but what what has happened through the gradual evolution of thinking is that now humans tend to
overthink there is a lot of not only unnecessary thinking that generates
unnecessary and in many cases non-existent problems such as when you
lie awake at night in bed and start worrying it generates a lot of unnecessary unhappiness
so people don't realize that a significant part of the unhappiness in their
lives is actually generated by unnecessary negative often destructive mind activity and they don't
even know it mindfulness is first of all discovering the simple
fact that there is a voice in your head that continuously comments on your life
or on what's happening around you it it's it's this the the the self self
talk in the everybody knows what the selft talk is in the head you talk to
yourself sometimes you talk to yourself in the first person I some people talk
to themselves in the second person you so you can get annoyed with yourself
and then you say you you shouldn't have done that and then you have another thought
and says yes but I couldn't help it and you might even get a third Voice come in
and whatever it says this why can't I why can't I get out of my self talk that that self talk
too but it's an amazing the first thing what I call the first Awakening Spiritual
Awakening is something very basic and something very simple it's a
discovery that there is a voice in your head that always talks talks to you mostly
silently if it talks out loud then you're continuously and and there's
nobody around then you are considered insane but and that's only if it's low
but most people have that inside their heads and they are not considered insane
it's considered normal but there's not such a big difference between the two and sometimes
when you when you listen to there might be a man walking in the street muttering
oh and you say oh he's really insane but it might be that you are
doing the same but it's just not out alloud it's in your head why didn't why I should have said
that why didn't I say that next time he does that I'm not exactly know what I'm going to
reply and it goes on and on or you lie awake at night and start worrying you
wake up up and oh my God what's going to happen what if that doesn't work and if
that goes wrong and what if he does that and and then you go into it you get
drawn one thought leads to another thought and another thought oh my God and then the
body the body cannot distinguish between an actual reality an event that's
happening in the real life and what your mind is saying so when you have Fe fearful
thoughts the body reacts to every fearful thought but the and that's an
emotion the body reacts with an emotion the emotion you feel in your body the
body cannot dist distinguish between an actual event and a thought so when you
think fearful thoughts the emotions you feel are the emotions that are saying I
am in danger there is an actual Danger here so you feel the emotion of fear anxiety you might you
might feel you feel agitated and it's not it's not only not pleasant if you indulge in that kind of
useless dysfunctional destructive thinking year after year after year it
has its effect on the body and it decreases the ability of the body
to have the energy to fight disease even mainstream medicine is discovering the connection
between your state of mind and your state of health and so gradually we are seeing in
the past they denied it completely they only looked at your body and not only at
the they they not they not didn't just look at the totality of the body even
within the body they just like looked at one particular symptom what's wrong with
that particular organ and you have of course in mainstream medicine you have
Specialists I'm a specialist for the liver specialist for this and this and
that not only not taking into account the totality of the body but more
importantly not taking into account the totality of the person which includes
the physical body and the mind so it's vitally important to discover first of all that
there is a voice in your head that indulges in selft talk most of the
time and for many people interestingly enough that selft talk for many people
is not always negative but for many people a there it it is more negative than
positive a good event that happened yesterday a nice you might have gone to
a nice reunion or you you went out into nature and you witnessed a beautiful
sunset okay you can remember it today and think that was a beautiful sunset or
we had a nice talk yesterday but you can't do that much thinking about a nice
event but the mind when there's something negative that happens yesterday somebody offended you or
didn't give you the attention that that you needed that you wanted from him then
you can start thinking of how oh my God what he did he's really next time he does that I'm going
to say that he's really show why doesn't he why you can go on for a long time
dwelling on something negative much longer than dwelling on something
positive it is so seemingly an negative event is much more food for useless mind
activity than a positive event and this is why for many people a significant
percentage of their mind activity is negative uh for some people it is almost
100% negative but it is unlikely that these people would get a job in this company and I mean that
because the your predominant State of Consciousness your predominant mental emotional state
there's a certain correlation between who you associate with where you find yourself and even
what kind of things happen to you there is a correlation which is not always immediately
recognizable but there is a correlation between once's a person's predominant
mental emotional state and who they are with who their friends are what where
they work and even what happens to them so if you are if you are in a very
negative State a long time you tend to attract also negative events but you can
only have to find it out for yourself I'm not saying believe me I know it from
my own life because when I first discovered this I was still very young I
discovered that there is a correlation between my mind activity and what happens to me I I
found a I found a a book and that somebody several books that somebody left with us when I was
17 and there for the first time I read about a person's mind and had suddenly
realized my mind was predominantly negative because I very I was a very
unhappy child and so my childhood was not pleasant and so the initial
conditioning of my life was that my mind was continuously commenting and saying
how bad my life was and whenever something bad happened to me I had a
phrase that would occur again in my mindset of course bad things always
happen to you don't they they bound to happen to you it's always happens to you
so I was talking to myself and saying that bad things would always happen to me and they did so you
can discover first what the spiritual awakening is to discover that there is continuous mind
activity and for some people it's the discovery that a significant part of
their mind activity is negative but the vital thing is to discover that there is this good
continuous talk in my head which is called nor is considered the normal
human State and of course you cannot abolish thinking of course there will be
thinking but the question is is there an awareness behind the thinking if and the if you can become
aware that you are indulging or caught up in that useless mind activity and you suddenly become
aware of perhaps certain repetitive thoughts that tend to re reoccur in your
mind again and again you might see it in others too eat more easily in others
when you go for your Thanksgiving dinner I I think is it next week you will meet
your family members or relatives and in some of you may realize you already know
what they are going to say this year because it's the same thing they said
last year and 5 years and 10 years ago and if they have negative judgments
about you or somebody else then it's the same thing you will hear again next week
when you go to them so it's it's easier to see how others are caught up in repetitive thought
forms not as easy to see it in oneself this is why there's a saying that self-
knowledge is the most difficult knowledge it's it's easier to see others
but if you can discover even in the midst perhaps in the moment of a certain
thought appearing in your mind realizing oh that thought is I've had this thought
for years it comes again and again and again and so you there is an observing
presence and from there you get and that observing presence isn't a thought it's
just the ability to realize that that there is a voice in your head and then
there are thoughts and you realize that some of those thoughts are negative and
many of those thoughts actually are not only unnecessary but make your life very difficult such as
worry so most people live with what I call a cluttered mind a cluttered mind
means they're completely unaware that there's a continuous stream of
mental commentary and it Go and wherever they meet somebody and immediately certain judgments
form and everything they feel they need to immediately adopt a position towards
it immediately say I'm against it I dis I like so immediately adapt adapt a
mental position and being identified with one's mental position which is a thought
so if you discover within yourself that a lot of the time you're in a state of
lack of insufficiency of not enough and you feel that the answer to the remedy
is to be active In This World and Achieve and do as much as possible then
you'll probably find that ultimately that is not the answer to your state of
lack in order to uh transcend to go beyond your state of lack of neediness
of not enough spiritual practice and spiritual realization is necessary focus
on the realization of being it's only there that you can go beyond that state
of laage is ego go within and discover who or what you are beyond the person