I've been reminded over the last couple of days that the process of moving the material mind into Spirit Mind is an ongoing journey of surrender.
I’ll move into Spirit Mind and feel that beautiful space where everything is calm, the mind is relaxed, and I have a higher perspective. That can continue for a while, but then something will trigger the material mind. Something unresolved in my story—something with conflict or pain—will get poked.
This is the new energy working on us, intentionally poking these things so we can release them and move to a higher consciousness. Another way to say it is that we clear the pictures or stories in the Material Mind, allowing us to move back into that peaceful space of Spirit Mind.
I just wanted to describe what this process feels like so you can recognize it when it's happening to you. Hopefully, you can smile with it and roll with it instead of getting wrapped up in the drama, because I’ve been deep in that space the last couple of days.
For me, there hasn't been anything dramatic happening externally, but something triggered my internal dialogue, and now my material mind is super active. It's constantly thinking, "But this, but that," going over stories and details—this ongoing tirade of "what ifs," "buts," "how tos," and "how not tos." It's just a constant stream of information.
What's fascinating is that I understand what’s happening. So I’m doing my best to let this continue as an internal dialogue, rather than voicing it to the people my internal dialogue wants to complain to or focus on small details and nuances with. My mind is very detail-oriented right now, which is fascinating.
If you find yourself in this place where your mind is focusing on the details, like mine is now, remember three things:
1. This will pass. Everything is always moving and changing.
2. These details aren’t actually that important, even though the material mind is placing ultimate importance on them.
3. Recall the diagram Hisami drew, showing that when the material mind is right up against the edge, about to move into Spirit Mind, that’s when the biggest resistance comes up. That’s when the material mind gets the most active and chatty.
For me, this happens because I’m right in that space, about to go deeper and surrender another part of my material mind, another part of my consciousness, into Spirit Mind. Something inside doesn’t want to let go of the attachment to the story, whatever it may be. I don’t even try to dig deep to figure out what it is. I just recognize that I’m going through the process right now.
I have momentum. I’m moving toward Spirit Mind, like on a moving sidewalk, and if I just observe, enjoy the process, and let it unfold naturally, I’ll move into the space of Spirit Mind again with whatever triggered me. Then, things return to clarity and peacefulness.
After some time, it will happen again. I’ll find myself with my material mind outside Spirit Mind, and it will start to come back in. It will reach that edge, where things get triggered, and there’s lots of activity and chatty, material madness. But that too will fade, and I’ll move back into Spirit Mind, gaining deep insight into what was happening.
It’s important to understand that when you’re on the edge and resisting, that’s not the time to try to get a deeper insight into what’s going on. But if you just let it pass, if you let the internal dialogue stay internal and avoid creating drama in the outer world, you’ll naturally move into the space of Spirit Mind.
That’s when the insight comes: “Oh, now I understand what’s been happening for the last two or three days.” I’m so glad that heavy energy is released.
So, that’s just a little tip for when you find yourself moving through that resistance and into the space of Spirit Mind.
