Sag Moon Lou

I remember as either a teenager or in my early twenties, pondering over something over and over in my head, in a loop. I don’t remember what it was exactly, only that it was something heavy and ‘negative’ , that I didn’t have a definite answer to. I really used to overthink in those days, and isolate myself rather than live more spontaneously, lightly and in the moment.

I was ruminating over and over, and getting nowhere, it was just causing psychic pain.

I heard a buzzing, and glanced up in the conservatory to see a fly or a wasp, trying to make its way back outside, but instead, bouncing off the glass sides of the windows, and just getting more and more wound up and aggravated. However, just above it, the window was wide open.

Almost instantaneously, I had the insight that this fly or wasp was just like myself, and humans in general.

As impressive as our minds – and their potential – can be at times, they ultimately come with limitations. Or at least, the conscious, “thinking” mind has its limitations. Overthinking, or giving too much credence to the ‘rational’, conscious part of the mind, can keep us trapped in the prison of our smaller human perspective.

As the famous writer Mark Twain said “ It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you “know” that just ain’t so.”

It’s easy to ‘think we know” due to assumptions, knee-jerk reactions, habits, life experience and acquired knowledge ( that someone could have learnt 20 years ago and is now outdated.)

However, when we are open and vulnerable enough to admit we don’t know the answer, calm the mind a little and temporarily surrender the fixation with having a solution there and then ( embracing the uncertainty), a solution or inspiration will often flow to us spontaneously .

I’m curious to learn of anyone else who has experienced similar, or would like to share something in relation to this 🙂