Can you do better with your mind?
Michael Singer ( Have this question down in my notes and assume that it comes from him. :))
Most of use the "what if?" question to serve the neurotic ego. We listen to that part of our personal mind that wants to protect this self concept it convinces us we are. ..and we react to the life circumstances that have happened, are happening, and even to what could happen... as we respond to the big "What if?". "What if that mistake I made ten years ago becomes known by all these people I am talking to now? What if they all reject me because of it? What if my future is ruined because of it?"
"What if"...is a dealers tool to get the addict using and to keep the addict using. The dealer will convince the addict that the answer to all their problems lies in the product they offer. They convince the addict that they, as the dealer, will supply (at cost) what they need to feel safe, peaceful, and happy if they do what is needed. At first...they make access to the drug so easy. Then once the addict is hooked...they make the addict live off of the "What if I can't get what I want and need?" fear. The addict believes the dealer and will do what is ever necessary to get the drug. The addict appreciates the dealer for leading them to the safety and the high they get in their substance. Then they begin their journey of craving, seeking, and needing. Feeling so great when the thing is attained and in the system...feeling so sick when it isn't. Always compromising with the dealer, the addict is constantly pulled in this sick relationship.. Each high is only temporary. It doesn't last. It is conditional...only fueling this "I want, I need, I crave, I will do anything mentality". The addict lives with the fear, "What if I can't get what I want...what if I get what I don't want ( the pain of withdrawal)". It is a terrible cycle.
Well as Singer reminds us, we are addicted to our minds in the same way the heroin addict is addicted to their drug. We listen, believe, and move according to the egoic mind's "What if" mantra. We believe the dealer in our heads that tell us we need certain things in order to be okay...that we need to deny, or resist certain aspects of Life that keep us from feeling good. The mental dealer convinces us that it knows best and we believe. We live in a perpetual state of "What if I can't get that thing I want to make me feel better inside?" "What if this or that happens that makes me feel worse inside?"
We are addicted to our mind and we care more about the thoughts in the mind and this idea we created than we do for our bodies. Michael Singer often uses the example of "Hamilton" to show how men used to dual to the death over an insult to their character-who they thought they were based on some mixed up concept of "honor".
We don't have to be addicts. We do not have to listen to the dealers. We should know by now how they tend to lead us into the craving cycle...how anything they offer us is so conditional and temporal...not lasting. We are not the egoic parts of our mind. We are not our thoughts. We are not the self-concepts we created.We need to counter the egoic mind's "what if" with a more positive "what if" coming from the higher part of us.
Huh?
Right now, as thought addicts, we feel so dependent on the egoic mind for protection. We feel like victims to life and our only option for semblance of control or happiness is to listen to and follow the mixed up directions of our thinking. We really adhere to the sick "What if's" of the egoic mind.
Recovery takes time...it will take time to break away from this dependency but in the mean time there might be something we can do.
What if we begin changing that "what if" to something more positive? What if instead of applying the 'what if' in front of all the terrible things that could happen to our bodies, or our minds...our self concepts, if Life doesn't behave the way we assume it should... we applied to it some deeper and more life affirming scenario. What if we began with, "These Life circumstances are exactly what I chose for my growth. I don't have to listen to any dealers in my mind. I don't have to live in fear of "what if" "
Anyway, I will get back to this in a bit.
All is well in my world.
Dr. Sue Morter. (2019) The Energy Codes. Atria: New York
Michael A. Singer ( April 7, 2025) You Are Not your Thoughts: From Mental Noise to Inner Peace.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP56tHfI0PA&list=PLyOuAoSmZkKoESr2acNWwhznusbBkKXsT&index=2
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