You being too involved with your mind and emotions means you are too enamored with your own creation, you have no time for the creation of the creator.
-Sadhguru

Living in our heads

Most of us live our entire lives in our minds and under the control of our emotions.   The life we live here in this mental fugue is our own creation and more often than not, it is not a nice one.  Our minds often create  a world of fear ...attachment to the past...anticipation and worry over the future.

A mentally dominated life is a world of suffering.  We call this "living" and because we created it...no matter how much it seems to suck...we cling to our version of reality.  But we are not living here.  We are not growing, expanding the way we are meant to.  We are not joyful and peaceful as we are naturally designed to be. We are not "experiencing" that which we were given to experience by the creator of the real world.

What we learn on our death beds

In a talk addressed to students at Oxford University recently, Indian yogi and mystic Sadhguru relays this important fact by encouraging the audience to visit a hospice in order to witness the "sense of bewilderment" that overtakes people as they pass on. He says that this bewilderment is caused by simply coming to the awareness of what life really is. 

People who live in their minds (which is most of us) will realize at the moment of their death that what they did in all those years or decades previously was not living...that they did not "experience" life that exists beyond and despite the body and mind. They only created "thoughts" about it and succumbed to the emotions of thinking about it. 

They did not "live" their own lives.  They did not experience the creation that surrounds us, and makes us who we are. They missed out on all the opportunity, beauty, blessing, learning, growing, expanding and joy that was always right there in front of them waiting for them to experience it because they were too busy "thinking" and explaining their emotions.  Imagine!

We do not have to wait until we are dying to live

Say what, crazy lady?

Well the thing is...we do not need to wait until the moment of our death to finally experience what life really is.  We can seek it now.  We can  get outside our own heads into silence and stillness for a few moments every day.  We can spend time in nature and explore the beauty of creation.  We can become aware of the blessings that surround us each and everyday.  We can take responsibility for what our minds are doing and instead of becoming "victims" to them we can learn to control them so they work for us.  We can learn to use our bodies to help us live joyfully...instead of forgoing joy because we do not like the way our bodies are working. 

Instead of living in fear, we can live in peace... reaching out and connecting to all those around us.  Instead of spending our days in the mental past and future...we can live in the real and only now.

Life is not a mental imagining.  Life is a real phenomenon that is going on right now, in this very moment.  Let's not miss a second more of it!

All is well in my world.