Morning,
Good afternoon,
Good evening.
So.
Sometimes when you watch the advertisements on TV,
You know,
They play this dark music.
And then at the other end it's cancer or something.
And it's like an invitation,
They're inviting you to have a response.
I have an emotion.
Maybe desire?
Turn around fear and desire.
They're the two,
They get us to act.
And his cousin's anxiety.
And their responses from the external world are their stimulus from the external world,
The invitations.
We also get invitations from our own mind.
And is a key to receiving them.
And that key.
.
.
We all want to hear it.
Because we don't want to do it.
Is neutrality.
So you see the invitation,
Let's take the invitation from mind.
You see the thought.
Nine times out of ten we're getting involved in it.
And there's your emotion.
No response to what's really happening.
Maybe a child running onto the road or,
You know,
A loud bang in the house or something.
What's that?
Then there's an alertness,
A response,
Or some genuine bad news.
Get a genuine response from real life.
Most invitations are just made up.
Or catastrophization of something.
And the key.
To receiving them is neutrality.
What that means is to just allow to enter the space.
We can't stop them entering.
You can't turn yourself off from the world.
I mean,
You may not watch TV so much or whatever,
But.
.
.
With the internal invitations.
Because they're from the self-centred circuit.
Of mind.
To keep the drama going.
And that's why we label our thoughts,
Having a thought.
X y z So it's not a judgment of it,
It's just seeing again and again what the.
.
.
The mind keeps.
Presenting to us,
Because that becomes our world,
The thought we believe is the experience you get.
And 90% of it.
Is made up.
It's so sobering when you start to see it.
It's just,
It's a bit ridiculous.
But you don't see it till you see it.
And I'm talking to myself here as well,
I'm saying it.
Don't say it all.
But I'm seeing more than I used to.
Again and again and again.
Or if you can just meet those invitations in silence.
What the time we have!
We take up an invitation about an invitation.
It's double whammy.
There's no way out there.
That's not the solution.
Let's use the mantra for a few minutes,
Shall we?
The mantra Sharin.
I'll count the breaths if that's easy for you.
Just quietly inside sharing.
Shari Maybe in sync with the breath.
It's allowing the nervous system to relax.
Sharing,
Sharing.
Then you can relax that mantra.
You sit in the open space.
Feel the breath.
Just notice those invitations.
Through the letterbox or the mailbox.
Just leave them there.
Just having a thought.
It's all that's happening.
And just feel what is here.
Welcome everything.
What's going on?
Accept the invitation,
It's okay.
Then you just put them down.
Don't accept the invitation of criticizing yourself.
Just let that go by.
In just having a thought.
There we go again.
And come back to the body.
To the breath.
To the silence.
Just checking that you're.
.
.
Attitude is relax,
You're not striving.
Okay,
That brings us to the end.
Have you a little stretch.
