According to Michael Singer "much of what the voice says is meaningless...most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it." (T.U.S., p. 10). We use the mind to try to make sense of the world, to navigate in the world. We think that if we have others and life figured out then we will know how to handle our lives more effectively. But if you think about it, how much of life can you really control? Can you control your spouse, boss, friends...anyone? The economy? The weather? The government? Whether or not you get laid off or find a job? The traffic? The price of gas? How people react to you?
Obviously the answer is NO. And since we cannot control these things, we use the mind to make it better - either to fix problems that have already occurred, or to prevent problems from occurring in the future. We use the mind to rationalize why things have happened so that we feel better about them.
But the reality is...life will keep unfolding the way that life unfolds, therefore many of these thoughts are meaningless.
Because we do not trust the process of life we do not accept this natural unfolding.
If you stop and think about it why not trust this process of life. What nature/life/God can accomplish is so much more powerful than what any single human being can accomplish. We cannot creat life. We cannot cause a seed to grow into a tree. We can plant the seed and water it, but we cannot make it grow.
As advanced as medical technology is, it cannot create life. A doctor can take an embryo that was created in a laboratory (remember the "test tube" babies?), and put it in the uterus, but cannot make it grow into a human being.
Michael Singer often uses the example of how the planets revolve around the sun in perfect order. I've heard that if Earth were just a little bit closer to the sun that we would burn up. What is it that keeps the planets in perfect alignment?
Even Jesus who was able to perform great miracles said 'It is not I, but the Father within me that doeth the work.'
So there is a force greater than us - call it nature, God...
Do we really want to attach to our tiny, little neurotic minds...to rely on that same mind to fix all of our problems...when the world is going to unfold anyway and when there is a power much greater than us at work?
Michael Singer says: "Eventually you will see that the real cause of problems is not life itself. It's the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes problems." (T.U.S., p. 10)
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