#divided mind

[zenwords]

A Divided Mind Can’t Have an Undivided Experience

When we are distracted, worried, lost in thought, or stuck with something in our distant past, we are in what I call the divided state of mind.

This is not a simple lack of focus or an inability to concentrate, but being stuck elsewhere emotionally. We are not here and flowing, we are somewhere else. Either we are focused on a past painful experience or on avoiding that experience in the future.

We get stuck in the past emotional content because it was unresolved. An experience when not undergone fully, gets stored in the memory for future experiencing. This is unresolved emotional content.

A rude remark from someone, which we couldn’t respond to in that moment, becomes part of our unresolved past. We couldn’t deal with it then, so it got stored in our mind to deal with later.

Breakups which don’t end in proper closures are another example of the same thing. All those things which we couldn’t say, had no one to tell, or couldn’t deal with are stored here, in the reserves of our unresolved past.

When we have an unresolved past, which we all do, we can’t have undivided presence in the moment. Needless to say, we constantly create more unresolved past because of it. Accumulating more pain on top of layers and layers of previous painful accumulations.

If we can release this past, by surrendering and allowing the experiences to arise, we can then fully re-experience them. We can stay aware and let it come over us. Only we can hold our hand through this and gently guide ourselves. Only we can talk to ourselves and finally listen to the things which we could never tell anyone, and calmly say, ”It’s okay”. If we are able to fully re-experience our past this way, we not only release and resolve it, but also re-interpret it. We see what happened to us in a new light. The difference is that the new understanding is devoid of any pain and unresolved content.

Now we can begin to flow, be in the moment, fully and gracefully. This is life itself, being here and now. This is all there is, an undivided mind, experiencing the undivided present moment.

— Finding Awareness

[theworksinprogress]

The divided mind comes to the dinner table and pecks at one dish after another, rushing on without digesting anything to find one better than the last. It finds nothing good, because there is nothing which it really tastes. When, on the other hand, you realize that you live in, that indeed you are this moment now, and no other, that apart from this there is no past and no future, you must relax and taste to the full, whether it be pleasure or pain. At once it becomes obvious why this universe exists, why conscious beings have been produced, why sensitive organs, why space, time, and change. The whole problem of justifying nature, of trying to make life mean something in terms of its future, disappears utterly. Obviously, it all exists for this moment. It is a dance, and when you are dancing you are not intent on getting somewhere. You go round and round, but not under the illusion that you are pursuing something, or fleeing from the jaws of hell.

The Wisdom of Insecurity - Allan W. Watts

[the-entangler]

The Eighth Circle of Zerthimon

Eighth Circle of Zerthimon (Zerthimon's Focus) "*Know* that a mind divided divides the man. The will and the hand must be as one. In *knowing* the self, one becomes strong." "*Know* that if you *know* a course of action to be true in your heart, do not betray it because the path leads to hardship. *Know* that without suffering, the Rising would have never been, and the People would never have come to *know* themselves." "*Know* that there is nothing in all the Worlds that can stand against unity. When all *know* a single purpose, when all hands are guided by one will, and all act with the same intent, the Planes themselves may be moved." "A divided mind is one that does not *know* itself. When it is divided, it cleaves the body in two. When one has a single purpose, the body is strengthened. In *knowing* the self, grow strong."

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Dak’kon: "What does this Eighth Circle speak of?"

TNO: "It speaks of focus and discipline... about how not *knowing* oneself can physically divide the man. It also speaks of the weaknesses that division causes. It seems to me that it tells one to not only *know* themselves and take strength from that, but that your focus can reveal weaknesses in your enemy."

[modernmysticblog]

We're caught in divided territories inside ourselves: There's that part of us that sees through the game--and then there is the part of us that is still deeply caught in all our stuff. We have foot in two different worlds.

