Quiet Your Mind and Miracles Start to Happen

About 5 years ago I had what many would call a mystical experience. I do not wish to label it, I simply wish to tell the story in the hopes that it may help you to allow miracles to happen in your life too.  I had reached a place which is often referred to as rock bottom, although looking at the situation now I realise that it was my biggest blessing. It made me see that the very nature of reality is good.

Without going into all the details let’s just say that NOTHING in my life was going right. Physically, financially, romantically, emotionally and relationally. I remember laying in bed one night, feeling completely numb. I had felt numb due to the dosage of pain meds which I had taken in order to deaden the emotional pain I felt. By that stage I had been crying all day and had been feeling down for quite a few days in succession. I lay on my bed, feeling comfortably numb and loving the fact that I could no longer feel. I lay in the dark, tired and devoid of any emotion, but more importantly devoid of any thought.

I was tired. I was tired of thinking the same old thoughts for years. Reliving the same old saga I called life in my mind. I was just tired of thinking. In this space in which time felt as if it had stopped I  managed to distance myself from the thoughts,  and look objectively at each thought which came into my mind. Whenever a thought came I simply told my thought, ‘I’m tired I don’t want to think anymore.’ Even though I was under the effects of pain medication, this blocking out of my thoughts was beginning to feel really good. After a while I really felt nothing, no thought and no emotion. I couldn’t say I was feeling pain anymore nor joy. I simply felt empty.

I fell asleep in that state and woke up feeling numb as well. When I was alone it was easy to maintain this  state as there was nobody to push my buttons, the difficult part was maintaining this feeling of nothingness when I interacted with others. You see my mind was used to working overtime. Analyzing and judging everything which was being said by those around me. My mind was always ready to generate an opinion, even if I never spoke these thoughts out aloud, my mind was always working. In the days which followed I learnt to look at my thoughts objectively asking myself each time a thought arose, ‘Do you want to be right or happy?’

You see I had gotten into the habit of needing to be right and this was causing me more pain than what I had realised. When someone said something which sounded off tilt to me, something which would have irritated me, I simply repeated that phrase.

I no longer cared what was being said.  I no longer wished to change anybody, I simply became the observer and felt compassion. I started to see the truth behind their actions and words. I started to realise when they were acting out that either they were afraid or hurt etc. I no longer cared about anything other than being quiet. I had given up the fight.

After a day or two, out of the state of nothingness a joy started to well up inside of me. As if a fountain of deep joy was suddenly released. But this joy was different, it was not a joy which came from my mind, as it usually happens as a result of something externally perceived. I could feel this joy as a physical sensation in the region of my heart.  This joyful feeling then started to circulate around my entire body.

In that period of time I was having reflexology treatments  and the quieting of my mind really helped me to maintain the feeling of relaxation for much longer periods of time after my treatments.  I believe the prolonged feeling of calm is what allowed the joy to start bubbling up. I started to notice a tingling sensation in my feet and legs which lasted for a few hours. My body started to feel relaxed, and I started to dispel tons of mucus. I was sleeping better and had more energy. I felt light and could stop taking anti-inflammatory medication for arthritis.

Then one morning I awoke to see the perfection in all things. I felt so present in the now moment, and in that state I realised that everything was perfect and that nothing needed to change. I realised that each person who was acting out in ways which we not in accordance with harmony was doing so from a place of pain. I was completely at peace. I remember speaking to a friend and telling her how happy I was. I was happy for no particular reason. Nothing had changed I just felt happy. Then the miracle took place.

All the people in my surrounding started to change. Everyone became calm. Everyone started to relate to each other differently. Peace came upon the household. Changes which I had wished for, for years came about. Even people who lived miles away started to relate to me differently. The sky seemed bluer. The grass seemed greener. The birds were chirping louder. I felt as if I had entered heaven on earth. Only I didn’t feel I went anywhere, but that heaven was already here. Waiting for me to see it!

This state of bliss lasted for a week or two and then I got involved with starting a business project with someone. The stress of arranging everything and then disagreements between the two of us resulted in me forgetting to let go. I started to focus on her faults and on all the external things which I wanted to change. I fell from the state of grace. I fell because I stepped out of a unity consciousness and back into a state of duality.

For years I have been trying to get back into that state and I believe that I will again, however  the blessing was not just getting into that state, the blessing was what I learnt.

You already have every perfect condition in your life and it exists right now! I am not a religious person but I have had a firsthand account of what is spoken about in the bible when repeatedly it is mentioned that the Kingdom of heaven is within, that the Kingdom is at hand and nearer than your very breath. The Kingdom of heaven is simply the realm of perfect thoughts. Thoughts which go beyond condemnation and judgement. Thoughts which go beyond right and wrong.

Your life is a perfect reflection of your thoughts, good or bad. And the minute you stop your mind chattering and accept and see everything as perfect then all discordant conditions must change! We really are creating our own heaven or hell and we do so with our thoughts . You can make a conscious effort to think good thoughts about what you would like to see happening in your life or you can simply choose to let go of all judgments  and watch how everything perfectly falls into place. What I have learnt over the years is that it is not so much that we are creating our miracles with our thoughts, but that we are actually opening ourselves up to the perfect conditions which already exist by aligning our minds with the perfection of which we seek.

‘Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you’

This of course ties in with truths and practices stemming from many ancient civilizations and religions such as the practice of meditation, compassion, faith, forgiveness, non- attachment etc. But the true nature of reality is now also being discovered in the sciences such as the science of Quantum physics. The deeper scientist look into the reality of nature, the more they realise that it changes with our perception and that there exists a realm of utter perfection of all things. All you need to do is let go. Give up the fight.

In the bible God says that before we ask he has already answered and that he knows the desires of our heart. So let go and let the miracles start to flow.