Remember the diet called the zone?  Well, this is what I’m going to call the phenomena of aligning yourself with the energy flow of the universe.

The zone is not a narrow little place from which we tumble off, like Humptey Dumptey falling off the wall. 

 

The zone is an energetic clearing, an opening.  A quieting of the crazy monkey mind that leaves you feeling that everything is okay and that everything will be okay in the future.  

The zone is the reprieve from the ongoing monitoring.  The judging mind.  That inner self-doubt and negative rap.

How do we find the zone?  Take a break from the insanity?

Meditation or sitting quietly watching a sunset can give us a break.  Sometimes.  

Then other times we wonder who all those people are that just wandered into our head.  

Ever sat down to meditate and started itemizing stuff? Scheduling.  Reviewing.  Making up all kinds of crazy stories?  Nodding out even.

Where did of that stuff come from?  All those words, thoughts and ideas. 

Thoughts, electrical charges, are floating all around the place.  We become aware of the thoughts as these streams of electrical charges pass in and out of our awareness.

If we are infinite beings, . . .then our true self really is not all these thoughts, the daily trauma and drama.  

Okay, so we really are not all these thoughts, feelings, and emotions that we think we are.  

We really aren’t our stories?  What about the art of story telling?  Books?  Our oral and written history?

We need that to define us.

Well. You can change who you are in an instant.  One moment your purpose is to be a loving parent.  

The next moment you have to answer the phone and be a quick thinking strategic executive or how about a janitor sweeping the floor at the local school?

Then, who are we?  

A spiritual essence living in a physical denser reality called a body.  

Creating stories to make sense of things.  To create meaning.  To have a purpose.  To belong.  To cope.  To entertain ourselves.

Otherwise why are we here?  Oh, that one again.  So why are we here?

I don’t know about you, but I came here to enjoy playing in this denser realm.  

This denser realm has some advantages we didn’t have when in an etherial body. 

Like being able to create beautiful physical things.  

Like having an orgasm. Sex. Eating. Creating a wondrous piece of music or art. Watching the storm move through leaving a gorgeous sunset.

So how come so much of  our life is wrestling with pesty thoughts?  

Can we  stop them?  If they aren’t ours, why do they persist?

It’s kinda like fly paper.  They stick to us because somewhere, sometime in our existence on this planet, we bought into the reality of them.  

We decided our perceptions and words are real.  Like, it’s reality baby.

We concluded our perceptions and words must be real, because we observed an event or heard some convincing words from another.  

We all do this…all the time. 

We Judge.  Conclude.  Decide.   About what is real, right, and serious!

Guess what?  They all are lies!

What?

Yes.  They all are lies.

We’ve made up our minds here.  

We have made up our thoughts, our emotional responses, our never ending stories.  

It’s all quite entertaining,  until it is not, huh?  

Yes! 

Now they are a bore.  Invasive.  Distracting. Contrite.  Stupid.  Insane.  eeeek!

Are you finally fed up with these persistant limiting thoughts and stories?  

If your answer is yes….you now are ready to let go and let God, as they say in the 12-step programs.

Yeah.  Be you.  Your true divine essence in flesh.  

Wanta live in the zone as much as you can?

So when you meditate, reflect at sunset, quiet your mind while watching a river, a lake or ocean. . . . watch those thoughts.  See them for what they are.

Distractions.  Lies.  Even the soothing ones.

All thought is transitory…fleeting…passing electrical charge like the wind blowing through the trees.  

Yeah.  And Yea!  Yea, because we do NOT have to be at the effect of them.

Enough for now.  Tune in on Saturday when I’ll start writing about some various ways you can clear these distracting thoughts from your being permanently.  And be in the zone more often.

Or, at least successfully brush them away like mosquitoes, so you can be in the zone for a while.