Wordless

Have you spent any time watching the activity of your mind even for just one day? Are you compelled to be busy- talking, watching television, listening to music, reading, engaging in meaningless conversations– all of your waking hours consumed for the sole purpose of keeping your mind occupied and busy?  Have you studied the interior conversations that flit through your mind second by second?  Or analyzed your interior conversations and how they contribute to the outward experience that you are having?  Do you have words playing in your mind –endlessly repetitions of the same story which reiterate:  would have, could have, should have, he said, I said, I should have said, if only I had…..

 What is it that you are telling yourself? How do you react to the stories you have made? Have you noticed how your emotions are influenced by the thoughts you choose to think?

Are you a victim in your mind or a hero stamping out injustice? What is your role in your internal drama? Have you asked yourself whether what you are telling yourself is real? Is it true?

 If you imagine that the story in your head is only your story and that you are the creator, author and experiencer of that story, would you be willing to create a different story? Write a different version with different scripts?  Change the villains into heroes? Change the outcomes to happy ones?  Live another life? When you change your inner story, other actors in your story change their lines to match what you have written.

What if you could you change the story whenever you want?? Or simply abandon the need to have a story at all. Can you simply observe without the need to form thoughts and judgments? Can you live for a day without words? Can you live for a day in the silence? Live in the garden without rewriting it.