Action is easy. When we are in it, it is just happening. It is our inner reaction to what we do that hurts, feeling arduous or painfully scary. If we come out of that, via releasing our fight or flight tension, we are just left with seeing (if even) what we are doing, our task […]
Tag: Byron Katie
Find Out What You Do
How do we know what we do? We see ourself in our action. Our body, a physical entity, giving its weight to some surface (a chair, couch, floor) simply because of its inherent relationship to gravity. We can look more closely and see the full activity we are engaged in (writing, typing, walking, cooking, etc.). So, the […]
The Things We Do
The things we do are the things we are supposed to do. There is no truth out there that holds the key to the information of how we should be living our life outside of exactly how we live our life. This entails every single move we make. When I say move, I mean move, […]
One Action
Because we cannot divide time into segments, our body is really in one stream of physical movement from the moment it is conceived (and of course continuous with the moment before that). There is no beginning or end to our activities even though we identify them in our mind as specific individual actions. In the […]
Follow Nothing
Though it feels nice to have a mental focus, a goal to follow something in our mind, or as some say, in our heart, in reality there is no need to attach to anything like that. Because our body is always in some activity, i.e., always doing something physical, actual, in real time, we can […]
Confusion is Correct
From Body Over Mind: Confusion is Correct It is helpful to know that we do not create the conflicts in our life any more than we create anything else. Sometimes we find ourself in a snag with a friend, a partner, or a family member that arises out of thin air. Despite the unexpected nature […]
Proof of Action: A Personal Reality Check
Another excerpt from my book: “Body Over Mind: a mindful reality check” If all we ever did was place one foot in front of another, moving us in one spatial direction only, it would be apparent that our whole life was a straight line path of physical movement. Everybody’s life completes some pattern like this, a […]
The “Tube”
This is an excerpt from my first book: I like to tune into what I call the Tube, which is a personal timeline of our step by step life process. As we use the clock as a reference point for tracking our daily activities, I find it a useful tool for monitoring our moment to […]
Entry #4: Options
I think we suffer from a belief in options, options of how we could act in any given moment (present, past or future). I use the word “this” (which is kind of trendy these days but unrelated) to signal to my mind that this is what I’m doing right now, and therefore, this is what […]
Entry #3: There is Nothing to “Do”
This is my third entry in this series of recording myself each day to get a more personal feel to my posts. Please excuse that the editing is scanty as I am going for a more conversational feel: I’m finding this morning and lately that this work is the constant understanding that there is just nothing to […]
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