In this week's episode, we discuss how our minds can drive us crazy and how the moment we notice it, we can withdraw our attention from what the narrative is saying and turn our attention toward the fact that we're noticing.
When we're caught up with the narrative in our minds, it doesn't feel yummy. We're detached from our presence or being. This causes tension in our experience because we're attending to a storyline instead of life here and now.
The second we notice this icky feeling, we can free ourselves from it by withdrawing our attention from the thoughts and attending to our present experience -- what's actually happening, right here and right now.
We can attend to the pulse of life within us rather than feeding it into the storyline.
We are not the narrative in our head, we're the one listening to it - or not. We don't have to listen. We can turn our attention toward the actuality of what's happening now, to our immediate presence with life just as it is this moment.
The narrative is always about stuff that not happening here and now. That's how we know it's not real. It's a story. Are we really living our lives, or is our life force being held hostage to a storyline about our lives?
The storyline is what's not happening. Life is what's happening in this current moment. We can draw our attention toward our presence here, now. this moment.
We can slip behind the storyline and place our focus on I am. -- On the immediate experience of being present and feeling the aliveness pulsing within and through us.
This moment of noticing is freedom. The more we attend to our presence, to the actuality or immediacy of what's happening here and now, the less we identify with the storyline narrative about what's not happening.
This is living meditation. It feels yummy to be with life as it is happening. Everything we need to deal with this moment is available now for this moment. We don't need to predict or plan. In fact, we can't really do either. What is useful comes to mind appropriately for the circumstance, without opinion or judgment, which only distorts our experience.
