dailydatewithgod

I think we can all concede that our minds are very creative.  Our imaginations are illustrious and there seems to be no end to what we can conjure up in our minds.  When we use this capability to enhance our lives, open ourselves up, and grow into what is possible, it is wonderful.  When it is used to create fear stories, run the worst-case scenario, and cause us to believe a mirage is real we find ourselves in pain.  It is not a problem that our minds have the capacity to create a mirage of fear.  It is simply important to know when it is happening and test it out.  Often we wait until we get there to let go of it.  Like a mirage in the desert.  We may not have to wait. Our breath provides a tool that can come between us and the mirage.  We pause, take a deep breath and in that moment before running the mirage again through our minds we can ask questions.  We use the energy of our hearts through the breath to bring us to this moment.  This moment is before the impending mirage will either show itself to be in fact a mirage or real. Based on the evidence of my life most of my fears have shown themselves to be a mirage.  By using my heart to bring me into the current moment before bellowing down the road to find the mirage and determine if it is real or not, is one way to have the chance to remind me of the last time I took off down the road.  My heart continues to show me a beauty embedded in our basic physical mechanism alongside my capacity to imagine is I can take as many breaths as I need to bring me to this moment.  The moment before the mirage.