In the Beginning Again

This effort is the brainchild of many an insomnia filled night. My life, in the last 3 months, has been akin to a cesspool complete with ill-thoughts, despair, wanting, wishing, and in the end, of non-movement. I’ve always been a child of the metaphysical world and in the last 7 years of my life I have, without much commitment, dabbled in the ideas therein. Along the way I’ve had a few epiphany-ish moments, enough to know that there is truth in this way of life/thinking/being. But not enough to produce any move-ment.

So, about a month ago I was watching a PBS special with Jack Canfield. Canfield is co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, The Aladdin Factor, The Success Principles, and other books. I don’t usually espouse the more commercial or mainstream leaders in this area. Commercialism, in my humble opinion, takes away from the message. At any rate, I watched this 2hr special and one thing he said was astronauts go through training to get oriented to the concept of non-gravity. It entails them wearing goggles or helmets (I forget) which effectively reverse the appearance of things. It looks like the world is upside down to them. The funny thing is after about 30 days your brain acclimates itself and flips the picture right side up. The point being it takes about 30 days for your brain to accept a new concept. This was the birthplace of my concept. Though I didn’t know what to do with it.

Days passed and I turned the idea over in my head. I considered getting his “workshop in a box” but ultimately decided against it. I have an extensive library and I know any and everything he can tell me I have to have in a book I already own. Plus, I can be somewhat resistant to prescribed regimens concocted by others. I decided to prescribe my own.

30 Days - of positive thought. It is like the Seven Day Mental Diet by Emmett Fox multiplied. I decided to limit my incoming data. I got rid of cable, disconnected my house phone (pesky telemarketers), compiled a library of positive, new agey videos, gathered audio books of the same topic, books, etc. and put my friends on notice. What this means is when I’m talking to someone who is lamenting the trials and tribulations of the world…..I can’t listen. Well, I could listen but I have to choose if it’s in my best interest to do so. I am a “fixer” I want to help everyone and counsel everyone. I would choose to hold mine mouth closeth.

There it is ….the beginning of my saga and now on to Day one.

~ by iamdzire on 2008 July 2.