Find Your Mind

We need to talk about how to focus your mind.

The question I get most often is, "How do I know that I'm doing it?"

Here's a few answers in the form of questions: "How do you know you're thinking?" "How do you know you're talking?" "Walking?" "Breathing?"

Using your mind becomes as automatic as any of the things you do in your life. But you have to learn how to do all of those things.

Most likely, you can't remember when you learned to walk. (If you can't walk, bear with me here, and use another typical thing humans do.) However, you do know that you didn't come into life doing it. You had to learn.

Walking is something that humans just naturally want to do. We try until we do. And walking is no easy task. I've heard walking described as controlled falling. Think about it, each step is a risk, a daunting task that overcomes the physical forces surrounding us. And most of us do it all the time without a second thought. We fall and catch ourselves over and over, sometimes for miles. Once we learn to walk, it's automatic.

The same holds true for using your mind to heal, or change reality, or even view reality. You must first learn how to do it. Once you've learned, it's as easy as walking, or seeing, or reading, or thinking. It's a natural human function. It's something you do all day long. Like breathing.

Breathing. That first breath of air is excruciating. It dries our lungs. It's cold, and filled with things our womb was not. But not to breathe means to die, and so we learn a hurtful, neccessary bodily function in a split second. Breathe or die. It's automatic.

Walk or stay sitting.
Read or ignore writing.
Talk or be mute.
Recognize the abilities of your mind, or stay unaware.

In order to focus your mind, you need to do a few things:

1. Realize your mind is there.
2. Find where your mind resides in physical reality.
3. Exercise it.

Realizing your mind is there should be relatively easy. You're thinking, feeling, experiencing, and being. There must be something that allows these things to happen. That thing is your mind.

Your mind uses your body to interact in the physical realm. That's what your body is for. It's a mind-vehicle. Your brain is the computer that runs the vehicle. Your mind uses the computer to store information. Surely, your mind writes programs for your brain. Surely, there are some basic programs written that come with all brains in reality.

Your brain controls so much of your body automatically, that if you were to take away it's automatic systems, your mind would be too busy trying to do things like process air, and food, and environmental stimulation to do anything but work on keeping your body alive.

As things stand, we don't have to use our minds to keep our bodies working. It's written into the brain to do those things like make your heart beat, lungs breathe, and organize and order the rest of the body and its myriad of processes.

Our minds don't actually spend much time in our bodies at all. And this is where the difficulty comes when I tell people to find their mind.

If your mind only gets in its car now and then, where is it the rest of the time?

It's all around you.

Now, take some time to REALLY GET THIS. Your mind is everywhere, all the time. It's everywhere.

Every.
Where.

Let me just lay this out here, and hopefully I'll get back to it later in more detail. If I don't, please remind me to explain how I came to this realization:

Your mind is a hand of God.

Now I have to talk about God, don't I?

If it isn't blatently obvious, I don't believe in religion. Not as it stands within human civilization. I think that maybe, a long time ago, when humans were constructed, we had a more pure religion than any that are around today. But in all accepted history, there is not a single religion that is truthful. There cannot be.

But I absolutely believe in God. Those of us who really, really believe in God, cannot believe in religion. Religion limits God.

So when I talk about God in my teachings, I want you to remember that I'm not talking about a figure, a representation, an idea, or definately not any sort of person. I'm talking about the fabric of all that is.

When I say God, I mean, EVERYTHING.

I don't subscribe to the common names for God in the New Age Movement, either. That's still just name-swapping, and relenquishing your power. I say call God, God. Understand what God means, and mean it when you say it. Otherwise, you're wasting your time.

I won't tell you that you can call God whatever you want, and you'll acheive what I have with my mind. Because you'll be limiting yourself if you don't understand that every atom and everything between them, all idea, and creative power, every star, universe, grain of sand and scrap of ether, each breath, every soul, and evil thought, all deeds, undeeds, and undoing, everything nasty, and cruel and disgusting, all injustice, need, satiation, stardust, emptiness, darkness and expression of love, everything that there is and can possibly ever be, is God.

If you're not ready to believe that you are God, then you're not ready for what I have to teach you.

Believe me, I know there are quite literally billions of you out there not ready. I know that there are some of you who will hate me for saying I'm God. You'll tell me that God will punish me for it.

I'm telling you, there is no punishment. You cannot say or do anything that isn't God. No matter what you think right now.

