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It’s a sad fact that most people believe their thoughts, and I’m going to tell you now that about 80% of them are lies. Your mind is a recording mechanism. It records images and along with these images, it records all of the sensory perceptions and  the “feelings”. So there you are with a gazillion emotional images hovering over you, and something happens in the now.  You either miss the happening altogether, or your mind starts sending these emotionally charged pictures down at you, explaining the probabilities, or possible outcomes, and once again, you go into reactive mode, and completely miss out on the joy that you could have experienced if you had only stayed completely in the present. If you are reading this now, you are on the right path, and one of the more enlightened beings around. First we realize that our thoughts are not us. We separate from these thoughts, and then we have the ability to use these mental pictures to our advantage. It’s our egos way of making us important, however it has the opposite effect. It makes us feel frightened, and small. It can make us an egomaniac with an insecurity problem. Always comparing and making up different stories.

The beautiful thing about awareness is that once you regain it, it gets harder to lose. Once you see the truth, the lies don’t have the same kind of power they used to have.

Next time you start slipping  down the emotional scale, step back and observe which thoughts drove you down that ugly highway.  Realize that these thoughts are only mental image pictures, and aren’t reality. Reality is what is in front of you. Reality is beautiful, and natural. It is alive and refreshing. It doesn’t compare or judge.