It’s been said countless times in various metaphysical circles that time is a loop so I’m not throwing out Earth-shattering news here. But I would like to share a broader way of looking at the circle as a marker for time.
I’m not a physicist. I’m trying to understand physics, but it’s kinda difficult. Ok. It’s a lot difficult. So what I’m going to say comes from my latest meditation. This is not a physicist’s perspective, nor is it a metaphysical perspective, although if you look closely you will find spokes on the wheel that belong to both camps.
I am a Reiki Master and energy teacher. I say energy when what I mean is meditation, but because my meditations are conducted in a way to help shift energy, sometimes I refer to myself as an energy teacher. I teach people how to look more closely at their own energetic (heartbeat) patterns and discern the self.
Meditation has a lot of merit. I wouldn’t have pursued my relationship with meditation if I didn’t find it helpful. But meditation has its drawbacks. It’s good if we can use it to find a broader meditative way of living and not so good if we compartmentalize it. Meditation is only as good as it is absorbed and assimilated. It’s not so good when you push it aside to access the logical mind.
I would like to share how the logical mind and the meditative mind can work interchangeably.
THIS ASSIMILATION OF THE LOGICAL AND THE MEDITATIVE MIND WORKS IN TWO WAYS:
1) We accept the above statement that the logical mind and the meditative mind can work simultaneously or interchangeably.
2) We honor the work of The Seeker.
When we accept that the mind compartmentalizes thinking we’re halfway to living a meditative existence. Accepting that we’re creatures of habit helps too. We don’t like change and we don’t like living easily. The struggle is the number one drawback to thinking. Because we think, we struggle. And because we struggle, we devise ways to improve our lives.
The logical mind pushes the meditative mind into a corner and says, “I need to toil (fill in the blank) to survive. I can’t deal with you right now. You’re not a priority.” And then when we’re fine, we pull out the meditative mind, rejoice, and appreciate the lack of struggle and the peacefulness the meditative mind brings. But then we push away the ease when more struggle arises, and the circle perpetuates itself. Time is a loop.
Throwing the meditative mind away at times of struggle perpetuates desire.
In times of struggle, I find it's best to meditate. This is when the heart helps clear the mind of fear and need and desire. The heart gives great answers, by the way. We just have to trust the heart. And we can. This is where The Seeker in each of us can help. The Seeker knows the beauty of the heart. And The Seeker delights in heart-centered answers to struggle.
Creating a timeline for ourselves perpetuates goals. Linear thinking is goal-oriented. It is logical. There is a time and place for this. We can’t live on this planet without some form of linear thinking so to ask you not to do this would be incompetent on my part. But as The Seeker begins to accept the loop, the meditative mind, and the timeline that says not all thinking is linear, The Seeker can begin to redefine struggle.
It is The Seeker who meditates and can redirect themself into balancing time.
Still with me?
The meditative mind creates a loop. The logical mind creates a linear line. All lines (in our minds) belong, but as we assimilate the loop and the line, and balance the meditative and the logical mind, the motion, or the action of being alive in this world becomes less about the fraction and more about one.
We’re one. But we separate ourselves from ourselves and each other because of time.
The line divides the lanes. The loop connects us as one.