Ya know when you feel stuck..like nothing thought-wise is moving forward?
I’ve been editing a piece for a week now and it’s not even close.
And I don’t feel revved up to work on it anymore at present.
I need a break from working on it. And more, my thoughts need a shake up because I’m dwelling too much on what’s not coming together instead of seeing what already has.
So how do I shake things up a bit mentally?
I do whatever I need to to change my perspective. And that typically finds me doing something physical and something mental.
For starters, I rearranged my workspace today. Part of that decision was motivated by a new leak that just erupted above the place I typically work.
And after rearranging furniture, it was time to shake things up in my thinking.
Now, from a spiritual standpoint, I know there’s nothing that can erupt in my thinking—or anyone’s—that can create a lasting roadblock. Everything we do is an expression of our thoughts. Cement walls to what we’re hoping to accomplish are always ever only mental.
But that said, they still need to be hacked down.
My cement wall is a ton of doubt and accusations of worthlessness.
I’m composing a series of pieces that serve to capture the magnitude of a life in a few blocks of text. How do you give someone the credit they deserve in 750 characters?
Seems impossible.
But if that was the only cement wall, that’d be easy to climb over. I’d figure out mechanically what to write and not write.
Here’s the thicker wall:
“Who the hell do you think you are to sound like you’re worthy of reporting about this life?”
“Who are you that anyone will give a hoot about what you think (errr, ‘hoot’ is not the word that comes to mind).”
“No one cares what you think and you have x, y, z other important things you need to be doing. Dump this and move on.”
Um hello. Mcfly? See a pattern?
My cement walls tend to bark a lot of condemning accusations that attempt to squelch my existence into this good for nothing thimble sized doofus that can blow away in the wind, that nobody would miss and who no one’s listening to anyway.
Kinda hard to write from that standpoint.
So here’s the deal: while I have zero idea what negative thoughts try to consume your moments and cut you down, I am 1000% certain those thoughts can be strangled and squelched and prevented from finding permanent lodging.
All ridiculing condemnations aren’t ever speaking truth. The gross lies they spew are the very antithesis of your true worth and substance. They come to thought simply to strangle your potential and suffocate the good your life is about. But more, they come to be squelched, even though it would seem they are what’s trying to do the squelching.
All of us are innately good, spiritual. And because of that, our thoughts have only the substance of good, of truth, and of intelligence.
Daily, hourly, thought by thought, we get opportunities to prove this. But it requires liberating ourselves from the attempted strangling of these mental attacks.
The way I do it is pretty simple but very rigorous. And it’s what I’ve spent the better part of the day doing to shake things up.
First I get very still.
Then I deny the validity, truth, or convincing ability of any one of the accusing thoughts. More, since each one of us is a vital expression of the divine Mind, the only thoughts that have staying power are those that reinforce our inherent worth and substance.
When I’m feeling more confident, I affirm vigorously that because I am an expression of infinite Mind, I am able to achieve any goal I set out to accomplish; that I have the insight and wisdom necessary to heed next steps; that I have the fearlessness to walk forward and the respect and trust for my individuality enough to deny all the attacks on my worth….that who I am absolutely does matter and is needed.
I work like this mentally for however long it takes to squelch the condemnations. And eventually there’s a real calm and peace. Sometimes it takes longer. So I press on and defend my conviction in my inherent worth and true substance.
Mary Baker Eddy writes about the ‘immutable identity of man’ in her seminal work Science and Health.
“Detach sense from the body, or matter, which is only a form of human belief, and you may learn the meaning of God, or good, and the nature of the immutable and immortal. Breaking away from the mutation of time and sense, you will neither lose the solid objects and ends of your life nor your own identity. Fixing your gaze on the realities supernal, you will rise to the spiritual consciousness of being, even as the bird which has burst from the egg and preens its wings for a skyward flight.”
I adore this image of the bird. And it helps a lot when I need to shake things up a bit: I get deep into my thoughts and stir them and root out all the muck that would condemn, impose doubt, fear, or distrust. And I defend my unbreakable individuality and worth as this image or idea of Mind.
If something needs stirring up, it’s time for a reminder in all the good you are already about and all the good you are trying to with your life.
So shake things up a bit in your thoughts and share what shifts for you!