41 - Receiving
When we first start and try to give undivided attention, our untrained
consciousnesses seem to get in the way with random thoughts and distracting
ideas.
But we must not get impatient with our conscious minds, or get angry at them –
we must always remember that the poor conscious mind has worked so hard for all
our lives, tried to do the work of four, and tried to compensate somehow and
most desperately for the absence of the heart of energy, the energy mind and the
soul.
Our poor conscious minds are totally stressed out and overworked, and they are
entirely unused to even the idea that there exists for them too a natural way of
working, a calm and clear state of being where one works in harmony and with
full support from all the other parts of the totality, and where the
consciousness doesn’t have to do absolutely EVERYTHING and all by itself any
longer.
The consciousness needs some time to calm down again, and to learn to trust the
co-workers in the totality, to get to know them properly and to understand what
its own tasks in the system really are, and which ones need to be passed on to
the others.
In the meantime it is very helpful to be sure to tell the conscious mind that it
can help most of all if it starts to listen, pay attention, to collect new
impressions and experiences, and to learn new things. It doesn’t have to try and
work out all the meanings right away or make any kinds of decisions – and
especially not in circumstances when we are trying to give something or someone
our UNDIVIDED ATTENTION.
What is happening here is that the consciousness needs to learn to reverse the
flow of data – instead of constantly trying to PRODUCE new thoughts, ideas,
solutions, answers, decision and so on, it must allow data to flow INTO itself
instead.
In, instead of out.
Now in truth a real well functioning consciousness produces AND receives, like
ebb and flood in beautiful, natural spiral rhythms, just like the flow of our
blood or breathing in and out.
But like so many other things our poor consciousness doesn’t understand as yet
the concept of breathing and is constantly pushing and producing, and we need to
begin very gently and very kindly to get it used to receiving AS WELL, so that
it has a chance of rest and of course, gets to learn something NEW for a change.
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