Mind Over Matter
Posted by: John
A fairly well known bit of humor goes like this:
“Age is just mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
Actually, when you think about it, that applies to pretty much any subject, not just age. Some people really get upset when reminded that they are approaching a certain age. People find plenty of other ways to be offended, as well. Usually by something they’re insecure about or afraid of, age being a good example.
How often do you get upset by something and later realize there was no reason to be upset? We tend to have knee-jerk reactions to things that are really no big deal upon further examination. Unfortunately, by the time we realize that, it’s sometimes escalated into a much bigger thing to have to deal with.
As with all things, the key is to be in touch with your emotions and understand them. If you feel negative emotion, stop and think why you are having that feeling. This will take some conscious effort until it becomes second nature, but it is well worth it. When you have a good handle on your emotions, you can deal with them much more effectively and keep small issues from becoming big ones in many cases.
This doesn’t mean to suppress your emotions. Your emotions are there for a reason. They are your indicator of your present alignment with Source or the size of your gap. A broader gap feels much worse than a narrow one, and the broader it gets the worse you feel. By the same token, the worse you feel, the broader you know your gap has become. Once you realize that your gap has widened, you can start to work to close it and improve the way you feel.
Closing your gap consists of finding thoughts that feel better, thoughts that bring forth emotions that are less negative (or more positive) than the emotions you’re currently experiencing. Gently find thoughts that make you feel better than you did before. Don’t try to get all the way from full negative to full positive at once. That can’t happen. Your thoughts need only bring you relief, however slight it may be. Once you find a better feeling thought, the work is to find one that feels a little better than that one, and so on. Within a relatively short time, you can get to feeling pretty good and once you feel pretty good, you won’t mind any more, so it won’t matter.
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January 15th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
I have to say “amen” to the thoughts expressed in today’s newsletter. So may people bury themselves in negativity, then wonder why their lives don’t improve. Mind over matter! Not too long ago I had a discussion with a friend about turning 50. She, like me, had gone into a funk on her 30th and 40th birthdays, yet turning 50 was quite a different experience all together. The reason? She (and I) were both happy with where we were in our lives at the age of 50. Call it middle-age wisdom or whatever you will, but I choose to believe that it’s because I have found happiness and contentment with the circumstances of my life. That feeling remains with me now, a few years after the big birthday, and my life continues to fill with joy each and every day.