Live Fully

How is your heart doing?

Is your heart light or do you feel the weight of every beat?  The heart is the organ that keeps us alive. When it is functioning at its best we are unaware that it is there but when spiritual stones enter it, the weight can sometimes feel so unbearable that make us want to give up and curl up in bed weighed down by the weight of our own heart.

     There are many reasons why the blood that flows through our hearts appears to take on the quality of stones.  Some of those stones take the form of sorry, hopelessness, anger, fear, hate, jealousy, discontentment etc. Joy seems far away in a place that we feel we may never reach again.  What despair and unhappiness  we feel at these times. There is hope.

You can extricate those stones by changing the thoughts that are creating them.  Notice what dominates your thoughts each day, keep track of your thoughts and there is the beginning of your solution. You will find that you keep rehearsing in your mind the things that make you sad, that you are putting  all your attention on those things that are generating negative emotions in you.

  Once you identify the thoughts that are creating stones in your heart, then you make an intentional shift to positive thoughts. Is there something in your life that you are grateful for? Something that put a smile on your face? focus on that and magnify it, feed it with your attention.  Remember what we feed is what grows, what we starve will shrivel up and die. If you want to kill those negative thoughts, you have to starve them out of your system by not giving them the attention they crave.

Prayer is one way of focusing your mind to a higher purpose.  Through prayer we connect to our Source of Being, God.  When that connection is broken, we flounder, darkness envelops us and we feel out of control of our thoughts. Prayers repair that connection.  I invite you to make that connection to your Source again, through prayers, reading spiritual writings, reading inspirational words and to intentionally try to change your thoughts and watch your life transform for the better.

Below is one of my favourite prayers at any time but especially when I am feeling disconnected from my Source.  It a short but powerful words.

Thy name is my healing, O my God, and remembrance of Thee is my remedy.  Nearness to Thee is my hope, and love for Thee is my companion.  Thy mercy to me is my healing and my succour in both this world and the world to come.  Thou, verily, art the All-Bountiful, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

Choose your reality, choose your thoughts.

    

Fear not for you are invested with power beyond your ken

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
-- Frank Herbert, Dune. Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.

 

Fear is the most crippling of human emotions, because it stops you dead in its track. Most of the time what we fear is fear itself and nothing concrete. Fear causes us to worry for nothing because the thing that we may be fearing is what we build up in our heads.

I would be the first one to acknowledge that to train the mind to move out of the darkness of fear into the light of faith and the present.  Training the mind to think positively takes work and it is work that will pay you big dividends.

 

Never fear shadows... they simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
-- Unknown.

Why do we fear so much as human beings? What is it we fear that we will lose? Is it our life, our wealth, our sanity, our friends, our jobs – there is so much to fear and we embrace all of it.  Maybe there was a time when fear was alright in our lives, when we were children or adolescent.

 

As a species, as a human race, we are now in the adult stage of our organic growth and it is time we learn the workings of the mind, and the veil that stands between us and our freedom.  We fear things that we make up in our minds and suddenly they appear real and suddenly we manifest these fears and they become self-fulfilling prophecies.  It’s all in the mind.  Conquer your mind and you conquer the world.

 

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt.

 

The mind is like any muscle, it get’s stronger and better with practice. One of the ways of conquering the waywardness of the mind is not so much to fight the thoughts because that could be a daunting task, a better and more effective way to control the mind is to constantly replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts.  Darkness and light do not dwell in the same place. Therefore replace negative thoughts with virtues and especially with love. When the Bible says love your enemies, it is a way of keeping your thoughts pure and positive. When you offer love to someone and genuinely try to create a feelings of love and warmth the hatred and discontent dissipates and leaves you feeling good.

This is enough for today.

 

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. --II Timothy 1:7.