Living in Awareness – Day 11
Living in Awareness Day 11
By Vedam Clementi
FLASH
I’m bringing up a subject that you were introduced yesterday because relating to living in Awareness, you must be aware of what is happening inside of you regarding your feelings.
Feelings are part of the psyche/somatic cycle that takes place inside each of you. We all have thoughts. Science is now saying that a person has an average of 50,000 or more thoughts per day. This is important to understand because thoughts create your feelings, and the two combined prompt you into action. In the game of self awareness, it is important to understand the feelings that you are having at any given point, and your feelings will help you understand your thoughts better. Also, in the game of self awareness, it is beneficial to understand all of this to have a better grasp on responding rather than reacting. So let’s review for just a moment…
Situations happen and those situations create thoughts. Those thoughts are dictated by your conditionings. Those thoughts then create your feelings, and those feelings will attempt to dictate your next mode of action. Part of this happens automatically within the dance between the mind and the body. This occurs in every human being, and you have no control over it. The other aspect happens because of the activity that is going on inside your conditioned, thinking mind. Remember, we mentioned earlier that the mind records every event, and it records the feelings evoked during the event. Also remember, the mind is also accessing past events, so that it may file this event away with other similar events. Neurological pathways have already been established because of past events, and those pathways are “prompting” you how to react to the current situation. Sometimes, these promptings are ideal for the current situation and sometimes they are not. Sometimes, those promptings are so strong they seem to dictate how you are going to be in the present moment. It is up to you to see what is happening. It is up to you to see the mind, its activity, and its promptings. Once you do, you can then decide if those promptings are truly the ‘best call of action?’
