At any moment you can shift your state of being. At any moment you can let go and be free and feel joy and come alive

The thing you can do is to be present. If you are being present you are missing nothing.

When your mind is distracted by worry, there is an absence…the absence is you.

Worry is simply a symptom of not being fully present, because when you are fully present all of that worry ceases. In part because when you are present, anything and everything you need is accessible to you. Your creativity is accessible to you.

Only the relaxed mind can be a creative mind, a peaceful mind.

So use the worry as an opportunity to awaken you to the moment. Worry is just an indicator of your absence, your distraction. 

Further, it is an absorption in the maya, in illusion.

Because if we really look at it, worry is an emotion – an energy. Energy is mutable. so at any moment you can wake up, be aware of that energy and transmute it. How do you transmute it? By observing it. When we observe anything it is transformed.

That’s all the effort it takes, the observing.

Observe it without judgement, without analyzing, without commentary and the worry will transform itself.

What is the opposite of worry?  It is to be at peace, which is your natural state of being. Your natural state is to be calm, to be at ease. Worry is the by-product of a restless mind. Relax the mind and the worry ceases.

This is the truth. Your body already knows this.  This is why already you feel calm. You know intuitively that you have the ability to do this..the ability to discern the truth.

So allow the transient to be transient. Don’t allow it to be solid. Don’t give energy to phenomenon that rises and dissolves. When you give it energy, you give it solidity and validity.

This comes as a result of your wanting to manipulate your experience, to  control your experience. Worry is a habit that arises from the ego wanting to control your experience…to change it.

Worry, anxiety, depression, all that these things do is distract you from the present moment. They deplete your energy. This disconnects you from the source, from your true Self. This inhibits you from responding skillfully and authentically.

Because from that place you are only reactive, not responsive.

At any moment you can shift your state of being. At any moment you can completely let go of that worry and be free and feel joy and come alive.

santidevi

It is late and I am listening to my breath.  It is soft and deep.  I am breathing. Here in the Silence the continent of my body dissolves.  I am naked.  We are all naked.

 Unidentifiable.  Even my samskaras take their leave. 

My eyes are closed.  I am absorbed into the vastness void of conception.  

“There is no birth or death”.  The truth arises naturally out of the emptiness.  My consciousness is not here or there.  It is not fixed. I am without border.  Form ceases.  My mind is mindless.  

I am aware that I am Awake and yet I sleep.

“I am asleep and yet I am Awake.”

 My consciousness is not bound to my body.  I see myself the mortal woman lying so still and warm hardly breathing.  She has surrendered.  I feel love for her vulnerability, for the fearlessness it gave birth to.  I love you I whisper.  Sleep my love, sleep.

santidevi

Thoughts create your emotional experience.  Whatever you think produces a physiological as well as an emotional response.  Thought creates form. Whatever you think you become. Thoughts and emotions are not powerful in and of themselves but  become so when you invest them with identification.  You cannot have a single thought or emotion that does not effect your entire being.

Emotions are the energetic impression of your thoughts.  You are not your emotions.  Emotions are a transient phenomenon that arises as a byproduct of your thinking process.  There is a direct correlation between their duration and your willingness to empower them.  By identifying yourself with your emotional condition you authorize and surrender your authority and self control.   This is why extreme emotional responses lead to feelings of helpless and paralysis.  Whatever you identify with you become energetically bound to. 

Experiment with this by observing how your state of mind effects your emotional experience.  Begin by thinking of something that is sorrowful or distressing.  Allow yourself to completely identify with what your thinking. What arises in the body, how do you respond emotionally?  What happens to the breath, to your heart rate?  Just notice with your “witnessing consciousness.” Now let it go. Now think of something that is joyful or pleasing.  Once again focus all of your awareness and intention on  that thought.  What sensations emerge, how does your body feel?  How has the breath changed?  

Be aware of  the direct relationship of  the mind and the emotions.  By simply observing your thoughts without attachment you can reside in the spaciousness of equanimity. The next time you find yourself in an emotional state bring your awareness to the condition and become the “observer.” Watch with detachment and non-judgement.  Stay connected to your breath and stay absolutely present to the experience.  This practice will allow you to begin to discern the real from the unreal.  The transient from the eternal.

Om,

Santi Devi