Taking Charge of Your Inner Growth

there are many many different ways to look at the mind we're going to look at it in a very unique way this evening but very very helpful your body eats you eat you feed your body every one of you know that depending on what you feed it it affects how it feels if you did junk it feels drunky you feed it the right amount imbalance it feels good your mind is the same your mind is a thing your to see it as a thing that I wish you could just put it out here like a machine like a computer if you feed your mind drunk it spits out junk if you feed it healthy positive things nice things it spits out nice things it's just a thing we're just too close to our minds so we don't see it as a thing we make a gross mistake somehow we see our minds as us your mind is not you you are the one who has a mind you're the one who can make the mind do what you want make it say hello it'll say hello make it say goodbye though say goodbye the minute you tell it to right or wrong make its lol oh right now over and over again inside saying it you can create thoughts your mind creates thoughts that's what a mind is we know what a body is what is a mind it is a thing in the universe that creates thoughts it's a thought creating machine you need to understand this just like you understand your body reasonably had to feed it what happens is on you need to understand how you use your mind just like how you use your body but we're not taught this and we don't deal with this so your mind is an instrument and appliance I like it to be an appliance my mind is an appliance like a blender or something except it's a for creating appliance if I tell it to if I use my will I can make it do whatever I want good I can make it visualize what I want I can make it say what I want at least for a moment and so can you every single person if I tell them tell their mind to say hello inside their mind is gonna say hello it may not last very long it may get distracted by something but you have the ability to make your mind create the thought that you want don't you when you are not doing that then the mind creates its thoughts on its own that's really interesting it's so weird like if all of a sudden you're driving along and the mind says oh my god I don't think he really liked me I thought he did and he's talking about something was seven years ago all right it'll do that don't you cut it shorter don't you start doing that you'll start feeling oh what if he didn't love me and he was really just lying to me all this time I thought and you start feeling and it's like you just get lost in its thoughts that doesn't mean you are its thoughts it is creating a thought and then you are the consciousness that is aware of this thought or you are the consciousness that is asserting will to make the appliance great the thought you want ooh I want you to see those two different states willful creation of thoughts versus unwilling of the ones that are being created by themselves now you know those two states there's a very important States to understand well why does the mind create the thoughts that it does that's a reasonable question you got to live with the darn things you have a mind you have a car you have a body you know how to drive your car you take care of it you have a body you take reasonable care of it you don't do a thing with your mind people don't know if things this is if there's no separation between them in mind if there's no separation between you and car you would think about taking care of it it would just be you you wouldn't talk that way I take my car in what are you gonna do while your cars in all right one a walk you see you can separate yourself in the car what are you going to do when your mind's not creating thoughts it's called a meditation I'll go to ecstasy oh just pee somewheres else I will be with my mind will you cease to exist any one of you that ever went into a meditative state once for a moment knows that you're there when the mine stops how about if I draw that as a bottom line of having meditated I don't care of it just less than a moment and only once in your life you knew that mine stopped you know and they're saying gee I think my mind stopped no that's not your mind stop that's your thinking that your mind stopped it just can stop and then you're there and there's this peace that's why people like meditation there's this deep sense of complete well-being why ready because your mind is not disturbing the peace that's why there's peace the lake is perfectly still until the wind blows across it till the leaf drops into it until something happens that disturbs the balanced state of harmony of peace of the lake fair enough some foreign event comes in and causes ripples your mind is exactly the same you're exactly the same if your mind is quiet then you are quiet you are remaining in a state of well-being because that is your natural state if the mind is telling you that he didn't love you seven years ago you don't feel comfortable you're caught in thoughts that are disturbing so you do exist when the mind stops you can make the mind say what you want but the normal state of a human being is that the mind is creating its own thoughts nobody's home we use the word mindful nowadays nobody's being mindful that the mind is full nobody's there paying attention that the mind is making up its own thoughts and saying these things so basically why at some point you get to the point we say well why does my mind create the thoughts that it does so I'm not creating them why does it do it now you would think I don't know why your mine creates I don't even know you how would I know why your mind creates the faucet does but I do know I know why every single one of your minds creates the thoughts that they do every single time they create them and I'm not psychic don't worry don't put a shield up and I might read your mind I know anything that I'm not gonna read your mind but I know why every single thought you ever had came up into your mind by itself why is it creating every single thought that it creates in the order it creates it is a knowable thing Wow far out well why does it do this and why doesn't it your shop just get quiet when I sit down it doesn't because there's a problem here every single one of these thoughts that you are not and if you use your mind to figure out 2+2 you use your mind to figure out directions the drive this is you using your mind we can talk about why you would use your mind a certain way it's a different issue but it's still you using your mind I want to focus on the fact that you are letting your mind create his own thoughts with nobody home and I'm telling you that's running your life and I always stick the eye in it's ruining your life because it just creates these thoughts and the next thing you know you're lost in them and you're feeling certain ways and saying certain things and things and things and if you're not careful you're lost you get lost so now first why does it create the thoughts that it does i watch this very carefully so of many people and you will see it the minute you watch it it's called witness consciousness objective observation you decide I'm going to watch what my mind does when I'm not home except I'll be home but I won't tell it it's like having one of those cam camera though cam caressed my you can watch what's going on in there don't tell anybody okay so you go in there and you watch and what you're going to see is as follows I just talked to you two seconds ago and I told you that shirts a little bright I don't think I should be wearing on a temple okay and then you walk in and you sit down how but I know what your mind is saying I'll bet it's saying something about your right to order of shirt you want to wear or or it's saying oh my god I wish I didn't put this shirt on I don't care what it's saying something about that shirt and you're not making it say that it's saying it by itself did I get it what do you think what's the probability pretty high in it why is that why is I mean it may seem perfectly natural to you why is that why is your mind creating those thoughts because it was not comfortable because you're disturbed by something your mind tries to release tries to find a way to be more comfortable and so by complaining about it it's releasing energy by figuring out well I can change the shirt later it came with a solution it's doing something to try to get rid of the ripples of disturbance member I said what if it was perfectly calm with nothing coming in it'd be very still and beautiful but if a rock drops in or a leaf drops in or if a wind blows across then these ripples happen those thoughts are the ripples a rock dropped in who me me I dropped in and said something that dropped into the water of your mind and now it's disturbed is not comfortable so it tries to get comfortable as it's like homeostasis where things try to balance themselves try to come back to an equilibrium so the fact that it got disturbed it tries to create thoughts please listen to me no one will talk to you like this it by itself just like your body has an immune system you don't have to make your white blood cells secrete you come out you have to make all these different things happen the antibodies and everything do you but they do happen don't they your mind is way more brilliant than your body it's much more subtle it's a higher level so it also has a system to try to heal to try to bring about harmony in equilibrium that system is its ability to create thoughts that negate the problem so if it sits there and says all by itself I don't worry whatever shirt I want that's ridiculous who does he think he is why is it saying that because it's not comfortable with the ripples that are created inside the mine fair enough and so it is by itself using this natural mechanism of trying to bring about balance by rationalizing by putting one thought on top of another to try to neutralize if you won't ever learned anything from me will you learn that you've been listening to an excerpt from Michael singers the untethered soul lecture series vol 8 taking charge of your inner growth