You Find What You Look For

Anyone that has read or heard anything about “The Secret” is aware of the message that what you put out comes back in kind. That if we send out good thoughts, the universe will provide the same to us.

It is for this reason, we need to be very aware of our thoughts. Very aware of the kind of mind games we play. It is very easy to get caught up in the whirl winds of the mind and let out thoughts guide us into a state of fear and depression.

Tony Robbins has suggested an interesting exercise. Walk into a room and look around the room for 30 seconds and become aware of the brown items in the room. Now close your eyes and start discussing the items that you recall that are blue. This is a hard task to accomplish. Because the concentration was on the brown items, it is hard to remember anything else.

That is the way some of us handle our lives. We walk thru life looking for the brown things around us. The things that are depressing and not very uplifting. As a result, this is all that we are aware of in our lives. When asked how things are, the only items that we can discuss are the bad things that receive our focus.

It is said that one day, someone asked Buddha about the secrets to the Universe: why it was created, was there a God, etc. The wise man answered that this was of limited interest:’ Imagine you were walking in the forest and someone threw a poisoned arrow at you. Would you lose time trying to understand who did it or why? No, you’d run for your life to find a cure’.

So many of us waste our lives trying to find out why things happen “to” us. Why we are victims of what life has to dish out. If this is what we concentrate on daily, this is what we will manifest in our lives, situations that will reinforce the belief that we are a victim.

A thought that is in my mind the vast majority of the time is “Thank You”. I believe that by maintaining “an attitude of gratitude” I will invite things and situations into my life that will reinforce that gratitude.

I say thank you for the things that I have in my life and the things that are not part of my current life situation. I am grateful for what my higher power (whether you call it God, Jesus, Buddha, or someone else) has placed in my life. I may have some health issues but my health could always be worse.

When I see someone that, as a result of their current life issues, has found it necessary to live on the street and ask for help on the street corner, I say thank you. I do not feel better than these individuals, I am grateful that I am not in that situation.

If someone thinks that my line of thinking is off base, that is their problem. I believe that I have a great life and that a lot of my benefits come from the fact that I look for life to get better rather than worse. I look at the glass as half full rather than half empty.

Each morning that I get out of bed it is a great day. That is because “I am above ground, not in a box and sucking air”.

Life is as good as I allow it to be.