Taming the Monkey Mind

Can you explain to me about ego. Is ego the same as monkey or is there a difference? CC 24.6.14

It is not the same. What I am calling the monkey, this is the part of your head that is the amygdala (the Limbic system*). Thinking and fearing, more instinct, that what I am calling the monkey. Most of your apparatus flows into this. Only a small part of your head goes to the thinking part, most of the apparatus is flowing to what I have called the monkey, for it, not words and thoughts, works very fast in your apparatus. Much faster than can be through thinking, a small part is given for thinking. The most parts are not given for thinking, they are used for the monkey.

[*The Limbic system includes many components including: Cingulate gyrus – cognitive functions and attention, autonomic functions eg regulating heart rate, blood pressure; Amygdala – fear, flight or fight response; Hippocampus – memory; Orbitofrontal cortex – decision making; Hypothalamus – metabolic processes eg body temperature, sleep, hunger]

So is the monkey the conscious brain? AS 29.8.14

The conscious mostly, some parts are subconscious but all of the conscious is the monkey. He has value, he’s not bad. He makes your physical apparatus survive. All parts – seeing and hearing and such, he has the fast workings with them. He only chooses to show small parts in the other part of your head. The other part of your head is slow, the monkey is fast. You need the monkey, he’s not bad.

But where does the ego fit in? CC 24.6.14

This is not a part of head, it is a word for the ‘I know of me’, the ‘I am me’. This does not happen when you have transition, for that becomes the coat, that part. The rest of you is flowing in the Inner Being, having doings in the pools and such like of choosing, but the ‘this is me’ part, this ‘I am’ part, this is the ego, this goes into the coat.

Is it by meditating that I get the knowing from my Inner Being? JG 10.6.14

This is easier, can be like that most of the time, but also there are other ways that the Inner Being can give the knowings for you in your head, in the normal things when you are talking or reading, many times you will wonder, ‘Ah where did that come from? That’s not in the book? I have read the book, the book didn’t say this, why have I thought of this?’ It’s from the Inner Being. When you are reading, your head is in a way (frame of mind) where it’s easy for the Inner Being to get a knowing into your head. You are thinking I have read it in a book – it’s not in the book. Ha ha.

Can I invite the Inner Being to have more influence than the monkey? AM 19.8.14

The Monkey Squawks

The Inner Being is always wanting this, but it cannot have the doings (make it happen), this is your job. You need to think of happy things all of the day. But I’m afraid of everything. This is the problem; the monkey has the fearing, the squawking, he is always squawking and you’re not happy. Your head has the choosing, not the monkey. When the monkey has the squawking and big fearing, then you need to think of happy things you like, like the taste of cake in your mouth, ha ha. Always the thing you like makes the monkey comfortable; then he sleeps, he’s happy, he likes cake. Then the Inner Being can have a slightly bigger part each time. After many hundreds of such times when the monkey is sleeping and your head is happy, then your vibration will be faster. Then the Inner Being can have more influence in your head. Then you will have the deliberate choosing always for happy. It’s not easy. Saesneggar practised for 2 years before she had a big change of vibration. You might have 2 years of hard work to make your monkey happy. For the monkey has control of all of your life now, you cannot have a quick switch off of the monkey.

For most Wooden Dolls now it’s the monkey doing the choosing; it has to be in this environment, all have need of the monkey (for survival). Your beasts are different but they have the fast seeing and choosing from their monkey.

Can you explain the best way to tell the difference between promptings of Inner Being and what is coming from monkey brain, eg if we have fear is it Inner Being telling us don’t go in this direction now or is it the monkey saying I’m afraid? JP G 22.5.14

Your emotions, the Inner Being mostly has happy emotion; the emotion of the monkey is not always happy. Saesneggar goes on a train and the words make Robert laugh ‘MIND THE GAP’. I say to my Saesneggar ‘MIND THE GAP’, your Inner Being has a happy thought-form and you’re not happy – MIND THE GAP. It has knowing of the gap, you say your gut feelings – that’s the gap. Always ask your gut feelings about the gap. And if there is a gap, it’s not from your Inner Being.

How do I raise my consciousness and get the monkey out of way so I can go into trance? AS 29.8.14

The easy way, Saesneggar wasn’t able to this for many years, then she found it easy to do this. She thought of saying in her head what she wanted and then expecting it to happen, not possible. Then she had the knowing of wanting the monkey to be asleep but the head awake (to be able to go into trance). How to do that? She tried many things. What worked for her monkey is to give him work, important doings, then he is busy with that. He doesn’t sleep. It wasn’t possible to have him sleep for this. Your one is probably the same. You will need to give the monkey important things to do, then he is busy and the Inner Being can then be able to influence the vibration of your head and put your head in the vibration that matches the foot to go in your slipper. You cannot have the knowing of this. The Inner Being is able to do this but only when the monkey is allowing. Saesneggar’s monkey didn’t allow, that was a problem, so the monkey needed to be busy then he didn’t care, he didn’t notice the Inner Being.

