From Whirling Thoughts to True Compassion

Every step of this lifetime is a journey to find my deepest truth. The level within myself that was never human. The level that, despite my long and heavy fall to earth, remembers something exquisitely beautiful and far removed from Carole and her worldly life.

Every situation in my life that has caused or still causes struggle or pain is a place where I learn to be first true to my soul, later my higher self and ultimately the deep truth of purpose.

I remember asking What is truth? Even when I was very small, I have an image of standing up in my cot, looking up at my Dad as he walked into the room and thinking What’s going on? Something isn’t right here! Where is my truth? What is my truth?

Truth Can Seem Fluid

We all play many different roles and selves; we switch roles or selves rapidly as we interact with one person, then another person. I can recall that even at such a young age, I was a different person with my Mum and my Dad.

Down here on earth, we tend to embrace different truths at different times. The truth shifts as we change our minds. I have often planned and rehearsed what I want to say to someone or rehearsed a speech or presentation, only to find myself saying something completely different in the moment.

As a teacher, I have planned many classes, workshops and seminars, but in the moment, the stream of teaching took over, and something different was channelled through me.

Of course, this is true for most of us who facilitate, teach or present in some way.

Pause and take a breath

How much do I observe the truth?

Do I observe the level of truth in my words?

Am I aware of the level of truth in my behaviour and actions?

Do I change my mind about my truth easily?

Is truth fluid to me?

Am I aware of a deeper truth?

Can I see a deeper truth from moment to moment?

We are all a mixture of fluid personalities; we have different identities and behaviour patterns. The spiritual awakening and healing journey opens us to the deep truth in our soul, higher self and the pure, unbounded consciousness within us all.

Dealing with Vritti – Those Whirling Thoughts

The Sanskrit word Vritti literally means to whirl, turn, go on, revolve. I love the word Vritti and its essence, as it truly describes the times my mind is busy, changing by the moment.

Vritti is a word Sri Patanjali, author of The Eight Limbs of Yoga, used to describe the colourful, incessant and often dizzying movement of the human mind. Vritti is not only a thought, but the full activity of forming conceptions from the thoughts that arise in our minds. Vritti takes place on both the subconscious and unconscious levels.

Vritti is basically the mind’s attempt to make sense of everything and every experience it encounters. It contributes to our conceptions of who we are and the world we live in and create around us.

Pause and take a breath

Let’s take a look at how Vrittis are born:

I see or hear something outside of me.

An outside stimulus.

My senses are roused.

I have an impression in my mind.

My mind takes the solitary thought.

My mind dances like a tornado.

My mind weaves a web of thoughts as it searches for other related thoughts.

I see my mind in a frenetic process of comparing and contrasting.

My mind categorises the thoughts.

My individual thoughts cease.

My emotions kick in.

My thoughts and emotions dance together.

Everything Escalades.

Now my mind is a complex web of ideas and analysis.

I look outside for verification to justify my thoughts.

Yes! I’m in Vritti!

Even now, your mind is attempting to find and create relationships between this information about Vrittis and any past experiences or received information that seem connected to it, no matter how faint, distant or ludicrous.

The mind’s search for correlation and connecting patterns is automatic and incessant.

Your Busy Mind Creates Your Reality

Vrittis are a huge part of our personalities and create our various truths down here in the world.

I know my mind creates its own filters that dramatically twist my perception. Before I studied ways to catch my mind in action, it would take only a few words, a random comment from someone and my head would go into a spin. My mind distorted my perception and became very selective with the information it accepted and rejected. From here, it created its own little Carole Universe.

Cloud Gazing Creates Your World

Consider, for a moment, how your mind behaves and creates your reality.

Pause and take a breath

I gaze up at the clouds.

What do I see?

Misty mountains.

High pillars.

Birds soaring.

Elephants bathing.

Cats stretching.

Dragons climbing castles.

Rivers and lakes.

Faces.

Gaze at the clouds from time to time and watch your mind as it sees different shapes and stories.

Our imagination is limitless when we gaze at the clouds, and our mind habitually tries to make sense of the random shapes and fluffy forms. Of course, the wispy clouds float and change from moment to moment.

This process is how Vritti, the whirling thoughts, creates our reality and our world, the people around us; family, friends, colleagues and our whole identity. We weave and create the reality of our lives.

Finding Inner Heart Truth

Finding your truth involves a shift: from Vritti, from the whirling thoughts, to holding your awareness in your heart.

To live from your heart brings you closer to expressing from your soul.

To find truth means acknowledging the busy whirlwind of thoughts and moving your attention to your heart. From your heart, you lift everything up to the Light.

