“An idle mind is the devil’s workshop”…

I heard this, when I was growing up, from adults. It was their way of telling me about the importance of thinking and introspection. If you engage in activities that are passive, pretty soon your defenses are laid wide open and your mind can be infiltrated and manipulated. When this happens, you lose your ability to control your own thought processes.

The defenses I’m referring to are your ability to analyze and discern the truth.

I have seen, over the last 20 years, an amazing amount of choices made available. All kinds of new “sub-cultures” have organized themselves. Whatever you’re interested in, you can find others who are like minded. You can “get together” in a virtual world and share information. This another way to spend time…another form of entertainment….another distraction, especially if you are a passive observer.

Failing to participate in activities that challenge you, reinforces and solidifies your status quo…

It keeps things the same in your life… This is why we humans prefer passive entertainment over active involvement. We don’t mind being moved emotionally. We just don’t want to engage in physical action to support what we feel. It’s safer and easier just to sit in front of the computer or television and “experience life”… in the most entertaining way possible…But that’s not living life.

The problem is time. It’s moving faster, ask anyone.

Something happened! Everybody feels it but nobody can explain it. For some of us, it’s a wake up call. Stop entertaining and start contemplating! You only have so much time left to reconnect with your true self. As the weeks, months and years go flying by, the inner progress you make becomes a timeless foundation. A solid platform based upon your truth. This only enhances your ability to discern what is real from what is entertainment and distraction.

The greatest adventure in life is finding out who you really are… then consciously changing your reality and your future so it reflects “your truth”…

It called being alive!

-Bob Baran