MIND.... GET OUT OF MY WAY

Meditation manifests a link between the conscious mind and spiritual soul. When done correctly, meditation creates a calm and peaceful presence in our lives.  Initially, my thought was to blog about the importance of meditation and how it assists in aligning you with your destiny.  Sounds simple, or so I thought. 

In mentioning meditation to my clients, friends and neighbor, I got the “deer in the headlights” look and heard the “I have to learn to quiet my mind first” comment.   Their apprehension which was blatantly apparent mystified me. Enter my super heroes, my spirit guides and sure enough, an epiphany during meditation.   Please “turn off the chachara” (mind chatter).  

  

Mind chatter is a constant play by play regurgitation of past events and their outcome.  These events range from conversations, arguments, disappointments to personal loss.   Mind chatter affords us the ability to produce a variation of the outcome of the original conversation, argumentor situation.  Anxiety of the future also plays a role in mind chatter,as to

how an impending situation will play out.  Mind chatter serves no purpose

other than to build anger, worry and resentment.   Sound familiar? 

If you suffer the turbulent backlash of mind chatter, know there is a remedy.   The way to correct this disruptive behavior is through meditation, with an exorcism.   Hold on; don’t run wildly through your house searching for holy water.  That is not the type of expulsion I am referring to. 

What I am talking about is clearing our minds and purposely releasing mind chatter.  If we embrace meditation as a means to simplifying our lives, we will experience a healing.  Doing a “simple” three step meditation practice (next blog) that eradicates mind chatter is paramount to happiness.  That is not to say that you will rid yourself of the memory completely, but the way you view it will change.  The advantage is that you will feel the change almost immediately. I know this because I suffered from constant mind chatter, which I have now eliminated.  I accomplished that through meditation.  The transformation is incredible.   Please trust me when I say, meditate, meditate, meditate as it will provide healing and growth.    Meditation will grant you freedom from exhaustive mind chatter.  Meditation will graciously give you the gift of peace of mind and soul which is a necessity to obtain your destiny. 

DESTINY'S SOUL

DESTINY'S SOUL

Whether we talk about Albert Einstein, Dr. Balogun (university professor), my Compadre or movie character Nicolas Sparks, we find they have a specific common factor that they agree upon.  What is it that they are in agreement with?  Destiny exists!

“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control.  It is determined for the insect, as well as for the stars, human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” Albert Einstein

“Destiny or predestination is the belief that every person has his biography written before coming to the world which consequently implies that anything one does is not something done out of free will but something done in fulfillment of preordained history.” Dr. Balogun indicates that at the “moment of birth one makes an unconscious choice of destiny.”   “With birth our memories of that choice are “erased” thus making it possible for a person to embark on a project which his Ori did not choose, that is, for which he is not predestined.  Failure is the result of such efforts.” This a study thesis on Ori (soul/personal spirit) that was published in the Nordic Journal of African Studies, by Dr. Oladele Balogun, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria.   

“Ori (soul/head) chooses a destiny within a split second prior to birth.   This choice is quickly forgotten, thus creating the need to seek out our destiny, in order to live an existence of good blessings.”   My cherished Compadre, Ifa Priest Ojuani Pokon.

“There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them.  Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane; sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.” Nicolas Sparks, from the movie, Message in a Bottle

The thing is that we may not know what our destiny is nor may we recognize destiny when we are in its midst.  This is what makes it so difficult to determine what we should be doing to align with and follow our personal path.   One thing is certain, if we are not in alignment and we do not pay attention to the road signs we will soon begin to experience loss, tragedy and suffer a variety of other disappointments.  This by the way, is how we know we are off track, at which point we begin to re-align with our destiny.  Alignment is sacred and vital to one’s peace of mind and happiness.  You are entitled to live a peaceful life and be happy and believe it or not you will align and find your destiny!!!