How thoughts create fear, how it controls us, and how we can become free.

Posted on 26th March 2008 by unwindmy in Fear, Goals, Healing, Insights, Relationships, Zen

Experience of a moment gives us knowledge.

Our knowledge is captured and stored in our memory systems. Our memory system is then called upon by thought.
But thought is no more real an experience than a person is upon the surface of a television screen.

It is an approximation of the real thing.
Our thoughts are a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional experience.

Our society glorifies the two dimensional experience.

It permeates through every conventional form of our entertainment…

Recorded music, film, art, computer games, televised sports…the list goes on and on.

With every year that goes by, our experience migrates further into passivity. Our minds begin to binge and we ignore our bodies call for action.

And so the three dimensional experience becomes the experience of two dimensions. Our awareness of three dimensions begins to diminish.
We learn to live in a two dimensional world. A world with order, a world without chaos.

A New world order.

We take our orders, we remove ourselves from responsibility.

We stop having sexual relationships.

We learn to reward ourselves with instant gratification.

Only, our bodies are talking to us. We can feel it deep in our core, but we do not understand its message.

To begin with, we ignore the feelings. Ignorance is bliss, so they say.

And yet, the feelings become more powerful.

We begin to pray. The two dimensional experience begins to crumble in front of our eyes.

We cry out when nobody will come to our aid.

Cry Baby


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“Won’t somebody tell me what is going on?!”  The feelings become more powerful still.

We blame each other for our misfortune.

“You did this to me. This is your fault!”  The feelings become more powerful still.

We develop anger. Our anger twists our logic, and we begin to buckle under so many thoughts. The two dimensional experience starts to skew. Our thoughts whirr to find the source of the pain.

And still our bodies scream for action.

We stay passive. “I can’t do that.”  Still remaining in the remnants of a two dimensional world.

And still our bodies scream for action.

Then,

We snap.

We become active.

We breath destruction in everything we do.

We vow to tear down everything that we envy.

We want the trapped energy out.

“I’m gonna fucking kill you!” 

Nervous Breakdown


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We expell our energy. But something has changed…. We realise that we did this to ourselves.

We see the world in three dimensions. We understand that our bodies tells us what we need. And instead of just listening to it.

We learn to act it.

To BE it. 

And then we find ourselves. And we understand love. And we wonder how this ever happened.

Fear exists because of thought.

The three dimensional experience that we have forgotten has become fear.

We have forgotten who we are. We have become lost and must now find our way. And so we listen to what others say. In the hope that they will fix us. but, nobody can help us to find anything.

There is nothing to find.

We simply have to see beyond our rigid two dimensional world. We have to experience our fear of the unknown. We have to see the chaos of our existence. Only then are we self-actualised.

There is no time to waste.

We are here now.

In this very moment we can choose our experience.

We can stand up this very second,

We can do exactly what our body wants.

We need not simply listen to it anymore.

Our bodies are screaming at us to act.

ACTION! 

Thoughts on freeing the mind.

Posted on 14th March 2008 by unwindmy in Dreams, Healing, Hypnosis, Insights, Reiki, Zen

I was just reading this post - http://zentransformation.blogspot.com/2008/03/zen-nimbus-fusion.html

Ciaran’s explanation of Dark Nimbus sounds alot like bi-polar disorder. They appear linked in that a person is damaged in such a way as to being unable to find or hold onto a sense of purpose.

According to modern psychology, the mind is seperated into the concious and the subconscious. The conscious is said to deal primarily with thought, and the subconcious with emotions. I don’t rate psychology at all, but it is functional as a way of talking about the way I see things - so I’ll use it.

The short circuiting that he describes is the process of distraction that allows a person to see beyond conscious thought and access the subconscious. I have been studying hypnosis lately, and this short circuiting is similar to what a hypnotherapist does when he works on a patient. This is why a hypnotherapist begins his session by asking the patient to imagine themself in a specific location. It is a distraction of all the senses, so that everyday thought processes don’t interfere with the work he is about to do.

The subconscious of the modern man is a whole smorgasbord of conflicting emotions. The key in all this lies in using Zen, hypnotherapy, dreams or any other way of accessing the subconscious mind and seeing the emotional knots that exist there.

In my opinion, purpose isn’t something that you have. It is something that you are. Once a sufficient amount of emotional knots have become untied, then purpose begins to seep into the conscious.

This is the process that I have undertaken:

1. Break through the negative thought patterns.
See that something other than the ego exists.
Dismantle the ego to a sufficient (and more permanent) level.

2. Distract the concious mind.
Access the subconscious and allow the emotion to bubble to the surface.
Discover the traumatic experience associated with that emotion.
Using the concious mind as a tool, rewrite the memory so that the pain is allowed to disappate.