16 July 2015

One song title asks: ’What have you done today to be proud of?’. This question encompasses the thought patterning which drives the rational mind of the adult but was alien to us as children who operated from the feelings in our Solar Plexus. Of course, as adults we are all too aware that we are none too proud of many of our actions and then we embark on heavy rationalisation as to why it was OK to act the way we did and that really the reason we acted in that way was, indeed, the fault of the other person.

If we consider what it was as a child which brought joy to us, made us spontaneously happy, we may recall that the strongest feeling was that of being connected to everything in the Universe and not realising that we were separate. Surprisingly, however, we may be aware that these recollections are accompanied by feelings of fear, sadness and distaste. Moreover, we may also be aware that it was from this moment on that we began to identify our ‘selves’ as ‘separate’ from everything else in the Universe, merely by allowing our ‘rational’ mind — our left brain hemispheres — to part company with what I like to call our ‘soul’ mind — our right brain hemispheres.

Perhaps the questions for the day should be: ‘What is it I fear so much?’ ‘What are the sense objects I run after in order to make myself feel good?’