Dr. Sue Mortar (38:53)
So what we have to do and you're onto this by saying, I just have to bolster a part of me that is not afraid, that is not worrying, that is not that I don't have to, like, excise my mind and get rid of it. I have to just cultivate another version, another part of my mind, which is the observing, witness mind, for example. And as such, that wave starts to open up and there's more spaciousness in my life, in my moment. And in that spacious moment, I'm going to draw a different conclusion or I'm going to take a different action. I might not even think about what I'm going to do, but I'll be allowing myself to take action toward what I really want to have happen. And people get to this point where they're like, I don't know, I just can't think about it anymore. I'm just going to do this thing. And in that moment, the universe, if it had an opinion, it would be saying, hey, finally, you're just taking action based on what's true for you what you really desire, even if it's potentially dangerous or you don't know, you're strategizing, you've asked six friends about it. All that is just set by the wayside. And something else is taking over. And that something else is not the analytical mind. It is coming closer and closer to the core of you, which is where the mind is supposed to be reporting from the beginning. Because the mind is designed to serve something greater than itself. That thing that is greater than itself is the real you. It's the real you. So that's like this soulful presence or this, this, this that which is to be observed, that authentic self, the true self, the one that existed before we experienced the story of our lives. And we drew these conclusions and then developed an opinion about who we are and how to navigate life to. To get the best out. There was a version of us that was fresh and raw and ready, that existed whole and complete upon arrival, that is still sitting there. But we splatted when we landed and we dispersed mind, body, breath in different directions. And we came up from that splat attached to the mind. And so we think this is who we are because it was the thing that was most capable of allowing us to make decisions, to get safe, to figure out how to please the big people so they take care of us and all of that. That. But that's not who we are. It's just how we've been operating. The truth of us resides when that mind and body and breath come back together. And our vibrational frequency, our energy vibration changes because we're gathered and whole. And in that, we're closer and closer to this alpha frequency as an example, because nature operates that way. Our true nature is that. So what. We meditate to bring ourselves below alpha frequency because we're used to operating above it. And it feels so good just to like, oh, get a little reprieve for those that can meditate. Some people are locked in and you know, the idea of meditation sounds great, but they just can't get it happening until they can. Until they learn how, which they can learn how to bring that spaciousness in between their thoughts. So that this presence which is what built the body, it is what built the brain, it is what built the nervous system and every other component of our. Of our physicality. That version of us is what is here to have a life. And it never gets to have that life because it's been marginalized while we're busy out here, you know, identifying as the mind and making it safe and figuring out, you know, all that. When we are operating that way for a long enough time, we start to experience the ramifications of that. We start to stress out, then we start to reach out. Then we start to recognize, oh, my mind is just making me crazy. And then what you're saying is the next step, people realize, oh, I don't have to beat the mind up for doing all these things. It's just doing what it thinks it's supposed to be doing. I have to get in touch with the rest of me. That will put my mind in a different perspective and allow it to contribute to something bigger. Because we're asking the mind to do something it was never meant to do. We're asking it to run our lives. It wasn't meant to do that. It was meant to serve the soul who knows why it came and knows the purpose and knows what's real and what's not. But because they're operating as two distinct and separate entities, the mind is running like crazy and it's freaking out because it's not equipped to do what we're asking it to do. But when we turn it back onto the body and we begin to sense and feel and learn the language of the soulful presence of this authentic self, the true self, the energy being, the quantum being, that it's all the expression of this divine source that you were referencing, God, source, universal intelligence, all of the all. When those come back and start working together again, something different happens. Something tremendously different happens. We step into a different version of ourselves because we're not fear based anymore. We're actually coming into life knowing that we've got this because we are more than we thought we were. But it requires a bit of an experience of that for people to even know that it's there as a goal to begin to work toward or work with and ultimately become this version of who we are.