dailydatewithgod

Only a small part of what we concern ourselves with is even in our awareness.  Most of us are guided through our day in conversation with ourselves. It happens so automatically we do not even realize it is happening.  It is typically the source of our surprise and confusion regarding other people.  When people act or situations occur in a way that does not match with the confabulating going on in our heads we are surprised.  The funny thing is how is anyone outside our confabulating mind going to know what we are preparing ourselves to experience?  One of the first steps in mindfulness is to notice how much confabulating is actually happening without our being aware of it.  Sometimes we do not know until it comes face to face with reality or we hear ourselves say something out loud. The simple awareness of the confabulating then opens up the doors to not attaching so much importance to it.  Only when we are aware of the confabulating can we evaluate it’s worth. The confabulating is not in and of itself a good or bad thing.  It is a human thing.  Once we recognize its constant presence we can notice when our surprise or disappointment by things actually happening outside our confabulating mind is of our own making.  God invites us to see our confabulating internal processes as one element in who we are.  We can balance the importance of the output of the confabulating by connecting it to our hearts to get clarity on its purpose.  Perhaps the reason for the confabulating on a person or situation is showing me where I am concerned.  Perhaps it is something to act on.  Perhaps it is just keeping busy. The idea of noticing the confabulating is not to drive us crazy but to increase our personal agency and power.  We no more want to spend our lives being tossed around by outside people and circumstances than our confabulating about the outside people or circumstances.