THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Change Your Life | January 19 2023 No. 792

 

 

 

Feeing blue? Or, perhaps, you're in the pink! What am I talking about? This week's video doesn't just explore, it explains that it all comes down to choice... your's.

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

Let me dig deeper into the theme of today's video.

Dates on a calendar (like January 1st), days of the weel ("I don't like Mondays" or "TGI Friday!"), hours of the day ("It's too early, I'm not awake yet" or "I wish it was going home time")... I could go on! Nothing of these apparent markers in our lives has any meaning other than that ascribed by the norms by which we "live".

And you know what living by norms makes you? Yes... a Normal Crazy Person - living your life by rote. Actually, in that regard, this week's Podcast (above) is worth a listen!

You don't have to break from of life's everyday norms. There is no struggle involved. There may be a few "Goodbyes!" (see below!) but the act of stepping from what is described in this week's Podcast as "the muck" into the light is a simple, one-foot-in-front-of-the-other action that we take... moment-to-moment.

As you well know, you choose the colour of your day today. Hopefully you made that choice first thing this morning: My life, my day, my way.

But, as you also know, you have to make that choice again and again. Yes, it can feel like an uphill struggle, even a battle - but only if you fail to make that moment-to-moment choice. Every time you do make that choice, making the choice gets easier. Surprise, Suprise! After all, every time we make the choice another little change is effected in our brain thanks the the phenomenon of neural plasticity.

But, as I said, there will be "Goodbyes". People on whom you depended for approval (we talked about them in last week's Podcast), people who we assumed were friends but turned out to be nothing more than companions on the road up to now, they'll evaporate and nobody will be any the worse for it, only the better.

And then there's the "Goodbye" which you might think should be a big "Good Riddance" - but that would be only to give a little final shot of your attention and energy to your lifelong travelling companion, the Conceptual Self that is not and never was who or what you really are.