The Light comes from your heart; it comes through your heart and carries deep compassion. Light is Love in action. Compassion is True Love in action on earth.

Developing Compassion

To develop compassion is to develop the ability to express, extend and live from your highest truth. To live from love down on earth.

Pause and take a breath

Do I feel pain if it seems like someone is not honouring me?

Do I feel upset if someone devalues me?

Do I sometimes feel I do not get what I want from people?

Do I feel guilt and shame for my sense of lack or neediness?

Do I ever live from a place of compassion?

Do I sometimes live from a place of compassion?

I catch myself and know when I am compassionate and when I am not compassionate.

I always live from a place of compassion

Compassion Comes From Awareness

Everything in life can be handled with compassion. It just takes practice.

Living with compassion involves both feeling and thought.

There have been many occasions when I have felt I must reach out to someone without really knowing why. I am sure you have experienced this as well. Likewise, there have been occasions when I knew it was not the right time to message or call someone.

Have you ever found yourself in this scenario: you reached out to someone and the energy was wrong, it was the wrong thing to do, or the person was unavailable?

Usually, when I fine-tune, listen and act from inner truth, it is the perfect thing to do.

We all have the ability to withdraw our senses from the outside world and focus within.

The answer is to stay in touch with your awareness.

Pause and take a breath

I am ready to open the door to inner truth.

I am ready to step away from the outside images and role-playing.

I pay attention to my inner messages.

I hold up my vision of truth.

I always act from integrity.

I evolve my inner truth and compassion.

I open to the deeper levels of my being.

My mind is still and settled when I tune deeper.

Every time I act from truth, I act with integrity.

Every time I speak from truth, I lift my energy.

When I act from truth and compassion, the energy around me lightens.

I brighten the world with my inner truth and compassion.

I lift the world with light and compassion.

Developing Compassion

Every situation in life that requires you to look within and act from inner truth is an opportunity to grow.

As I walk through life’s challenges, I have found that the more struggles I have to grapple with, the more light, love and energy I need to get through them. I need the power of truth and compassion to clean up, transform and transcend my stubborn habits, patterns, programs and karma.

My energy, in fact, everybody’s energy is in our aura. It can be bright, clear, beautiful and as magnificent as a light being, or it can be grey, brown or even black fog.

Even though most people do not see this, they are aware of it on some level.

Every drama in your outer life reflects a drama in your inner life.

Watch the Vrittis; catch them as they rise, then when you have a chance to be still and look within watch your inner drama. Every person you interact with in your outer life symbolises an inner energy movement or pulse within you.

We can tune into and transform our aura with inner truth, compassion, love and light. It all begins with looking within and being heart-aware and heart-driven.

Pause and take a breath

Think of a person in your life you are struggling with.

Watch your thoughts about them and the situation.

Do you feel angry or resentful towards them?

Are you competitive with them?

Has this person disappointed you?

For a moment, catch and watch the unsettled energy.

Now, bring your attention to your heart and breathe slowly.

Imagine you are looking at yourself through their eyes.

Put yourself in their place.

Ask what lessons you can learn from this relationship.

Breathe at your heart and tune into your inner truth and compassion.

Witness yourself experiencing and extending from this deeper level.

See the energy between you become bright and full of light.

Feel the deep inner love you have for them at the soul level or even deeper.

Know deep within that the person has received this new energy.

Let go of the hurt from the place you feel it the most deeply.

Give it to the light to take away.

Feel any negativity between you dissolve into this beautiful high energy.

As you continue to look deeper, you feel a release from the pain and an acceptance of the other person.

See the two of you meeting and greeting each other, surrounded by light, full of deep joy and love.

Allow yourself to evolve, become as free as a light being and move higher.

Release is a Wonder

The wonder of tuning into inner truth and compassion, letting go of struggle, pain and hurt in pure love and light, is that once an issue is cleared, you never have to deal with it again.

When you stop the whirling thoughts, the Vrittis and live from the heart, you heal. Everything around you that represented your inner struggle dissolves and disappears.

You heal yourself by looking within, tuning into your highest inner truth and extending this into your world by acting and speaking from a deep level of compassion.

Compassion is always found in our deep, inner truth. When we see life’s experiences as an opportunity to heal and grow, we naturally shift into a higher state of being and begin to remember something beautiful. An exquisite dance of love and light that is who we truly are.

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About Carole Park:

Carole Park is a professional healer with 26 years of expertise. Using a blend of pure, high-vibration energy healing, Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Yoga, and Meditation, she’ll help you unlock your powerful potential, return to wholeness, and manifest your best life. Contact her for a free consultation and personal plan today.

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