When you experience stress and anxiety,
What was the cause that brought you to feel what you felt?

Was it external or internal? 

First, I don’t like what I see,
Then, I don’t like what I feel,
I get into reaction,
I stop meeting what is,
I try to change what is (what was)
and control what will be.

The CAUSE is the thought.

The emotion, the feeling and the sensation are the EFFECT.

The cause creates the effect, and the effect turns to be the cause for the new effect.

When we work with the cause, we can change the effect.

The cause is within the effect, but the effect is not within the cause.

Many times the cause is hidden- covered by the effect.

For example, the clay and the cup.

The clay is the cause, the cup is the shape that we make from the clay.

If we break the cup, what will remain is the clay.

In order to change the effect, we need to see where the cause arose from, and then when we work with the cause, we influence and transform the effect.

When you hold a glass cup, and you ask people what they see, they will tell you that it’s a cup, but it’s not a cup, it’s glass, we were conditioned to recognize right away the effect, not the cause.

The cause is “I” and the effect is me, them, you.

So if I have a challenge with you, or challenge with them, I have to work with the “I” and find out what the “I” created, forgot that it created, believed it to be true, and now it is in reaction to sustain the story, that the “I” has created, as a concept.

The cause and effect we were taught was partial and not complete.

When I am not aware of the cause of things, and I focus solely on their effect, I cannot truly make a change. Because I will remain imprisoned by other causes and conditions that will create new effects, and just like the roots of a tree, they will multiply themselves until I come back to basics.