How does this sound?
"As I renew the content of my body with only good and constructive elements, I know that my entire body is remade to conform with the nutritive value of these foods."
Is there anyone who would question the truth of that statement? Is there anyone who would affirm that a diet of junk food is n likely to be of greater benefit to me than a well-balanced regime of nutricious and wholesome foods? The answer is obvious yet even an hour spent watching TV will present us with a bizarre dichotomy; depictions of beautiful people doing healthy and satisfying activities, playing sports, running, dancing, enjoying a rich full life. These programs are sandwiched in between ads for junk food. We are a society which aspires to be happy, healthy and have a good life but in reality chooses something quite different.
Kinnear says in today's reading. "Constructive thinking ... is creating good in your life and experience rather than wishing things were better and thinking constantly about how bad they (things) are." The "armchair quarterback" in me will admire the skill, strength and agility of the pro athlete, secretly wishing that were me on the field and then head to the kitchen for the Cheetos and another beer.
What really stands out for me in "The Diet" today is how creative of my experience my thought really is and it is not only what I might call the systolic movement of thought (Sorry about the reference. I had my blood pressure taken yesterday.) when my mind is pumping out "good" ideas but the diastolic, when my mind is at rest. Well maybe my mind is not at rest but rather in its old familiar pattern.
There is a lot of press in the New Thought community for thinking good thoughts; doing affirmations, Treating, praying, visualizing and all manner of systolic mental activities. Today I'm curious about how creative my negative patterns of thought are. Ernest Holmes maintains "All thought is creative." When I say negative I mean diastolic. Nobody would say it is a negative thing when my heart is at rest. Nor would I say that it's negative when my mind is at rest. I guess my question is where does my mind take its rest? What is the prevailing pattern of my thought when I am not consciously working on something?
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Good question, and it may be the driving force behind any number of activities and "good causes" that consume our lives and daily routines. I notice that I seem quite happy sitting at my computer absorbed by my work, doing something that fills my day, but doesn't really fill my life.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if that isn't the attraction of new technology, i.e. video games etc. Minds are kept active reducing the time spent with our own thoughts and the shape of our lives. Keeping our minds once removed from ourselves.