This morning as I was driving in to work, I was thinking about a line from Sylvia Boorstein (one of my favorite thinkers) and she said the fastest way to dispel a negative mind is to turn it into a blessing mind. Meaning, when we start to think negatively, we should turn our thoughts into blessings for other people.
This is much harder to do than it sounds, and I started to let my mind wander on that for a bit. Why is it hard to bless others? Why is it difficult to get our minds off that negative track once it starts? Is there some part of me that LIKES being unhappy? And why when I am unhappy is it hard for me to wish others to be happy?
and I had this thought:
The world is an abundant place. Blessing you to have more joy is not wishing for myself to have less joy.
In a previous post, I shared the trick of starting every interaction with the thought "I want you to be happy." And in it I said that does not mean, I want you to be happy, but not happier than I am, and certainly not happy before I am happy.
And I think that is what it all stems from, this not wanting to let go of my own unhappiness by blessing others, because what if there is not enough joy in this world left over for me.
This is an abundant world, it will make as much joy as I can handle, and then some.
Today, I am going to focus on being joyful. Doing my absolute best to complete the impossible task of using up all the joy in the world, by giving it to others and to myself.
I wish for you to be joyful,
Gabbi
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