morning hours

How are you doing with the dwelling?

I wonder if you have considered seriously that dwelling in possibility takes conscious effort?  I have noticed that most people think the same thoughts every day and worry about the same things consistently.  Have you ever thought that you are one of those who do?  You probably don’t see yourself as a person who has such a “silly” habit, but… just observe your thoughts for two days.  Let them be what they usually are, don’t edit.  What have you found?  You, if you are being honest with yourself, most likely worry about the same things, ruminate about the same things, and end up having no conclusions about the same thing at the end of a day?  What about that seems silly?  Maybe nothing, but I imagine that you would like to think of yourself as more creative, more innovative, more of a wise person than what that person connotes as you imagine them.  You are educated, you are enlightened, you are wise, you are tuned in – are those some of the descriptive phrases you would put onto who you are?  However, then there is the reality of what happens in a day, actually everyday.  You fall back into old patterns and think, as you look i that morning mirror – yikes, is that me?  When did I put on that weight, where did that new wrinkle come from, what is happening to me, day after day?  You criticize yourself way before you even leave for your destination.

Notice today, if it is the morning hours when you are reading this, or notice yesterday, if you are taking stock of your thoughts over a two day period.  What are you finding?  No changes are taking place, really, because you haven’t taken action on what is needed – a makeover in the thinking area of your life.  You are stuck in this critical role of yourself.

I invite you to get up tomorrow (whether it is morning now or evening) and look in the mirror using someone who definitely loves you’s eyes.  Who unconditionally loves you?  Who in your life is totally accepting of you – no matter what?  Who says, “stop that negative talk, you are a fabulous person, period.”  It may be a partner, a best friend, a sibling -or- it may be God (Infinite Intelligence, The Source of our Lives, whatever you call It) the one who created you in Its image and likeness.  Can you honestly say that you are not acceptable when you use that person’s eyes (or the eyes of the Presence)?  No way, you begin to stutter or get silent, you certainly don’t continue being like you were before you became consciously aware of this long-held pattern of looking at yourself in the mirror.  Start tonight, start tomorrow, just start having that intense awareness of what you are saying to you – and then most likely – changing it.  Surprising things will begin to occur, startling understanding will emerge, people that said those things to you will come into focus so that you can deal with them.  The invitation is yours, are you going to pick it up and do it?