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Dealing with a truth about mind
Inner satisfaction does not necessarily satisfy the mind
Dealing with a
truth about mind
Inner
satisfaction does not necessarily satisfy the mind
Dealing
with a truth about mind (Top)
When I was exploring creativity I noticed how
many individuals were unhappy and/or unsatisfied with life. They may
have had successful careers, what appeared to be a happy home life,
hobbies which seems fulfilling, and/or they had many friends. Yet,
there was an unhappiness in their life. They seemed to be searching
for something more from life.
When I first realized how alignment with our creative spirit and
surrendering to its flow could give us an inner joy and satisfaction
that never runs dry no matter what is happening in one’s world, I
thought I had found was what people sought in life. I originally
thought there would be a joy that mind would discover and readily
embrace what gave them that
inner satisfaction. I assumed when they discovered they could
achieved the inner satisfaction of living by aligning with the flow
of their creative life energy, they would willing surrender to that
flow. However I found that was not the case and nothing could be
farther from the truth.
Inner satisfaction does not
necessarily satisfy the mind
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Rather, what I found was quite surprising. I
found individuals can relatively easily learn to find a deep inner
satisfaction and a calmness that doesn’t run dry no matter what is
happening in the world. They can also obtain an inner calmness as
deep as any meditation technique. However, I also found that inner
satisfaction and/or calmness will not necessarily satisfy what their
mind thinks and wants. I found there tends to be an ongoing struggle
with mind and what mind has come to want and/or believe it needs to
be happy. In fact, sometimes mind judges that inner satisfaction and
calmness narcissistic, selfish, or self serving especially when
others in their life are suffering with the same external conditions
they are facing. Many, in fact, find themselves living with constant
struggle between what their
mind wants and what their
heart wants. The intensity of the struggle totally depends on
what the individual believes in more - their mind or their heart. Do
they believe what the world tells them, what they are told about the
world, and how they have come to think and believe. or do they
believe in the source/Source they find within their own being and
what it leads them to do.
The inner satisfaction is achieved through aligning with an internal
feeling and where it leads and carries one into the unknown. To
achieve that alignment one must surrender to the flow of energy.
Mind wants to stay with what it knows and within the truth that it
knows. Yet mind’s truth is only of the past. So there is an ongoing
struggle unless one find a way to be in the world where they are
free to align with that flow. It can be done and some have been able
to freely flow with that feeling. However, most will struggle with
the pull of mind and the pull of the heart rather than learning how
to
dance between the heart and the mind to create a gentler way of
being in the word.
Quite simply, satisfaction is not illusive. It is readily present
and always available. What is illusive is our desire and ability to
know the truth to create that satisfaction. Many would rather live
in untruth than face what it means to take the full responsibility
for what they desire to create. They prefer to hold another, others
or something outside themselves responsible for what they must do to
find lasting satisfaction in life
In any case, I had always assumed (erroneously) that when one
achieves the inner satisfaction, their mind would see the truth
within that satisfaction and stop looking for success as mind
defines success. What I have found is that mind persists and
continually pushes one to find some external satisfaction rather
than letting go and realizing satisfaction with life is solely
determined by one’s inner state of being. Similarly, abundance and
love must first be found within before one can find abundance and
love outside themselves in a form that lasts. Most get pushed or
pulled out of that inner satisfaction by mind continually trying to
find success based on how and what it thinks.
Personally I find a sadness in the fact that even when one gets an
inner satisfaction mind still pulls one to look to something else.
It is like there is a momentum to mind and unless the mind is
stopped dead in its tracks through trauma and/or desperation, its
own momentum will take one past the joys of being alive and simply
doing what come naturally within one’s being. Unless one becomes
mindful and aware and sees how their mind is pulling them and why it
is pulling them, they will not be able to maintain their inner
satisfaction. They will be pulled back into their thinking and again
become lost in that thinking. In doing so, they rob themselves of
their creative power and creative ability. In many ways,
thinking can be an addiction that keeps one from the very
satisfaction they seek and that preoccupies so much of their
thinking.
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