Mind Chatter

        Mind chatter is like static electricity that interferes with the moment.
       I never really stopped to realize that everyone does mind chatter, until I started on this path with Reiki.  That catastrophic thinking that has us formulating every plan possible to handle the what if.  The rehearsal in one's mind of the anticipated conversation, especially if it is of a confrontational tone or speaking your truth in an anxiety provoking situation, etc, etc, etc.  Anticipating and planning the future.  
       The conversation never goes as planned, the future never quite goes as anticipated or planned for.  I have been so guilty of all of this.  I always needed to maintain a sense of security by having Plan A and then Plan B if A did not work, and even Plan C if A and B bombed.  All of this is based on our fears, fear of not being safe, fear of looking stupid, fear of getting hurt, fear of failure and, for some, fear of success.
       All the time I wasted.  I still waste time, but not at all to the extent I used to do.  It is a process to learn to focus on the moment.  It really is stopping to smell the roses.
       It is a process of developing conscious awareness.  This is choosing to catch ourselves when the what ifs start, choosing to listen to our intuition, our gut, choosing to look around with a different eye to see what there is to enjoy.  Every choice we make affects the energy of our major chakras (energy centers).  When I realize I am so tired, I know I have shut my energy down.  There is a difference in this kind of tiredness and that from expending physical energy.  Every negative thought affects how our energy flows through us and around us.  Every cell has a magnetic field around it (per quantum physics) and the energy of our thinking affects these fields.
       Is this easy? NO, it is not easy.  Do we ever get there? No, not really, but it gets better.  During the Growing the Healer Within class with Rhys Thomas, we were all dealing with this notion of feeling we will never get there.  He asked us if we were still breathing.  As long as you are alive drawing breath, there will be issues.  But we still have free will to choose how miserable we will be in facing and learning our soul lessons.  
       It is a process, a practice.  We are human beings and we will not always practice perfectly.  We need to remember that God wants us to laugh and smile every day, to take care of ourselves, which is not selfish, as we have been taught.
       Peace and Light,
           Linda