Snow Melt

Mind Exercise

14 Kalimat 164 B.E. – July 26, 2007 at 2:52:28 PM PDT

The mind is its own place, and in itself,
can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton

In paying attention to my thoughts, I observed something very interesting today. My thoughts are a mixture of critical and positive self-talk. My critical self-talk never address me by my name or in the first person. My critical self-talk says You’re Stupid, That’s a silly idea or People will think you’re stupid. I this interesting, you’d think your negative (critical) self-talk would address you by name. My positive self-talk does address me by name. I find this difference between the two interesting.

I, also, have a tendency to worry about what might happen, which is a waste of energy because what might happen seldom occurs. The truth is I don’t ever remember a what might happen occurring. Normally what does happen I wouldn’t have ever worried about or imagined. Maybe I should start putting my what might happen into some of my stories, several of them would make good plots.

Actually, my self-talk is much more positive when I raise my thoughts from the material level to the spiritual level. A question asked: What steps can I take to learn to use my mind’s power for positive change? I suppose the first thing I need to do is take all my worries and problems and pray about them. When I was reading a book I have, I found steps to using prayer to solve problems. I wonder if it would work the same way with worry.