dailydatewithgod

It is easy to get a sense of where our thinking is.  Our mind is a non-stop chatterbox.  Without prompting it our head is ready with ideas and opinions about everything all the time.  It is so constant that it can be challenging to not feel overwhelmed.  It is why people struggle with meditation.  They think it is about making the thoughts stop.  Maybe there is some guru out there who experiences that on a consistent level but I am not one of them.  Meditation and mindfulness are about getting some agency around our thoughts.  Learning to watch them and not get attached  Learning to accept that all the thoughts we have are not true just because we have them.  The discussion our minds are involved in can be fascinating and mesmerizing but it is not all there is.  God invites us to develop an awareness of the discussion going on in our hearts.  The discussion in our hearts is more subtle and can get drowned out by the discussion of our minds.  Here is where we can use the tools of mindfulness to not only keep our minds from driving us mad but open ourselves to be able to hear our heart’s discussion.  Cultivating the internal awareness of our heart’s discussion attunes us into the whole of who we are.  Tapping into our heart’s discussion gives us a fuller lens through which to see life unfolding before us which then affects the thoughts prompting the discussion in our heads.