Posts tagged Judgment
Past Pain, Future Fear
Oct 8th
Many of our decisions are based upon the Fear of Future Pain. Have you noticed worry, anxiety, pain and fear is usually based on past events. As these past events go left unresolved they seek to influence our future. THIS CAN BE A VICIOUS CYCLE. The future soon becomes your past and as you continue to base your decisions on the past you continually Fear the Future.
The good news is there is a way off of this merry-go-round, that is, if you are tired of going in circles and you are ready for some peace. If your are truly ready for peace, a few things have to happen. Take a long, honest look at yourself. The good, the bad and the ugly areas of your life. Be willing to Give up all of the images of who you believe yourself to be. Try not to leave any stone unturned. The truth is when you get down to the very core of this matter you will discover the culprit of all your misfortunes. Let a man examine himself, before he drinks of this cup, for it is surely bitter.?
Peace is in the present. Father has surely declared that He is Omnipresent, (always present) however, if we continue to spend most of our lives either in the past or in fear of the future, we fail to experience the Peace promised to us, because Father is always in the NOW. Now is the acceptable time.
It can be a daunting task to give up the conceptual belief in what you have imagined yourself to be, because it is ego-driven. It is the path that few will follow, but rest assured you are not alone. It is not difficult to look outside of ourselves and critique a person or a situation and pass judgment without delay. However, our journey within should accompany the same critical observations.
Salvation is within, which is why inward examination is required to find the way back to our True Self. I keep using the word Give Up because that is the only way I can describe it. It’s like, you give up the persona you have created, everything you think you are and all you imagined yourself to be and live from a standpoint of Defenselessness. An illustration of my point is if you can imagine a chalk board filled with words and there is no space to add any other words to the board unless some erasing is done.
Our minds are often filled to the brim with situation and circumstances we have experienced.? It can be very difficult to live in the moment, when our minds are consistently overloaded with past events.? Therefore, we must become cognizant of our thought life in order to overcome the cycle of pain.? The way to become more aware of ourselves is through meditation.?
If you can do this you will begin to discover, the YOU, you thought was YOU, is actually not YOU at all.? The world you believe is causing havoc on your life, is only an unresolved inner conflict.? If you can slow yourself down long enough to smell the roses and enjoy each given moment, you will begin to overcome the pain of the past.? The instant you begin to live in the moment and understand that the past is gone and has no effect on your present, life?begins to change.??It is the inner battle that hinders you, not the outer.? The outer is only the effect of the inner, therefore the inner causes the outer.? When you begin to understand this simple truth, peace will surely follow.??Peace Be With You and Forever Forgive.
Confidence Is A Funny Thing
Oct 7th
When you have it, you feel as though there’s nothing in the world that can stop you. You feel as though you can make all the money you want to make; you feel as though you’re smarter than every person you meet; you feel entitled to the better things in life; you smile a lot, and people feel infused with your energy.
When you’re not confident, people feel your energy also, and it saps them. You feel unworthy of good things; you question your judgment; you feel as though you have nothing to offer to the world. You sometimes feel jealous or envious of others over the smallest things, and even things that don’t pertain to your life depress you. You feel out of control; that’s not a good feeling at all.
What can one do to get out of the doldrums of insecurity and non-confidence? Anything different is a good start. A change of routine is a good step towards a different way of thinking. Sometimes it can be as small a step as putting your right shoe on first if you always put your left shoe on first. Sometimes it can be as simple as deciding to read something different, like a new book or even a different section of the newspaper.
See, non-confident people get trapped in the miasma of inactivity; they feel they can’t do anything different, so they don’t even try. Confident people are always doing something different, because they feel that, even if something’s not perfect, they’ll learn something positive from the experience, even if it only leads to a story they can tell others so they don’t make those same mistakes.
Remember the Nike ad that said “Just Do It”? Well, my slight twist on it is just do something. Trust me, you’ll feel better for it.
