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Sunday, October 09, 2005

Don't MISUSE Your Precious Mind - Throw Snowballs Instead!

As human beings, we have a remarkable capacity for recalling
events with startling clarity.

Unfortunately, we tend to misuse this ability by focusing on
the negative events of our lives. We replay these events
over and over again, complete with sight, sound, smells,
color and emotional intensity.

What a brilliant capability...and so disastrously applied.

With morbid fascination, we continually replay these events.
We end up cementing all that hostility into our minds and
flooding our energy with so much negative expectation. And
thus we set ourselves up to receive yet more of the same.

This mental rehashing is what the French call "ressentiment"
literally "re-feeling." And it is the root of the English
word "resentment."

By recalling these hurtful events, often with even greater
intensity and rancor than the original event, we unwittingly
convince ourselves that we are unworthy of anyone's love and
respect, even our own.

The downward spiral of fear and doubt and low self-worth
that ensues is devastating. And unfortunately automatic.
This snowballing effect continues unless we actively step in
to melt down the original cause.

WE NEED TO INITIATE A MELTDOWN

So how do we shut down this masochistic theater?


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