Obsession Toolkit: You are not the body. You are not the mind.
You are not the body. You are not the mind.
Have you ever caught yourself stuck in the middle of a deep thought? Like a storm that knocks your tree down and takes the roof off, you wonder at a point, how could this have happened? You attempt to change your thought before it gets worse. For a time, you think about something else, until you're back again, thinking the same thought from before, uprooting more of the yard and throwing furniture around.
If you said yes to the above questions, I completely understand. Last week, I found myself stuck on the most frustrating of thoughts. A tempest. I tried to write it out. I tried to meditate. As a result, I was no longer frustrated, I was angry, and then enraged. “Why,” you ask? “Those things should have helped you.”
Well…. yes, and no.
The energy we become stuck in, obsessed on, demands specific tools if we are to address it. I was already too far gone in the storm to write about it. I only wrote myself into more frustration. Then when my frustration erupted, I meditated and stewed on the incident further. What worked for me here? A bath and bed.
As the mind and the body are one function, we can obsess in the body, too, feeling the same ache or pain day after day. The ache in the back, head, or neck doesn’t go away because the tools don’t fit the cause. One would not take cough medicine to tame their hemorrhoids. So without the proper tools, these aches and pains never fully go away. We, like I did on the above night, do some internal work with the wrong tools thinking this will help, but unsure why or how, or if it truly will.
You are not the body. You are not the mind.
What can we do about this obsessive behavior? Thank goodness, no matter what is happening you can let it go. There is a tool, just like there is a person, for everything and everyone. As a matter of fact, there are multiple. That is the design. However, we have to relax beyond the body-mind in order to find it or them. Sometimes, that tool is to go to bed, so that we can reconnect with the Source of our making and find alignment anew in the morning. Sometimes that tool is a run. A prayer. A cry. A scream into a pillow.
How do you know what to use? Well, we have to consider what has made us feel better. Drugs or alcohol, even junk food may make you feel better for a time. They are great distractions for the body-mind. But they are not cures. They do not heal.
Practice:
For the next week or two, note when the obsessive pain or thought appears. Note the emotion that is there with it. Then try something like go for a walk or run. Take some deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth. Write down the result. Start to build a toolkit for the obsession, with attention to the emotions that exist while it is there.
No matter what, the temporary relief that you often feel is an indication that there is something you can do that would help as long as you don’t keep going along the path that has gotten you to this point in the first place. We can’t follow a new thought through an old hole. We must create new pipes. New thoughts come from changing patterns, and new feelings, the same.
When we begin to recognize that we are in the body-mind, but not it, a major stepping stone emerges that moves us out of body-mind obsessions. From here, we can relax into a bigger knowing and allow things to unfold. The path that we take from here will be inspired. The inspired thought will lead to relief. Relief (which is temporary can become long standing if we stick with the new thought/ pattern) can lead to healing. Healing will lead to health, and health will lead to freedom.
You are not be body. You are not the mind.
Create the toolkit to your freedom. Freedom is your birthright!
Have you ever caught yourself stuck in the middle of a deep thought? Like a storm that knocks your tree down and takes the roof off, you wonder at a point, how could this have happened? You attempt to change your thought before it gets worse. For a time, you think about something else, until you're back again, thinking the same thought from before, uprooting more of the yard and throwing furniture around.
If you said yes to the above questions, I completely understand. Last week, I found myself stuck on the most frustrating of thoughts. A tempest. I tried to write it out. I tried to meditate. As a result, I was no longer frustrated, I was angry, and then enraged. “Why,” you ask? “Those things should have helped you.”
Well…. yes, and no.
As the mind and the body are one function, we can obsess in the body, too, feeling the same ache or pain day after day. The ache in the back, head, or neck doesn’t go away because the tools don’t fit the cause. One would not take cough medicine to tame their hemorrhoids. So without the proper tools, these aches and pains never fully go away. We, like I did on the above night, do some internal work with the wrong tools thinking this will help, but unsure why or how, or if it truly will.
You are not the body. You are not the mind.
What can we do about this obsessive behavior? Thank goodness, no matter what is happening you can let it go. There is a tool, just like there is a person, for everything and everyone. As a matter of fact, there are multiple. That is the design. However, we have to relax beyond the body-mind in order to find it or them. Sometimes, that tool is to go to bed, so that we can reconnect with the Source of our making and find alignment anew in the morning. Sometimes that tool is a run. A prayer. A cry. A scream into a pillow.
How do you know what to use? Well, we have to consider what has made us feel better. Drugs or alcohol, even junk food may make you feel better for a time. They are great distractions for the body-mind. But they are not cures. They do not heal.
Practice:
For the next week or two, note when the obsessive pain or thought appears. Note the emotion that is there with it. Then try something like go for a walk or run. Take some deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth. Write down the result. Start to build a toolkit for the obsession, with attention to the emotions that exist while it is there.
No matter what, the temporary relief that you often feel is an indication that there is something you can do that would help as long as you don’t keep going along the path that has gotten you to this point in the first place. We can’t follow a new thought through an old hole. We must create new pipes. New thoughts come from changing patterns, and new feelings, the same.
When we begin to recognize that we are in the body-mind, but not it, a major stepping stone emerges that moves us out of body-mind obsessions. From here, we can relax into a bigger knowing and allow things to unfold. The path that we take from here will be inspired. The inspired thought will lead to relief. Relief (which is temporary can become long standing if we stick with the new thought/ pattern) can lead to healing. Healing will lead to health, and health will lead to freedom.
You are not be body. You are not the mind.
Create the toolkit to your freedom. Freedom is your birthright!
