Endless Reaching

When reaching for something is needed to feel better it transforms energy from stillness to noise. This doesn’t allow for the peace that passes all understanding because the reliance to feel better is on reaching for something…

To start the day in stillness is of immense value because if stillness isn’t embraced when the day begins, it will be very difficult for it to be the default setting when the reaching of daily living takes over. Sit in the morning and take periodic breaks throughout the day and one day you just may notice there is more stillness than noise. Without noise the need to reach for something doesn’t exist, but it starts in the morning because for most it’s when the noise begins.

All reaching is done for your own satisfaction, regardless of how it plays out in your head. Even if it’s to help others, if investigated deeper it’s to make you feel better; this holds true for all reaching. Twelve step programs are based on reaching to help those who are still suffering, so that means suffering is needed so you can feel better, that’s crazy. Giving away clothes that no longer fit and are worn out and aren’t wanted anymore is reaching that makes you feel better. Volunteering for a cause is reaching. I’m not sure if there’s a meaning to life, but I do know it’s not to reach for something that’s used to justify existence just so you feel better.

This is what the unconscious mind does, it creates the need to reach, all to make you believe it will make you feel better. Life isn’t about feeling better by manufacturing something. To me it’s really about nothing in particular, except maybe to learn how to be with what’s occurring now. Just being with what happens and not resisting it stops the need for the rearranging of life to make you feel better. When this occurs you will rest in the peace that passes all understanding as there won’t be a need to reach for something to make this so…