Photography: Gregory Colbert.

Since I was a child, I believed the human mind had the potential to do and undo everything we could imagine, I even thought about the incredible possibility of being able to read other people’s mind.

I see mind as a tool who can be our best friend or our worst enemy; when it wraps us up into thoughts that torment us, translating them into the vision of our reality.

When I talked about ego, I said that most of the time it’s at the service of the mind and in that way, we take it to fear, transporting us to two different space-time:

To the past, where it generates guilt and the word “why” is used as the whip of our punishment and is an expert recreating the painful facts asking: ¿Why did I say that”, “Why did he/she hurt me”, ¿Why does she or he behaved that way”, “Why is it over” etc.

And to the future, this makes us feel a deep uncertainty and torment us with illusory affirmations about something that doesn’t exist: “I’ll be fired”, “He or she will leave me, “I won’t find anyone”, I don’t have anyone”, “I’ll be alone forever” “I don’t want to be here but where will I go?”, “I’ll remain here, the world is full of crazy people, and it’ll be worst” etc.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become

Budha.

One of the greatest abilities of the mind and the worst mistake we make, is giving it the power to dialogue with us, making the events that were only that, to be transformed in tormenting stories, building tragic events about what happened or could happen, making our day by day become the life we are creating.

Why does it do that? Simple, to protect you, making you believe that the outside is dangerous and it’s better to stay where you are; in the end, we believe we are fine but in reality we’re not.

In my opinion, one of the main reasons it throws us thoughts based on guilty or fear, is to remind us that there’s something we haven’t let go, and maybe, the only thing that’s asking us to do is heal that part that follows us everywhere, but the decision to let go, is only yours.

For me, one of the great advantages we have over the mind is that’s under our function, and therefore we have power over it.

The mind never turns off because it was made to think; the best we can do to control our thoughts, is to observe them and be aware of the stories that is telling us; not to participate as the main actors of the soap opera, but to be aware when thoughts come, letting them go without the need to overthink, the purpose is to avoid that one thought turn into a thousand invisible stories; the objective still is to understand which was the seed that started everything, observe it, accept it and transform it, having in mind that an observed phenomenon previously accepted will be transformed.

It’s unusual that the mind torments us when we’re present, because as clever as it is, she knows that when we’re here and now nothing exists, just the present moment; we have to be aware in which moments she likes to torments us the most: when it takes us back to the guilty past or to the anxious an illusory future.

I want you to understand your mind is not the enemy, it has the incredible function to create the reality that turns into the vision of your life; this doesn’t mean that you cannot change it or that there will always be painful and unnecessary thoughts.

The mind teaches us to be aware of the moment that’s happening and to be responsible of observing every thought, letting it go without causing any damage. Today, forget about the memories of the past and the thoughts about the future because they are becoming the present you’re living now; allow yourself to plant positive thoughts and in consciousness, to be able to create the life you’ve desired.

I thank you,
Shary ChavLó.