I’ve been pondering this for sometime now… It occurs to me that its not what happens to us that causes us pain, its what we think about what happens to us that causes pain.
Hell is created by our thinking… I call it a religion. Not in the chrisitian sense but in the sense of believing your thoughts. you wake up in the morning thinking, believing everything that comes directly from the mind, mind is the thing from which ego flows. Thoughts like…
I’ll never get married
Nobody loves me
I’m better off with xxx than I am with yyy
I’m stuck in my dead end job
I just can’t see my future
I need more money
Notice for a moment the images you get in mind when you believe untrue thoughts. Just close your eyes and see what images appear. I did it recently on “I need more money”. All of the images that appeared were of me in poverty, with no money, no friends, no car, no house… Then I realized that thinking that way is not prosperous at all. It manifests all of those negative images. So if I am thinking “I need more money” daily, then I am manifesting in mind negative images of poverty in my future. And I’m doing it daily!! WOW!! Yuck!!
I’ve been into the work of Byron Katie “see link below this post for details” for sometime so I used her technique to question the thought “I need more money”. What an eye opener… I’m back in action, more capable and doing the things I need to do to make more money. Not sitting and thinking “I need more money”.
Hope someone finds this post useful.
PS
Be true to yourself.
When you lie you know you lied.
When you cheat you know you cheated.
When you don’t study daily to enhance your life, you cheat yourself out of freedom.
When you act powerless you know its not true.
When compromise with your integrity, you know it.
When you mistreat a friend, you know it.
When you mistreat yourself, you know it.
When you lie to yourself, you know it.
So be true to yourself… As difficult as the truth often is to face, its the only thing that will set you free. After all when you are all alone with yourself… whats left?
Alas - you can lead a person to wisdom but you cannot make them think!!
Here’s the link to Byron Katie’s book as promised. Absolutely powerful stuff…
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Much Love,
Brendan
