Week 57 - Sitting in the Power

Befriending Uncertainty

Over time I have learned about five or six am is my time when my mind is quiet and my heart is resting. I am not fully awake and my brain has not jumped onto a specific track.  I am suggestible.  Sometimes this happens at an earlier time. Sometimes I wake already in high gear.

With awareness, I have learned to watch for these times and use them to ask myself, which train do I jump on? I have a choice.

Excerpted from A Cure to Overthinking by Matt Kahn 

"The usefulness of overthinking is that it tends to be an alarm clock.  It’s a sign that our heart is closed instead of opened.  Our questions are uncertain, as we try to understand why circumstances happen.  We have been trained to wage an internal war against uncertainty. We have to find clarity to know what the plan is to step into the plan."

"As heart centered beings, we don’t have to be at war against uncertainty. We have to boldly befriend uncertainty and to know the things we don’t know, we don’t know on purpose, and knowing it isn’t going to actually make us more aligned, happy and fulfilled."

"Even though we’re frustrated by the mind, the invitation is to not fight with things that are fighting with us. So, we stop fighting with the mind.  The first thing to do with an overactive mind is to befriend it. If I can befriend my mind, I’m showing it respect.  Because we live in a world of unity consciousness, the respect I show something becomes the respect I feel within myself. "

"If we look at our physiology as spiritual beings, everything inside of us we’ve labeled as flaws or something that is less than our highest will and ethics is really just information that spirit is trying to give us or remind us what we really need."

"If we can catch ourselves really looping on regrets, looping in fantasies, looping in why me, why this, how come it couldn’t have happened differently, the sound of our thoughts is that alarm clock that says the mind is only as preoccupied and noisy as the heart is closed."

"So if the mind can’t relax, we go to the body.  Just like when the body is balled up in fear, we go to our mind. We always work with the opposite.  When we take time to love our hearts, to be grateful for what we have and we take time to appreciate ourselves and give ourselves the compliments and encouragement we’re waiting for other people to give us, we open up our hearts once again."

"Being an open-hearted spiritual being, the mind has delivered its message and can actually quiet down naturally because the mind isn’t making noise for any other reason but to open our hearts once again."