Losing Control...

If you are alive you experience the seemingly random emergence of thoughts, emotions and sensations. In fact if you don't you probably aren't alive and so you will be accessing this with a greater degree of certainty than I can muster and probably some amusement at even my attempts to reason it out.

The important word in the first sentence is random. Our cause and effect framework likes to make sense of our experience as human beings by associating reason to events. Some experiences are so definitely of the cause and effect variety that we are seduced into thinking that must the case for everything. I stub my toe, I experience pain. My partner lies I experience anger. I'm asked my opinion and gather my thoughts.

Most of us live life thinking that our experiences (thoughts, emotions and sensations) are the direct result of external circumstances. This relationship to life leads to the obvious conclusion that to be happy (i.e. just have nice experiences) we simply have to control the external world. This is the basis for "when-then" living. When I have enough ...money, love (relationship), health, I can enjoy life. All I need to do is to control the external and all will be well.

Then we wake up. We watch the Secret, listen to Abraham or chat to someone like Bill, and work out that actually our external is a reflection of our internal. Kerching! The answer is to control our internal. When I get mastery over my emotions and only think positive thoughts everything will be cool. Fantastic, because there is a whole industry waiting to serve my desire to control the internal. I will tap myself, vision myself, astral travel myself away from the noise and all will be well.

Holy shit! In our attempt to control the internal we (eventually) learn we cant. We cannot control our experience. We cannot control the random emergence of thoughts, emotions and sensations.

And so (eventually) we relax into them. See them for the magnificent creations they are...and acknowledge ourselves as the magnificent beings that allow their expressions and (eventually) love ourselves fully for that.

Kind of awesome....lose control and it all happens!

Love

Bill