Brooke Castillo is like a fairy godmother to me.
She is also one of my favourite teachers. Through her deep curiosity, she teaches us about our mind, its inner workings and how our thinking affects our reality. Our reality – is both how we see the world and others, but also what we make it to be through our actions.
Every week, on a Thursday afternoon, her words find their way into my ears. Over the last year, she’s taught me many things about my mind.
The point to all of her words, is that she asks me to value my mind – which if understood will create the reality we truly desire.
Like going to the gym, a healthy mind requires attention too. We need to flex the self-awareness muscle.
Subtle yet clever, our mind loves a good story. Like a childhood fairytale, they play on repeat, they create parts of our personality and our reality.
Once we get wind of this, we become the observer. Not the over-analyser but the observer of our thoughts. We simply notice what actions we take as a result of certain thinking, of stories we tell ourselves.
Meditation is an ideal gym for this practice.
It will take some time to notice the stories, but once we do, we see the power of them.
The next step is perhaps the most critical.
When we notice what we tell ourselves (or have been subtly whispering for some time) we have a choice.
Our adult mind will try to tell us we don’t (have a choice), but we do.
In that moment, we can choose the story that continues to create this reality (is it happily ever after?) or a new one.
We can tell ourselves – “I am afraid, but this time I’m going to do it anyway”
The end.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~ Plato
