A Quiet Mind

Do you have a mind that never rests?  If you have difficulty sleeping at night, finishing what you’ve started, and trouble making decisions, then it’s time to understand why having a quiet mind brings peace and is the foundation for your life.

1. Without down time, the mind never rests.  Everything needs rest!
   • Never mistake a busy life for a life of substance.  Just because something is moving all the time does not mean that it is  going anywhere. 
   • If you nail one foot down to the floor and you keep moving, you are still going in circles.
   • Everything is universe – in order to be healthy, needs to rest as well as to move, i.e., times to be active and times to do nothing but rest in being. The mind needs down time.

2. A frantic mind misses opportunities and actually pushes them away.
   • When your mind is frantic, your vibration is chaotic.  And a chaotic mind always repels good opportunities.
   • Opportunities actually go whizzing by frantic minds.

3. It is the nature of the mind to have thoughts.  To the mind, all thoughts are the same.
   • Our ego ranks our thoughts.  The thoughts that make us feel good about ourselves we pull to us and the thoughts that make us feel bad, we push away.  This action creates a frantic mind.
   • Even though we rank our thoughts, to the mind all thoughts are the same – one thought is not better than another, just like all spots on a leopard are the same to that leopard, even though some are big and some are small.
   • Once we view our thoughts from the observer viewpoint  - not the ego – then all thoughts become equal, the same way they exist in the mind,
   • Now, finally, the mind is quiet.

4. Truth comes through the mind, not from the mind.
   • In order to access truth, the mind must be quiet.
   • The mind is the vehicle that transports consciousness.

5. Meditation quiets the mind and opens the heart.

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