Yesterday my mind was in a loop; a mental loop of doom; thinking about junk I didn’t want to happen, had no control over; thinking, fretting, worrying; resolving nothing. Some thoughts just won’t let go.
There is a solution; Awareness and Intent. My particular mental boomerang was all wadded up with an Intent I made a week ago; an Intent about someone else, and a change in perception I’d set for myself. A change that required different behavior – from me.
I was ready for “the pleasure of what unfolds,” as Dianne Collins would say. While she also said to “expect the unexpected,” I thought the results would be pleasant and I would be “amazed.” What showed up was definitely unexpected. And I was amazed all right – just not the amazed I wanted! Every time I was seized by that beastly head game, I redirected; reminded myself of my Intent and set out to let it go . . . consciously moved my thoughts somewhere else – somewhere more productive.
Today I’m washed over with gratitude. What a difference a day makes. What changed? Only my perspective! What had me in its grip didn’t go away; how I perceived it though was transformed. It was transformed because I let go of the outcome.
“We start the process of creating a result by generating an Intent, and we allow for the circumstances to attract to us the exact circumstances that will bring about the manifestation of our goal.” – Dianne Collins, Do You QuantumThink?
The exact right circumstances came to “bring about the manifestation” of my goal – I’m convinced. Ms. Collins says the thing that stops us from truly manifesting what we want and desire – is attachment.
Most people know “the definition of insanity” is “doing the same thing expecting different results.” We say we want better options and opportunities, more of this or that. BUT – we want it doing and thinking the way we have for the past (how many) years? No, I say . . . I don’t need to change the way I think, I don’t need to behave differently, I don’t need to be open to someone else’s viewpoint – What!? Why!?
“Can you imagine being non-attached to having to be liked, having to be accepted, having to be approved of, having to be respected? What freedom that would surely give.” Dianne Collins says we’ll know our attachments when:
- “you feel anger or frustration
- you make others wrong
- you argue for your position
- you have little or no control over your reaction
- you cannot find your equanimity center”
Here are clues to what keeps me stuck. Can I give them up? My attachments? My mental prisons? Well I did with the dang monster thought – and the freedom was AMAZING – I was AMAZED in a good way. Dancing around the house AMAZED. I think I’ll try a few more.
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“If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is, if you treat him as he ought to be and could be, he will become as he ought to be and could be.” ― Goethe
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