If it’s true, that my suffering is caused by my mind, then I have control over the amount, the intensity and the duration of my suffering.
This is a very profound teaching I have discovered lately.
Emotion is energy in motion, and it’s something that happens outside of my conscious self, my true self, the one who is aware, and observing my life as if it’s a Movie. A good movie will draw in all of my emotions and senses, and make me lose consciousness of space and time , and step into an altered reality of someone else’s story.
I’m thinking if I approach what happens on the outside, thoughts and emotions, events, and encounters with people, as a movie, I’m watching, and I play the part of the observer, I may be able to diminish the suffering caused by my mind, and tell myself a different story. After all, it’s my story, I am writing it, I get to choose what I want to experience. I get to partner with my Creator, the author of my story, because he gave me that authority and that is my role, to co-partner, co-author and to Co-create a beautiful life out of the brokenness of this world that caused my heart to break and shatter into 1 million pieces.
I can choose to surrender my need for certainty, my need to know my future, to have security and safety, and I can choose to believe that all will be well, that all is well, that things are happening for me not to me, that things May look like a problem, but truly, they are a gift.
I can choose not to listen to that voice in my head, that inner critic that talks nonstop and rarely has anything positive to contribute, the voice that says things I would never tolerate from a friend, so why do I let the imposter speak into my life every second that I am awake ?
No, I have the power to silence the inner critic, and create a different path for my future by learning to be in the moment . As Sonia Ricotti, so eloquently, says, “great things are waiting for you around the corner. In fact,
they have arrived.”
This week, I have studied Michael Singer, author of the untethered soul, and Sonia Ricotti, maker of the film unsinkable.