I have a very busy mind.<\/p>\n
This is an advantage for many aspects of my life; being an idea generator keeps me from ever becoming bored, and I have gained a truly astounding number of skills due to my ability to learn.<\/p>\n
However, while reading a book titled Leaving the Body<\/em>, about Astral Projection, I came across an innocent passage that threw my entire worldview into disarray.<\/p>\n You are more than your ability to process thoughts. \u00a0You are also a center of energy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course, the light bulb labeled ‘Eureka’ said inside my head. \u00a0My status as an energy nexus is possibly more important to my livelihood, my enjoyment of life, and my abilities as a magician, than is my ability to think many variegated things.<\/p>\n I enjoy thinking. \u00a0It is one of the things I am best at. \u00a0However, it also interfered with very necessary aspects of my being that do not need to employ thought.<\/p>\n This morning, as I sat down to meditate (which I grudgingly force myself to do for under five minutes each day) I had a series of thoughts come into my mind, unbidden, as usual. \u00a0My favored technique has been to observe the thoughts as they come into my mind, and allow them to slide away as I return to neutrality.<\/p>\n I cannot keep this up for very long, because I begin to grow restless. \u00a0My need for accomplishment and experiment drives me to move on to a ritual, an affirmation, a place to direct my formidable will.<\/p>\n But what I am neglecting is my formidable energy. \u00a0I am a powerful being, and so long as I continue to ignore the needs of my energy body, I am going to continue thwarting it.<\/p>\n Yesterday I did not meditate in the morning, or spend any time at my rituals at all. \u00a0The effect was apparent throughout the day. \u00a0Calming my thoughts was so difficult as to become impossible; this is easy enough to focus into productive work on a work day, but on a Sunday, I had no outlet for these rampaging musings. \u00a0At the end of the evening, I sat with my glass of wine and a book, and read recreationally for the first time in ages. \u00a0While perusing Leaving the Body<\/em>, I tried some of the breathing exercises that yogis have used to achieve OBE (Out of Body Experiences). \u00a0 But I could not devote my attention fully to this experience without simultaneously continuing to read.<\/p>\n My mind is my hungry ghost. \u00a0It is insatiable. \u00a0Continually wanting to consume more new information, it is relentless in its need to find new material to interact with, consider, digest, and assimilate. \u00a0If alone, I cannot even eat without reading.<\/p>\n Since my Kundalini awakening, I have had energy rampaging through my body. \u00a0Instead of developing myself as an energetic being, I have dedicated myself wholly to the mind, neglecting the very explosiveness that I could use to focus to my purposes.<\/p>\n What, then, should I do? \u00a0I fear I cannot entirely leave the pleasures of the mind, especially while my career and livelihood involve working on the computer and on the internet. \u00a0But I can reserve sections of my week to build myself as an energetic being, and work on those exercises that would help me to grow in this area.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n First, then, a compilation of exercises is in order. \u00a0My mind will be satisfied first before I can move into the simplest, purest answer; only after I have exhausted every angle of speculation will my eager mind let a subject rest, so that I may contemplate it in neutrality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a very busy mind. 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