THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Change Your Life | May 9 2024 No. 860

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

Isn't it bad enough that we haul our own baggage around our lives and wonder why we feel exhausted? Isn't it even worse that we would allow ourselves be burdened by others' baggage too? For that is what we do when we allow ourselves be put upon by the members of whatever tribe we think we need to belong to!

 

People get awfully upset that they will lose friends when they start behaving differently from tribal normality. I can assure you that you will never lose one single friend. Acquaintances, yes. Hangers-on, absolutely. Energy vampires, good riddance.

 

The title of today's video, The Joy of Being an Outsider, is a little on the pithy side - perhaps it might better be entitled "The Joy of Being an Insider" - because it is the inner life that we need to embrace - the inner life beyond thought, that real life where the aquaintances and hangers-on mean nothing and drift away.

 

Is it "smug" (a word that I sometimes hear in conversation with fellow-travellers) to turn our back on energy vampires? Well, if you read your Bible (and, in parts, it's worth a read), we should "wipe the very dust from our feet". Those who are determined to take from us, to pilfer our energy, need to be let go. This makes it all the more effortless for us to give our energy to those who are in a receptive frame of mind.

 

When we experience this switch in the dynamic of our own energy flow, everything becomes so much better, effortlessly, for us and those around us. And we find ourselves belonging to a tribe of fellow-travellers, of like-minded people.