So is that why when I’m driving I feel knowing from the Inner Being?

This is so, this is easier for your Inner Being, but he knows it’s not possible when you are in your car, it could hurt you (to be distracted). It is possible for him but he is choosing not to, it’s not safe. But it’s needed for something to make the monkey busy, like driving.

The same happens when I’m in the bath, so it’s not forcing it?

You cannot make it happen, you must make the monkey busy, then it will happen, but don’t expect it. Experiment with different doings for the monkey, have a game of many things for the monkey to do, then practise to know what works and what doesn’t work.

Further explanation of the Monkey from Saesneggar

Robert has often referred to two parts of the Wooden Doll’s mind, the part that is ‘connected’ to the Inner Being and the ‘monkey’ part which has the stronger genetic influence.  He says that the two work together but don’t always agree. He says that all input from our 5 senses will always go straight to the monkey part (this is our physiology and will never change) where it is processed very quickly and most of it is ignored because it is deemed to be unimportant e.g. your eyes see an aisle full of washing powder but straight away you are aware of the pack that you want and you haven’t really noticed the 99 others on the shelves.  

Robert says that the important bits of what we see/hear etc are pulled out by the monkey part and can be either sent to the wider mind for consideration or the monkey part engages an instant fight or flight response.  He says that some wooden dolls with small pipes to their Inner Being will almost always act from the monkey part – for example they feel threatened and make aggressive comments when someone ignores them, whereas their Inner Being would want them to consider the wider context such as maybe that person is having a bad day or just hasn’t noticed me, ‘either way it’s not my problem so I don’t need to react negatively or even feel negative about this, I’m quite happy for them to choose to notice me or not’.  

Robert says that the monkey part constantly evolves from our genetic past and adapts slightly from each experience, it isn’t always wrong and is vital to our physical survival, so he admits to teasing by the use of the word ‘monkey’. He says that when we develop a bigger, stronger pipe to the Inner Being we have a better balance of judgement – those with a strong pipe are usually positive and not fearful because they are able to comfort their own monkey part regularly, therefore their monkey seldom feels threatened and doesn’t ‘kick off’ (my words).  

Sleep, Dreaming & Insomnia

What is happening when we sleep? (WG 24.6.14)

During sleep, most of the energy of the person is reabsorbed into the Inner Being. The Inner Being spends it on other things it wants to do, maybe to give energy to others of its Wooden Dolls that are awake when you are asleep. Also some energy is spent where the Inner Being wants doing, or learning, or playing with something new. It may want a piece of its energy to go into a pool to do something. I [the Inner Being of Robert] joined a pool for communicating. I wanted to try it. I tried connecting with many different Wooden Dolls for speaking in trance. Like the story of the foot in the slipper (Cinderella). None of them fit, then many beings were trying to match with the energy of Saesneggar and none fit. Then Robert tried Saesneggar’s energy and it fit. That is how the energy is never not moving, it is always used by Inner Being. Hundreds of years ago, the energy of your Inner Being was made from a thought form. That energy flows in you now, the same energy always. In many hundreds of years to come, your energy made from your thought forms in this moment will flow into another wooden doll. It is the balance of all thought forms together in the moment that make the difference to how that local environment (eg Earth) expands.

Sometimes images come into my mind when I’m waking up (AS 8.7.14)

There is always coming and going of energy from the Inner Being. The Inner Being has choosing to spend its energy like humans spend money. (During) waking, beasts and Wooden Dolls need much money [ie energy from the Inner Being]. The sleeping needs small money, it comes back into the bank or pocket of the Inner Being. You have some knowings when you wake of doings and think ‘that memory it’s not me, who is this person?.’ Some are memories of the ones where your energy has been flowing [into other Wooden Dolls from the same Inner Being who are alive at the same time in other parts of the world]. You only become aware of them in the moment where the energy is moving back from another Wooden Doll to you. Inner Beings do not sleep, they do not have a physical apparatus which needs sleep. They are not physical, there is a slow vibration with mass and matter, Inner Beings do not have that (physical matter).

Dreaming: Where do dreams come from? (WMG 24.6.14)

When you are sleeping the fast energy is reabsorbed into the Inner Being. It is used in other Wooden Dolls (of your Inner Being). Sometimes dreams are not dreams, but a glimpse of what has been going on with other Wooden Dolls of your Inner Being. Most does not come into the Wooden Doll, it stays in the Inner Being, but for some Wooden Dolls that have fast energy from a big pipe, they have some awareness of the other uses of their energy while they are sleeping.

