THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Change Your Life | April 11 2024 No. 856

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

No, in this week's video, we're not talking about giving up - we're talking about turning up!

 

However, you can't fully turn up whilst laden down with attachments - you'll never get through the open door to a life filled with all good things when you get stuck trying to drag all that baggage of yours through that already open door.

 

And I'm not just talking about the baggage that we've often explored of a Thursday morning. Baggage comes in all shapes and sizes: there's the big, bad, old stuff - that big suitcase that travels with the normally-minded person everywhere, so inconspicuous to the anaware mind that it might as well have been checked in to travel in the hold!

 

There's the baggage of the things that you have. Yes, people get attached to their possessions thinking that, in some way, they are a validation of their efforts to date. People get attached to their creations: how many times over the years have I met business people who are determined to go down with their sinking business because it's "my baby"!

 

And people are attached to their goals: this is what "I want", this is what will "make me happy" - as if they couldn't simply turn on happiness like flicking a switch.

 

I mean that. Happiness is an inner-world thing. To be happy you just need to flick that proverbial switch - turn yourself on so to speak. It's only when you turn yourself on that you turn up.