So if, in the middle of telling you about how to find your mind, I've thrown you for a loop with this God stuff, and I suddenly sound like someone you'd rather be afraid of, it's totally understandable that you'll want to stop reading this. I even understand if you feel it's necessary to leave a nasty comment. I'll probably even leave the comment there, so you can show your friends how smart you are later. It's okay. If you're not that repulsed by the idea of being a living part of Everything, but you still want to hold on to the belief that you are something separate, removed, or below God, then you're still not ready to learn this. You can stop reading now, and go on doing what you were doing before you found my idiot ravings.

But, if you're one of the few who are ready for this, then I'll tell you more.

I've come to the understanding that the mind and the soul are not the same thing. I think that the mind is the appendage of the soul. That's why I'm saying it's the hand of God. It's what your soul uses to operate in various realities, including this physical one.

Your soul is quite literally a part of God. It's the unique expression of individuality in the Sea of Life. Ultimately, your soul can only be an appendage of God.

It's like if your hand had a mind of its own. (Which it does. In fact, it has millions of minds of its own.)

So in order to use the hand of God, you must know that it's there. It's there.

A lot of times, a big part of my mind seems to rest in the back right of my head. Another big chunk of it rests in my chest. There's a long finger of my mind that shoots through the center of my head, and beams out my third-eye for most of the day, and because I know what I know, I purposefully plant my attention (my mind) in the center of my head, in the pituitary gland.

But, at the same time, my mind is in many places in the future, past, and present. I am receiving and processing information at a tremendous rate. Input from my mind comes from the far reaches of time and space, far faster than light. I need only turn my attention toward the source of the constant information to get a better look at it.

Reality exists within the construct of my mind, and my mind exists within the contstuct of reality. That means it's soaking in it.

There is a sea of life that extends beyond the physical realm. An expression of God beyond what you think you can imagine. You are that sea of life, and you are a part of it. It's the whole, "drop of water in the ocean" thing; are you a drop, or part of the whole? You're both. Always.

Remember that thoughts have weight. They've actually been measured. Thoughts are generated by your mind. That means that in the least, your mind can create something that can be physically measured. Think about that, how easy it is to create a thought.

When you believe that your mind, a hand of God, an extension of your soul, can create mass in the universe, you'll easily believe that it can manipulate it. You'll soon come to the conclusion that you are indeed a master of reality, a working piece of the puzzle of life. When you understand that your mind has the ability to see and do anything, then you're ready to put it to its happy work. But where to begin? How do you start focusing your mind?

Your focus is where you're putting your attention.

Are you putting your attention (your mind) in the present? Are you putting your concentration inside someone's body, paying close attention to their individual cells? Are you putting your mind in the past? Remembering the words to a song, reliving a car accident, or the birth of your child? Are you adding numbers? Imagining yourself into the future with addition and multiplication? Traveling to the past to divide and subtract? Are you weighing possiblities? Projecting the outcome of your actions? Are you concentrating on your actions? Listening to water run, the hum of your computer, the cars outside the window? Where is your mind? Where is your attention?

Put it in your head. Stick all of your attention in the center of your head. Picture it. Hear it. FEEL it. Feel your mind resting in your head. Right there in the center. Does it tingle? Does it still want to think about grocery lists, ancient history, cell-division, or Battlestar Galactica? Center it. Find your mind by pulling it to the center of your head. Grab your attention from the rest of reality and focus it right where you want it.

Take as long as you need to do that.

This is your first step. You are defying the forces of nature around you, and you're falling. Fall down, get back up and fall down until you can catch yourself. Then fall down. Get up, fall and catch yourself, fall and catch yourself, fall and catch yourself.

Now stand there for awhile and catch your breath.

Now fall and catch yourself across the room. Grab onto something over there and catch your breath. Okay, now fall and catch yourself back.

You're walking!

Soon you'll be able to walk farther.
Soon it won't take as much effort, or concentration.
Soon you'll be walking around without even thinking about it.

Then you can learn to run.

Find your mind. Take your own time to do it.

If you need a year to learn how to quiet your mind, take it. If you think you can close your eyes and feel your mind right this second, do it. If you think that your mind is a made up bunch of crap, then you're right. If you think it's as real as the heart in your body, you're right. If you're further along on this path than I am, then you can surely laugh a little, and roll your eyes. (But please, if you're some Master of Life, come give me a hand here, after you've had your giggle.)

What I'm saying is, your mind is what you make of it.

If you're ready to focus it, to USE it consciously, then it's going to take some effort. You've got to get it in shape, you've got to know how to use it.

I think in order to use it, you've got to know what it is. That's what I'm trying to help you see with this post. It's everything. Focusing it can be a bitch. But once you've got it, once you can walk, you won't forget how.

Did I get too metaphorical? Was I clear? Do you think you can find your minds?

Please let me know.