Ready for Real Change!

Gil Burgstede
Nov 21
3 min read

It’s the Only Way to Break Free of Groundhog Days — Starting Right Now.

Mental programming keeps us stuck in the mind’s reality.

Sometimes we wake up in the morning and realize it's another Groundhog Day. Nothing has really changed. We begin to yearn for something else but aren’t sure what it is. Sometimes it seems hopeless.

Unknown to us, we were all benevolently software programmed with learned patterns of behavior, learned beliefs, and learned roles. In essence, we automatically react the same to everything in our life. Thank goodness for that—imagine if we had to really think and analyze every action we were going to take; life would be impossible!

But in so many ways, we're not really thinking—just going through the motions, reacting naturally and automatically. It’s as if life interactions were already preprogrammed reactions. Again, this way of reacting to life is ordinarily impossible to change.

Beyond this way of looking at our brain, however, is another important and separate way to realize that we automatically engage life in a surface and polarized way. The mind works on the principle of objectification, which is a natural separation of one thing from another. It's also the way we engage life with other people on a surface level.

It's the bipolar principle of you versus me, right versus wrong, winner versus loser, thinking versus feeling—that is the very structure and function of the mind’s surface, limited reality.

However, even beyond this understandable functioning of the mind (like a computer with its fixed programs) is the fact that we're stuck in a two-dimensional, surface-limited, bipolar reality and seemingly powerless to change it.

It's the mind’s reality of Groundhog Days!

It’s not about trying to change your programs—it’s about changing your reality!

Then the day suddenly comes when we are absolutely tired of our old reality. We try first to compensate for it—needing more sugar, more stocks, more smokes, more sex, more sports, more statistics, more stimulation—whatever it takes to deal with the unrealized inner emptiness.

Then the day comes when nothing out there helps. Nothing!

Only honesty with ourselves at that point, and surrender to the intense yearning within, suddenly ignites the internalized love affair that frees us. In essence, our mind (the masculine) and our body (the feminine) are united by our own fully activated heart center.

This is the love affair we were always looking for—and suddenly so many experiences in life are intensely beautiful and amazing. Falling into love with oneself is falling into love with life. You become calm, curious, creative, and courageous as a complete self in love with life!

Groundhog Days are fine—until you can't stand them anymore. Once you're really struggling, stuck, and silently suffering, you're probably close to the point of trying to break free of your mind’s surface-limited reality.

And how ironic that life wants you to break free! Life wants you to have an internalized love affair!

How wonderful that there's one power—one empowering power—so powerful that it can override our mental programs repeatedly as we shift our reality experience. Then our software programming starts to change to support a new self—a centered self, a self that is heartful and whole, a real champion of the heart.

Then we can see who we really are in the mirror of life.