Taming Your Gremlin

But when you are plagued by less horrific fears and you have the time and presence of mind to do so, these four simple questions can help. The questions are: What’s so? So what? So what? What now?

Look around you. As a full-fledged participant observer in this game of life, you must have noticed that where your circumstances are concerned, if all is going badly, it will get better. And if all is going along quite well, it will take a turn for the worse. Such is human existence. It’s so.

Look around you. As a full-fledged participant observer in this game of life, you must have noticed that where your circumstances are concerned, if all is going badly, it will get better. And if all is going along quite well, it will take a turn for the worse. Such is human existence. It’s so.

Taming your gremlin does not involve staying out of the world of mind. It simply involves making certain that you enter the world of mind by choice.

Consciously focusing your awareness requires effort. It does not require strain.

You can focus your awareness with the precision of a laser or broaden it, drawing into your experience a range of facts, fantasies, and fantastic goings-on.

Awareness is a tool. At any point you can choose to focus your awareness on any one of three realms:

Your Body

or

The World Around You

or

The World of Mind

To lead a full, rich life, however, and to tame your gremlin and tap into the natural you, it is helpful to be conscious of the flow of your awareness from your body—to the world around you—to the world of mind.

There are three basic processes involved in taming your gremlin. These are:

Simply Noticing
Choosing and Playing with Options
Being in Process

I free myself not by trying to be free, but by simply noticing how I am imprisoning myself in the very moment I am imprisoning myself.