The Mind Boggles
The Mind Boggles
We have heard the mind is a powerful thing. Also, the ‘Kybalion Hermetics Philosophy’ refers to the universe being mental ie everything is mental again pointing to the power of the mind.
Why is it sometimes we are oblivious to the bleeding obvious, the things that are directly in our face?
Is it because we choose not to see what is obvious? Perhaps we have trouble seeing or feeling the ‘obvious’ about a person or a situation.
Or maybe it is because what seems obvious to us at the time is merely a reflection of our subconscious mind telling us what we think we want to see.
Ah, the mind boggles.
I lost a dear friend of mine many years ago, quite tragically and traumatically. I have had several ‘visits’ from my friend through my dreams and every dream is exactly the same theme. It begins with me feeling so happy to see her in my dream and I’m left thinking where have you been all this time, like she has been on a short vacation and what I thought had happened didn’t. I’m saying to her ‘I have been trying to contact you but you just disappeared off the face of the earth!’
In the dream, I am left feeling confused and frustrated and thinking why has she ignored me, abandoned me. I am here, she is here why can’t I reach her!
I had this same dream last night and it hit me, the bleeding obvious!
It might appear to be very obvious to you as you read this, or like me, you also cant see ‘the forest for the trees’ so to speak. I was thinking this morning why does it seem like I keep missing her in the dream, missing as in I go to visit her when I find out she is home only to find out that she had just left! What the?
The obvious became apparent. I do miss her full stop. My mind is playing out the same pattern of just missing reconnecting with her, because I miss her.
Why did I feel this is important to share?
Well, each time I had these dreams I just didn’t want to see what was obvious, I didn’t want to feel the pain of missing my friend, even if it was over 10 years ago. In my mind, that plays out through my dreams, even in my dreams it was too difficult to ‘miss her’. The mind boggles!
When I realised the obviousness of my dream ie missing my friend and feeling frustrated, I could then see the pain was very much still there.
Despite me thinking ‘I have come to grips with her passing, I have dealt with it’, and despite talking to her on occasion (in my mind), I realised I remained frustrated because I truly felt powerless to prevent this tragedy. You see, my friend came to visit me exactly a week after my firstborn and a week before her passing and even then I felt she was in a bad way and I remember telling her to insist on seeing a specialist asap, don’t wait. Unfortunately, the horrid reality played out and it was too late. I realised I told myself it was my fault, I should have tried harder, I should have done something more and once again I felt powerless to prevent a tragedy.
My superconscious mind obviously knows this is not true, it really had nothing to do with what I did or didn’t do. But my subconscious had a field day with this and was preventing me to see what was bleeding obvious, I haven’t really processed the grievance of losing my best friend.
So I leave you with the obvious message coming from this blog. Sometimes our dreams have a way of showing us what we are not processing or what lay hidden in our subconscious that could be addressed.
The mind really does boggle, doesn’t it!
The mind boggles
Observe the obvious