I'm feeling very jittery.

My thoughts are all a jumble.

I know I should just settle down but I can't.

I try - but it's not working.

The more I try to settle down the more unsettled I feel.

I'm aware of what's going on and the swirl of thoughts in my mind.

It's like my thoughts just keep getting agitated…

Universal Mind / Innate Wisdom (who you really are) -->

Your Personal Mind -->

Consciousness / Awareness -->

Thought / Creation -->

Emotion / Experience

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None is separate.

Always at work.

All one.

I've stopped believing what I think.

Too often what I think is telling me why I can't do something.

Or, why I shouldn't do something.

In my thinking I come up with a list of reasons why not.

I'm too tired.

I'm hungry.

I have too many other things to do.

I don't have the time.

Nobody is interested.

My thinking does this very…

"I am grateful for..."

Gratitude is intentional.

You make a declaration of what you are grateful for.

Gratitude is reflective.

You stop and think about what you are grateful for.

Gratitude is not about you.

When you express gratitude your thoughts are on someone or something else.

Gratitude is heartwarming.

Your feelings of gratitude feel good to you.

Gratitude is connection.

Being grateful reminds you…

When you're not sure what to do, just start.

If you don't know which way to go, just start.

If you're uncertain about the outcome, just start.

Starting is magical.

The first step of a new journey.

Sure - you may feel fear or apprehension or anxiousness.

What you feel is a reflection of the thinking you have about the 'unknown'…

There's a resonance when you listen deeply.

You get past all the noise that shrouds the ever present connection.

Beyond the words, you hear the other person.

You are fully present for them.

You feel it.

It works the other way around, too.

When you are being fully listened to the connection and the presence are all there for you.

You feel…

When you use a word like happy or sad to express a feeling it's really more of a label than an accurate description.

What you are feeling is truly beyond words.

The words are a shortcut for others to help them understand what you are going through.

Their interpretation of the words is their own experience.

It is the…

Children often say things that 'seem wise beyond their years.'

As though wisdom is a function of age.

It's not.

Wisdom is innate.

To one and all.

There is something to learn from every single thing.

If you slow down and take notice.

Knowing that wisdom is always present makes life a joy.

And, a continuous learning experience.

Everything you do is a creation.

Something that didn’t exist before.

The cup of coffee.

The way your hair looks.

Your breakfast.

The way you eat your breakfast.

Each conversation.

The dotted line you take going from one thing to the next.

What you see.

What you hear.

“But,” you argue, “I’m not creating what I see or hear.”

And yet, you do.

Every refraction of light,…

You don't know what the future holds.

I'm not talking 5 years into the future.

You don't know what you will be thinking 5 minutes from now.

Or, even 5 seconds.

You can speculate.

But, you do not know.

And yet, you live your life shrouded in the need for certainty.

Knowing what you're going to have for dinner.

Knowing what you're going…

Your mind automatically clears out old thought to make room for new thinking, with no conscious effort on your part.

Even in times when you are preoccupied with a thought, that thought will not remain foremost in your mind.

Other thoughts like "I'm hungry" or "I'm thirsty" will show up.

Something always shows up.

Thoughts that preoccupied you in…

Your reality is created by your thinking.

Thought made to appear real to you by the mind.

Since you live in this reality it can be hard to perceive it as thought-generated.

As a child you believed (your thoughts created the reality) that the sun rose each morning and set each evening.

This reality stayed the same for you…

If you wait long enough eventually something will show up.

An idea, a notion, an impulse.

Something that carries you on.

Something that brings you to the next dot on the dotted line of your life's journey.

It may seem commonplace at that moment.

Most things do.

And yet, it forms the bridge to the moment that follows.

When you get to…

Every moment is perfect.

Exactly as it should be.

I don't always see this.

I feel the impulse to do things, to make things better.

But, when I slow down, close my eyes and take a breath, I hear in a whisper beneath the chatter, "It's all good."

It's a feeling that's there, that's always there, but I don't allow…

Everything in your life has brought you to this moment.

Every experience. Every encounter. Every breath.

Even before you, everything in your parents' lives.

And, your parents' parents.

And, so on.

Bringing you.

To this moment.

You, your life, your story, unfolds one moment at a time.

When you give it no thought (i.e. no judgement) you'll see that you are right where…