Keeping OUR Attention: Can We?

Keeping OUR Attention: Can We?

Human beings are pretty amazing creatures; we can endure the most intolerable circumstances and still smile. Since we all know how frightening it can be to open ourselves to the idea that we don’t have a clue as what it is we really want much less how to go about getting it, we remain silent and subdued.

Ponder this. You know what you know and that’s all you know and you won’t learn any more until you admit you’re ready and willing to leave behind what you’ve grown so accustomed to (the jammed idea of yourself) so that you may incorporate more of the not yet experienced.

You moan and you groan but you won’t make that one little concession: to seize the self-liberating call that beckons you.

What do I mean? I mean you must be willing to recognize that you are spending monotonous days fooling yourself. Instead of investigating, discovering, unraveling, exposing and utilizing your innate talents and gifts, you are squandering them in needless repetitive commotion with whatever means you prefer to lull and keep yourself asleep.

You either eat yourself into oblivion or exercise yourself into a heightened frenzy! You complain about the rain like it’s going to make it stop. You don’t want anything to disturb your present way of life and you certainly don’t want to be bothered with exploring the opportunities and potential lying dormant inside of you.

Sure, you can read about it, talk about it, attend seminars on it and maybe even fantasize about it but when it comes right down to doing something about it: here flood the excuses! You’re on a debilitating spiral. It’s entirely up to you how long you’ll wear the numbing glasses.

It’s like going back to Disney World; why re-visit the theme parks you’ve already seen simply because it brought you joy and pleasure once upon a time? That was a long time ago. You were comprised of a different set of cells, then.

Show up for your life, now. Try something much more adventurous and daring. [Maybe, even embarrassing. Embarrassment usually hides an enormous aptitude.] There’s a lot to see; a lot to do. Again, I ask you what do you spend your time doing? Working. Fine.

You may be working but is your mind working on other things? What things? Are you incorporating any of these THINGS in your every day experience? Are you setting aside moments in the day to explore the avenue of interest that resides in you?

And, IF you don’t have an inkling of an idea of what may interest you, do nothing else but find out. It’s the key to your overall well-being. There’s no doubt that you have unresolved problems {whether they be financial, sexual, mental or emotional}.

You are mad as hell and don’t even know why. These unresolved problems contain constrained rage, which is nothing more than unexpressed creativity. {Or more specifically unchanneled sexuality!} Certainly you can play the old blame game but that don’t get you ‘nothin’ but tired, frustrated and exhausted. You sound like a broken record.

Remember: every body’s got a story, so what? Some tell it better than others and some wallow in it better than others. Either way, it’s high time you closed that chapter and began another one.

Then, and only then, will those unresolved problems (fixation on what you don’t have; comparing and competing for someone’s attention or affection, believing you have been short-changed in some way or manner, stuck in the past, not showing up for your present life) that you insist on staying marred up to your eyeballs in will melt like butter on freshly harvested grilled corn of the cob.

The truth is it’s impossible to be cheated in this life. It can’t happen. You get exactly and precisely what’s coming to you. Your name’s on the important tightly wrapped cellophane package. What address will you be sending it to?

The one marked: “Ready to receive”, or “No, Thank you, not interested?”

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