Written by: Lynn MacDonald, Executive Contributor
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You’ve been driving to work on the same highway for 12 years, navigating the heavy traffic, careless drivers and never-ending road construction mazes while encountering delays and unexpected detours. To continue to be in good standing with your time conscious boss, you have to leave 50 minutes earlier so you can be at work “just in time”.
One day, you run across someone who unexpectedly awakens you to a new route that was invisible to you. Though it was always there, but you weren’t aware of it. This new scenic path is all back roads, smooth, no traffic, no trucks, no construction and detour-free and is 45 minutes shorter! The best part, your quality of life improves effortlessly because you can sleep in longer and enjoy breakfast with your partner.
You scratch your head and ponder, “Why didn’t I know this before?”
You are not alone, we don’t know what we don’t know until we do.
What if everything you think about emotions can be looked at from a new direction? A new direction never known before. A new direction never seen before. Before I introduce you, can I ask a favor? I invite you to read the rest of this article with nothing on your mind, absent of judgment and criticism.
I ask because I care about you. An open mind that is relaxed is primed for insights. One insight alone has the power to transform your life!
I recently hung out with my 8-month old granddaughter Ava. She’s so happy, she’s smiles and is so curious and inquisitive as she explores her musical toys and is captivated when read too. In a flash, she can just drop that quivering lower lip or shed a few tears, then the next moment, she’s happy again! She just flows freely moment to moment as her feelings change.
Happy...sad…tired...hungry…satisfied...playful…laughing...crying
She doesn’t analyze her thinking, she doesn’t try to fix it, monitor it or change it and she certainly doesn’t ask why she’s feeling a certain way.
She doesn’t worry about not having the confidence to place her hands on her small box so she can stand up.
She doesn’t agonize over being judged as she takes one step at a time using her walker as everyone cheers her on to victory!
We’ve all been given this beautiful spiritual gift of thought at birth. Without thought we have the inability to experience life.
A baby operates from pure consciousness, unfiltered, no contamination of thought.
A baby doesn’t put ingredients in the neutrality of thought.
Ingredients of blaming a person, event or circumstance for how their life turned out.
Ingredients of I am not confident, I am not good enough, I doubt myself, etc.
I am sure you get the picture.
You see, a baby is our BEST teacher!
Here’s what we can all learn from a baby as we all are living as spiritual beings having a human experience:
A baby isn’t aware of their thoughts. They just allow themselves to have emotions/feelings flow through them. No attachment. They don’t analyze or ask why am I feeling like this?
A baby doesn’t grip thought, so if they don’t like how they are feeling, fresh new thinking comes in literally moment to moment (for all humans) compliments of spiritual intelligence.
A baby doesn’t have lots of extraneous thinking around thinking. This thought is good; this emotion is bad. This anxiety thought, is bad; I have to do something with it.
A baby doesn’t blame anyone, including the weather, for how they feel.
They don’t know they do this, but when they are crabby and in a low mood, they don’t dwell, don’t think something is wrong with them, and don’t panic simply float to a better mood. This means their thinking shifted and changed compliments of the spiritual intelligence and the nature of thought.
A baby doesn’t protect their personality because they know its fluid. They know that how they think, how they feel, and how they act creates their personal reality known as their personality. Our personality changes moment to moment based upon thoughts flowing through.
A baby warmly smiles when you walk in the room. They welcome you with open arms; they hold no grudges (which is just a thought), they forgive because they see you only with love and understanding.
Party-bag-take-a-ways:
We are always and only experiencing our thinking (via thought) not from an outside circumstance, person, the past, etc.
If we are not thinking about it (something), we are not feeling it!
The simple realization, of the fact that we think, you’ll spend more time living from a good feeling. The place of your birthright, innate well-being (mental health, we all have it. It’s never lost, stolen or broken), innate wisdom and innate resilience.
𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐌𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐒𝐲𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬.
“𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝”.
Once this percolates, please feel free to share your insights or what bubbled up at the surface for you. I can be reached at missionpossibleyou@gmail.com
With gratitude,
Lynn
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Lynn MacDonald, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
I’ve been a corporate trainer for a Fortune 500 company. I’ve been a yoga teacher with consistently sold-out classes and a professional hypnotherapist successfully curing some of the biggest fears and phobias people have.
All of this, plus studying with some of the highest level teachers on the planet, has led me to an understanding of human nature that I use to help strong professional women shed their old beliefs and become the potent, prosperous leaders they’re here to be.
