Your Mind-unset.

We are always hearing how we need the ‘the right mindset’ for everything in life, especially in business. It's as if you can be told how to have your mind set and if you set it right you will be a success. Maybe there are other settings for other circumstances in life, can you turn the dial to the next setting and away you go, like a washing machine has different settings for different types of washing.?

The term has always irked me, but I went with it anyway listening to all the experts, up until I realised the truth.??

On some level everyone understands what is meant by mindset, it typically suggests we have to have positive thoughts and no negative thoughts. Most courses and teaching start with this premise, get your mindset right and you will succeed. But is it achievable?!

We can't see our mindset, it's intangible. It's an unknown and as far as what's true for me at least, is my mindset changes many times per day, it can be a roller coaster of thoughts and feelings. Some days big dreamy positive thinking and the next the world is going to collapse. I've never been able to set my mind to a fixed setting and lock it in.

It's not realistic to maintain a setting of the mind for a lengthy period time, due to the true nature of Thought and its spiritual origin. The truth is a new thought will always come along and the setting of our mind changes again and again.?

We are not in control of our thoughts and only have some control about what we do with them. They come from a spiritual formless place that is far beyond our control. This is why we cannot set out minds, too many thoughts will come in and especially those pesky habitual ones. You know the ones that seem to hurt us, the ones that when we wake up at night come to us and stop us from going back to sleep. The thoughts that keep us suffering and seem so real and true to us.?

So if we can’t set our minds what do we do?

We understand how mind, consciousness and thought actually work. See the true nature of the human experience.??

‘Mind is the universal intelligence behind life, consciousness creates an awareness of what we call reality, and thought is the power to create our moment to moment existence, our experience of life’.

Sydney Banks

Mindset is not about setting your mind a certain way and then maintaining it, its about understanding the inside-out nature of our experience of life and Seeing that although we are not always in control of the content of our thoughts we can decide which thoughts to breathe life into and to believe.?

A business mind-unset is knowing that you are going to change daily and Seeing that this is true for everyone around you. There will be negative and positive thoughts running through your mind. You are able to let yourself off from the lower quality thoughts because you understand that a new thought will come along and everything will change again. You are no longer the victim of your thinking but have awareness with understanding to create more power over your thoughts.

Most people see an outside-in world where something happens which makes them feel a certain way - the truth is, its an inside-out world, something happens and its what we think about the something that creates the feelings. It's how 2 people can have exactly the same situation and feel completely differently from each other, their realities are different because of their individual personal thinking seeming real to them.

How would it feel to no longer be in the passenger seat of your thoughts but in the driving seat with your hands on the wheel. That one insight in of itself changes everything.

It's the understanding of the true nature of the human experience that unsets our minds and allows us to be kinder to ourselves and more at peace. Stop kicking ourselves if we slip, or take a wrong turn and truly See that we all live in our own thought created realities.?

Life changed dramatically for me when I understood, in my soul, for the first time:

‘Everyone is doing the best they can with the thinking they have that seems real to them’.

It is not about setting your mind it’s about un-setting it, letting yourself Be and Seeing the truth of the human experience. Knowing from your heart, that no matter what, another thought will come along and you will move into the next experience.

This is not to say that anyone working on mindset is wrong and I'm right, I am just pointing you to look in another direction. A direction that has the awareness of the human experience at it's heart.?

We are all only ever one thought away from well being, if only we could unset ourselves enough to let that thought in.?

In happiness

David Greenaway.

Life in Business. Coach.