According to surveys of the project’s subscribers, many are currently experiencing some of these states: apathy, depression, a state of panic, confusion about what to do, or an unwillingness to act. Or, on the contrary, irritation, aggression, anger.
All of the above relates to the symptomatology of the reactive mind.
So what do we do about this? How do we tame the reactive mind and what do we rely on? Read in this material.
Components of the reactive mind. Varieties of “ping-pong”
The reactive mind operates based on a specific reaction. There is a trigger (stimulus) – in response, an action (reaction) occurs.
This is an endless ping-pong: you hit, and it comes back to you.
Such ping-pong (stimulus – automatic response reaction) is a manifestation of the reactive mind.
What can you react to?
Someone reacts to thoughts (mental ping-pong). For example, an anxious thought appears in the head, followed by a string of similar thoughts that aggravate each other.
You heard bad news or someone said something nasty to you, and it started spinning in your head.
Most people live in emotional ping-pong. You woke up in a bad mood, and off it goes. Someone said something unpleasant to you, you took offense, and off it goes.
An emotional reaction to something is the most common phenomenon.
You were fluttering about, everything was great. Your husband came, didn’t pay attention to you, didn’t praise you, and you deflated and, like an angry dragon, started “bossing around” all your loved ones.
As a result, no matter what happens, there is an endless ping-pong – stimulus-reaction.
An indispensable component that fuels the ping-pong is traumas (childhood, adulthood, any).
For example, a woman raises her voice, and a man immediately snaps, starting to become aggressive. This is because when the man’s mother scolded him as a child, she always raised her voice.
For many men, this exact connection (“voice – scolding”) is at work. They do not allow that a woman might simply be emotional and expressively show her joy, including through her voice.
There is also energetic ping-pong.
For example, there lives a certain grandfather, in a state of decline, with no energy. His “beloved” daughter comes to him. The grandfather thinks, let me provoke her now, needle her, and feed on her energy.
To make a person who is “in zen” share their energy, you need to provoke them – say something nasty.
Provoked, the woman flares up, and a wave of energy begins to spread.
Such situations surround you in life. They are everywhere and all around. Until now, many simply did not realize that they live in “reaction mode” (that is, they simply react and do not manage these reactions in any way).
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The bitter aftertaste of automatic reaction
Most often, when the reactive mind is engaged, you are deprived of the ability to choose how to react.
This is because habitual scenarios and patterns are already firmly embedded in your neural networks, recorded in the subconscious.
You have no choice but to simply react stupidly – to produce a habitual response to a particular stimulus.
Coming to after an automatic reaction, you regain consciousness and regret it — “well, here we go again!”.
Regret kicks in (why didn’t I think, why didn’t I stop, I could have stayed silent).
As a result, you feel like a victim of circumstances. You either experience guilt, feel ashamed, or judge others.
Go through the “Stone of Life” meditation, which will help you anchor yourself in the new reality with full engagement.
Activation of the conscious mind
According to Jason Estes’ forecast, in November we had to pass through the eye of a needle. All of humanity, every single person without exception, entered the eye of the needle.
To fit into this “narrow space,” it was necessary to detach all your reactions from your essence, from your own true nature, from who you really are.
All reactions of the mind are superficial, acquired — “clothing.” You could only squeeze through the eye of the needle “naked.”
Since you have been carrying the baggage of this “clothing” for a very long time, it also came with you “to the other side.”
But! While you were making your way through the eye of the needle, along with the reactive mind in everyone’s head, the conscious mind was activated.
Until now, the conscious mind was only present in those who developed, expanded their consciousness, and raised their vibrations. This is what you call the word “awareness.”
Any person has moments of “forgetfulness” — when they are not in control of themselves and are under the influence of the reactive mind.
Previously, some of these reactions could lurk in a half-hidden, disguised form like a “skeleton in the closet,” not clearly recognized.
Now, the part called the conscious mind has been activated in every person. All your reactions have been revealed to you.
Now you CANNOT help but see all of this – without embellishment. This applies not only to you, but to everyone around you.
From this moment on, you will not be able to pretend that you are not reacting. An understanding of what is happening will come to you instantly.
See also the recording of the live broadcast «Corridor of Eclipses and the Reactive Mind», where we examined the ongoing processes in detail.
Conditions for Taming the Reactive Mind
The main recommendation for all who react is acceptance.
If until now you have turned a blind eye to who you are, there is no longer any possibility of pretending. From now on, you cannot help but see it.
Accordingly, once you have seen it, the next question arises: what will you do about it? Doing here implies a specific action.
Action is all the more necessary if:
- you have low emotional intelligence;
- you easily lose your temper;
- you do not know how to express your emotions in an ecological way, without hurting the feelings of others.
To neutralize disharmonious reactions, you can use completely different tools.
For example, before going to sleep, write down on paper all the emotions accumulated during the day. This technique will improve the quality of your sleep.
Also, «visit» temples at night (of healing, blessing, violet flame, etc.). This will allow you to wake up in the morning in a renewed state.
It does not matter which tool for balancing you use. What matters is that you use a tool, rather than dumping your disharmonious states onto your loved ones.
From now on, every time you fall into emotions, one way or another, you will understand/feel that you are doing something wrong.
Learn more about temples and Ascension Sites from this material: Ascension Sites — special places of power on the planet.
Now, in the age of information and the internet, you can no longer say you don’t know what to do with it, because you know what to do.
Everyone knows how to lose weight, but they don’t want to do it (force themselves, be disciplined, change established habits). The same goes for taming the reactive mind.
You already understand how to deal with the reactive mind. A reactive response arises, and you have a choice — to respond consciously.
Three deep breaths in and out can help you with this.
Such a breathing pause provides a window for making a conscious decision, when you choose not to follow your trauma/”red button,” but to act differently.
You are not homogeneous. Every person is like a layered cake. Everyone has different reactions, beliefs, experiences, etc.
There is no mixer that could turn this mixture of different things into a homogeneous mass.
It is not you as a whole entity that reacts, some part of you reacts.
What matters is your “reaction to your reaction” — whether you accept yourself in that state or not (judging, regretting, etc.).
Stop habitually reacting to your reactions — “I thought I had worked through it, but here it is again; I failed, I’m a loser,” etc.
Look at the surfaced reaction from a different angle — “how great, it turns out I still have this part — I saw it; let me now love it, cherish it.”
This would be a normal reaction — to take care of yourself, not to scold yourself.
When you learn to react exactly like this to everything, that will become your new reaction.
Over time, there will be more reasons for surprise, and you will be able to observe more new, non-standard reactions in yourself. Write them down.
See also: Labyrinths of the Mind. How to Find a Way Out
Have you already noticed the activation of the conscious mind? How does it manifest?
The article is based on a broadcast from the #conversation_on_the_couch section “Corridor of Eclipses and the Reactive Mind, 11/28/2020”
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