What can get us anywhere we want is also what can prevent us from going there! It is located inside us and we call it: Our Mind!
When we usually say ‘our Mind’ we mean our thoughts and, as we saw in previous posts, they have the power either to help or be a serious burden. We also saw that it is impossible to push away negative thoughts. But then, how is it possible to convert our thoughts from ‘foe’ to ‘friend’?
Well this IS possible, but the way might just be different from what you imagine: To use our thoughts in a way that we intend to, and not BE USED BY them, we need to do one thing. And this particular thing is the 2nd Key of your Q-Mind’s activation:
To dis-identify from your thoughts!
The vast majority of the people around us have fully identified their own existence with their thoughts. ‘Cogito ergo sum’=’I think therefore I exist’ said Descartes who -amongst other Renaissance philosophists- started a movement that deified our thoughts to the point where they have been considered as equal to our being and our personality. Therefore, we have gradually forgotten some of our natural skills such as ‘balancing around our center’ or observing ourselves and life in a way that is not distorted by our prejudices, conventions and axioms inherited by our parents, teachers, by our close or less close environment, by the ‘stories’ in which our own Mind automatically translates our own experiences.
All these come inadvertently and haunt us in the form of thoughts, with which we learn how to identify so much that, in the end, we are not even conscious of their existence.
‘What are you thinking?’ says the one spouse to the other one, who silently sits there, following a negative emotion that followed his/her own thought: ‘Once again, I am being neglected’, a thought that comes so frequently to mind, that it has come to be impossible to observe it anymore…
In the following post you will see how EXACTLY you can dis-identify from your thoughts to activate the 2nd key of your q-Mind.
