The Babble in Our Heads
“We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die. A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk.” Carlos Castaneda – A Separate Reality
How’s that internal dialogue of yours working out for you? Especially when you run across some mental resistance?
Do you repeating the SAME thing to yourself over and over and over again? Worse yet, do you believe everything you tell yourself!
Well my friend it’s time to take control!
There is a favorite quote I have posted on my Facebook page, it is:
“Every facet, every compartment of your mind is to be programmed by you. If you don’t take your rightful responsibility and program your own mind, the world will program it for you.”
So how can you program your mind if it is wandering all over the place?
Buddhists like to say your meandering mind is like a monkey swinging from tree to tree. An especially overactive “monkey mind”? That mind is like a drunk monkey swinging from tree to tree after being bitten by a scorpion.
So how’s your mind?
Out of control or balanced?
Lear and develop your inner strength and get it balanced. Control your internal dialogue. Become equanimous.
(Did you know the word “equanimity” comes from the Latin words aequus and magnus literally meaning “equal/balanced mind”? Cool, eh?)
Yes, it will take mental strength and a lot of it to start this process. But once you’ve started it does get easier…I promise!
“The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue.” Carlos Castaneda – Tales of Power
