It’s all in your mind.…

I was wandering through the woods on my way to volunteering at the Findhorn Foundation yesterday, and I realised I wasn’t noticing the trees, the blossom, the leaves, birdsong – anything. I was completely lost inside my own world in my head. And yet the previous day, I’d been in the same place and completely blissed out by the very same things. Nothing had changed (it wasn’t blue sky one day and not the next!). Only the thoughts inside my head were different.

This happens when I look at my bank account too - I look one day and see an enormous amount of money, and look even an hour later and suddenly, although the amount is the same, it’s become miniscule! I just have to laugh, because it’s so obvious that it’s me and my mind that are the ones playing the game here!

So there’s only one thing to be done – change the thoughts. Well, that’s easy isn’t it? And if you change the thoughts, then the feelings change too, and all is well. Or do it the other way round – pinpoint the feeling, do something to change the feeling, and the thoughts change too. Hah! There’s the answer!

Hum. Not so easy though is it. Seems in fact, to be easier just to stay in the mood, to complain or gossip, to feel even just OK, but not great, and operate at a lowish level of anxiety all the time. This is the difference between knowing something intellectually, and actually doing it on a daily basis.

So I invite you today think about making a commitment to practicing some of what you already know, and if you don’t feel you know enough, visit my website and read some of the stuff there. It’s only in the practicing of what we are learning that changes actually happen. So commit to changing your thoughts and feelings in the moment, practice it, and then try it out next time you read your bank statement, and see what happens! Let me know.…