Where does all that mind chatter come from? The incessant doubts and conversations that go on the mind. The powerful thoughts that become beliefs and judgments, that crystallize into fears and paralyze us. Stress, anxiety, worries keep us awake at night and we may have a hard time focussing during the daytime.
Where do these all come from?
Attachments.
Every thought is linked energetically to an attachment. Like a tendril from our mind, to our senses and then out to the world of perceived reality. We suffer from the fears of loss and gain. When we are attached to someone or something, we fear their loss or gain of an unfavorable outcome. This gives us stress in our mind, pressure in our body and pain in our heart, and then we are off to the races with the creation of illness, mental, physical and emotional.
Yet where does attachment come from?
Identity.
When we choose to identify with a persona we become held on to the attachment of anything that identity touches. So for example take 2 of identities, namely as a dad, doctor.
If I fall short of being a dad, or not meeting the expectations as a family man, then I will have anxiety and stress. If I do not see enough patients I may feel bad that as a doctor I did not help enough people on a particular day. It is because I am attached to those identities, I am ergo attached to the outcomes that may ensue.
What if we are able to let go of the identities? We can then let go of any attachments to them and their outcomes. This does not mean abandoning those roles that we play. It just means that we can now be in a freer space to perform those roles with love. My love for the kids as a dad can be infinite now, once the attachments that are born of the mind are gone. I can fulfill the roles of doctor and dad by realizing my inner spirit as the driver and the disguise I wear when completing those tasks as parent and physician. Yet I can do this with greater love.
No more mind noise. In fact more focus to be a better parent and physician as I am not in a state of worry and imagining all the bad outcomes, since the attachment is no longer there. Letting of attachment is not the same as ignoring or abandoning responsibilities. In fact just the opposite. The energetic ties then transfer from the mind to the heart. And the heart is always an in infinitely more abundant space to communicate from than the mind.
Ironically we came into this world without attachments and the only lesson to realize that is at the time of death. But we suffer in the process and we dare to call it life. Yet true life is freedom from attachment and identity, and still explore it to its peaks in every experience.
For some of us, we are ready to herald and usher in the next wave of human consciousness, and for others it is still a struggle. The true magic lies in being free inside the storm and yet be calm. This is the journey of finding the divine love within.
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I love you
