Ashmi Path shared a piece discussing interacting with the world and the friction that can be generated from living.  There comes a point where you have to let the universe know what you want and you work for it, but the how becomes irrelevant.  We learn to let go of the need for things to unfold a certain way and we learn to accept what is and what we are able to do.  That is how we heal.  When we interact with the world, we learn to let go of the heat and the anger or letting things dictate how we react.  We don’t let it stick to us.  We learn to put up a guard of sorts, Ashmi calls it oiling the mind.  We don’t need to hold onto the thoughts and perceptions of others, we simply need to maintain our own.  We learn to be in this world but not of it.

Oil consciousness becomes more about allowing the outside to be outside.  We don’t need to internalize anything people think or believe about us.  We don’t need to make their beliefs ours.  Not only is that boundary setting, that’s also good mental and spiritual hygiene.  It takes an incredibly strong will but it makes it easier to move through the muck and determine what is our own.  Yes, there is always the possibility that we create our own muck, but we have complete control to clean those thoughts.  WE also have complete control on what thoughts we allow to resonate and sit in our mind.  When we make that decision to stand in who we are, the rest of the world kind of slips around us.  When we try to be multiple things or take on too much at once, that causes more friction.  This is why it’s so important to know who we are. 

I still live with a leg on each side: the world where I need specific things to maintain where I’m at and one leg in the world of allowing it all to happen, simply being who I am.  My soul, my heart demand that I jump fully to the other side and listen to the flow and my fear attaches to things being a specific way.  That specific way is the known and we attach to the know—I know I do.  The known may be safe but it isn’t what we truly want.  The soul craves adventure and purpose and the soul doesn’t find that type of fulfillment doing the same thing day in and day out, like some record on repeat.  We are meant to dance to our own rhythm as we discussed earlier this week. I make an effort every day toward trusting my way toward ease, oil consciousness, and purpose.  It feels so much better to live without friction.  How do you protect your thoughts in that regard?