Changing my Mind

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You could call it a ‘crisis’, some people do but it’s also a reaction. Margaret Thatcher famously was said to say “The lady’s not for turning” but there were occasions when even she ‘ changed her mind’ and it seems to increasingly the norm for political leaders, with one or two notable and courageous exceptions, to ‘change their minds’, even presenting this as a deliberate element of their policy.

But I’m not a politician – at least I don’t think I am, I did give it a try once but just couldn’t be doing with it.

Now; I’m in the throes of ‘changing my mind’. Not so much in terms of my understanding and opinion about ‘life the universe and everything’ but about how my mind really ‘works’.

How does the mind work? A good question and the answer, like the scene between Harry Potter and the Goblin in Deathly Hallows, is “It’s complicated”.

It’s not just about ‘how’ but also ‘why’ and in the wider interpretation, ‘who’ and ‘what’. There’s no ‘when’ because the mind is always ‘working’.

The issue is why it works how it does in different situations, and who and what it works in relation to. You may need to stop and think about this for a moment!

How do minds ‘work’?

From one aspect it’s an eternal conflict between our two fundamental parts – the spiritual and the human or animal elements which give rise to our existence. (And yes, it’s the same for other creatures as well)

The thing is, most of our ‘time’, our lives are ruled by the ‘human’ mind which we call the ‘conscious’ mind and in turn this is controlled by what we know as our ‘ego’. It’s the price ‘we’ as infinite beings pay for the experience of being here. (For a full explanation of what I’m talking about see the books by Neale Donald Walsch – Conversations With God).

But we, you and I, still ‘know’ there is ‘something else’ which is our spiritual, universal, mind of our ‘sub’- or ‘un’-conscious. It’s what goes on behind the scenes, recording everything, and I really do mean everything, going on in our lives.

Importantly it enables our feelings and our connectivity with others as, whether we like it or not, we are all connected individuations of the energy which is the Universe.

I am ‘changing my mind’.

What I mean by this and what I commend to you, is to change the priorities and focus of what goes on in my head.

For most people, and for me up until now, the priority has always been the ego, the ‘human’ part of our existence. It’s what we’ve been taught by our families and the education system. It’s what most people believe completely is ‘all there is’.

In truth the ego/human is only a fraction of who you and I really are – in the same way we only ever use a tiny fraction of our ‘brain power’. Most people live as fractional beings, small representations of what we could be – who we really are; but we can escape from this paradigm – which is what I’m engaged in right now.

I’m changing the ‘focus’ of my ‘thinking’ to prioritise the spiritual over the physical mind and this has tuned out to need some ‘work’.

What I’ve found is it’s far more complex than I thought, and not just a switch on/switch off operation. But I’ve had a ‘light bulb moment’. It’s about ‘meaning’

What does it all mean? the ego says. What’s the ‘answer’ to life the universe and everything? Why? (Probably our most used word when we were growing up) The ego always wants to know the why, the meaning, the reason, the ‘answer’.

It’s a difficult one to grasp because of our conditioning, and for most people hard to accept, particularly as a large proportion of the world’s population are in some way or other employing their ‘time’ (or more correctly their life) diligently searching for this answer. Which is staring them in the face!

There is no ‘meaning’.

It’s all about the experience, the experience of encountering different frameworks of energy. Remember, everything is energy, including the thoughts which go on in our head.

If we did need a ‘meaning’ then the best we can find is that simple statement – “Everything is Energy”

To explore and discuss this further and explain just ‘how’ I’m changing my mind I’m giving a ‘Mastermind’ zoom session later this month when you can ask questions. Watch out for details