It
was frosty this Morning. There was a thin coating of ice on the
sheep's water. There is a very bright Sun and it is warming up
nicely. All in all a superb Morning.
I
am just coming out of a bad patch. I know it isn't much compared to
what many folks go through. How can we compare each other's hell and
should we? I think not. As I said in my last blog my default position
is happiness, for some reason I spent several days where I was
vulnerable to negative thinking, even [I hate to say it] feeling
sorry for myself. Good God! Me feeling sorry for myself! I think I am
one of the most fortunate people on the planet. I live in paradise. I
have a great home. Enough money. My wife is a marvelous human being
and a great cook. I have a wonderful family and magnificent children.
Good health; I might be older than dirt but I have no big complaints.
I can fill a page, easily, with things I am thankful for.
I
was just reading how we each have a different path, but what they
have in common to successfully complete them is, we must learn to be
loving in every moment. That doesn't mean that we like everything we
experience. It does mean we can essentially hang on to a loving
attitude throughout. Sure we can't stay detached, it is okay to have
feelings. However, whenever the feelings are not loving we can access
our well of forgiveness. We can stay detached from negative feelings.
It
sounds easy, 'be loving in every moment', hmmmmm. I must not have
been doing that. I think it started with feelings rather than
thoughts. It is trickier when we have a negative feeling arise; it
raises the groundwork to accept the next negative thought that
arises, we feel it is justification for the feeling. When we have a
negative thought float through our mind, it is fairly easy to dismiss
it before a feeling gets attached. We notice them, “hey, why am I
having that thought”, we can let it go.
When
a feeling creeps up on us, we can let it get a firm hold without
realizing it. Sometimes they can be dismissed like we dismiss an
unwanted thought, but often they are stubborn, they keep coming back.
We can enter into them without authenticating them. That is we can
sink into them and explore what they are about, often a memory or
person will emerge that needs our forgiveness. By not authenticating
them, I mean by keeping in mind they are not real. Our reality is not
negativity of any kind.
Regardless
of our path, it is leading us to the reality, that we are love and
love is the only reality. I am sitting here now in my piece of
paradise and I can't understand how anybody could be nudged out of
having nothing but loving thoughts. It is so easy, just remember to
be 'loving every moment'. However, I know my loving wife could say
something, I took exception to, and I could react defensively and so
it is.
I
think it was Nietzsche who wrote about the acolyte who spent years in
an ashram meditating and studying with his guru. After many years he
finally achieved nirvana and decided he was ready to rejoin the
world. He came into the town on market day and someone jostled him in
the crowd and he reacted with anger. We are all like that. It takes
practice.
Perhaps
it is not as easy as riding a bicycle, it is a similar process, every
time we lose our loving attitude, instead of judging ourselves or the
other we get back on our love bike. We are learning. We can't help
but learn. The reward is so great. To be in a loving mind, nested in a
body, looking out on paradise, wow, that is so much better than the
alternative.
Sit
down. Imagine yourself surrounded by unconditional love. Let your
body marinate in it. Imagine that every time you breath in, the
unconditional love binds with the oxygen molecules and is carried by
your blood stream to every organ and part of your body. Feel your
body relax, let peace fill your mind. Know you are love.
Have
a Great Wednesday!
Love
and Peace, Gregg
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