Who Needs Enemies

You do not need any enemies. You have your own nightmares, your own fears, your own insecurities, your own aggressiveness. 6/11/90 (Yogi Bhajan)

How true is this! Who needs enemies when our own self-speak is already telling us we are no good, not worthy, will fail at whatever we do, that things won't work, etc. I am sure we think so much worse of ourselves than everyone else does - it's kind of a natrual modern day thinking process.

Change it. Contridict the negative. Use whatever it takes. here are things that work for me:
1) Affirmations said this way: inhale, hold the breath, repeat thea ffirmation three times silently, then exhale as you say it once out loud. Repeat three times.

2) Count your blessings. Stop grumbling and make a list of 100 things you are grateful for. That will keep you so busy you won't have time to grumble and gripe. And it will shift your vibrational frequency so that better things can find you than the ones you want to grumble about.

3) Choose different endings. Basically - instead of allowing your thoughts to run off to everything that can go wrong, imagine different endings - nice ones, endings that make you happy. (I wrote about this recently - so check out my blogs for more detail.)

The nightmares and the fears that we immerse ourselves in - they ARE reality. It's a waste of time worrying about enemies and adversity when we can choose a different life, by choosing different thoughts. And no matter how many times we fall into old patterns, we can still change them.

Autobiography in Five Chapters
1) I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost... I am hopeless. It isn't my fault. It takes forever to find a way out.

2) I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I'm in the same place. But it isn't my fault. It still takes a long time to get out.

3) I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in... it's a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am, It is my fault. I get out immediately.

4) I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it.

5) I walk down another street.
(from The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying)

Blessings.
- Darshan

© 2008 Darshan F Jessop