dailydatewithgod

When we think of mediation we imagine a coming between opposing people or opposing ideas.  We think of it as a way of finding a middle ground or a compromise.  What would happen if we begin intervening with our own thoughts?  What kind of internal peace could we create be intervening between our thoughts and our beliefs?  Unfortunately, all of us at some point fall prey to believing in things just because we think them.  We do not intervene and ask questions of our own thoughts?  It is labeled as crazy or strange to talk to oneself.  How much more crazy is that than believing everything we think is true.  How much more crazy is it to believe that our perspective is always the right one?  If we start intervening between the thought and the action we gain a level of self-mastery.  We think many things all day long and if we stop attaching to all of them, we can begin to open our eyes to see and experience things from different directions.  Intervening is a powerful tool to keep us from always following the thoughts that might lead us down a path we do not wish to go on.  The power of intervening by taking a breath after a though reaches our conscious mind is all we need.  From there we can make a conscious choice of where to go.  The good news and the bad news is most of our thoughts do not register consciously.  We recognize the ones they do because we attach energy to them.  We call them feelings.  These feelings feed into the thoughts like giving them juice and we are off to the races.  Intervening by breathing allows us to step back and even ask ourselves, who is thinking this thought?  It may sound all woo-woo, but sometimes a little woo-woo is what we need to shake ourselves out of the automatic loops of thoughts.  Intervening gives the opportunity for our hearts to step in and play a role as well.  From there we can reconnect to the truth of who we are. We can invite the mind to pause before taking action and regain a little bit of self-possession.