As a species, at one time our existence was centred on
the intuitive but now we have swung to the other extreme, to be very much mind
based. And despite our society’s commitment to it, for many people the daily
experience of the mind is quite simply, crushing!
I often say to clients
imagine if we could put a lead into our brains and play what is flying around
in our heads out of a speaker. Very quickly I think most of us would be
shouting, “Turn it off!!” or we’d run screaming from the room. Indeed if the
room was locked we would not unreasonably consider it a form of torture having
to listen to our endless internal narrative. So why then do we let it play all
day every day, why do we turn it on even before we have reached out to snap the
alarm clock off and why do we long for sleep to give us a break?
Partly I think it’s because we are not told
that there is an alternative or if we are, that comes so late that it is
difficult to challenge our long established default setting. We are also not
told that thought like everything else in the universe represents vibrational
energy. Negative and critical, cruel, wasteful, repetitive, angry, dark, repetitive,
pain of the past, fear of the future, repetitive: thoughts are energy, just like
sound waves in a room. Only this energy is bouncing around inside our heads, feeding
into our physical bodies to manifest tension and dis-ease, clogging up the
auric field and blocking intuition.
So for better physical, emotional and mental health do the 'Speaker Test!' Notice what you’ve just
been thinking and imagine it coming barreling out of that speaker. Would you
listen? Would you put up with this? Or would you take control of the volume and
better manage the content. Would you seek something lighter, more joyful or
maybe change the feed to the external sounds of nature? Perhaps you might even
seek out the option of silence and stillness, for behind the noise there is every chance you will encounter a different version of you, one waiting quietly to be found.
(I am aware that deep depressive illness is not simple. This blog is aimed at those of us who do have a choice to take control of the mind.)