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Mind Stop — How to Get Control of the Chatter in Your Head

At the top of our spine is a 3 pound organ called the brain, and it controls everything that we do, experience, and feel.

We are wired to perceive contrasts – differences – to help us divide the world into this and that, right and wrong, good and  bad.  We unconsciously respond to fear, pain, lack that dates back to our ancestor’s earliest fight for survival. The chatter in your head is the chatter of imagined survival.

When there is a real threat, your mind is quiet. The problem is with the imagined threats – which are 99% of our actual experience.

The mechanism for imagined survival is a system of endless mental loops and provocative symbols — images, stories and myths –  that trigger profound sensations in the body. These feelings in turn, act as an inner guidance system helping us steer clear of our imagined pain, suffering, and fear – by creating psychological pain, suffering, and fear – which paradoxically is no longer just imagined. By further obsessing on these unconscious feelings and symbols that are now both real and imagined – the brain tries to keep them from ever happening to us again– which amounts to an impossible, crazy-making feat.

It is out of our need to understand pain and suffering that religion, spirituality, and organized, cult mythology evolves. We need cute little stories to try to help us feel better about the unpredictability of boundless life. The paradox of this, of course, is that these very stories confuse and confound, and exacerbate the problem.

There is no answer to life with the totality of experience. Life simply is.

Clinging to pain and suffering also gives us a feeling of existing, of being alive– human.

” I experience pain, therefore, I am. I exist”. The endless quest for survival is the source of the ultimate fear; the fear of total annihilation. This is the underlying fear that is always in background of our life, and driving our major and minor life decisions. It is out of the drive to survive that the perceptual field that we experience as the mind–the drunken monkey– is born. The mind is only a perception, not a fact. It’s a hallucinatory experience, a collection of loosely woven, emotionally charged, past moments that are both real and imagined constantly impressing their magnetic field on the flow of our consciousness in the here and now.

These moments get stored somatically, in our body, and become what we call life experience — our life story. The mind is a symbolic, mythological storage facility, an energetic warehouse for all things negative and all things fearful. Our mind is the major source of the problems of our life.

This is also the problem of enlightenment.

When the mind is enlightened, it is literally free of the pull of the magnetic field of the organizing force of symbols, mythology, and survival. The first stage of enlightenment is really waking up of the mind from its deep slumber of darkness and fear of annihilation. It is waking up to the fact that the mind itself is a perceptual illusion. An energetic field of stored thoughts, images, symbols, stories and myths that appear to be real, but don’t actually exist in 3D reality. The biggest problem of our mind is that it appears to exist, but doesn’t actually exist. It’s not real, yet it appears to be real and more importantly– feels real. That’s what makes the drunken monkey such a difficult foe, like Don Quixote chasing windmills that he thinks are living giants.

The lessons in A Course in Freedom, will teach you how the perceptual field of your mind works, how the drunken monkey is communicating with itself, and what you can do to lighten it up. Enlightenment is only the first stage of your spiritual path, and therefore, it is important to awaken sooner than later. It is only the beginning. No matter how advanced you are, when you finally awaken, you will find that you are in kindergarten again. All things are new, fresh, and without bounds — uncertain and unlimited. Infinite. Yet, paradoxically we must still live in the world, awake, free, but functional in the mundane world of sleeping minds and drunken monkeys all clamoring for control of our body and our life. Our brain is in the middle of  a transition. It is still evolving, still working things out. It needs us to fully participate and engage in the next step of that evolution.

A Course in Freedom will offer you tools to see your life more and more clearly. It is up to you how far into the rabbit hole you desire to go.