your couch, put on your trainers and go out for even a light jog? You'd
kill yourself in the process - and, sadly, that is what normal people
are doing - dying to be a success!
However, life is not a light jog - life is more akin to a marathon and,
if you don't take the appropriate regular exercise, you will simply not
be able to stay the course. The amazing things is, though, if you do
bother to take even a little mental exercise, you will suddenly realize
that life is not, in fact, a marathon at all - it's only our unfit
normal crazy mind that makes it so. In the right state of mind, life is a
gentle, enjoyable and effortless stroll in the park. Have you ever
experienced the peace and calm of that stroll? Is carefree and
effortless living something that you have experienced? If you haven't,
it's because you're an unfit mental slob and it's your own fault.
How do you change all that? Does it require massive effort or
discipline? Not at all - all that is required is just a little
commitment on your part. Believe it or not, it only takes a few minutes
each morning to get your head in the right place - perhaps a little
longer for a start if you want to give yourself the solid foundation
from which you can springboard to effortless living. And ten minutes
each morning will change the other twenty three hours and fifty minutes -
you simply won't recognise your life.
What exercise am I talking about? Nothing could be simpler - you've just
got to re-develop your innate ability to pay attention to reality. At
present, as I've already said, your subconscious mind is stuck in a rut.
It's obsessed with your past and it uses what it learned during your
formative years to make sense of today. The results? Pick up the
newspapers, see how so many normal people behave so badly - from
domestic violence to wars, from petty theft to the barefaced greed that
has all but dismantled the economies of many of the world's so-called
developed countries. Look at your own life. Your subconscious mind's
efforts to make sense of today lead to anxiety, stress, worry,
ill-health, dissatisfaction - the list, in fact, is endless. Letting
your subconscious mind run on auto-pilot is making nonsense of your life
- you've got to come to your senses.
Research strongly suggests that our ability to be happy, focused,
effective and successful is correlated to our ability to pay attention
to the here and now. If we leave the running of our lives to our
subconscious mind, we end up paying no attention to the here and now and
the results are, at best, not-too-bad, at worst, disastrous. I've
already said it but bears repeating - you've got to re-train yourself in
the simple but powerful art of paying attention. I say 're-train'
because, as children, we were experts at it.
What do you need to pay attention to? Not your goals, not the outcomes
that you want to achieve - you need to pay attention to the here and
now. Nothing else. It is in the here and now that life is lived. Today's
actions create tomorrow's 'reality'. What you do today determines
whether you succeed or fail. And, at present, your normal mind is pretty
much doing nothing other than going through the motions of living.
Rather than reacting automatically to what your subconscious mind thinks
is going on, you need to take real action in your life. You've got to
start taking action for yourself - nobody else will do it for you.
How can you re-learn your innate ability to pay attention? Meditate.
Meditation disciplines an otherwise undisciplined mind. Meditation
enables you pay attention to what your five senses are telling you.
Meditation breaks the link between reality and what your subconscious
mind makes up in place of reality. Only meditation can fully clear your
mind - and armed with a clear mind you can and will change your life
effortlessly. Meditation is the prerequisite to effortless, happy and
successful living.
Copyright (c) 2010 Willie Horton - http://www.gurdy.net
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