“Go out of your head to use your mind,” Loren Ridinger.  Isn’t it ironic that it’s often the tools we have that get in our way?  We have brains compiled of billions neurons that fire thoughts that inspire all kinds of action. It takes a lot to navigate through those thoughts and we do it, often without a moment of hesitation.  At the same time we are inundated with so much stuff, so much otherness, that it’s easy to let those thoughts get in the way and add on unnecessary junk to something that may otherwise be straightforward.  This is a reminder that sometimes we simply need to connect with the core part of ourselves—get out of our heads and listen to how we feel.  More importantly, FEEL how we feel.  The mind can’t always be trusted because it so often gets jumbled in the mix of what we can/could/should do that we forget what we NEED to do.  We forget the goal.  In getting out of the rote patterns that reflexively fire in our brains, when we step into how we are feeling, it may tell us a different path to take.  The path doesn’t always present itself in a logical manner—sometimes we see it’s there when we feel a certain way.

The mind is our greatest ally, it truly is, even if we don’t think it is.  Speaking as someone who has dealt with extreme mental health swings, I can say first hand that I couldn’t always trust what my brain told me. Breaking the habit of listening to it felt damn near impossible at times.  It wasn’t until I understood that messages came from everywhere, not just inside my head, that I was able to make peace with the fact that I was responsible for what I took in.  The thoughts I consumed either through reading stories, what I watched on TV, what the people around me talked about, all of that impacted me (just as it impacts all of us).  We have to let go of what we see around us, we have to let go of what our “routine” response would be to something and we have to ask if that is what we really feel.  Is that what we really feel or is that just how we always respond?

Something unlocks in the mind when we know we can trust ourselves.  The mind functions differently.  We see other alternatives and opportunities where we may not have.  We learn to process and do things in other ways.  The world has a funny way of bringing us exactly what we need when we need it—even if it doesn’t appear how we thought it would.  We can’t operate something new by doing what we did before so that in itself makes it necessary to get out of our heads and feel our way into the mind.  Finding the truth of how we feel is key.  We spend a lot of time regurgitating what others have taught us instead of actively questioning if that is a genuine belief that came from us.  If we want to forge new paths we have to start with the paths in our head.  There is no should in the way of the mind (outside of survival instincts)—there is only possibility. Be ready for it and know how to welcome greatness into our lives by feeling it more every day.