mindfulness – – Asa Rodriguez

Beyond the Noise

To whom it may concern. Because life can be messy, conflicting, confusing, and there is no path set or destiny to straighten you while you live it. You may pretend, claim to be this or that, decorate well your outside for others to see. People do this every day. But this only adds fuel to the spirit of self-neglect, until you realize the core of your own life.

And that’s because, above all, your life is no more than your mind. The world and all its experiences are the result of billions of minds, of billions of people like you trying to find themselves in what others have brought into the world already. Neglecting yourself is only trying to find yourself in the world, in the reality others have created.

One can travel places, amass fortunes, become religious, study all kinds of knowledge, jump from relationship to relationship, have families and follow traditions. But all the messy, the conflicting, the doubt, the hurt, will remain until you let go of the world and its fake and marketed exploration of the self.

It’s impossible to find who you really are out there, because the noisy world is not a perfect mirror of yourself. The world, as created by man, everywhere, is about selling you something. That is how societies thrive. Whether selling you engaging experiences, manufactured emotions, religious fanaticism, ancient or new philosophies, objects you do not really need.

But, know this, the only thing that is real is your mind, because there you find the source of the hurt, of the excitement, of the fear, of the passions, of everything that makes your feel and behavior. It is extremely personal. And if you can study, daily, your mind, then you can see and feel how you are nothing like the world, how above it you are, and how there are millions of shadows and burdens living in your psyche that are not you.

What we observe

Mainly it is what we observe that affects us. A healthy brain works as it is supposed to work, if there is no genetic abnormality. But what we observe forms our minds, our mindsets, our thoughts. If we observe poverty, that is all we can imagine for ourselves. If we observe neglectful, painful, dramatic situations in our lives, then that is all we feel we deserve in our lives.

It’s very difficult to transcend this level of unawareness for most people. It is what we form in our minds. What we see and hear form what we think. And, if we remain unaware, we create a belief from what we see and hear. A belief that may drive us to despair, to feelings of loneliness, to feelings of unworthiness, and even to more mental and physical decay.

So, it is all what you allow yourself to create in your mind. These creations as explosions of rainbow colors will take over your mind and body. They will become your world, and they will cement your new persona. You are always changing, whether you realize it or not. So, your new persona, the way you feel, think, see yourself and the world will be brought about by the schemes of your own mind.

The way you feel, the way you are, how stuck or unstuck you believe yourself to be, is not about God, or about Satan, or about the government, or about how messed up the world is; but it is about you and how you allow your mind to form. The power goes where your attention goes.

If your attention goes to other people, to the way things are in your life right now, even to spiritual worlds, then the power stays there, outside yourself, and you always remain down, a follower, and just another victim trying to survive your own making. But if you use your attention to create your own mind, without outside crutches, then you raise above your old self, above the world and any influence.