Stop postponing the inevitable
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Liara Covert, Ph.D
Insight of the Moment
"Love everything. Be fully present. All doors are open."- Liara Covert
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The ultimate truth about life, why you exist, why you do anything, why you consult a coach even, is at the tip of your nose. The most obvious is the hardest to see because your senses are oriented outward. They take in information and activate mental analysis and judgment.
For some, shifting inward is a process. For others, this shift occurs much quicker. When you make investments on the outer world, it can be easy to forget another way of seeing, the natural way of seeing.
What if you view life as an opportunity? What kinds of opportunities come to you? Do you sense something is here that you are also not yet seeing? Is this the source of restlessness?
Uncluttered intelligence or clear seeing. This is not identifying with anything in particular. Knowing the inner dimension comes naturally without interference (beliefs and fears) that bring(s) confusion. It is recognizing and letting go of beliefs that the mind struggles with.
Longing to know something shifts your attention away from yourself.
Love is not something you are or fall in, it is something you are. The key to opening the auric field so mind and consciousness work together. Regardless of the goals you think you have, the revelations that follow are already shifting perception, desire and sense of reality.
Its common to wish to escape from thoughts of discomfort and challenges that feel overwhelming. Life situations can escalate or get-out -of hand. Simple conversations can intensify, and trigger your emotions. Why assume changing scenery makes a difference? What is really going on? Ponder 5 ways to see wisdom in urges to escape:
1) Look deeper to see what you really wish to escape
Notice on the surface, you may think you wish to avoid conflict at work, in relationships or other situations, or even temporarily alleviate the stress you link to paying bills, keeping up appearances, multi-tasking or other matters. Turning inward reveals all urges to escape/ travel/ change scenery are forms of resistance to accepting true being (who you really are). Discomfort arising in relation to your external world reflects internal tug-of-war between the limiting Mind and expanding Self. This reveals why people often say they need a vacation to recouperate from the vacation or attend retreat after retreat. Rather than relax and be in the moment, an active mind focuses attention on what is not being done somewhere other than where one is.
2) Society/ culture programs humans to suffer.
Notice the Mind is programmed to oscillate between perceptions of pain and pleasure and focus mainly on misery of who you think you are not, where you are not and what you are not yet doing. This takes shape as focusing on the past or future, on what seems lacking or missing in your life, on what you no longer have or would like to and do not yet see materialize. This even comes across in calendar celebrations that recognize historical events but actually just keep you focused energetically away from now.
3) Recognize & move beyond 'the what next syndrome.'
Notice the ways the Mind keep you thinking about the future and speaking using the future tense in language. You come to nurture expectations for what is next rather than appreciate where you are. It can take shape in a linear timeline vision for relationships (i.e. dating, commitment, marriage, children, house purchase, children, retirement ect), for moving up a hierarchy in the workplace, for envisioning step-by-step changes to any situation. Watch what happens to the urge to escape when you let go of all expactations.
At some stage, stepping back allows one to see through all the seeking and master the focus of attention. It dawns that physical existence is not full of problems to be solved but rather, full of mysteries to be lived directly. No questions arise in the Silence where nothing is happening and no-body exists to escape from.