The Things We do

The things we do create the results we get; so the things we do are the things that are making us unhappy, unfulfilled, un-everything, and yet we are still attached to them?

How many times have you thought - but I really like XYZ!!! It's as if the fact that we like something is reason to disregard the fact that it is not good for us. Lots of people "like" drugs. And die. Lots of people "like" alcohol; and live compromised lives because of alcoholism. Lots of people "like" cream puffs, junk food and soda; and end up overweight and suffering the many related side-effects of obesity. Lots of people "like" all sorts of things that have negative impacts on their lives, but the fact that we"like" things isn't enough justification to keep doing the things we do, if those things are detrimental to us and are making us unhappy.

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." (-Einstein) It's only when we are willing to change our thinking that we can begin to change the effect our actions are having on our life.

Being attached to something for the sake of being attached is not a good enough excuse. Just because we might have a patterning of anger, doesn't mean that anger will resolve problems. Anger never resolves problems, it can't, because it's attachment to an unrealistic outcome. Just because we might have a patterning of certain actions, or a way of speaking, or a way of eating, (etc.) doesn't mean those things are healthy for us. It's just what we know. That doesn't make it good.

It takes consciousness about things to change them, the awareness of looking at the actions, the speaking, the eating, etc. and understanding the results we are getting, and then setting out to get different results through different actions.

What do you really, really, really want? And what are you doing to get it? If you are not willing to do something to get it, you don't really want it. There's no way around that one. You can't change something by doing the same behavior that got you into it. You have to be willing to change the behavior that creates something, in order to change it.

The things we do are just things we do. Breaking our attachment to them is as simple as choosing something else to do, something that is in alignment with the results we really want to see. You are more powerful than you think!

Choose well.

Blessings.
- Darshan

© 2009 Darshan F Jessop