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About Mindlines
A Mindline isn't a diagnosis or a personality type. It's a pattern. And it runs in almost everyone to some degree.
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It begins with a feeling. A quiet sense of lack, dissatisfaction, incompleteness. Something that feels like it needs resolving. So you go looking for the thing that will fix it.
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And that looking puts you in a loop.
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Although the Mindlines appear different on the surface, they tend to grow from the same quiet background assumption - that something about us needs resolving.
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The theme varies from person to person. Achievement, approval, control, money, purpose, relationships, to name but a few. But the mechanism underneath is always the same. A feeling arises, gets interpreted personally, becomes a problem to solve and sets off a cycle of seeking, fixing, numbing and restarting.
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The Workshop is where you go when you're actively trying to solve it. Fixing, improving, striving, optimising.
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The Waiting Room is where you go to get relief from the trying. Scrolling, numbing, distracting, anything to make the feeling temporarily drop.
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Neither resolves anything. Because the feeling was never the problem.
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Here's what nobody tells you.
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Underneath the loop, your natural state of okayness was always already there. The Mindline was never covering something broken. It was covering something that was always fine. The relief you felt when something worked wasn't coming from the thing you found. It was coming from the moment the searching stopped. And in that pause, the natural state was simply revealed.
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The Mindline was an innocent misunderstanding about where the peace was actually coming from.
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At the heart of every Mindline is the same truth.
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The feeling was just a feeling. The situation was always neutral. And the peace, happiness and contentment you were seeking was never somewhere else. It was here all along, underneath the searching that was covering it.
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When that's seen clearly, the loop loses its grip. Not because anything was fixed. Because nothing needed fixing in the first place.​​​​​​
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