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Civility ~ Let us consider this, before we speak or act.

Sunday, August 23, 2015

The Human Spirit

The human spirit is something I truly respect. An individuals inner being is not only the elements that make us who we are uniquely but it is these same elements that we disclose to the outside world which help to reveal who we are internally.  Some things remain hidden, tucked away, for no one else to see, because our fears keep them inside.  The makeup of a human, the chemicals that release within us during any given experience, bring about profound emotions.  Certain areas of life affect us more deeply and how deeply we are affected is typically going to bring about an individual response.

What I want to touch on today is the power of that response and your personal control over it.  There are different levels of thinking, intense thinking, logical thinking, unrealistic thinking, deep thinking, fast thinking, nonchalant thinking.  The brain is busy at work with thoughts all throughout the day and night. Like a computer computing, so does the brain. The brain doesn't always focus too intently, but when it does, we must stop and take notice, our life could depend on it.

When the brain focuses on a thought pattern it can be extremely stubborn. Like a dog being pulled along by its leash.  As the dog stops to take a sniff, we may wish to keep on going and therefore, sometimes, you must start tugging for the dog to, "come along."  You tug harder, but you know, the nose, is set on sniffing.  The dog is stubborn.  The brain can be much like this scenario, it can get set on a thought pattern and no matter how hard you try to pull it away, it will resist and fight you to stay right where it is.

Remember the voice that speaks through you has just as much power as the brain that thinks for you, if not more power.  Let your voice be the rule maker not the other way around.  Sure you can instruct your brain, you can use it and be brilliant with it.  You can prosper from its intense intellect but you must be the one to reel it in when it starts to dig its feet in and refuses to budge.  An unhappy brain can react with strange ideas and strange worries.  Fears and panic based emotions must be dealt with quickly, from a place of peaceful perspective.  It can be necessary for others to get you to this place of peaceful downtime, used to think in a rational way.  Friends and loved ones coming to help are worthy of listening to. 

A powerful emotion for the brain and one the brain certainly likes to think about, ponder over, play out into all sorts of scenarios, is the emotions surrounding love.  Love plays such a powerful role in the human psyche and in our lives.  After all, don't we all love someone or something?  Of course we do.  The brain sees love as security, as stability, as affirmation that we are worth something.  Love is feelings of affection, excitement, closeness, togetherness.  When love feeds the brain, the brain is happy.  In fact, a brain in love often can think of nothing else but that which is bringing forth the feelings of love.  It becomes consuming, taking over the thoughts of the brain, and although you should know better and often you do know better, you are actually giving your brain too much power during times like these.   You are allowing the intensity of this love to over power all else which you are.  You must always put yourself first, and love yourself most, in order to be good for anyone else.  If not, love can take you down with it when it fails.  Down a dark, angry, desperate path, that leads to a place you don't want to go, and never should go and you won't go if you stop and put yourself first. Remembering your presence is so important to so many, so many that you may not know or realize, but you are a needed presence in this world.  Smile about that, that is a good thing!

Please understand, it is not as though I'm saying don't love.  Love of course but never love anyone or anything so much that without it, you would be destroyed.  People often connect love to self value and I suppose it is easy to link the two.  "If I'm not being loved, I have zero value."  In my eyes this is someone who does not understand the meaning of love.  Love is something you hold within yourself and give to yourself and then offer to others.  Learning how to give your love to others and your success in doing so, is solely linked on how well you first loved yourself, and knowing what makes you happy without being loved by anyone else but yourself.  You will not be good at giving or receiving love, until you have mastered receiving love from yourself first. Next, you must be the one to decide your value.  No one else can decide that for you.  No amount of love from anyone else can determine your value.  

It is unacceptable to allow someones love for you or lack of love for you to define you.  You define you.  You love you and if you focus on this first, others love, while lovely and nice and greatly appreciated, will not and cannot destroy you if it is taken away from you.  

Always look deep within yourself, look closely and remember, there is never one road to happiness, there are roads to happiness.  Be willing to look for it, and look in all directions, opening your mind and your options, because happiness is never one way, one person, one thing, it is opening your mind to the possibilities that there is more.  

Keep your brain happy and at peace through the power of that which speaks from deep within you and through you.  Learning from all experiences, whether they be bad or good, sad or happy, make us that much more valuable.  It is in bad times, dealing with situations that may not be easy or happy, that truly make us more valuable to others.  You can help others survive rough, tough times, if you can let them see you have survived and have continued to rely on your self value and self resilience and self soothing happiness,for survival.

People have a habit of giving others too much power over them and this has to stop and that's the truth.


Never walk out on planet Earth because someone else has walked out on you.  No one and nothing is worth giving up your existence for.  Remember that!
Sending you all my blessing, always.
S.   

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