This video was a quick realization after I listened to Sadhguru video. It is about realization of self. The premise is that no one would willingly submit to being a slave in this day and age, in the western world. We would not allow someone else to control us. We would fight tooth and nail to free ourself or rebel if we were being controlled.

We are however, slaves to our mind every day. When we rely on circumstances or other people to make us happy we are giving away our power. When a condition out of our control elicits a unconscious response from us, we are enslaved. There is no way we can control everything and everyone around us. It would be madness to try. We cannot control what people think of us. We cannot control minor or even major events that happen to us. Yet we have 100% control over how we react to those conditions. We can control how we feel, with practice.

When something happens that we don’t like, we complain, and tell people about it and re-live it over and over sometimes for years to come. That is slavery. We are giving away our peace of mind away willingly. Sadhguru said they are not “good or bad” people, only blissful and miserable people. For something to be good or bad there has to be a standard set. Set by whom? We give things the meaning of good or bad. If things are not the way “I” like it, then it is bad. It if is the way I like it then it is good. And yet I have, in most instances, very little control over the “things” that happen. Traffic, job promotion, relationships, politics, the economy, you can name it.

The next question is of course, “should we then just burry our heads in the sand and ignore the world?”  Yes. I recall Eckhart Tolle said you have 3 choices in every situation: 1) do something about it if you can change it, 2) Leave the situation if you can, or 3) accept it. What other action can we take. Acceptance does not mean we agree with it or support it, but acceptance means at the current moment, in the now we choose to let it go in favor of keeping our control over our mind. When something happens that you don’t like, WHAT IS THE GOOD OF BROODING OVER IT and re-living it over and over. All I can do is to reach for something that feels a bit better and better in my mind and move on. Frequently there will be a solution and a resolution to the things that was challenging me, in a few hours, or few days or few years. At least I am not a slave to those hours, days or years WHILE I CAN NOT DO A THING ABOUT THEM.  It is logical but it needs so much practice  because we see people who complain and make a fuss get the attention. Not always rewarded but at the very least get the attention.

We have a tendency to add a “BUT” to good things and make them negative, but as Esther Hicks says we never do that with the crap that we experience. For example we try to be positive and say “I can make lots of money, BUT… I have never been able to do it, or know anyone who has done it”.  We never say “I don’t know how to make money in this, BUT there is always hope, and resources to learn”. Why is that? The world we live in, for the most part give attention to the negative. Maybe because we are hardwired for survival and paying the most attention to the negative saved us when we were running away from the T-Rex. It is a learned response. I don’t like saying it is in our DNA because we have the power to control our reaction with a constant practice. I am also not going to say “a little practice” because it takes daily reminder and effort to make this work.

I try to live this stuff, and yet recently when something happened that I thought was un-fair I went directly to sharing it with close friends and family and complain and get upset. The event has not even happened and will not happen for a few weeks, and yet I was torturing myself for ours over it. I don’t even know if I have the power to 1) change it, 2) leave it or even 3) accept it yet. How crazy is that?

Time is the most precious commodity I have and yet I gave it away to be upset. From the law of attraction emotional scale, it would have helped for  a few minutes to feel frustrated, instead of helpless but then I have to move on and fall down the ladder of bitterness and anger. We are so guarded with our money, and possessions but we are so frivolous with our time. That is not the way to success. Do NOT BE A SLAVE to your mind.