{"id":47817,"date":"2022-09-06T10:43:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T10:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47817"},"modified":"2022-09-06T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T10:58:14","slug":"serious-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/09\/06\/serious-shit\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious shit."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before my first coaching session this morning, I had a couple of insights, and I wrote them down.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe they’re helpful for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘What do I do now? I have to do SOMETHING!’<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s the mind, only always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It drives us forward, and sometimes it drives us crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s obviously exactly what it’s supposed to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what you do with its suggestions, is up for grabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Nothing’ is often perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘What will happen? And what do I have to do about it?’<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The constant pre-thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making up scenarios and plans and blueprints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Always working on future solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For made-up problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it’s mostly a waste of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘No matter how much I know and experience and remember, the mind will always be insecure. The MIND is insecure.’<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s really helpful to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mind is insecure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By what it is, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s an unsolvable predicament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But waking up to your true nature will help tremendously because it will connect you to what ISN’T insecure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who you are, what you really are, is everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You ARE everything, playing small, pretending to be tiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mind is nothing but a phenomenon within that everythingness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s mostly full of shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(You\u2019re not.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Our minds are OBSESSED with being safe, now and in the future. But the one thing that creates a sense of unsafety… is the mind itself. The unsafety we run away from, is mentally created.’<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See what you’re doing there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘I\u2019ve had millions of moments and situations that seemed utterly crucial and worrisome and HAD to be taken care of, and I can\u2019t remember any of them. It\u2019s the energy of urgency that makes it so compelling.’<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now THAT’S an insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The energy of urgency, the sense of fear, or pending danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s like the brilliant soundtrack to your movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dramatic, engaging, all-encompassing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, still, a soundtrack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if you could see your moments of despair, the ones that keep returning all the time, more from that knowing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it feels like shit, but that’s just part of the deal, it’s what makes the human experience so compelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not the taste of the future, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, these things will not change your life straight away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they might open a few doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or a window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that\u2019s a really good start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Photo by @braydona, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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