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| Wed, 01-26-2011 - 7:47am |
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Victor Frankl
I have been on a quest for inner peace and happiness my entire life - not just during the past 7 months in getting past my A. I have made the biggest strides in this quest during the past 7 months because I have been forced to do a lot of work. Imagine that! Until we deal with the ways we get knotted up inside, our lives will be complicated, and the beauty of inner peace will elude us. One of the things I used to do, when a hundred different feelings were swirling around my head, was to take an index card and write "acceptable thoughts" on one side and "unacceptable thoughts" on the other. I forced myself to only think of the positive things I had written on the acceptable side.
When you are triggered by something, instead of playing it out the way you have in the past, stop and breathe. Notice your thought patterns. Ask yourself questions - the most important ones being "can I change this?" "what can I do differently?"
We are responsible for our own lives ONLY. We don't have control over what xap does, thinks, says, feels. We get caught in the "if only" trap (I know I did). Thinking this way will never solve our problems because we are making our happiness dependent on something we can't control.
So for Zenseday, join me on my path to find peace. Let go of the things you can't control. Breathe :)
Bodhi

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Good one, B.
I just wanted to thank everyone for your amazing responses today. I was so swamped with work I didn't get a change to read EAS all day until now. What an inspirational group of people. I'm so grateful to be a part of this community.
Love, Bodhi
No UBM....the space are already there, just practice on using them to make the positive choice. The one that brings good, light, and love into your life. And each time more peace will come.
Bodhi thanks so much for this awesome thread!
Thank you Bodhi,
I know what you mean about all the different feelings that swirl around.
Hi Bodhi,
I know it’s not Zenseday yet this week. This post was really spot on for me last week.
I look forward to Lolly’s Gratitude posts and your Zen posts each week. I read through it again this morning as it is such a refreshing post.
Whether you think you can or you think you can't you are probably right. A parrot can repeat what it has learned but the mark of true intelligence is applying what is learned.
Thanks E1! That means so much coming from you. I look up to you very much. :)
Bodhi
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