ARE YOU FEELING IT?

PEACE

is your rightful

inheritance

but

you must choose it

in order to possess it

It is easy for us to get sidetracked believing we are all about the body, when in TRUTH, we are really all about the mind.  Our state of mind determines our state of body.

There is nothing more dramatic in demonstrating this principle than the placebo-effect.  One could receive the most advanced cancer treatment in the world, and yet, if there was not belief in its efficacy, it would not produce results.  On the other hand, a few sugar pills with faith will cure a world of ills.

We oftentimes mistake bodily symptoms as having an origin outside ourselves (accidents and injuries notwithstanding).  The belief that we can actually “catch” something from without stands in direct contrast with another who seems impervious to such assaults.  Is it our immune system, or their state of mind?

How is it that we could see a yogi sitting cross-legged on the snow, dressed in only a loincloth, where at the same time we would barely escape frostbite covered in down?  What does he have other than a different state of mind and a lot less clothing?

Our mind is the driver, our body the vehicle.  Our state of mind determines our experience.

What does this have to do with feeling it?  Everything.

We have been mislead into believing, “I think, therefore I am.”  It should have been stated, “I feel, therefore I am.”

We are, primarily, “feeling” (experiencing) beings, who just happen to think (reflect).  Most often, all that thinking does is confuse the breadth and depth of our feeling experiences.  It aims to sift, sort and evaluate those experiences into neat little categories, which it accesses at a moment’s notice, to project into the moment, clouding and obscuring the depth of feeling that an experience brings.

Take, for instance, the feeling of PEACE.  We can feel when we have it, and feel when we don’t.  Its origins lie in our state of mind.  There is no way to experience PEACE if there is conflict in our mind.  With our mind being the cause, we experience our body as the effect.

How can we use this to our benefit?  By using our feelings to monitor our state of mind. Instead of an incessant focus on thought, which only clouds our awareness in the moment, the monitoring of our feelings is the only true measure our experience.  The depths of feeling that we are registering far exceeds the thought-classification our limited minds would categorize for future reference.

We operate rather cavalierly with regards to our state of mind, whereby, we tolerate its effects upon our body with ongoing feelings of anxiety and dread.  We have grown so accustomed to this experience that we believe it is normal, but it has no basis in TRUTH.

Our natural state of BEING is one of PEACE.  Even though it may not represent our experience, it is, nonetheless, TRUE.  By monitoring our feelings for a baseline of PEACE, we can then be cognizant of whether or not we are in our right state of mind, or temporarily, out of our mind.  A mind at PEACE will register the feelings of PEACE.

Are you feeling it?