So how to deal effectively with jibber-jabber, i.e., make it go away? Which only feeds the jibber-jabber you can find yourself worrying because you are worrying. An awareness of the negative effects of prolonged thoughts of fear or anger or lack brings with it an awareness that the presence of jibber-jabber is a legitimate cause for concern. Nor is jibber-jabber eliminated by having grasped the truth that it is one’s frequency, one’s vibration, in relation to any particular thing that will generate what will be precipitating into one’s reality. Or, if fear of a particular failure is a common point of entry for your personal jibber-jabber, it will seep into and pollute the desire, imagination, and expectation that are the building blocks of any manifested success. For example, if outrage based on an assumed powerlessness is a favorite avenue for jibber-jabber, then perceived micro-aggressions can be everywhere. The jibber-jabber carries on relentlessly with the same themes: we might not get what we want things we don’t want might happen to us there might not be enough others might cause us harm. Except that in our lives the (metaphorical) thunderstorm is almost always rumbling out there. We tend to live our lives a bit like a dog in a thunderstorm. And still she trembles and cowers until the worst of the storm has passed – even though her ordinary state is joyful and entirely unafraid.) (I explain to my dog, in the most reassuring and soothing voice I can muster, that she is entirely safe and that everything will be fine. Singer concluded in The Surrender Experiment, “Life knows what it is doing.” And yet, despite all manner of reassurances, I still occasionally freak out like my dog in a thunderstorm. If I could give one piece of advice to my younger self – of whatever age – it would be this: Just assume everything will work out. In this essay, I will call that chatter “jibber-jabber”. You might only notice it when you focus in meditation but too often it prattles on as part of the “auto-pilot” that is always running in the background.Ī determination to move beyond the noisy chatter that one’s brain generates was a central focus of the bestselling book The Surrender Experiment, authored by Michael A. Here is the disturbing part: “monkey brain” is likely going on much of the time, mostly unnoticed. That expression refers to the jumble of busy thoughts that sometimes intrudes into the stillness when you seek to quiet your thoughts in meditation. If you have had even a little experience with meditation, you will know something about “monkey brain”.
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