PEACE AND JOY A CONFESSION OF PROGRESSION,REGRESSION, AND DIGRESSION
So in my last entry I offered. A little rhyme about. Perfection and progression. My intention was to write a little song to share about those things. And make that this. Next. Post. Well, as often happens in life, some other stuff happened. I could provide. All the details and say “here you judge whether I made the right. Choice putting off my song”, however would that change what I did or am likely to do...honestly....not likely at all. Hence I’m just going to ask you to trust me on this. The song will be more meaningful by tomorrow than it would have been today.
That brings me to the target message from my soul for today. In a nutshell (by the way have you ever tried to keep anything in a nutshell? Do you know anywhere they sell the same fabulous nutshell storage containers? If so do they sell a universal sized. Lid unlike Tupperware where each container has a uniquely sized disappearing lid? Well that’s a topic for a different. Day.
This morning I liste3ned to a book suggested to a friend of mine by a friend of theirs. It was a “good” book about how people “resist happiness” (hint that might be. The title of the book or something very close to it. NowI’m not sold on all the concepts in the book, however, it provided. Some insights on resistance that I had never really considered for a long time. It helped me feel my way through some circumstances and realize some differences a between when I am digressing in order to learn or build something of a new foundation or just plain regressing out of fear of “losing control” or “failing in the eyes of someone else.
It talked about the principles of living in the here and now and still being able to honor delayed gratification. That is something I struggle with on occasion so I found a peaceful way to think and feel about that and in a word that was pretty cool.
Like about a dozen things I have read lately it highlighted the importance of habits in the battle against resistance. So upon finishing my walk and the book at the nd of my walk—I said to myself—
Self, what is one way to combine the idea of progression with the ideas of battling resistance. Here’s is what happened.
I need to drink less sugar and more water so upon returning from my walk I looked over the counter for. Any of my favorite cups to swee if I could fill it with water instead of cola. Then it struck me—no, not the cupboard door because I didn’t realize I had left it open—that maybe just maybe I was better served by starting a bizarre.however different drinking habit first thing this morning. I fumbled through the cupboard and found a wine. Glasss, put four. Ice cubes in it and drank. Three glasses of water. I felt really good about this. So tomorrow I’ll do the same and pretty soon I suspect Iwon’t miss the soda pop first thing. By using this special glass, I made it clear to the forces of resistance inside that I was here to battle and win by treating myself to this special glass. Will it work? I think so because I think of the first miracle where Jesus. Turned water into wine and so I’m going to turn water into health.
By the way I have seen several religions debating whether Jesus actually turned the wate into “nonalcholic” wine which just makes me chuckle.
Okay enough. Rambling—here are the takeaways—I owe both. Of my friends a thanks for introducing me to the ideas in the book I listened to. Second digression can be valuable if it is in the spirit of experimental change. Celebrate. A change. With a symbol (a wine glass if that works. Battle resistance even if sometimes it wins. Oh and humans can find anything to argue about in a religious context. I believe. It was real alcoholic wine and it taste3d great versus being less filling.
Peace and Joy. Be With. You Today
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