Om, Om On The Range...A lovely little piece on the ability of meditation to tame and re-train our Monkey-Minds. Shanti...
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Posted On Break The Norms Blog - 3/19/13
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“All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we create the world.” the Buddha
There’s
a voice inside you that is constantly speaking…in whispers…in shouts…
in chatter…in murmurs…in guidance…and in an ongoing conversation between
YOU and YOURSELF. At lightning speed, your senses absorb an impression,
your brain receives it, a thought manifests, your intellect processes
it, your inner voice puts it in context, and then moves you to the next
moment. This relentless process continues unceasingly through every
moment… every hour of every day. This is your inner dialog – responding
to life as it unfolds before you and within you.
Wherever
you spend your time; whatever you read or watch; however you move
through your day, ultimately becomes the fabric of your inner dialog.
Watch a lot of movies…it becomes you; practice a certain asana
regularly…it becomes you; eat a certain type of food…it becomes you;
read a particular author or perspective…it becomes you; spend a lot of
time in a certain place…it becomes you…and on and on it goes.
When
you spend time each day in stillness and silence…it also becomes you.
And it begins to awaken your inner voice a bit more to your
unconditioned self – the part of you that is whole, pure, infinite,
divine, and unbounded by your ego.
There’s
also a voice you project into the world – your outer dialog. That outer
voice is essentially what you do with the information that you flow
through your head and your heart– what you say, how you act, choices you
make, ways you interpret the next moment…all your interactions.
When
your inner voice and your outer voice are aligned, we call that being
in integrity. But balancing and aligning the two separate worlds can be
challenging. One is who you see when you look in the mirror – your true
sense of self… and the other one that is expressed in interactions,
conversations, relationships, transactions, situations where we want to
be heard, trusted, believed, liked, approved, rewarded, loved, and
embraced.
Through
the daily practice of meditation, your inner dialog becomes infused
with tiny drops of this stillness…of this silence…thimbles full of your
unconditioned self. As the days add up…those thimbles become teaspoons
then ladles…until you are awash in buckets of stillness and silence
flowing through you. At a certain point …the still part of you
–unblemished by all that inner chatter and conditioning – becomes the
dominant aspect of your essence.
And
that’s when the powerful transformation begins to unfold as both your
inner and outer voice become tinged with pure unbounded consciousness –
pregnant with possibilities because it is unconstrained by all the years
of conditioning, reactivity, and reinforcement. Suddenly… one day you
awake and your inner dialog and your outer dialog are one. The
compassion that fills your heart flows in your words and deeds; the
defenselessness that once scared you becomes the first response to a
harsh comment; the expansion into unknown possibilities that you feared
becomes your friend as you gently loosen your grip on constricted ways
of thinking.
In
that moment, your inner dialog and your outer dialog become one — both
flowing from a place of stillness and conscious choice-making rather
than the old conditioned inner voice.
It’s
a gentle process that slowly creeps into intimate conversations,
difficult exchanges, moments of self-doubt, and judgment in your darkest
hours. As you surrender to this incremental wave of “new” thinking, you
begin to feel easiness where there was once anxiety; calm where there
was once stress; reflection where there was once reflexiveness; and
acceptance where there was once resistance.
With
each day, and within each moment, the world starts responding to you
differently – closed doors open; big scary monsters morph into new
opportunities, challenges become learning opportunities, tyrants become
teachers, and setbacks reveal themselves as life lessons.
The
more time we spend in quietude, the more sensitive and aware we become
to life’s inner and outer flows. We often refer to that as being
conscious. When your inner dialog and your outer dialog are aligned, the
world unfolds before you with grace and ease. And it all starts with
the first OM.
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