6/08/2011

How This Blog Can Help

What this blog may and can do for you . . .
This blog is for the readers who desire self improvement.  Mapping changes in your life means gathering the right information and applying  it daily.  It takes a commitment on your part.
Where I grew up in Kansas, the farmers plant wheat in the fall.  It is called “Winter wheat.”  These little plants grow a few inches and weather through the winter. During the winter, there is a little rain and snow in western Kansas.  During the winter, these little wheat plants gather moisture from this meager rain and snow and store this in their root systems.  In the spring, when it warms up, they start to grow using the stored moisture.  When the harvest comes, the wheat goes to Denver to make beer.
Apply this scenario to yourself.  You may have been gathering “moisture” on how to change your situation all of your life.  Now, it is time to take this stored moisture and start growing in the sunlight.
To bring change to your life learn the value of being Mindful.  It is being in the Here and Now and not being judgmental.   Psychologist, Wayne Dryer states “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.” Judgment provides the Judger a life of poison.
How can anything change in the past or future?   When your mind dwells there, change is not possible.  If I am dwelling on past mistakes I have made, and make a life changing decision, how could it possibly be the correct one?  If I am worrying about the future, and make a decision concerning that, how can it possibly be the right one?  Sound decisions can only be made in the Here and Now. 
Being mindful or grounded, means you are always gently struggling with your mind pulling you into the past and propelling you into the future.  Learn to not let this happen.  Start practicing mindfulness RIGHT NOW.  There are 86,000 seconds in a day, each is another opportunity to be in the Here and Now. 
Now if you think I am full of manure, consider this: when you are driving do you want the other drivers on the road to be mindful? Or the opposite, “mindless”?  Does that answer your question?
Our mind can generate thousands of thoughts in a day.  Mindfulness gives us the opportunity to test reality in the split second of being in the here and now.  Start this today.  Send us your comments and questions.  Thanks.

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