“Something Strange” Blog #4
Today I am going to spend just enough time to share something
really remarkable. Its so important to share this gift with you.
The gift of these very beautiful words:
“You can choose to be wherever you want in your thinking.”
YOU get to choose. 24/7. Every minute of every day.
This is always and forever while you are alive.
Thinking any kind of thought is your decision today.
There have been many days that were too dark for me to deal with.
For me - I know that mental pain can far outweigh any of my own
physical pain in so many ways. Knowing this, many days, I go into one
long day after the next. I would often feel like I was just existing.
I somehow made it from one thing to the next, but not fully present.
I seemed to be devoid of any emotion that embraced truth.
In an earlier blog, I shared how I was able to stop drinking
over thirty years ago!
This was not some elaborate plan. This is not a long read.
Here’s what I did: “I just stopped on that DAY”
You only have TODAY. What a beautiful present. The “Present”.
Remember this: The mind is tricky … If you dwell on a sad thought,
this thought will grow. This thought can overtake you.
If you stay in one mindset, knowing you are up against a wall,
you grow weaker. I grew weaker. I Needed to STOP dwelling
on sad thoughts. Whether it is a relationship, a sickness, a
persons cruel comments, a lost job, you are up against a “Wall”.
I needed to remember I could not bring my daughter back!
I could not change the murder of my own mother!
I could not change the past no matter how I thought about it.
I wanted to “fix things” around me. I wanted to fix people so
they looked at me differently. I desperately wanted to fix things.
YOU cannot fix other people. You can only fix or change yourself.
At first, this reality is very scary. This thinking is sad. What am I
going to think about then if this is true? What do I do about ME?
So now I hand you a new thought. I put my hands together
and I say “thank you. Wow. You are probably saying to me , “What?
What are you talking about?”
I seemed to have every reason in the world to become an
alcoholic, a drug addict myself, just plain want to end it all, right?
I could dive into my depression and sadness and try to
make it go away with all these “temporary tools of false thinking” but now I don’t.
I was tired, so very tired of THAT outcome. I KNOW where that goes!
So for once in my life, I choose not to go there.
I went to see this wonderful ancient old therapist that was helping
me by just being a good listener and he always ended with a few comments.
He suggested when I go home that night to try something different
in approaching my life, just for one day.
“Can you do this?”, he said. “Can you try something new for today?”
There was a very long silence. My mind was racing. I had literally
tried all the things there were to try.
“Okay”, I said. “I guess I can try something for one day”.
He told me, “Put your hands together and say thank you. Thank
you for my life right now and all the lessons I am being given to learn from.
Thank you for showing me where to go today from my higher self!”
For whatever reason, I had nothing to lose.
I looked at him in astonishment because now he told me to do
something no one else had said to do.
He asked me not to just pray for myself, but pray for the person that
murdered my mother.
What a strange twist.
What a different kind of energy.
Why would I want to do this? I guess because I was tired of hating.
I was so desperate and I was so tired of doing the same things and
feeling so sad, hung over, depressed.
So I said, “I will do it”. He also told me that this is considered to be
a powerful prayer. When you pray for your highest good or the
highest good of another, angels sweep forth, the universe listens,
and that prayer is ALWAYS answered.
I did this that first night and every night there after.
A weight was lifted off my shoulders I could not begin to describe.
So I end on this note today, can you do something good and pray for yourself?
Can you say a prayer for someone you hate?
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