“LISTEN TO YOUR THOUGHTS SERIES”
Be what you are designing (action),
Instead of what you wish (no action)”
The links take you to my blog posts on the title topics
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- Make the conscious decision to listen to your thoughts
- Listen to how often you beat yourself up
- Listen to how often you betray yourself
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Listen to how often you forget to love
- Listen to the judgments you make
- Listen to what you think you’re not good at
- Listen to how you mock those who try to be their best
- Listen to those you want to be like, and see what it is they are doing that you already do
- Listen to the way people are talking to you in your mind
- Listen to why you always use your frustration to end your state of calm
Forgetting love is easy to do when your mood has no interest in love. But we can change a mood simply by remembering the forgetting of love has occurred.
To Illustrate:
When you’re on the beach, there are moments you can forget the ocean. There are other things on the beach that can make you forget the waves. If you forget the waves for a moment, you can easily find them again when you allow the crashing sound to cause you to move your attention back to the waves.
Same is true about love.
You can be with someone you love, and for a moment, forget that right next to them is an ocean of love.
This love ocean is ever-present, just like the ocean on a beach. It never stops waving and it never stops breathing. If you think you are without love, you’ve simply forgotten, because it is impossible to be without love.
TYPICAL THOUGHTS THAT FORGET TO LOVE
1. He isn’t who I thought he was
2. She’s not as pretty as she once was
3. She makes me feel as if there are no other places left to enjoy in the world
4. He makes me feel as if I don’t matter
5. He makes me feel that the world is unimportant compared to him
6. She makes me feel as if my anger is at the world every day
7 They preach what they cannot abide by
8. They don’t know what God is in their belief system
9. They don’t care about anyone else but themselves
10. I’m tired of dealing with these looney people
11. Everyone around me is stupid
12. They aren’t the kind of people I like to be around
13. They are just too much, too fat, too skinny, too poor, too snooty, too uncaring…
14. I don’t know why I have to keep dealing with this guy
15. I don’t care what happened to her
16. I don’t care what happened to him
17. There are no reasons for me to enjoy my life anymore
18. I am bored with whom I’ve become
19. I am unhappy with the way things are
20. I don’t care what the future holds
Many of these thoughts may seem harmless. But they aren’t at all. Whenever you forget what love is, these are the kind of thoughts that invade your space, your calm, and your reward system.
HOW TO REMEMBER LOVE
Rearranging the thought into a pattern of acceptance is the easiest way to remember love. But the trick is to catch the thoughts when they occur. Maintaining your sense of peace and analyzing when it has slipped away, can trail your thoughts to the repeating ones, which cause you to falter from calm.
THOUGHTS REARRANGED
1 . Everyone around me is stupid
Rearranged: Everyone knows, stupid is as stupid does
2 . She makes me feel as if my anger is at the world, every day
Rearranged: The world looks dim when I don’t know my way around my own feelings.
3 . He makes me feel my world is unimportant compared to his
Rearranged: I have to see myself worthy more so his world doesn’t overcome mine
4 . I don’t care what happened to him
Rearranged: It’s none of my business how he got that way, it’s just my business how he treats me
CONTRIBUTE to the conversation here. Rearrange one of the thoughts above.
Let’s see how you do.
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