dailydatewithgod

We live in a world full of distractions.   It is amazing how much we can stay on track with everything working to get our attention at once.  The distractions, however, are not just external. We have our body and mind which are constantly feeding us information.  Much of it we process without any awareness but what about the ones in our awareness? Have you ever found yourself fixated or trying to figure out how a certain conversation came to dominate in your head?  It did not ask for permission. It did not submit a worry request.  It did not give a reason for taking up residence in your head.  What is even more frustrating is how often it is the same conversation or at least a conversation with the same motive.  The specifics might be different but there is an underlying theme.  I am all about paying attention to those nagging ideas and feelings especially the ones we want to just go away, but it is best to begin an investigation by interrupting.  On my daily dates with God, I have learned to notice the conversations whether in the abstract of my mind or the ones I am having about my body.  Just noticing them is a form of interrupting.  It gets in the way of simply believing everything we think simply because we think it.  Yet sometimes the conversations get savvy at which time I begin to request more information.  I am interrupting the thoughts when I ask them to show their faces or tell me who they are that is saying them.  This may sound crazy at first.  Yet, what is more crazy, allowing unhelpful thoughts to roam rent-free in my head or finding ways of interrupting them and seeing behind the chatter to discover if there is anything of substance.  When we initiate interrupting we are pausing long enough to take a breath.  Taking a breath invites our hearts to play a part in our experience.  Our hearts will always provide another option when we cannot seem to find one anywhere else.