Time to wake up.

‘I know that the word ‘choose’ is a favourite New Age term, but it isn’t entirely accurate … It is misleading to say that somebody “chose” a dysfunctional or negative situation in his or her life. Choice implies consciousness – a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present. Until you reach that point, you are unconscious, spiritually speaking.’

Eckart Tolle - The Power of Now

This section of text hit me like a tone of bricks.  Toole points out that until you find that ‘aha’ moment of stillness, you have no choice but to repeat the patterns of your past. Let that sink in. If you crave control and have an inner critique with PMS like I do, you can imagine the hostility you hold against yourself when you thing are not going to plan. It puts the lame in blame let me tell you. But what the godfather of Mindfulness has demystified here is that blaming yourself only moves you further away from your goals by creating another self destructive pattern of thought. (The blame game). 

Rather than beating ourselves up for not controlling what we can not control, we need to control one thing, our breath. Control your breath to slow down your subconscious mind. Relax into beta brainwaves where you can reprogram new patterns of thought and create healthy habits.

Let’s wake up.

Your Friend,

Buzzy