What's Helping Me

[Lauren M]

So, I said I would share parts of The Power Of Now with this community. It's really helping me understand the power of Being and how to guide my own thoughts or be completely free of thinking all together. The reason I feel this is so important is because MD is totally an issue of the mind. For me,  it's a non stop desire to place myself elsewhere, in other peoples shoes, in a more ideal world, in whatever my mind will create. Before going on a mental trip, I have to accept what my mind is offering. I can either get on board and go on another trivial journey for hours or I can spend time training my thoughts.

"Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance. For example, there is nothing wrong with cells dividing and multiplying in the body, but when this process continues in disregard of the total organism, cells proliferate and we have disease.

Note: The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly-you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. This instrument has taken you over."

- The Power Of Now