Friday, April 8, 2022
Like the lungs, the mind is semi-voluntary. There is an automated part, and an intentional part of the mind. The involuntary part fears. The voluntary part aspires and creates. Each can produce words and images. And you, the observer of those images and words, can decide what’s true. When you decide what’s true, your mind begins to look for evidence in reality. But both are merely mental (not real). It feels better to believe in your hopes, and it’s more fun to search for evidence of that which you desire!
Worry is an automated response from the brain, one whose job is simply to keep you out of “trouble.” But in its zeal to keep you out of trouble, it stirs up internal trouble, one that makes you feel anxious and withdrawn. A doubting mind is responding to the so-called unknown. It’s just trying to keep you alive, that’s all. But is staying alive your only purpose in life?
You’re destined for new levels of existence, not just survival. Hope is intentional. Life wants you to make use of your imaginative intelligence (hope), not to get by with your fear reflex (worry). You can’t stop worry, but you can soften its edges, lessen its effects by being more intentional in your thinking. Figure out which direction you want to go today. You can’t lose by believing in your hope – feeling like your hopes are true. Worry never prevents challenge, it just makes you feel rotten. You can feel better, today by believing in your hopes, or you can feel poorly by believing in your fears. Choose the first more often. Prioritize creating a hopeful, internal circumstance, and the external circumstance will fall into place, just as is needs to, and without you worrying about a single thing.