‘Kindness’ is such a beautiful driver – and brake. It emboldens us towards others and it takes the selfish impulses out of our intentions.
Yesterday, I went for a beautiful evening bike ride in the countryside. Only three cars passed by me on the entire 45 minute cycle. Cycling homewards, half way up the hill (and still out in the empty countryside), I ran out of puff and pulled over. I noticed someone was powering up the hill behind me. So, putting aside my embarrassment about visibly not making it up the not-so-steep hill, I turned round and encouraged my fellow cyclist: “You’ve got this! You can do it!” – bcs #KindnessKounts, right? To my surprise, the cyclist cries out, “Oh my goodness! Is it you?!” Amazingly, it turned out to be an old friend I hadn’t seen for a couple of years! (SH) We wouldn’t have spotted each other unless I’d turned and shouted out – and tbh, unless I’d run out of steam going up the hill! It was SO utterly lovely to have a real life, in person, human-to-human chat (at a lockdown-safe 2 metres)!
So, for today. Where should my intentions range?
Towards THOUGHTLESSNESS!
Excuse me?
The impulses of kindness have been beetling through you. Your cares for the world’s affairs – at a 3D and 4D and 5D level – have been impeccable. Your consciousness of all possibilities for the coronavirus and it’s impact on others have been vivid. Your attention to the needs of your household and loved ones has been commendable. Your hard pushing on your business has been esteemable.
But now, it’s time to give your brain box some rest.
I am mentally exhausted. We all are, I imagine. There’s so much uncertainty – and potential ‘threat’ in an invisible, inscrutable way. And we can only communicate with each other via technology. That’s surely enough to have all our amygdalae on the hop.
It’s the Aspie Zen Zone again isn’t it…? I’ve slipped on my meditation practice having finished Zen Mind…
It’s ok! It’s all ok. It’s all perfect and beautiful. You have been working your brain very hard. And you have been doing Good Work.
I’ve been searching, for the satisfaction of a job well done…
You have been doing Good Work, in immeasurably tough circumstances.
It’s true! Can I share an anonymous post I had saved elsewhere, which I found on Facebook, clearly written from the US perspective a few weeks ago, but not far off the UK situation:
Just so I NEVER forget….. April 3, 2020
Gas price a mile from home was $1.55
School cancelled – yes cancelled
Self-distancing measures on the rise.
Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers (6ft) from each other.
Limited number of people inside stores, therefore, lineups outside the store doors.
Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed.
Parks, trails, entire cities locked up.
Entire sports seasons cancelled.
Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events – cancelled.
Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings – cancelled.
No masses, churches are closed.
No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, now 5 or more.
Don’t socialize with anyone outside of your home.
Children’s outdoor play parks are closed.
We are to distance from each other.
Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.
Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.
Panic buying sets in and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towel no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer.
Shelves are bare.
Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE.
Government closes the border to all non-essential travel.
Fines are established for breaking the rules.
Stadiums and recreation facilities open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.
Press conferences daily from the President. Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths.
Government incentives to stay home.
Barely anyone on the roads.
People wearing masks and gloves outside.
Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.
Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families.
This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020. Why, you ask, do I write this status? One day it will show up in my memory feed, and it will be a yearly reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we dearly love for granted. We have so much! Be thankful. Be grateful. Be kind to each other – love one another – support everyone. We are all one! ️
Indeed: We Are All One.
And wonderful, joyous examples of unity-overcoming-human-isolation are emerging! Look at this:
When we think, we burn energy. The battery of our self is consumed fast under complex thought. But also, the thinking – especially ruminative thinking, or executive functioning thinking – creates ‘worlds’. It creates scenarios which the person ‘lives’ out – and spends energy on. In the ideal scenario, a person is highly selective about their thinking. They reduce thought.
Why do they reduce thought?
To kick up less psychic dust.
And what, pray tell, is psychic dust?
By psychic dust is meant the little ripples of unwanted thought-product.
Like, if I think about the ‘difficulties’ of Covid-19, I create a little eddy of extra stuff in my energetic world?
Nicely put. Yes.
There’s a lot of tricky stuff to think about, or not… But largely I’m not ‘hooking’ on to the thoughts of it. I am however, hooking on the thoughts of work. And on ‘outcomes’ and success and of… I don’t know. If I’m honest, I haven’t even LOOKED directly at the fact that my business has fallen off a cliff because of Covid-19. I can’t be accused of ruminating on that!
“Unexpected item in the bagging area.”
“You are running out of storage space. Free up some memory.”
“New update available.”
Hello? Did I glitch you?
You ran away with yourself, and with the thought party. You were creating eddies.
Aha. Yes! I get it.
Teach me about Thoughtlessness. It’s kind of funny that this ‘lesson’ comes after Kindness… 🙂
Thoughtlessness is about being in a loose, general state. It’s like dear Esther Hicks, when she goes into what Abraham called (in one of the conversations) a kind of ‘altered state of consciousness’. When in that state, she lets the good stuff in. The good stuff arises. The good stuff is always, and we mean always, there to be played with and relished. But you can’t get there when you are in High Thought mode.
In High Thought mode you are in a fast car, racing through the countryside so fast you can only focus on the tarmac in front of you. In Thoughtlessness mode, you are on your sweet bicycle, marvelling at the cow parsley close by in the hedgerows, and the treelined horizons in the distance.
In High Thought mode, all that matters is the so-called destination. In Thoughtlessness mode, the present intricacies of the journey are to be relished. And appreciated.
In High Thought mode, complexity is valued. In Thoughtlessness mode, simplicity is valued.
Get thoughtless, and see what happens.
Ok. Sounds good. And look, yet another day of bright sunshine… What a nice day to be thoughtless in…
