| Daily State 1

Many of us believe that we spend much of our lives thinking fairly intelligently about ourselves and the situations we face, but if we consciously and deeply examine our usual daily state, we may find that we live between two predominant states.
One is the state of our true nature which we naturally access when we live connected to our inner calm, loving awareness, and wonder in the present moment, which facilitates a coherent connection to the environment around us.
The other is generally larger, and is our self-possessed ego-state, which arises whenever we are distracted and disconnected from our true nature, and therefore we become captured by the distraction, and live with little true awareness in the present.
In this captured state we tend to experience a range of ad hoc, repetitious stories, mental rehearsals or imaginings on auto-pilot, with varying emotions focused around such things as anxieties, negative beliefs, assumptions and biases, as well as fixation on appearance, wealth and health matters, depression,schisms of various kinds, judgmentalness and fault-finding, justifications, inhibitions, focusing on mistakes, obligations, obsessions, overreactions, self-consciousness and self-doubt, stubborness, stress, uncertainty, unhappiness, worries and so on. Obviously living in such a daily state is not a very aware state to live in.
Some people do live with a quieter mental and emotional state, along with varying degrees of happiness, love, peace and joy, which may still include the above captured states from time to time.
Yet if we want to live less with the ignorance and stresses of our self-possessed ego state, then at any time, we can simply take an aware breath, and return to the present.
Ultimately however, the most aware, most harmonious, most loving and enlightened life we can choose, is to live in a daily state focused on our true nature with its coherent thinking and feelings, rather than emotions. (Please see the essay on, “The Contrast Between Emotions and Feelings” in the About section at the top right of the page).

© Aaron John Beth’el

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