Thinking Makes You Suffer (transcript)

Breathe in and raise your vibration.
Breathe out and release your resistance.

Breathe in and raise your vibration.
Breathe out and release your resistance.

Relax your body.

Breathe in and say yes to what is.
Breathe out and welcome what is.

Welcome impatience. Welcome uncertainty. Welcome resentment. Welcome judgment. Welcome fear. Welcome.

Breathe in and slow down into this moment.
Breathe out and ask, am I aware?

Bring yourself back to this moment. It’s only the thoughts that make you feel bad. It’s only the thinking that makes you suffer.

Breathe in and get a break from the thoughts.
Breathe out and smile because life is not serious.

When you ask yourself, am I aware? the point is to stop thinking and wake up in this moment and see there’s nothing wrong with right now if you don’t think about it.

Breathing in, am I aware?
Breathing out, yes I am.

You can feel it. It’s like there’s a stem that goes through my whole body and normally my attention is out in the leaves of my plant self.

It’s out in the flowers, out in the world, seeking, looking for bees to pollinate looking for sun looking for water. Looking looking looking. But when I ask, am I aware? the attention goes back into the stem, back into the seed, back into the unknown—the unborn where everything is perfect and in its place.

Breathing in, am I aware?
Breathing out, yes I am.

The mind will never figure it out and all of these analogies and metaphors like I’m a stem and I have leaves and I’m bringing my attention back into the seed—it just gives your mind more to think about, more excuses to stay mind-identified. But the only work is dropping the thoughts. You don’t have to strive, you don’t have to achieve, you don’t have to suffer. The work is dropping the thoughts. It’s the easiest thing and the hardest thing.

Breathing in, am I aware?
Breathing out, yes I am.

When you ask yourself, am I aware? for a split second there’s a flicker of recognition, of knowing, of identifying with all that is. Pure awareness. All of this—me, you, the thoughts—it’s all one thing. Consciousness. Awareness. And everything that you see and experience is just a vibration within awareness but it’s all the same awareness or life force.

Breathe in and remember you are that life force.
Breathe out and relax. There is only the life force.

What is your body without the life force? Nothing. Dead. No animation. The life force is what is choosing, what is digesting, what is looking, what is experiencing. It’s all the life force and that is you.

Breathing in, am I aware of the life force?
Breathing out, am I aware of the life force?

Am I aware of the presence of god? You can call god the life force. You can call it love, infinite intelligence—all of these words, they just give your mind more things to think about. But the answer is never in the mind. It’s right here in front of you. It’s in that flicker of recognition when you ask, am I aware? You can feel it, that centering of your attention.

Breathing in, am I aware?
Breathing out, yes I am.

And if you’re too caught up in your reality, if you’re too mixed with experience, suffering, suffering your preferences of “I like this and I don’t like this and I want this and I don’t want this”—if you’re too caught up in that just ask god to replace you.

Thank you god for replacing me with you.

You know it’s all happening in your favor. You know that it’s all unfolding perfectly. You know that there’s nothing to control but still you can get caught up in the preferences of wanting things to be a certain way and when you can’t drop those preferences, ask god to replace you and then you’ll know it’s all going god’s way. The best way, the only way.

And you don’t have to interfere with your preferences that are not true or real. You don’t even know if it’s really what’s right for you. You don’t know if what you want is what is best for you. What is best for you is what is, so allow it to be.

Breathing in, am I aware?
Breathing out, yes I am aware, and when I am aware I have no problems because when I am aware I am not focused on lack so I’m happy. When I am aware my mind is not agitated so I am at peace. And when I am aware, I’m not separate from anyone or anything that I love, so I am love itself. I am in love, I am the love when I am aware.

Breathe in and merge with that love today.
Breathe out and let go of control.

Let the pure awareness handle it. It’s what made everything, you can trust it. Trust the pure awareness is doing it in your favor, trust it’s how it’s supposed to be because how it is, is what is best.

So drop the thoughts and let yourself enjoy the best day of your life right now.

Breathing in, am I aware?
Breathing out, yes I am aware and I am now in the flow.