We try to live our lives from a place that is constantly about ‘doing’ and we mistake this for living. Or, we are aware of how little we truly live and to cope with this, we create escape routes we don’t actually need. Since the system we are in feeds this, perhaps we feel a sense of loss or don’t know another alternative. By striving to reach a goal, setting new goals, comparing where we are now with where we want to be, creating ‘shoulds’ and ‘musts,’ and pushing and pulling at things, we are actually limiting the experience itself, and it's so automatic that we don’t even notice it. These are modes of our Doing Mind, but we see that approaching life, ourselves, and our relationships from such a place doesn’t work.
Being is a space beyond all of this. Mindfulness essentially helps us practice this state of Being Mind. Being is not dead: It is not a place to which we can go with goals, results, and thoughts; it is not a destination. What is real are the processes within people, and this itself is a flow. Being means recognizing everything within its wholeness, liveliness and allowing them to be. Our ‘Being’ cannot be determined by the Doing Mind. We can approach our being through our presence and our experience of being in the present moment. Being does not occur in the world of ‘shoulds’ and ‘musts,’ thoughts; it does not occur in the future or the past, but in the here and now.
So let’s start from here!
With the intention of being a space where we can open to our becoming,
Welcome home to yourself.
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