Suffer No More, Sunday Service

Today I look toward my good. I look toward my happiness. I look toward my joy and purpose. I do not suffer. I live in freedom. And So It Is!

Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Optional

Occasionally I watch Saturday Night Live. I almost always laugh. Since laughter is the best medicine, I trust that you enjoy the clip.

Debby Downer is someone who brings negativity and fear into every conversation. We laugh at the comedy sketches thankful that we do not have friends with the worldview of "Life is bad and then it gets worse."

When something is bothering me I do want to share it of discuss it with others. I think that is a human tendency. What we learn  on our spiritual path is that wherever our attention goes, energy flows. If I continuously put my attention on what is going wrong with my life and with the world, then I will get more of that. A great rule of thumb is to share your story only once. Then let it go.

Refuse to be  a Debby Downer. Refuse to grow more pain and live a life of suffering.

On page 107 of The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes wrote: " The world is beginning to learn that it has learned all it should through suffering and pain. Surely there can be no Intelligence in the universe that wishes humans to be sick, suffer pain, be unhappy and end in oblivion.Surely if God or Universal Intelligence is imbued with goodness, then It could not ordain that humans should ultimately be other than  perfect expressions of Life." 

So when we think about it, that ultimate thinking Stuff could not have intended for us to suffer pain, but might have given us pain so that we could change our actions, words and thoughts. Pain is feedback. Learn to listen to it than change course.

Let's practice together to choose to live in alignment with our spiritual nature.

Beginner's Mind

"The mind that dies every day to the memories of yesterday, to all the joys and sorrows of the past -- such a mind is fresh, innocent, it has no age; and without that innocence, you will not find God."  J. Krishnmurti

Is your mind getting old? Is it showing wear and tear of holding on to anger, sorrow, disappointment or loneliness? Are you forgetful? Do you search for the right word more than occasionally?

In Perlmutter's book, Grain Brain, he writes that the brain, like every other cell in our body, regenerates itself! This was great news to me! What used to be believed by neurosurgeons is that once you lost any mental capacity it was gone for good. we were taught that  things like excess alcohol usage killed brain cells and once they were dead, they were gone! Isn't it great news, that brain cells can be regrown?

What great news! We could have newish brains, the instrument for our minds to use, can be restored.  Perlmutter's theory is that it is the foods that we are eating that is making us forgetful, and causing dementia, depression and other neurological disorders. We can choose to live a healthy life.

However if you eat right and live a healthy lifestyle and poison your mind with negativity, envy, anger, disappointment and loneliness, the results will still be an experience of an aging mind. As J. Krishnamurti points out, no matter what our age, if we cannot let go of the memories of yesterday, we will not find God. If we do not find God, our lives will be filled with despair, worry, confusion and our bodies, including our brains will suffer from that consciousness.

Isn't it time, to put that baggage away that you have been carrying around? It gets so heavy after awhile. Of course, you know that you are only harming yourself. The person that "done you wrong" is not suffering at all. You can't undo the past, but you can take the sting out if it. Let it go. See the perpetrator as a small child not knowing any better. If he or she could have done better in that moment, he/she would have.  Surrender it to God. let it go.

Choose to have a ageless, healthy mind in an ageless, healthy body.