Do you let fear rule in your now?

23rd Jul 2008

Does the fear of things to come; things you will be doing, perhaps in the distant or not so distant future, have your mind running a million miles an hour with “what ifs?”

Personally, in this period of my life I am branching out and trying new things. I have observed the mind putting in the “what ifs” and bringing up and actually putting it into a mini film of things that could happen. They are all fear based. I recognize that. But what I have come to see in my observation and non participation of those mind games; the flow of what I dread, or fear, never looks the way it had played out in the mini films of the mind. I have also come to realize that living or dancing with the fear does not look anything like what the mind said it would. Taking a minute and seeing that the fears are only thought forms and also realizing that they have nothing to do with what is, can be very beneficial.

If you can observe them, then you can begin to realize that the thoughts that are forcing themselves on you are not actually you at all, but rather just some bunch of tedious thought-forms.

I have come to realize that when we begin to observe it, and accept it, then we can be more conscious in the flow of life. This way you will be able to enjoy fully the moment you are in. Why ruin a perfectly good moment with perceptions of what could be? And possible….probably never will be or look anything like your minds mini films that are playing out    

Today, I will be totally in the now. I will only observe and accept that those perceived fears are just little films playing in the mind. I will observe them, embrace them and accept them.

Written by Chetan