Just be!

It may seem like a joke but "just being" sometimes is harder than it sounds. Although many may look at the idea of just being as something inferior to the major list of things they have to do, many may be surprised that just being is one of the major triggers in fact arguably the top trigger of real happiness in life. 

Many spiritual leaders with real implications of they themselves being in a state of lasting happiness teach that just being and being in the now is the ultimate bliss that one can achieve. 

It may have come easy for them but is not at all easy to reach that state in many cases. Our mind for example is something that we evidently have little control on. One way of knowing that is by trying to stop thinking for two hours or even 20 mutinies straight. If one has tried it, one would see that it is not in one's control to stop thinking. 

It is also evident that when we are around others, it is very hard to just be. There are many things that come in our minds and that we have no control of. "Do I look ok?", "why is that guy looking at me?", am I in a right position?", "do I look cool?" etc. There also are feelings that we have no control of that come along with those thoughts. There are also formalities that we may have to follow when we are around others. Being drowned in so many thoughts projected by the mind, it is inevitable to be some how in the grip of the mind. We of course ride along with it and thus we can not just be.  So just being becomes something that is rather hard to do unlike what we may think when we hear the notion "just be".

So just being may have some threads behind it. There may be other things one may have to do in order to completely just be. The mind actually has tricks in order to put us under its grip in order for us to be in its realm rather than just be.

At first we do have to have a legitimate authority to control the drive of our mind. We also can play tricks of our own to our own mind in order to slide out of its grip. But being totally free of it is something that is a complete different story with a completely different outcome.