Mid-week Inspiration,

How quickly we find ways to distract ourselves.  I suspect mental discipline is probably the last on the long list of strengths the average human being displays.  And most often this lack seems to show up in our aspirations.  The most difficult task a person ever accomplishes is a maintenance of integrity with her dreams. An area most of us unfortunately remain sad and sorry failures.  Instead with a passion of almost infinite proportions we distract ourselves from those things that mean the most to us. 

I sit down to write and I remember a forgotten cup of tea, someone I need to phone and an incredibly important screw that must be returned to the shop.  Finally I get back and there’s my daughter messaging me.  Well of course I have to answer that, and besides it won’t take very long. The list of opportunities to forget what I am doing is endless; it is one area of life where I am truly prosperous.  I have an infinite supply of opportunities to let my mind move into some other area of focus.

So it is a curiosity why I or anyone for that matter, would need to take more time for dreaming. Yet to any who have made the connection between dreams and personal events there will be no doubt about the value, almost necessity of dreaming.  Dreams are the foundation of our future; we cannot continue to focus on a thing without taking action to bring it into our lives.

How many times have you found yourself dreaming?  You are sitting there, staring vacantly at the sky, the clouds or the water flowing by.  You think of the things you would like to do or have and the next thing you know you have lost it.  Your mind is moving on to the problems that are creeping in on you, threatening to consume your little piece of paradise. 

We all have them; little blemishes in our lives that with a bit of attention become consuming energy drains.  It takes discipline to move away from those distractions, even when we are passionate about where we are going.  The greatest masters of our world have all discovered a secret that is truly life changing.  They have discovered that when the attention is systematically and vehemently moved away from those things unwanted in our lives those things cease to exist. 

It follows that if ‘where our attention goes our energy flows’ and where our energy flows our experience grows, then the obverse must also hold true.  The thoughts, ideas and experiences we cease to contemplate must perish.  This is God’s great promise of creation. 

If we all could right now turn our attention from the satan of our lives; all that we fear, and move it to the vision of our desiring with complete faith and conviction the world of our dreams would be upon us.  To the degree that each of us learns to do this and actually discipline our thinking we shall move into the life of our dreams. Faith, conviction and a little comprehension are all that keep any of us in peace and comfort.

Let us each find that faith. Not through some mystical, magical worship of some mysterious deity of our dreams who by groveling to in our weakness might come rushing to our aid…. Again.  Rather let us train ourselves to focus on that which is good in our lives and prove by its increase there is a power Divine supporting us in our desire for happiness and peace. 

God is a living presence to those who believe, but even for those who would choose not to believe in any higher power the law of Its being, like the law of gravity, will continue to work its wonders in the life that inadvertently chooses to work it.

May it be your joy to discover the richness of a little mental discipline.

Blessings,