We all walk around with our mind. Wherever we go it goes with us. It’s in our head. When we look out of the world, sometimes we see what’s in front of us, and sometimes we only see what’s in our mind. Our mind is so powerful that it overwhelms our circumstances. It can be, what it’s doing can be, more impactful on us than what we’re actually doing at the moment.
Things get stuck in our minds, sometimes we have a difficult situation or a problem that we can’t seem to resolve. So whatever we do, or whatever we’re doing; this same problem or difficult situation goes through our mind like a loop, and keeps repeating itself. And we may be driving the car, but what we’re really doing is going through this loop of the problem that’s bothering us at the moment.
Our emotional attachment to that problem comes into being as if it were actually happening right now even though we’re doing something entirely different, and something detached, from that situation. We could get on an airplane and leave Pennsylvania, and end up in California, yet our mind can still be in Pennsylvania with whatever it is that’s bothering us. And the ability to be rid of this is very difficult, and the ability to clear our heads so that we are not in our past is very difficult. And, as we’ve discussed, our past, when we’re thinking about it, becomes our present. So there is no present; there’s only the past because that’s what’s in our head.
So somehow we have to begin to differentiate what’s going on and what went on – and somehow we have to separate ourselves from what went on – so that we can go on with our own life instead of previous circumstances. We need to escape from our previous circumstances. We need to escape from the emotional baggage of our previous circumstances. Yet there is a part of us that won’t let go. Why? Why do we hold on to baggage that is mostly unhealthy for us? What makes us so attached to it?
Well, unfortunately, some qualities that aren’t good have a certain kind of juice that they give us. It’s a negative juice, but it’s still a certain kind of juice. If we have resentment against somebody because of something that they did, we’ll carry that resentment, and it’s as if we’re doing something to them while we’re carrying the resentment…
