Key Lesson Part 1
By and large, most of us hold an unseen, but utterly false belief: the more we feel the need to talk to ourselves about something, the more important it is we do so. But what are we so busy talking to ourselves about in these moments of stress... if not what we must do in order to escape the painful experience of our own stressful reaction?
Part 2
Have you ever noticed how your mind can talk itself into a dark mood simply by imagining what might go wrong? In that moment, it becomes both the author and the victim of its own story -- projecting pain into a future that exists only in thought, then reacting to that imagined pain as if it were real. This is how the false self sustains itself: it feels what it fears because it believes (in) what it imagines. But as the light of higher awareness sees this unconscious cycle for what it is, the chain is broken and the illusion begins to dissolve. Why? Because each link in the chain of a negative reaction is its weakness, masquerading as a strength.
To see the truth of this understanding is the action that releases you from an unconscious nature that forges its own prison even as it tries, in vain, to escape it.
