I treat my thoughts as separate \'entities\' now and I will often force them to engage in a serious conversation with me as I let them know what I need from them to live a full and happy life. I let them know we have to be partners in this endeavor of having a good quality life or we will lose all hope. It took several months to get us in agreement but now we are doing much better and life is improving.
Your thoughts are working against you and attempting to hold you back for a reason. They, your thoughts, are revealing a terrible DREAD of the future and the solutions to this are somewhere in your unresolved past/history. What is it that has happened to you in the past that would cause your thoughts to \'shackle\' you and keep you from moving forward?
We only have to take baby steps and can choose to \'rest\' whenever we need to. When life becomes overwhelming for me I now rest and \'alter\' my thinking by \'releasing\' the pain along with all I can do nothing about and simply allow myself to rest in peace and let go. That process has now allowed me to begin to experience joy and happiness, even though this joy and happiness is not based on the severe crisis that is my life coping alone with illness and disability after the death of my husband, but I just let the crisis, those parts of it I can do nothing to improve, go and I now simply allow myself to rest as I \'turn off/set aside\' what I am powerless to do anything about. Over time this has allowed me to redirect the energy I was investing into trying to \'save my life\' and I now simply focus on what I CAN DO and even though I know I am in a life/death crisis where I may die I only now focus on what I CAN DO and that has allowed me to begin to know joy and happiness, even though I may die from the overwhelming situation I am trying to survive but if I had stayed \'tied up\' with trying to change what I was powerless to do anything about I would not be ANY better off than what I am right now and in fact would be beyond depressed and hopeless and I simply would be left without ANY CAPACITY to enjoy life AT ALL. This way I know joy and happiness simply from keeping my focus on ONLY what I CAN DO to improve life and even if I die from this crisis I will die having known much joy and happiness and it is the joy and happiness that makes what life I do have worth living.
We only need to take baby steps and we can teach ourselves to \'turn off/set aside\' the thoughts of those parts of our lives we are powerless to change and this allows us to redirect that limited energy into having better rest and doing what we CAN do. Turn off/set aside the pain, stress and simply rest and let go and focus your limited energy on what you CAN do and this will begin to set you FREE to live the possibilities. You don\'t have to deny that life is beyond overwhelming but simply \'turn off/set aside\' what you can do nothing about and let it go while you redirect that energy into focusing on rest and doing what you can and over time, with practice, life will improve.
Over time I am finding through letting go and resting and only focusing on what I CAN DO I am now able to do so much more then I was ever able to do when I was trying to DO IT ALL.
Sending you the very best of thoughts
:-) Patricia
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I treat my thoughts as separate \'entities\' now and I will often force them to engage in a serious conversation with me as I let them know what I need from them to live a full and happy life. I let them know we have to be partners in this endeavor of having a good quality life or we will lose all hope. It took several months to get us in agreement but now we are doing much better and life is improving.
Your thoughts are working against you and attempting to hold you back for a reason. They, your thoughts, are revealing a terrible DREAD of the future and the solutions to this are somewhere in your unresolved past/history. What is it that has happened to you in the past that would cause your thoughts to \'shackle\' you and keep you from moving forward?
We only have to take baby steps and can choose to \'rest\' whenever we need to. When life becomes overwhelming for me I now rest and \'alter\' my thinking by \'releasing\' the pain along with all I can do nothing about and simply allow myself to rest in peace and let go. That process has now allowed me to begin to experience joy and happiness, even though this joy and happiness is not based on the severe crisis that is my life coping alone with illness and disability after the death of my husband, but I just let the crisis, those parts of it I can do nothing to improve, go and I now simply allow myself to rest as I \'turn off/set aside\' what I am powerless to do anything about. Over time this has allowed me to redirect the energy I was investing into trying to \'save my life\' and I now simply focus on what I CAN DO and even though I know I am in a life/death crisis where I may die I only now focus on what I CAN DO and that has allowed me to begin to know joy and happiness, even though I may die from the overwhelming situation I am trying to survive but if I had stayed \'tied up\' with trying to change what I was powerless to do anything about I would not be ANY better off than what I am right now and in fact would be beyond depressed and hopeless and I simply would be left without ANY CAPACITY to enjoy life AT ALL. This way I know joy and happiness simply from keeping my focus on ONLY what I CAN DO to improve life and even if I die from this crisis I will die having known much joy and happiness and it is the joy and happiness that makes what life I do have worth living.
We only need to take baby steps and we can teach ourselves to \'turn off/set aside\' the thoughts of those parts of our lives we are powerless to change and this allows us to redirect that limited energy into having better rest and doing what we CAN do. Turn off/set aside the pain, stress and simply rest and let go and focus your limited energy on what you CAN do and this will begin to set you FREE to live the possibilities. You don\'t have to deny that life is beyond overwhelming but simply \'turn off/set aside\' what you can do nothing about and let it go while you redirect that energy into focusing on rest and doing what you can and over time, with practice, life will improve.
Over time I am finding through letting go and resting and only focusing on what I CAN DO I am now able to do so much more then I was ever able to do when I was trying to DO IT ALL.
Sending you the very best of thoughts
:-) Patricia
Yes, my thoughts/anxiety are tearing me a new one! I need to try to get some kind of plan of attack formulated...