High above the clouds I soar
Winds beneath my wings.
And if I listen very hard
I can hear the angels sing.
This I do without refrain
No guilt and no remorse.
Set my target go on my way
And try to stay on course.
And when my journey is complete
When no longer can I fly.
Please do not be sad for me
Just wave and say goodbye.
In Chapter 1 "Into The Mind" we talked about the premise of who and what we are as beings. If you haven't read that chapter, or saw the video on it, then I highly recommend you do that before continuing. (Chapter 1)
As we talked about in chapter 1, being a mind in a body means we think. We create thought. In this we experience life through our mind. Both mental and physical In other words, our whole life is an accumulation of experiences. One after another, after another.
Being a separate being from every other being, our life experiences obviously differ greatly from each other. It is from these experiences we create our own unique perceptions and realities of life. From these self created perceptions and realities come the choices we make which determine the actions we take, and the directions we head on our journey through life.
This is the thing most people don't realize. Rather than viewing themselves as an independent being on a personal journey through life, most people are caught up in the motion of it all and live their lives on automatic. They become the affect of life, rather than consciously controlling it. They become products of their environments, getting caught up in the things that we as beings are not. They become their jobs; their races; their financial status; their religions, thier drama's.... And so on. All of which belong to the game and not to the original make up of who and what we are as beings.
By being counsciously aware of our own individualism, and aware that we are in control of our own thoughts, gives us great power. Not power in a way that we are some sort of a great leader or anything like that, but rather great power over our own self. Which most importantly means that it not only gives us the power to control our emotions, but gives us the ability to let go as well. And having the ability to let go and control our emotions is life changing, to say the least
When it comes to our personal journey through life we want to again keep in mind that the journey itself is merely an accumulation of experiences. That the past and the future exist only in the mind. Because the past has already occured and is only a memory and cannot be changed. While the future has not yet occured.
The intricate detail of our journey through life is that an experience happens only in the precise moment that it occurs. And moments are immediate. They do not last. They occur and in a flash become the past as a new moment takes its place. And once it has occured, time immediately and steadily takes it farther and farther away from the present moment at hand.
A great example of this is to tap something with your finger or hand. Not hard, just a tap. Now watch that tap get farther and farther away in your mind. Just watch it until you get bored of watching that tap move away. After a bit that tap will be a minute away, then an hour away, then a day, then a week, and on it goes.
Now an experience may consist of many separate experiences all added together to make up a 'whole' experience. For example: The experience of growing up. This could be catagorized as a 'whole' experience. And as a whole experience, it lasted much more that a flash. It lasted for a whole childhood.
But when we break down that 'whole' experience, what do we see? We see our experience of playing, or going to school, or Christmas opening presents, or getting in trouble, or our best childhood friend.... And so on. Thus all the experiences that made up our whole experience. Or in other words, our personal journey experiences through our childhood.
The same holds true for a much shorter experience. Just for an example, lets get into a fight. Let's say the whole fight lasts a minute. No judgement here, its just an example. The question is: Did that experience last a minute, or was the minute an accumulation of immediate occuring experiences?
So what started the fight? There is the experience of the lead up to the fight. The emotions; the fear, or anger, the adrenaline, or whatever. The experience of the words exchanged if any The experiences of the decisions to be made, actions to be taken. The experience of any physical contact made, and the experience of any ongoing pain as it occured. And so on, and so on... Lots and lots of experiences occuring in flashes making up a whole experience.
The point to it all is this: From the moment we are born to the day we die we experience life. We take a whole journey through that life, and carry it in our mind. Because we are our mind. And because we are our mind, we decide what to keep from our experiences, and what to throw away. What we like, and what we dislike. We decide how we feel about any given experience, or how we feel about all of our experiences. We choose how we feel about people, or things, or this or that. We choose whether or not we like life itself. All the while deciding which directions to take on our journey based on all this information we have gathered along the way.
We plan destinations, activities, goals, or events for our life's journey. Sometimes our journies land us in situations we didn't plan on. But those situations happen because our journey took us to where the situation occured because of our earlier decisions and actions. The question is, did we get there because we were swept up in the tide; never knowing, or forgetting that we are individual being on our own personal journey? Or are we consciously on that journey practising awareness and control of self.
The Journey