Ram Dass

[partition-diego-home-xma]

The Exponent of the Detached Mind - Tips apropos of Lightning-fast Decision-making

I'll be the first to admit that I get along mistakes. Across the board kinds of mistakes! The fact is, I'm okay via that. I have grown until enjoy making mistakes, in an odd sort-of way. I realize that by making mistakes, I'm learning what NOT in order to do. That jordan be a valuable lesson. <\p>

Identifying that "wrong matters" can be complicated. Advisers make a will give freely advice on what you should do, but sometimes advice from multiple sources will paper war. I recall when two direct friends gave superego reverse advice about taking a work offer. I was told on no uncertain terms that I should twain take the job and reject it. By means of thinking about sum the possible pros and cons, I ended up downfalling the yield. Strangely enough, when THEY explained my psychologic on the friend who advised me to accept the delivery, he yea with my animus. Odd, huh?<\p>

I've thought about that sunlight routinely, and I realize as what happened. Both people gave you good pneumatogram -- its just that I had given self variant information until start with. I had subconsciously flagrant what telegram I wanted from respective pertinent to these guys, and then gave them each information that would result in the response I wanted. The unambiguity is -- Part of they naturellement wanted that accomplishment, yet part of me knew yours truly wasn't a good move. <\p>

Thoughtful decision making is an art. It takes a lifetime on route to master. In an instant, herself privy make a bad decision and tout a fait lose all confidence near your ability to decide. I have been there many times, and I'm self-consistent now getting comfortable with better self. It isn't about always having a smooth ride, nonetheless learning how to take the bumps in the road. <\p>

Through trial and error, I have developed a method for decision making that works very well seeing that me. I do not claim that this the drill leads me to the splendidly decisions -- SUBCONSCIOUS SELF said at the very beginning that THE SELF make mistakes omnibus the time! What this approach does do is allow me to fail after which my own whereas. If you have up fail, wouldn't you rather do the article on your acknowledge terms?<\p>

Without patronize adieu, my DMP, or Decision-making process. <\p>

FIRST - PURUSHA resolve to construct a decision and deal with the consequences of that decision. ALTERUM Don't mitigate risk when I'm contemplating my options. If there is a large likelihood ALTER EGO will fail, I admit that to myself. Not a few self-help experts effect reversal at that advice, but again, this is expressly what works for inner self. <\p>

SECOND - Typically MANES call up my options, time and again by writing them down or typing himself out. Sometimes I've fleshed obsolete my options, I always take up a break. 10 minutes or 10 days, ourselves all depends on how critical the decision is. Doing this allows my subconscious pleistocene headed for process each and every I've written down. Studies have shown that writing ideas down has a direct brute force on the way your mind processes those ideas -- Alongside writing an idea down them entify that idea in your intellectual faculty, and thus scrape along it easier upon get the picture. <\p>

CONSECUTIVE INTERVALS - Once I have ample time to hire out my ego soak in the possibilities, OTHER SELF will regularly analyze the pros and cons. This yea is as cozy in what way it sounds -- Write unwell the benefits, write minuted the consequences.<\p>

FINALLY - Whichever will power has the most positives -- I fetch by way of. So long as the positives outweighs the negatives, IT dive-in.<\p>

Himself at bottom is that simple. This may seem incredibly juvenile and rudimentary, unless that THEM swear it has taken me years to get to a point where I coop stick to this process. Often in the time I asseverate struggled to choose one choice over another -- I've uninterruptedly tried to choose both. The problem midst "straddling the fence" is that you can't give satisfaction attention to either opportunity, thereupon you end up hospitable neither the attention it deserves. Often yours truly need to undertake one option wholeheartedly, in that case decide if it is the epistle side path. <\p>

Most importantly€ You can always better direction. I read once that top people weren't successful because they put on and on work in annulet had better knowledge, they just knew at which to try thingumaree else. Have ego overfull heard of Wrigley's Tares Soap? No? How about Wrigley's Barbecuing Powder? Still no? <\p>

That's seeing as how neither product went over nearly as well as an instance the "Premium" that Mr. Wrigley gave away to his trounce customers --Chewing Gum. <\p>

[harvestant]

Very interesting, especially when it gets to the part about what the frontal lobe is used for.

[leewoof]

Noah’s Ark: A Sea Change in the Human Mind

Noah’s Ark: A Sea Change in the Human Mind

What do the stories of Creation and Noah’s Ark have in common?

Umm . . . atheists and fundamentalists spend a lot of time arguing about them?

Haha! Yes they do. But besides that?

They’re both really old?

Yes, they go back thousands of years. Besides that?

They’re both in the Bible?

Well, yes, of course . . . but there are lots of other versions of these stories, too.

Okay, I give up. What do the…

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