overthrow your consciousness
To overthrow the government and your consciousness:
Right now our system is broken. By design, it disadvantages and devalues in the most horrific ways. Laws and law enforcement are not there to serve and protect, but to reinforce a grossly unjust and racist norm. Congressmen were never meant to represent so many people or stay in office for more than one term. We need massive overhaul that will depend on the people in power voluntarily creating or allowing a shift that will result in their loss of power. In order to serve their country and the public, they must sacrifice themselves. As history has shown us over and over, the nature of power is to do everything you can not to lose it. Thus we are stuck.
This feels like an apt metaphor for consciousness, which is also a broken system. As long as I can remember my mind has been in power. While helpful at times, it mostly makes me miserable. Recently the moments of peace and presence I have experienced give me a taste of what is possible and makes me want more.
In order to make this shift, I need to make room for flow, a state of being where the mind turns off. This can be meditation, breath work, exercise, art, or movement. If I can create a practice, I will have moments every day where I engage in an activity that will intentionally separate my awareness from my mind so I can build the muscle of consciousness.
These exercises, which I need my mind to commit to, schedule, and engage in, loosen the mind's grip on my awareness and identity. I need for my mind to act against it’s own best interest for the greater good.
When I struggle with my mind, that struggle has only made me unhappier and made contentment more unattainable. Counterintuitively, when I accept where I am, which is often not where I want to be, something eases and contentment opens, regardless of the external conditions that seem to carry so much weight.
The journey moves forward when I embrace standing still. My problems disappear when I stop trying to solve them. I work with my mind to help me separate from it. When I can hold these complex paradoxes, it all feels impossibly simple, at least for that one breath. Then I start all over again.