Although thoughts may seem to flow uninterrupted from one to the other,
There is usually a small gap in between them.
When you are in a gap,
You are flowing within time and everything else stands still.
Your gap might be imagined as nirvana,
Happiness,
God,
Being,
Or envisioning your highest wish.
Most continually,
We are receiving information from our five sense windows and thoughts.
I will focus on sound,
Sights,
And thoughts as they are the most prominent.
Whenever we become aware of something,
A sight,
Sound,
Or thought,
There is an almost immediate shift into an instantaneous evaluation of liking or disliking whatever it is.
Often we spend more time thinking about our liking or disliking and our comparison of this thing or experience rather than about the thing itself.
We get to ride along a wave of emotion and then the next thing comes up,
Unless we have become attacked or stuck to the current thought.
Check in with yourself as to your internal evaluation of these words right now.
Being stuck eliminates the gap because we just ruminate and recycle the same thought round and round,
Sometimes building up into an action that we might later have preferred not to have done.
Remember the gap.
Recently,
I have been practicing with two thoughts of let go and embrace.
Whatever the thought or experience is,
As soon as you become aware of thinking about it or evaluating it,
Just let it go.
If the thought sticks around,
Then I practice embracing it.
For me,
Embracing the thought is to ride the wave of the emotion that has been raised.
Once the wave has crested and settles,
I find that I can more easily let it go.
As I watch for thoughts and emotions to arise and fall on their own,
I help them along by repeating to myself,
Let go,
Let go.
Then whenever the next sight,
Sound or thought comes into awareness,
I repeat to myself,
Let go,
Let go.
Gradually,
I start to see the gap,
The small quiet space in between thoughts.
I start to feel the calm,
Stillness and enjoyment,
Even happiness and then,
Whoop,
It's gone as quickly as it had arrived.
So I go back to letting go and embracing.
Sometimes when I become really quiet and still,
The old thoughts drop away and new connections and insights appear.
Often I can sit and watch the trees sway in the wind that I cannot see.
I sit and smile and wonder,
Why is that?
