Change is inevitable, whether it comes from within or is prompted by outward forces. What seems chaotic seldom is. In turn, what appears insignificant cannot really be so. There are those who would have you believe that to affect your destiny or create the very change you want, you need only think it hard enough – w/sufficient belief. While it’s certainly true that our outlook absolutely impacts our fate, it is a far more symbiotic relationship. Directed thinking touches on just how very much our minds & bodies interact but is only a beginning.
Our psyches & somas are not mere partners in crime. Each is wholly impacted by the other. Being the proud owner of various psychosomatic diseases not only makes me feel a little psycho @ times but actually causes numerous others to assume it’s true. Of course, the reality is that what is preexisting (not to mention very real ;->) physically is affected psychologically. Unfortunately, that can then create a vicious cycle. Should I get discouraged or – God forbid – panic, I both lessen my ability to cope w/my physicality & actually worsen.
Endorphins are our body’s best gift to us & the scientific reason to laugh. By seeking out change in any form, be it that sudden burst of laughter or an entire lifestyle upheaval, we keep from stagnating. There is nothing so downwardly mobile as inaction. Stillness is a reprieve, an opportunity to rejuvenate, but staying still too long devolves. If you find yourself still still even after an idea has cropped up or simply a readiness to do whatever is next on your list, you will not only lose motivation but desire.
W/out desire, we would all accept status quo as an ideal reality. Okay, pardon me while I take a moment to be downright frightened. What is especially frightening is that I have seen that non-approach to life employed time & again. What is so sad is how unnecessary such inaction is. Tho’ it is easy to imagine change is perhaps not even just hard but maybe even impossible, remember it really doesn’t take much. Alas, that works both directions. Each opportunity is a fork in the road & the missed ones will keep you from a myriad of other opportunities as well.
On the other hand, each moment seized opens a new world. That world we have created & recreated w/each decision expands by leaps & bounds the more open we are to new things. Sometimes, the best new things are revisitations of old ones. For example, while a smile is far from new, adding one in an unexpected place &/or to an unsuspecting recipient, will 
create a chain reaction which will change your whole day. Furthermore, when I knew it was time for drastic change 2 years ago (Does it get more drastic than returning to full-time employ?! -_-), I revisited old ideas & realized that it was the video stores I enjoyed most of my 2 decades in retail.
Thus, we can direct our own lives & daily experiences powerfully but not w/thought alone. A friend shared her daily horoscope w/me today & I particularly liked the included advice, “make the decision to respond, instead of react”. Whereas reaction is born of emotion, response is an acting on it which utilizes thought too. Therefore, you become proactive, now reacting w/intelligence which creates ideas & finally motion. Once in motion, you can steer your own course. Admittedly, we do not have control over outcome & course corrections will always be needed yet, if we’re plotting new paths, just the journey is worth the effort. Whether or not it leads where you want or ANYwhere @ all, strike out, be bold, take strides &, above all, try something new (or anew ^_^)!
(_)> “The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.” – Count Leo Tolstoy
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I have finally had a chance to go through and read the entries in this blog in detail. Ironically, what enabled me to finally do so was the fact that I am experiencing a day of almost complete inactivity due to the inability to act.
However, I am glad to have found solace here in the Internet and to have thus made good use of an otherwise undproductive day by reading these entries at a time when I could stop long enough to fully take it in and grok what was said.
I have to confess my favourite line in all of the entries is the following one from 24 April:
“Tho’ I am one, I am still not religious, nor am I pious (I swear ;->) &, most importantly, I feel no sense of being better than ANYone.”
Perhaps only coffeesister herself will appreciate why that was my favourite, but it really made me smile.
The swearing in particular was fun for me as well! ^_^ I am so glad to have caused such a smile.. Upon revisiting this line, I cannot help but wonder if it’s worth pointing out that I also have no sense of ANYone being better than me!? ^_~ |_|) “There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.” – Shri Haidakhan Babaji
Chris, I must publicly state here (only because I know that Coffeesis does not experience embarrasment) that she was THRILLED to have you comment on her blog. She turned to me with a big smile while sitting at her comp and said, “Christopher commented on my blog!”
She was very happy to know you’re reading it and to hear from you on here
I choose to respond. Unfortunately, I havent anything printable to say.
To be open to change and take the road less traveled is perhaps one of the most courageous things a person can do.
I was told I was very brave for coming to Alaska alone and leaving everything familiar behind. I don’t see it as brave, but rather taking a road never traveled.
Leann, I see it as rather.. cold.