This is Message #14 from my Free 30-Day Email Series. Enjoy!
The mind is like a toddler with a short attention span who goes after anything interesting and reachable. After a few minutes, he’s bored and goes on to the next thing. Without his parents’ constant attention, a toddler will go after stuff that isn’t exactly in his highest interest–the kitchen knife, ongoing traffic, the Drano under the bathroom sink.
Similarly, without the quality of mindfulness, our thoughts can easily turn to negative images, doom and gloom predictions, judgments, gossip, endless chatter…
Living and clearing consciously means pulling the toddler back every time he goes off on another one of his many excursions. Be it a tailspin of worry or self-doubt, our job is to reel in the strings and re-send them in a new, more positive direction.
Again and again and again.
As Wayne Dyer once wrote: “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
So here’s my invitation: If you catch yourself spinning out a negative thought, or worry or fear, at least once today take the opportunity to reframe it and notice the effect it has on you when you…
Stop and feel.
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