Are you out of your Mind?

What is the biggest cause of your unhappiness?

...maybe your partner or lack of one, perhaps the energy crisis, or dictators, politicians, pandemics and war. Maybe its the inequality, greed, poverty, and illness that gets you riled, or simply apparently mean and stupid people and comments on social media. Perhaps its something else altogether or even a combination of the above?

Well guess what ….there’s something that has the power to make you even more miserable than all of these put together - and it is closer to home than you can imagine. The cause of most of your misery is often your own thoughts about a particular situation.

Yes there is a profound truth to this – think about it – it’s not what somebody does or a particular situation that upsets you..it’s your own thoughts and judgements about this situation or person…(that was so wrong, so unfair, so cruel, out of order, unacceptable). This is why a particular situation can make one person extremely angry and not affect another at all.
Our mind makes judgements based on our conditioning and it's precisely these judgemental thoughts that upset us. We believe these thoughts and then project them outward, creating an identity for the other person or situation, (useless, stupid, unworthy). Sometimes we also internalise these thoughts and create an identity for ourselves (unworthy, not enough, unlovable).

The great thing about awareness is that you can use it to become your very own alchemist. You can turn those suffering thoughts into nuggets of gold. If it is your thoughts that make you unhappy, then you can just as easily use these thoughts to bring you joy.

So look at what your mind is saying and either change your mind or maybe even try being totally out of your mind. You could choose to step away from these critical judgemental thoughts and enjoy the stillness and peace that exists beyond. You could also try replacing any negative thoughts with something more kind and loving and notice the difference it makes to your life.

With love
Madh