Use your tools

Wow! What interesting times we live in.  There is so much going on in the world these days.  Many times, this is a major topic of conversation.  How will it all affect us?  

Analysis of these situations can cause an interesting effect in the mind.  Very often we get focused on what is wrong, making us feel bad or worse sending us into fear.  This drives or attracts more thoughts, like a magnet.  The strength and quality of this magnet is based on how much emotional charge we have on what we are thinking about. To drive one’s mind to the edge, keep thinking about the problem.

 We can create our very own personally selected dark abyss.  Or we can create our very own happy and blissful state.  We always have a choice.  Choosing to focus on the solution, instead of the problem, is one of the tools we can use to change the direction the mind is going in.  We have tools to use, techniques that are learned.  Some of the best ones are very simple. Like appreciate what you do have.  Gratitude.  Center.  Meditate. Solution.  It is really a matter of which direction do you want to point the mind in.  Love or Fear.

Most people have forgotten the mind  is a tool or interface to be used by the heart or the true self.  When the interface is getting clogged or not running the way we want it to, clean it or reset, turn it around.  We all have tools that we have learned, we only need to decide to use them.  This will of course bring some resistance from the ego.  This can be dealt with gently but firmly, like a child who shouldn’t be playing with your computer.  Then the mind can be used to create those things we enjoy, like solutions!  Trust your true self.  Use the mind, don’t let the mind use you.  It is your choice.  Make it with your heart.