When dancing with integrity or full awareness we seem to not think about anything other than the dancing itself, we probably don’t think at all.

Even when we worked on a task for 45 minutes non-stop, none of us occupied our brains with anything other than completing the task. We didn’t think about yesterday or tomorrow, we were dealing with what we were confronted with NOW.

I feel complete; content in this state of being, and I guess everyone else does as well. So what makes us drop out of what seems to be our ‘true essence of being’? Why are we not always in this peaceful state of mind; feeling whole and fully aware?

Thoughts, opinions, preconceptions, etc, seem to distract us from the present moment. Thoughts and feelings can be so overpowering that we seem to ‘lose our true selves’ into these fake/misleading identities.

Of course we don’t want to ‘lose our minds’, we need our brain to function, but we don’t want to get carried away by unnecessary/distracting thoughts that disconnect us from our full awareness of the present moment.

How do we find the on/off button of our sometimes never-ending voices/thoughts in our heads? Maybe it is about observing and letting go/acceptance, because when fighting against distracting thoughts, you will only create another voice, which feeds the undesired state of being.