That Thought You Keep Thinking

It's the thought you keep thinking that defines everything. In today's day in age, that is not altogether a new thought, but somehow it is a thought that doesn't really get through to everyone. The problem with thoughts is that they take really focused energy and that focused energy takes away from the moment. No matter what we can't possibly be experiencing the moment when all of our energy is focused on some incident in the past.

But here's an example - let's say you had a bad day at work yesterday. All evening you keep thinking about, and all night it's on your mind, and all morning you keep thinking about how bad a day it was. For one thing, how can it be possible for this new day to be better? All your energy is focused so completely on the bad, that it is literally forcing everything to shift that way again. But for another - how much of the evening, the night and the morning have you missed because you were completely immersed in something that happened yesterday?

Whatever it is that is behind you and occupying your thoughts is taking away from right now. And that's unfortunate because life calls in the present. The only way to answer is to stay in the moment. So something happens. Breathe deep, put one foot in front of the other and keep moving through the experience of the moment.

We do need to take things that happen in life into consideration. How else do we resolve and change things, learn lessons, move on, and grow in life? But there is a fine line between processing and thinking that has to be recognized - one is a process of recognizing whether something worked for us or not and what particular aspect of our behavior led to that particular result, and the other is just a tad obsessive. The easy way to tell the difference is that in the one a lesson has been learned and in the other nothing is resolved and you don't feel better.

Life calls in the present and the only way to answer is to stay in the moment.

Love and blessings.
- Darshan





© 2010 Darshan F Jessop