The mind is a great servant,
But a terrible master.
Let's ponder on that for a moment.
What does it mean that the mind is a servant?
Well,
If you would like to have a cup of tea,
Your mind will say,
Please open up that door,
Maybe not please,
Get that bag of tea,
It will tell your arm to lift,
Your fingers to pick up the tea bag and tear it,
And to put it into the cup that you have told your other hand to lift,
And therefore it is the servant.
It will tell your legs to walk over to where the kettle is,
That is the servant.
But what does it mean by the master?
It is a terrible master.
That is when you allow your mind to take over,
You allow your mind to tell you what to do,
And that you are no longer asking it to serve you.
You are listening to it,
You are its servant,
It is your master.
And so when we contemplate on understanding when that happens,
Simple observation,
When am I allowing my mind to be the master?
When am I the servant?
My mind is my servant,
I tell my mind what to do.
I tell my mind to be happy,
Content,
Healthy,
Smart.
My mind says I'm beautiful,
Brilliant,
Engaging,
Endearing,
The best person in the world.
My mind,
I tell that to rewire it and retrain it,
And in this day and age,
We have to do this 24-7,
Otherwise it will slowly become the master.
And so how do you feed your mind with positive conversation and communication?
Now if you have someone near and dear to you,
A friend,
A co-worker,
A child,
A partner,
You may be quite positive internally on a regular basis,
But when you need to get it out,
You will talk to them about it.
Your woes,
Your challenges,
Your discomfort,
Your sadness,
Your anger.
I'm so this and I'm so that.
I am is a powerful word,
Many of us do this,
Including me.
And as Bruce Lipton says,
More than 80% of our thoughts today are the same thoughts we had yesterday.
Is that not true?
And yet this awareness is enough to say,
I want to change that,
I want my thoughts to change in a most positive way,
And they can and they will.
We cannot make time our master either,
And be servant,
Because time is a construct.
You may have repetitive thoughts from trauma that could last days,
Weeks,
Months,
Maybe even years.
But if you work on this concept,
Eventually they will disappear.
Now what can happen?
Our brain can get used to having some sort of trauma and we may replace it with another trauma.
We're humans.
We do that.
And we can go through the same process again and again.
Now this sounds dysregulated,
Uncomfortable,
Kind of insane,
Right?
But it's okay,
Because each time that we do it,
We get better and better at it.
It happens faster and faster.
Unless we are one to bury our emotions,
Push them aside,
I don't want to think about it.
It's not my problem.
Didn't bother me.
I'm not upset by it.
Now if that's the honest truth,
Go for it.
But most of us,
It is not.
And it will show itself in the most obscure places,
Such as the person who cut you off while you were driving,
Or your co-worker who didn't tell you that there was a party at the end of the week,
Or your mom who just does that one thing that drives you crazy all the time,
But everybody else loves it.
Or that person who took too long in the grocery line.
When you find that happening throughout your day,
Then you know that you're burying some pretty deep emotions that are being triggered.
Again,
Observation.
Observation.
Just observe yourself,
And practice.
And make sure that your mind is your servant,
And not your master.
Namaste.
