Thoughts and Behaviours
This afternoon, I was browsing through my emails and came across an article about thought patterns written by Cameron Day from the ‘The Bleeping Herald.’ This journal is metaphysical, quantum and spiritual in its content, I’ve discovered over the months. I love organisations that gather together for the purpose of well being and peace! Of course, the information they provide from a scientific perspective is equally wonderful!
I’ve been heard to say things about taking everything that is inside and releasing it into the green forests or an ocean (or indeed any place that a person holds sacred) and drawing from these environments the replenishment back into our bodies!
The law of attraction is a term that has been used a lot especially in recent years and glancing and reading through books and articles over the internet informs me that it works for some and not for others. When it doesn’t work for us, why not??? Do we then just give up and say ‘That’s my lot,’ I wasn’t born lucky’ ‘I think everyone’s life is mapped out’! Mmmhhh……..I’ve heard a variety of these words through close friends, acquaintances and even myself at some point in the past! Whenever I said anything remotely resembling any of the above quotes, everything in my being revolted and fought against it with a big massive Why? I just couldn’t accept that the purpose of my creation is to be miserable!!! No way Jose!
Many years ago, as a very young teenager, a relative of mine, was giving us (my cousin and I) the benefit of his wisdom and how the world works in a particular way!
What I gathered from that conversation in my teenage mind at the time, was that the world was geared to benefit the male species and not the female and that we had better get used to it now – I was so incensed!
Both my cousin and I have gone on to live in a world that goes against everything my relative, was talking about at the time!
What was different was that it wasn’t part of our thought pattern! Everything in our beings revolted against what we inherently knew to be counter-productive to our existence! That is, there are only certain things you can do within a very tight mental framework! Sounds familiar right? Perhaps our parents, were of a different genre – revolutionaries in their own right?
I can’t honestly say, I was encouraged to ask too many personal and intimate questions, but my father really encouraged me to have an enquiring mind through reading as much as I could, and the belief system was that I could achieve anything I put my mind to, and I’m eternally grateful to him for that – most of the things that I read in books opened up a whole new and creative world to me that I was intent on exploring one day, and hence my love of humour and travel was born!
Some belief patterns are inherent due to up-bringing, but its our experience of those belief patterns and how we justify them or question them, that makes our journeys a rather interesting metaphor and at times a challenge, but mostly a real and pure joy to encounter!
“Through Selfless appreciation of the realm of things, the world around you will come alive in ways that you cannot even begin to comprehend with the mind.”
Eckhart Tolle (Stillness Speaks).
