Blog 663 – 06.14.2017

Embracing Change

When we change our thinking, we change our world. When we find ourselves unhappy and dissatisfied with our world we should consider changing our thinking. Insanity is after all defined as thinking and doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result or out come. But how do we change our thinking patterns? Well, The Universe is more than willing to help in this process by offering us many hints both subtle and not so that our thinking and actions may have us heading in the wrong direction. Let me be plain we do not feel “blessed” when we need to change the direction of our thinking and or our feet. “Blessed” is an often misused and misunderstood word that really just means “happy.” (As in a proper rendering of Jesus Beattitudes, i.e.”Happy are the meek for their inheritance is the world.” And a happy world that, I might add, not the coarse and chaotic place where we feel everything is wrong, everyone is out to get us, and in which we seem to forever be swimming against the current.) It is possible, however remote it may seem, that just changing our mind, if not our direction right away, may be all that is needed to change all that seems wrong with our lives.

Most people act as though they are more afraid of change than continuing on in misery, thinking the same old thoughts and doing things over and over, the same old way. Hence the often quoted silly remarks like, “Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.” The objective should be in life to rid ourselves of thoughts, things, and people that are bedeviling us rather than picking one devil over another? Another silly saying along this same line that never sounded quite right to me is, “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” Again, crazy thinking, for everything breaks, quits working eventually or gets replaced by something better. Would it not be wiser to fix it before it breaks, improving it and making it better, or simply replacing it entirely as in the case of a vehicle before it quits working and leaves us stranded beside the road. Somewhere out there, there is a warehouse full of buggy whips made “the way we always made them” that got superceded by the invention of the automobile. And if the Jetsons or Back To The Future flying cars or even electric cars ever take over, the same may be true of combustion powered transportation as it was of the horse and buggy, relegated to the museums, antique collectors, and maybe a devout and determined religious group like The First Church of Motor City, or the Motormans, or the Chromists. I especially liked that last one, their religious icon might be a beautiful chrome radiator cap or hood ornament. It is so easy to see others holding on to old ways of thinking that are no longer working for them but harder to recognize it when it lurks closer to home.

The Second Intention For A Better World reads:

“I follow my inner compass and discard any beliefs (thoughts) that are no longer serving me. I go to the source, I see truth.”

And Honey, here is the unvarnished truth, there is always a better thought looming, a better way to do things, life is about progression, not maintaining the status quo. Embrace change as a better way to become and to stay blessed/happy.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White