BUSY-MINDEDNESS

My dear ones,

I'll tell you something about your busy mind: your busy mind is only a distraction from feeling. See, there's a lot to feel—much, much, much. And there are a lot of responses you have to things, that are subtle, that are sublime, that are big, that are responsive in the way that would call you to great action. Your busy mind is taking you away from feeling, and from being in life in the ways that Life would have you be into it.

But if you could just see that fulfilling your purposes here, your heart's purposes, is really a surrendering into your own feelingness, then you could curtail this mind that goes about its business distracting you in this and that way. And the more you fulfill your purpose through feeling and action, the less distracted or less distracting the mind will be.

As you put your actual responses into action—for example, you feel, and then you simply speak, or you simply reach out, or you simply go with that wind or that call of duty, or whatever—then your mind doesn't have a chance to get a grip on you, or to start its little machinations. Now, the energy that it would have used for thinking is instead being used for responding, for doing, for creating, for heart giving.

This is your natural flow. You wonder where your waters of life, of Godly inspiration, are supposed to flow from. It is from that: your innate response as a human being to life, and to feeling.

There is so much to respond to, and you are responding to it. And then sometimes, instead of responding naturally, you're going up in the mind. Just feel it instead. And take some more risks emotionally.

You know, your friends love it. They love you. You're a beautiful, gorgeous heart. And when you share your heart responsiveness, everybody just falls in love with you, and that's how it is. So it's a silly thing to pull your punches, and put all that energy into a thought instead, into being distracted by thinking about something else. That's silly.

So, that's how I would approach life: simply to recognize that busy-mindedness is just a distraction, and to come back to being willing to feel a whole lot. And you know, that's really great, and it adds a lot to life—a lot.