Today,
I wanted to talk to you about how the mind is a storyteller and the heart is a truth teller and a few ways that you can connect with that distinction in your own life.
And so the mind is this beautiful tool,
Beautiful computer that allows us to live our lives,
Getting to where we need to go.
It keeps us organized on schedule,
On task.
It computes amazing things from our to-do list.
It gives us a real landing place for us to get things completed.
However,
The mind is not where your inspiration comes from.
It is not where those ideas spark or the way that you know how to do something.
The mind fools us into thinking that it can figure things out for us,
But really it doesn't have that capability.
It just loops on itself and it creates problems because when you have a problem,
Then you can start looking for solutions and the mind loves it because now it has something to do.
So the other thing the mind does to us is lie.
It says,
I know I put my keys here on the table.
They were right there.
I put them there and I know they were there.
Somebody moved them.
And I'm so upset because I know they were there.
And then you start looking for your keys and you find them in the drawer.
And then you remember,
Oh,
That's right.
I put them in the drawer after I checked the mail and I was cleaning up the kitchen.
I totally put them in the drawer.
But your mind told you you left them on the counter and it does that to you all the time,
All day long,
Just telling you these sweet little lies,
Trying to take care of you,
Trying to make you feel safe,
Trying to make things certain for you so that you don't freak out.
And it does a really good job at that.
And it's also really important to recognize that that's what is happening,
That this pattern that you can get stuck in of thinking you know,
Thinking that you need to figure it out,
Thinking that there's some problem that needs to be solved.
The other thing about the mind is all those things you think like I'm not good enough,
I should make more money,
I'm a bad mother,
Oh my gosh,
What do my parents think?
Holy moly,
What do the neighbors think?
Everything that all those thoughts that keep going on recycling in your head,
They don't even belong to you.
They belong to the collective conscious and everybody thinks those thoughts.
They're not even unique to you.
I think them,
You think them,
The neighbor thinks them,
Everybody thinks them.
We get so caught up in believing that it's only us,
All these terrible things we think about ourselves in the future and what's gonna happen and what's not gonna happen and is this and that and we share it.
And if you are sitting next to somebody who is really stuck in their head,
You can be sure that you are gonna be thinking their thoughts pretty quickly because nothing in the mind and the thought process is unique to us.
Inspiration,
Creativity,
Intuition,
The language of your heart,
That is all unique to you and that's a different thing.
And one last thing to help you see this mind theater play that we are all partaking in is,
I find this fascinating too when say,
There's a robbery and there's witnesses and they see the person leave and escape and he drives off in a car and there's all these eyewitnesses and the police go around and they ask,
Hey,
Can you give a description?
There will be multiple different descriptions,
Different types of cars,
Different color cars,
Maybe even a motorcycle.
The guy was wearing a hat,
The guy was in shorts,
The guy was in jeans,
He was in flip-flops,
He was in work boots,
He had short dark hair,
He had long blonde hair,
I think he wore glasses,
Maybe he had on a cap.
It goes on and on.
We think that we know and we think that we see,
But really our mind just plays a lot of tricks on us when we put our faith in this beautiful quality of storytelling that our mind holds.
Its job is to think,
Its job is to create problems and to weave these beautiful intricate stories that we live out if we do not become aware that we're living inside these stories.
I love how Sarah Blondin describes the big self,
The heart,
The connection to our soul as the unstoried self.
It just speaks so deeply to me about that part of us that isn't connected in and trapped and playing out unconscious stories.
It's that part of us that is the witness that steps outside of the story and really sees that there's more than the limitations of the mind allow us.
And so the heart is the truth teller.
The heart is the portal to our soul.
It's the portal to our intuition.
It is our portal to each other,
To the stars,
The cosmos,
The universe,
To everything that exists.
We are all connected through this beautiful heart that always speaks the truth,
That always knows the truth and is always calling us towards our truth.
It doesn't want to get quiet.
It doesn't want to leave us.
It wants to come and knock and knock and knock at your door until you wake up and say,
I hear you.
I want to live connected to you.
I want to be in the truth of who I am,
No matter what,
No negotiating and no excuses.
And that is the beautiful truth of the heart of who you truly are.
The soul on a journey in a body,
Navigating this beautiful storytelling capacity of the mind in order to find the truth teller within the heart.
And so my loves,
What is your truth?
What is it that you are here to do?
How are you meant to live?
What is the truth of your heart?
What is the truth of your journey?
The truth of your life?
The truth of your relationships?
How does that feel in your body when you think of that and connect to that?
And how can you live more in your heart and the truth of who you are and really allow yourself to recognize the storytelling mind?
