Wow, once you get out of the habit of blogging everyday, it is hard to get back into it. Today was a good day. While I have feeling very tired these past two weeks, I am concentrating on everything improving as each day goes by.
I have been unsure what to write about. This blog has not gone as I had planned. I fund that I have been more just myself, letting it all hang out, rather than being just positive or just sharing what I feel is useful to others. It truly has been more of a journal. however, I found myself posting more and more negative things. All I have focused on studying over the past couple of years points to the idea that focusing on the negative brings negative experiences into our life. And focusing on the positive brings positive experiences into life. I have experienced this many times even before I had really starting reading about it. Most people have.
The idea that our attitude shapes our life is well taught in many psychological and philosophical ideologies. As I have read more books lately, the spiritual perspective of this is amazingly powerful. Christ often referenced this idea, that what we focus on is what we get. As I have been trying to apply this more and more to my daily life, I find it being more and more evident. When I focus on what I am truly thankful for, I am abl3e to see more clearly a greater number of things to be thankful for. And circumstances, people, and events takes place more often that make me want to say thank you. And when I focus on what I lack or what is going wrong, it seems to me that more and more things appear to go wrong or I can find more and more wrong with my life. The more I focus on what I love, appreciate, and am grateful for, the more experiences that I am aware of that make me feel love, gratitude, joy, and appreciation. Pray continually, as St. Paul states, and you will find that you see/hear/feel God more often in your life. It is truly an amazing thing.
So I found that as I blogged, and I let whatever I was thinking about just plop out, that I have a lot of negativity under the surface, much of which I have allowed myself to be blind to. So i am going to work more on learning where my negative blind spots are, and changing those experiences, those feelings about particular situation or event or person into a new frame, reframing it to something that is real and positive, or at the very least neutral.
Sometimes that things we experience are not bad, but we perceive them as such. A quote I love by Wayne Dyer is "Change the way you look at something and what you look at changes." I have heard this sentiment in many teachings, but I like that phrasing the best. Blogging is helping me see my blind spot I guess you could say.
I look forward to blogging daily again. And starting tomorrow i will get back to doing my daily food journal, as I have been out of practice lately....thanks for reading!
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