Agitated Reactions

No one truly reacts to what happens in life, you react to the mind becoming agitated and wanting that moment to be different. You are alive, but your agitated reactions block you from truly living…

I have found certain things that are needed to be mindful of life occurrences so it can be lived to the fullest. One of these is the development of discipline of what to do when the mind becomes agitated. The hardest thing to do is nothing, but that is exactly what’s needed when the mind becomes agitated.

Definition of Agitation – Something that is stirred up or turbulent. When this happens to the mind, how you are conditioned to react is what shapes your life. You don’t react to what happens in life, you react to the mind becoming agitated. If the agitation never arose there wouldn’t be the knee jerk reactions, so without the reactions the only thing there would be is peace; this will take discipline. The only reason we react to anything is because of our mind agitations. Try and do nothing, I mean nothing at all, just sit and be mindful of the moment. Without the practice of sitting this discipline is nearly impossible. If you want to change things, learning to recognize the reaction to an agitation will have to become your life’s practice. Without it the agitations will continue to be a block to living your life to the fullest.

This is why you reach for whatever it is you think you need; you are just reacting to a mind agitation. Without it there would be no need for the reaching. Objects are not the only things reached for, talking about others, beating ourselves up, gaining our well-being by doing instead of being, searching for what it means to live, assigning our so called roles to ourselves, these are but a few of the reactions to a mind agitations; everyone responds in their own way. You will need to investigate this for yourself if you really want answers, most won’t go that deep inward. Looking at yourself is the hardest thing you will ever do, but it is where you will find out how not to react when your mind becomes agitated…