THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Change Your Life | Thursday July 2nd 2026 No. 971

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

Stop judging - that's one of the key messages in this week's Video and, in fact, the message that I would most wish that you'd carry around with you moment-to-moment.

 

For, the moment that we start judging anything - good, bad, indifferent, positive, negative - the moment that we start judging anybody, we simply allow our thinking mind judge us. And our thinking mind does not have a good opinion of us!

 

So, when I suggest, in this week's Quick Tip, that you simply enjoy yourself, that's all that I'm suggesting. I am not suggesting that you appreciate the moment (or 5mins!) because, to appreciate is to set the wheels of our thinking mind in motion.

 

Enjoyment is simply experiencing the joy of the moment.

 

Am I splitting hairs? Not at all, for the simple reason that our devious thinking mind will find and exploit any effort on our part to evaluate the reality of the moment. We can not should we give any quarter.

 

Am I saying that we shouldn't evaluate? What about our need to evaluate a situation in which we find ourselves or to evaluate the pros and cons of a decision that we have to make?

 

Once again, evaluation is simply another slippery slope that leads into... thinking things through or working things out.

 

We need neither think things through or work things out - presence of mind, free of thought, does all this for us, providing us intuitively with the next step we need to take, the next choice we need to make, the next decision that is required of us.

 

And that is effortless.