A friend told me today that she heard from someone who recently learned from a higher-up yogi that we should not judge ourselves for spacing out because sometimes we need it to recharge. I thought is was kind of cool because I didn't think of it as recharge. Yesterday, I was framing this phenomena as primarily a negative distraction and didn't consider it as a mental recharge. This could explain why I'm finding it so easy to drift off: Mentally, I crave it.
While I was free writing about some more Zone-Out dimensions earlier and have gained a little more insight into the extent of this mental behavior:
- It's easy in, and easy to stay in - I follow the thought, into another thought, into another...
- ends with glorified conclusion - insight, realization, connection
- Intriguing thought-train
- There is a feeling of comfort & safety associated
- I allow/excuse/justify drifting off when experiencing resistance to writing/work
- It happens while listening to others
- relating to pre-existing knowledge and/or formulating a response
- Loss of awareness of posture / all of physicality
So, bottom line: I do not support the mind as me to exist in separation any longer. When and as I see myself "recharging" my mind, I stop, I breathe. I commit myself to breathe myself back into awareness of me within the physical reality that's stable and remain here always.
I commit myself to working through all the layers related to zoning out, where I let myself go free into mind without any real consideration/care for the world around me. I understand this will take some time, but without starting, I will get nowhere.
Prepare your minds for tomorrow's boatload of self-forgiveness, as I proactively remove some of these conditioned layers/relationships toward allowing my mind to freely take dominion over my awareness.
Thank you for reading.
I commit myself to working through all the layers related to zoning out, where I let myself go free into mind without any real consideration/care for the world around me. I understand this will take some time, but without starting, I will get nowhere.
Prepare your minds for tomorrow's boatload of self-forgiveness, as I proactively remove some of these conditioned layers/relationships toward allowing my mind to freely take dominion over my awareness.
Thank you for reading.
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| I stopped eating donuts but thought this to be an appropriate image for today :) |
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