A day of high hopes and high expectations can often lead to big changes. One day can have a big impact on all the days of life to come. Enter today with high hopes and expectations, just as we encouraged you to do yesterday, and let your true and open heart show you something new. If you close down your heart and operate only from your ego you will miss out on the most important thing that you need to experience today. But with your heart in charge, everything is possible.
The subconscious mind never sleeps. How could it, when it runs the physical body, and the energy body as well in its nightly journeys in infinity?
The conscious mind, by contrast, does nod off during sleep, and unless something wakes it into a lucid state while dreaming, it brings but vague downloads back to waking life upon awakening. Those downloads are known as dreams.
Actually, even in waking life the conscious mind can be said to be largely asleep. When driving a car, or performing a routine task, the conscious mind typically turns over the wheel to the subconscious mind that then steers the body and mind via the established programs stored within it, known as habits.
The conscious mind often takes flight into fantasy or thought until called back to task for necessary direction. When not mindfully present, the conscious mind is subject to an internal dialogue that is constantly defining and judging how it sees the world.
This judging activity actually creates the self and the world we live in through the consistency of its judgments and the personal identity it suggests to the subconscious mind.
Thus, for instance, the internal dialogue will deliver feedback every morning about the quality of one’s appearance during a quick or extended view from the mirror. It will remind us of unfavorable issues as it surveys its reflection, likely generating uncomfortable thoughts and feelings about ourselves.
Moving along, there are countless judgments about clothing, food decisions, and news and social media presentations that are categorized by such parameters as safety/threat, like/dislike, good/bad, positive/negative, approach/avoid, relax/get tense. This nonstop background judging function is active every waking moment of the day.
Once a judgment, good or bad, has been assigned by the conscious mind the subconscious mind faithfully codes it as a generalized guide that is then applied to ongoing daily encounters and reinforced by the conscious mind via passive acceptance of the judgments presented by the internal dialogue. The internal dialogue suggests what we think and feel about everything.
This dialogue establishes our true working definition of our identity. It’s how we know ourselves and are recognizable to others. The dialogue is incessantly active in the background of our minds, informing and reinforcing our sense of self. Unless the conscious mind brings its awareness to the directives of this dialogue and introduces a new perspective, this habitual mind runs nonstop, defining our lives.
Shamans covet a state they call inner silence, where the internal dialogue is abruptly halted, as an opportunity to collapse the world held in place by the internal dialogue. At such moments, one becomes privy to truths camouflaged by the internal dialogue, as it constantly generates ordinary reality.
Meditation practices that assign attention to a single focus, such as a word or the breath, accrue, over time, to moments of respite from the internal dialogue in the quiet of inner silence. However, experiences of inner silence and non-ordinary reality are not sustained indefinitely, as navigating our everyday world requires reentering a fixation upon the ordinary state of solid reality.
Quantum reality may be a truer picture of ultimate reality but the discreet physicality of Newtonian physics is crucial to functioning in everyday life. The internal dialogue quickly restores the familiar such-and-such of our consensus ordinary reality.
However, the silver lining of the internal dialogue is its magical ability to construct our world according to what we tell ourselves. It runs on autopilot but we can consciously take charge of the internal dialogue and what we tell ourselves. We can change the suggestions we deliver to the subconscious mind, from negative or habitual to positive and helpful, which are then manifested as the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual circumstances of our lives.
Yes, we can change our minds, even permanently. Mind is the spiritual substance that condenses into physical reality. A changed thought or suggestion rearranges the physical state of our being. This is our magical potential.
We can use our propensity for an internal dialogue to create a new experience of self and world. To achieve this, we must take conscious control of the internal dialogue, for good.
When we volitionally express gratitude, compassion, and loving intentions toward self and others in our internal dialogue, we become the positive being that radiates such qualities. This entails a persevering effort to bring alertness to our ever-active but half-asleep conscious mind, to be mindfully present and positive toward all things.
I am a loving, compassionate being, grateful for everyone, and in awe of everything,
There will always be challenges in Life School upon the planet Earth. That’s what you are there for, to encounter challenges, to conquer them and grow beyond them. Wouldn’t life just be pretty boring if everything was easy every day, if everything was the same every day? Accept that you are in human form for the duration of your lifetime and that you are bound to a certain intention. For most people that intention is to learn how to become more loving, kind and compassionate, and they are charged with learning those things through the challenges they face. You might ask yourself the following questions as you face the challenges that arise in your life: “How is this teaching me kindness?” “How is this showing me what it means to be loving?” “Is this event teaching me what compassion means?” “Am I getting the lesson of this challenge?” “What am I supposed to be learning today?” Keep in mind that if life on Earth is indeed a school of learning, then all of those questions are perfectly applicable to understanding the process you are undergoing, every day of your life. May you find your way.
Life offers free benefits every day. The air you breathe is completely free and available to you. It’s a lifelong benefit of life on Earth. It’s not only what keeps you alive but it can also enliven you in so many ways if you learn to utilize it for healing, for change, for calmness and for relaxation, as well as for invigoration. It’s hardly noticed, the breath, yet it’s the most important thing in your life, in every life on Earth. Utilize it more intentionally and more productively today and see what happens to you on the inside. It comes from outside of you but has profound effects on the inside of you, especially if you take full advantage of it.
The trials of yesterday are already forgotten as you are now faced with what today brings. How amazing is life that it does not ever stop! How wonderful that what was so worrisome yesterday is nothing compared to what presents today as the most important thing to deal with. How wondrous are life’s rapid changes! But that’s life and that’s how we all evolve, one day and one change and one decision at a time. Keep your heart open and attuned to what’s right. In every step you take, don’t forget to give thanks. A simple thank you is all you need for the Universe to hear you.
