Mindful Monday :Being aware of the voice in your head.

Good morning and a happy Monday to y'all readstars!! It's another great and breezy day(at least here) Hope y'all doing awesome!

Yesterday we talked about the voices in our heads and all the things they say, if you're yet to read the it you can read it here, today's article will make more sense if you read yesterday's.

I remember given us a little exercise I urged you to do, which is to pay attention to that voice, not to do what's telling you to do, just pay attention for a whole day to it. If there's anyone who did that little exercise for a whole day, by now he or she might have realised how big of a problem this voice is. You once associated yourself with it, giving it the upper hand in your life while you're just a mere puppet who's being tossed about in an ocean of emotions. I urge those of us who haven't done it to do it. You will discover a lot.

Today, being Mindful Monday, we are going to be discussing what to do about this voice. Since we've discovered how huge a problem it can pose in the way we organise or see our bodily selves(regrets, sadness, confusion, impulsiveness, and sometimes even evil), setting us up in a cacophony of negative emotions that blocks clarity, the destruction and huge damage it can inflict on our relationships with people by hurting the people we love and claim to care about through words or actions that sometimes aren't even intentional and also delaying the realisation of our spiritual essence, which is the ultimate goal of all creation.

Bear in mind that this voice talks or ask questions and still give itself the answers to this questions.

You might wanna try :

Now perhaps while you're reading this and trying to observe the voice the voice might have whispered something like "wait...are you trying to observe me?" same voice would say, "well yeah... let's just give it a try". Or it might wanna get defensive and say, "o com'on. This is all some Buddhist-zen-stoic-psychology-taoist load of spiritual self-awareness crap! There is no voice in here. It's me and has always been me! Just comment from the little you've read or just upvote her some $0.03 or $0.05 let's get going, I don't have all day!"

There are a number of other variations of how that voice can react while you're reading this, or doing anything else for that matter. It depends on how that voice is created in the first place, which is a sum of our present experiences and the sum of our past experiences and how we reacted to them, this is how these voice came to being in the first place. A lot of us make a very huge and yes, very disrespectful mistake of confusing this voice with intuition and even take pride in saying they heard it from their inner voice. Bruh, as long as you're the one hearing it from inside, that's not intuition. It's just your voice being good to you at that moment, and it really doesn't matter if it is good to you or not, it is still what it is and will always remain so: a voice that was created in the process of your existence.

Intuition isn't heard, it is felt. That's one of major differences between these incomparable two.

Since we've seen how messed up things can get as a result of this voice, it is only right(absolutely right) we do something about it innit?

Well here is the truth:

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE TO!

You do not have to do anything about it because the more you try to do something about it the stronger it becomes, something like the scenarios I have above. You might have tried to shut it up while it started asking questions, but then it got defensive.

Now what?

The only thing you can and should do is to observe it just like you might have done yesterday. Here's a little help: Whenever the voice pops up, just imagine physical manifestation of the voice, sitting close to you and saying all the crap or "good things" it is saying about you or something you've just seen. You can recreate it into an image of an animal or a human being, whatever your imagination drives you to. This way you wouldn't have much problem in imagining that you're actually listening to someone that's not really you. Now if it says really crappy things or retaliates with a defensive, dissolve the mental image you've created of it and acknowledge the reality that that person is actually inside you. Now what do you think of it? Do you feel terrible? No?

Another approach towards listening to this voice without associating with it is to imagine something like this:

Imagine yourself from an angle of depth rather than height or weight. Your emotions are the top, thoughts are below your emotions, the voice is below these and then, your space of awareness seated at the deepest part.

Awareness>voice>thoughts >emotions.

From the above, you can see that the voice has influence over your thoughts and emotions. It kinda create ripples that spread and conduct upwards, thereby affecting them. The only thing that's watching this voice is your awareness, which is the seat of consciousness situated deep inside you. Use this empty space to watch this voice. Use either one of these examples to either listen or watch the voice for a week or even for a day, I promise you, you will learn a whole lot.

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Yours Layly,

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