23 November 2020
You will never know which direction to go in your life if you continue to use thoughts and feelings as your guide. Be wary of your thoughts and feelings because they are often random, fickle and always reactionary. They will lead you down confusing, circuitous pathways to nowhere. When things happen in your life, the brain reacts and the body feels emotions. These reactions often pull you in a million different directions, making life seem chaotic and frustrating. But the events in your life, people’s words and actions, and the “stuff” of life are often beyond your control. Thoughts and feelings are the brain’s way of trying to “control” life. It doesn’t work that way. There is a better way to make choices. Choices are better made in a spacious, alert, and peaceful state. Better choices in your life will come when they arise from a calm, submissive, and obedient heart.
The heart knows. It always knows, if only you can get quiet enough to hear what it’s saying to you, at the gut level. The heart knows that what you really want is to feel good, and to be joyful, and to have positive energy flowing through you at every moment of the day. This morning, reconnect to your heart. Awaken to what the heart knows and dampen the noise of the mind and body. The heart knows that your destiny is not failure, misery, boredom and anxiety. Your life was not created for struggle, misery, and despair. Your life was created to transcend thoughts and feelings and to learn of who you truly are. Own and embrace your destiny by becoming alert to all the bounty around you, right this very moment. Today is a good day to rely on something more than thoughts and feelings. Today is a good day to dig deeper and to show others there is more to life than what’s on the surface. Be strong for yourself, and more importantly, be a source of positive, loving energy for those around you. Let your heart guide you today.