So it's been awhile..

I have awakened from a dream while traveling by plane, I had an epiphany, for some odd reason I want to share. I started a blog in the wake of divorce about 5 years ago. I expressed thoughts, searched for support and created a sort of healing reality. After feeling healed I squirreled off in search of other adventures. I am considering a writing relapse but for fun this time! My reasoning? I have determined that when we write our mental "stories" they become that; stories, then reality can be obtained. If left to play in the mind, I find they are given a great deal more meaning than necessary and can take us to a path of spiraling stories that distress us or create unattainable expectations.

Recently, I read a great post on a Facebook page, The Mind Unleashed that suggested we are not our minds. To me, this means we don't have to live into those stories of the mind. It is a chemical reaction like cooking, moving, or breathing. Those stories are your pattern seeking device, the brain, making connections to your past experience to provide reference. We humans like context, connections to an "understanding." However, these connected stories are like a blown-up digital picture, the computer predicts and fills in gaps. The mind takes in new information and creates a story based on your past experience filling in the gaps to provide reference. Imagine stepping out of this non-stop noisy story maker, the mind and creating a state of being you choose. I am reading a great book called; The Dude and The Zen Master (yes, The Dude). Currently the two authors are suggesting that holding on or abiding with something makes you stuck, unable to abide with all.  Letting go of the mind's stories allows you to be present or abide! So that is the epiphany, it is enough to hold my attention for a bit and my new adventure is the practice of being present. AdventureAmes Abides!