Relative Something

Here’s a thought about how I process things. It’s probably not that uncommon. I mentally work through items on a list and then get distracted by the basketball game being broadcast and –wait, that wasn’t it… I go through the list of things to pack and identify the items I don’t have to worry about and then focus on the troublesome items. I spend plenty of mental energy on those problem items and then find I’ve gone and forgotten the items that I didn’t have to worry about! They fall right off the radar. Sure, I don’t need to worry about them, but I still need to actually do something about them and completely forgetting is problematic. So now I am working on addressing every detail as I come across it. If I can’t physically pack it right now, it gets noted on the to-do list. Everything else gets bagged and packed. I’m in reach of having this whole packing task at a level I’ll call “being managed” (smirk).

A precious friend reminded me of something I have heard before about how the brain processes what we see. Think about this. The brain receives electrochemical input. The transmissions created by visualizations we imagine, will be the same as the transmissions our brain receives from sight. We believe what we see and therefore it follows that we would believe what we imagine. If we live our life based on what we believe to be true, then those images and messages we’ve got going around in our heads have a lot of potential, don’t they?

My sister reminded me this week of lessons from The Secret (Rhonda Byrne), and how “like attracts like,” so if you want joy, be joyful to receive more joy! That fits with a testimony I heard one day from someone who described the cause for her being happy all the time was because she chose to smile. Smile first, and happiness arrives. I don’t know that I can describe how useless that sounds to a person suffering depression.

What fascinates me about this line of thinking, is how simple and obvious it can be to those who are ready and willing to receive the concepts, yet at the same time how silly and unbelievable it sounds to someone whose mind is not open to such possibility. I am lucky lately to rarely feel a need to fight against things I don’t understand, and generally am able to discount them as not making any sense to me. I have no need to claim that something is not possible, just because it doesn’t make sense to me. In fact, I have come to embrace the mystery. The more I come to know, the more I realize how much there is that I don’t know. I think this is a nice change from the period in which I thought I knew it all.

In my own best interest it behooves me to quit waffling about how I feel. I shall visualize my optimal health and summon the joy this trip promises to offer, to let mysteries I don’t yet understand, do what they do. I’ll be smiling all the while. Feel free to join me.