"But you drudged through the whole day..."

(We are reading a chapter every two weeks or so from "Feelings Buried Alive Never Die" by Karol K. Truman. Grab yourself a copy and join us, or pick another book you'd like to read.)

Chapter 3: Where Feelings Begin

Wow! What a mind bending chapter for me!
"Parenthood from its earliest stages is an inner as well as a physical responsibility." Just imagining a baby feeling and sensing everything about its mother and father and their relationship is extraordinary.

The best overall piece for me came on page 41 at the end of the chapter. These are worth a second read . . .

"Whatever you believe, with feeling, becomes your reality. Your are the sum total result of all your belief systems to this moment. Your beliefs form a screen of logic or a screen of prejudices through which you see the entire world. You never allow in any information that is inconsistent with your beliefs, even if you have beliefs that are totally inconsistent with reality. To the degree to which you believe these things to be true, they become true for you."

The other notable words talked about changing beliefs that no longer serve us.
"These energy blocks are the cause of our illnesses, our problems, and our challenges in life. Transform the energy around them."

Can you imagine the change in humankind that would come about just from the practice of these last three "pearls of wisdom"?

I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter. I certainly did.

COMICAL HAPPENINGS

Ever have one of those "bizarre" kind of days where you feel like you fell into the rabbit hole and no one bothered to tell you?

As the day progressed you kept telling yourself "there is no way this could go any deeper", but it did. You started feeling like the subject of one of those old Twilight Zone episodes. Everything seemed just a little "off", no, way off.

The bus driver who insisted it was the last stop on the route and you had to get off. The same route you went most every day and knew it wasn't the last stop. You check the stops later and sure enough, the routes hadn't changed.

The meetings at work where almost everyone who decided to say something said something off the wall, off the mark, or way out in left field.

By early afternoon you felt you should really just go home and start the day over again tomorrow. Or better yet, that someone would come along and shake you real hard or throw some cold water in your face so you would wake up from this awful dream. Or desperately hoping you were still in bed, it wasn't time to get up yet, and soon you would wake up on your own or with the sound of your alarm clock which was beginning to sound like a true blessing at this point in time.

But you drudged through the whole day, never quite understanding what was really going on, not able to make it stop, at a loss as to how to right the world once again.

Today was that kind of day for me.

Can you think of anything positive that could have come from this day?
I can.
The last stop on the route wasn't too far for me to walk.
I managed to keep my composure and not go "off" in the meetings.
If someone would have shaken me or splashed cold water in my face it might have prompted a confrontation.
If I would have still been in bed, then I would have been embarrassed to know my collegues had seen me in my nighties.
I wouldn't have liked the sound of my alarm clock twice in one day.

So how did I get through it?
Kept on thinking positive thoughts. Calmed myself when needed. Cancelled out the negative thoughts that came into my head.
I tell ya, I did battle today!
I'm tired. Think I'll go to bed. . .

PARTING THOUGHT

I hope you got at least one "nugget" you can use in your life from this edition. I had fun putting it together! Have a great couple of weeks and I'll see you again in mid-April!