Peacefully Busting Mind Loops

This may be a familiar pattern you have seen in yourself and probably in others too during the course of your lifetime…

You need money but what you would like to do in order to resolve that situation takes money and time, and that money is not immediately available to you, and that time invested in the activity is not immediately creating you money, nor necessarily is it guaranteed a return even if you do finish the work…

So you’re “poised” in a position of great promise yet at the same time potential disaster, it is stressful but there is peace there also, you cannot deny the pattern that has driven you, nor can you with any confidence believe it is not just going to go on and on, after all you enjoy what you’re doing even if it does not bring you money.

The thing is with a pattern like this is it has been repeated over and over again and from MANY angles, there may be a million instances etched in memory, as well as a million beliefs derived form them, and each one will likely have another group of memories/beliefs attached to those, and so on and so forth, it is potentially endless!

Usually, these beliefs come along in gangs to railroad you into a particular direction; each face of the gang is slightly different and has its own particular “way” of delivering the message, but essentially the whole gang works together much like the mob…

One might say something general like “Give up”

While another works with your memory “Yeh, remember the time when… and… and…”

This may shake your confidence a little, and so they have a hook and continue on…

Another face comes up and says “Yeh, you real hopeless, get over it”

Then a REALLY mean looking one will show up and say “So, you wanna argue huh?”

And so what do you do?

Well usually we’re left with no option but to agree, even if we do not fully believe such suggestions, the very might of the gang, the “intelligence of the group” wins us over, maybe not our hearts but at least our minds, and control of our minds means control of our bodies, and as that is what they want, control over the physical plane so they can get what they think it is they want, then that will do.

This “mob rule” may in extreme cases play out in actual life but mostly we carry this kind of gang around with us internally, it plays out in most circles of people too, to some degree, they become our guides, our saviours, they make it feel like we cannot live without them and their abuse, it’s quite sick really.

However, at the heart of each of these patterns, regardless of the face, the mask, the muscle and display is a hurt child, your own or somebody else’s, it really makes no difference, universally we’re dealing with the abandoned, neglected, pushed away, disowned, and generally ignored child.

One or two of these incidents is fair enough, but over and over again, then we’re building a menace, we have no control over such a thing, even if it “goes along for a bit”, the moment it can do, slip the system we erect to deal with it, it will seek revenge, will seek to get its own back, once it is big and strong enough.

I believe we all encounter such parts of our self eventually, parts that have sworn vendettas, derived from moments of sheer vexation in the past as little people, that we now, adults, in our “civilized play” have forgotten about, but you can be sure these parts of us have not forgotten, they remember it as clear as day, every detail, every restriction, every tone, word, action, and attitude!

So we know something has to be done about this, we cannot be ruled by such a pattern, nor can we push it to change, if its hurt then its hurt, it’s not wrong, it probably was badly treated, its probably totally correct, but no matter how correct one is of something, in order to live, be happy, to prosper and take life lightly, one has to move on.

The biggest trouble with these kinds of “vendetta patterns” is they are blinding, they are like anger, they blind us, and we end up hurting ourselves more than we get back at any enemy we once perceived, and so it may well be justified, but in order to get on we have to lay such things to rest.

And it is difficult, I recognise this, to just drop something that we have been holding to for god knows how long, but then we have to see it has brought us no true joy or happiness, and of course, “one of those mobsters” a convenient new face JUST for the job can surface and say “Ah well, that’s because life is not about joy or happiness, it is pain or suffering” and then we’re RIGHT BACK in the pattern again!

Do you see how quick this is, how convincing the whole game is? The mind is FAST, it knows the game, the metaphor better than anyone, it can outfox us all day long if we watch it and believe it is real, but if we start to see it in the same way we might watch a movie, then we can begin to decouple from its suggestions, its characters and plots.

Then what remains is the possibility to get involved or not get involved, of course, we all like to dive into a great movie, get lost in it, spun up in its story, it can be fun, but to live that way ALL DAY LONG?

So this is what this is about, this seeing the minds patterns, you don’t HAVE to change them, just SEE them for what they are, and then play them out or pull back from them and switch channels, move to another mode of thought!
And experience the change that occurs in that…

Peace
Sean

Origin: http://www.shaone.com/blog