Here's a few minutes to reconnect with truth from a three principles perspective.
It can often seem like the pressure we experience on the inside is created by what's happening on the outside,
From other people,
From our circumstances,
From a situation we might find ourselves in.
But in actual fact,
Inner pressure,
That which you feel on the inside of your body is created from the inside,
By thought in the moment,
By the thoughts that you're believing,
By the thoughts that you are concentrating on.
The illusion that that pressure can bring is that it can really look like you need to act immediately in order to relieve the pressure.
If you believe that pressure is coming from the outside world,
That action can look like something you need to do out there.
But equally,
If it looks like that pressure is being caused by a problem with you in some way,
That can also create some kind of action,
Often something that's not very helpful.
The real powerful thing to see here is that your body is trustworthy in this regard.
Being aware of how your body is feeling is a way to see your mental state.
Your body awareness reveals your mental state.
When you're feeling tense and tight and pressured,
That's letting you know that your state of mind is tense and tight and pressured.
Underneath all that thinking though,
Underneath that feeling of pressure,
There is something that is true for all of us all the time.
Something that we can always access and that is our mental wellbeing.
The constant calm presence beneath all those states of mind,
Beneath all the pressure.
Knowing this can help clarity to emerge naturally without forcing or fixing.
You don't need to deliberately try and change your thinking for some kind of better thinking,
Or try and reduce the amount of thinking that you have,
Or do anything at all in the outside world.
When you see that being caught up in those thoughts is what's creating the pressure,
It makes more and more sense to put it down.
It's a bit like when you realize you're holding a hot rock and it's burning your hand.
Why would you carry on holding it when you realize that's where the suffering is coming from?
That's where we're pointing to in this Three Principles conversation.
To see that our experience is created from the inside out and when we see that in the moment,
It makes sense to drop the certain kinds of thoughts that are creating pressure within us.
I hope this has been a helpful little exploration pointing you back towards that Three Principles truth.
Take care.
That's the love.
