THE MIND BOGGLES!!

 

Change Your Life | March 16 2023 No. 800

 

 

 

What springs to mind when you hear words like "discipline" or "persevere"? And how can we gently discipline ourselves in a way that will make all of the difference to our lives?

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

How come, when I talk to someone about perseverance, they only hear the middle bit... "severe"?! Or, how come we always consider "discipline" to be something ulpalatable?

 

Of course, if someone else is disciplining you, it may be something unpalatable! But what if you're doing it to yourself?

 

Such words are just that, only words, words conceptualised in a certain fashion by the thinking mind that, thinking it knows best, gets in our own way.

 

There is an inevitable perseverance to turning up to as many nows as is humanly possible! But it is in each and every now that we experience the joy of life that we should (and must) rightly appreciate and, indeed, celebrate.

 

It's wonderful to be alive! But I can only really and truly experience that if I am disciplined enough each day to take the time to sit still and still my mind. I can only experience living life to the full if I am pig-headed enough or sufficiently dogged (choose your preferred animal!) to persevere in being present.

 

It sounds like awfully hard work, doesn't it? But these are just words. It is as effortless as breathing in and out - and celebrating the experience!

 

And it is a simple as remembering to continually make the right choice (to be present) until you don't have to remember to do it anymore... that's when we hit flow. And that's when we're really alive.

 

 

 

This Week's Quick Tip

 

You know what you have to do today. A little discipline, a little "tough love" - a little goes a very long way indeed.

 

So, if you haven't meditated so far today, meditate now... make the space and time. If you have meditated and you now find yourself a little "all over the place", mini-meditate now... make the space and time.

 

The little choices, the little acts of tough love, all add up to a life that's lived to the full.

 

 

 

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