You know more than you think, and you "know" more often than you "think".

We all know what "thinking" feels like, whether it's us saying "hold on! Let me think for a minute" or just that running dialogue in our head, the "eternal conversation" - we know how to think and what thinking feels like and when we're doing it.

This part of our brain, our Mind, makes us feel in control. It makes us believe that we truly think our way through everything, our Mind is in control, that we live thoughtful lives. It allows us to lay our heads down at night believing we are "aware" of everything in our lives and all is well.

We're not. We're not aware at all. Well, technically, your Mind isn't, you are. Your mind, the device used for those aware thoughts, and what you believe it "knows", are mere drops in the bucket compared to what you truly know. What your full entire brain and body and soul know.

The whole package, the entirety of you, THAT knows a great deal more than your Mind. More than you can imagine actually, and I mean that literally because it is your Mind that does the imagining, so... You see how that can't work. What doesn't know how little it knows cannot know more by imagining more.

How do you know that you know more and more often than you think? (This was a fun sentence to write).

Consider the fact that you can talk on a cell phone while driving a car with screaming kids in the back and still KNOW to stop at the stop sign. Or what to do to satiate or soothe the crying children. Or what to say to the person that wants your attention on the phone. Or how to drive a car. How much do you reallllly know? Can you imagine that?

Can you consider the countless activities your whole being is putting into action in that scenario? The complexity involved in each one? Layered on top of each other? It's immense and awe inspiring what your entire being is capable of!

You begin to see that your Mind is but a pauper amongst Kings! A feeble creature amongst the giants of your being. It is the dumbest smart part of you, and yet you go to it (and it alone) for practically every important or inconsequential decision in your life. 

Spirituality, or finding various ways of connecting your mind, body and spirit so that you can live a more immense and intentional life with "more life" in all moments - a life filled with complete awareness of everything in every moment, a life filled with being capable of tapping into the giants of your being at any time, a life filled with recognizing the deeper connection, the pure unity of this universe and how that relates to your immense being - THAT is the act of knowing what you truly know.

EnlightenMints