Why Does My Mind Panic When I Rest in Being?

When resting back into being, the mind begins to panic and pulls attention back into thinking. Is this normal? Rupert says: ‘It’s sometimes normal for the mind to begin to panic as you sink more and more deeply into being. There’s less and less for the mind to do . . . And the mind doesn’t like to be redundant . . . So as you sink into being your mind fears that it is dying. And in order to perpetuate itself, it will panic. It will try and get you to become involved again with the content of your experience. It’s a little rebellion of the mind that is natural . . . It’s like a child who has a temper tantrum. You don’t collude with them, but you don’t go against them. You don’t cease loving them. You just don’t collude with the tantrum.’

From event 12 - 14 December, 2025 The Shining of Being – Online Weekend Retreat at Home, 12–14 December

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