Can the monkey give pictures in dreaming? Where does the dreaming come from? How much of it is messages from the Inner Being? (CC 29.7.14)

Ah, the monkey is not able when dreaming. When (the Wooden Doll is) sleeping, the monkey is sleeping, this why it is important for healing, for the Inner Being is able to flow, there is no monkey problem.

So are dreams always important?

The emotion of the dreaming, that’s what is important. The Inner Being can choose how to show the dreaming. The only purpose of the showing is to make the Wooden Doll feel an emotion. Emotion always important, doings are not important.

Dreaming/Insomnia: Why does the monkey go happily asleep at night but then we wake up and our minds start racing? (SC 29.7.14)

This is where the energy from Inner Being is flowing. When sleeping, the energy to you from the Inner Being is small, just (enough) to sustain the apparatus, no doings in the head. The energy flows only for the Inner Being – he uses the energy in pools and sometimes for other Wooden Dolls. The Inner Being also wants your Wooden Doll to have the thinking properly for helping (to manifest what is wanted in their lives). There are things that the Inner Being wants the Wooden Doll have proper thinking about to finish it (the image of what is wanted), then the thought form will be created. When it’s not happening, the Inner Being is most able to send the wanting to the Wooden Doll when sleeping. Now the wanting has more energy, now the Inner Being sends that wanting and the apparatus of the Wooden Doll has knowings of the wanting. Then monkey says ‘what’s this, where is it coming from? I have fear of it’. Then the monkey squawks and the apparatus (body) wakes up. Cannot have sleeping for the monkey is dancing and squawking because of knowings (thoughts) in the head that are not from him. He doesn’t like it. But it’s important because it’s about knowings that are not finished, what the Inner Being wants to be finished. The emotion is important, not the picture. The Inner Being will have sent pictures to your head in sleep, dreams. The dream is not important, your Inner Being uses dreams to manifest the emotion that is important, not the dream. The dream is for constructing the emotion. The emotion will be recognised by the monkey. He will think ‘what is this emotion for, what do I need to think about?’ The monkey part of your head will know that. That is how your Inner Being has a conversation with your monkey. Cannot have this when you are awake. The Inner Being cannot talk to the monkey.

Insomnia: I don’t sleep very well at all and I get quite vivid dreams, some not very nice about death and dying. (LFG 9.6.14)

Two things to explain. The first reason is the when you are sleeping, the energy from the Inner Being is small, just enough to sustain the apparatus while sleeping. Most of your energy is reabsorbed into the Inner Being, like when you transition, it’s no different to sleeping. The energy is in the Inner Being. Well what does it do when in the Inner Being? It does not do nothing, your Inner Being is busy. It does not sit on a cloud playing a harp, it’s busy, doing many hundreds of things. It sustains other Wooden Dolls that are not sleeping – different parts of your environment sleep in different moments [time zones]. Now your energy is mostly in other Wooden Dolls when you are sleeping. Now some of the experiences processed by your Inner Being with your energy they can leave residual knowings when you wake, not much, little pieces of the knowings that were in your sleeping when your energy was flowing in them. You can have some knowing, your Inner Being allows it. It can stop it if you want that.

That reason is easy, your Inner Being can stop that, but the other reason why are you only have a small amount of sleep, then wake up, then try to sleep more, that is not your Inner Being. That is the Wooden Doll part of you in your moments of waking. There are many things that you are feeling not very comfortable about. There many things that you don’t feel in control of. I have a picture for this: a cork floats on the water, but not on your water. Your water is still, at peace, but your cork is on another Wooden Doll’s water and that water is not still. You want your cork to be still but it is every place and you have no knowing where it will go next. You don’t feel comfortable. Now that happens much in the day and the apparatus it have the chemical in the head (to bring about) sleep and this means that the apparatus sleeps but soon the chemical is not so big and the apparatus wakes and as soon as the waking happens, the thought forms of things feared from your day come into your head, no, not wanted.

What the Inner Being is wanting for you as a Wooden Doll is that on waking you think about what are the things I like and not the things I don’t like, and it is important when you are going to bed not to have thinking of what was not wanted in the day. I am asking you now, 5 things you must have thinking of in your day that you want. They do not have to be important, they might be funny like where you laugh about something that made you laugh during the day. Maybe you’re not proud of laughing, maybe the old woman fall and you laugh. It doesn’t matter, you laugh, that matters. Thinking now 5 happy things that are going well that I want in my day, think of those. It’s hard in the beginning to think of 5, for most (of the thoughts about the day) are not happy. When you have many days of thinking, making yourself think of the 5 (happy things), then it is easy to find the 5 and afterwards it’s hard to find only 5! You will want 10, then want more than 10. For happy. The energy gradually will change to faster, more ‘aaah’ not ‘urgh’ energy. It takes many of your days for it to change. But it’s important for your Inner Being.