How I Am Finding Contentment
(I wish I could figure out how to make the new lines, paragraphs, separated sections show up in this blog, instead of all running together. Even the "preview" doesn't show the same way it ends up posting. I think what I have to do is to type ** to indicate where a new line or paragraph starts. )
**A few people are asking how I got that contentment I blogged about earlier, so here's how:a very short summary of what I've learned. Maybe later I can include the books and tapes that got me to this point over the past 3 months.
**As for the contentment, How I wish I could magically send it as an attachment to an email. It's not yet a permanent condition. It took a lot of study about how to stop worrying, and I am still practicing. Old habits die hard, but I am hoping I can keep practicing what I learned whenever the contentment starts to leave me. This article (you might have been in the hospital when I sent it) helped sum up a lot of what I learned about not worrying. http://bluebirdyliving.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html
I also found my 2 biggest tricks are:
**1) I decide if its something I can control or not. If not, I ask God to please take it from me because I can't do anything; and if I can control it, I ask Him to help me make the right decision, and to give me the strength to do what I need to do with it, and
** 2) I have to keep reminding myself to live in the moment. Are things fine NOW? Enjoy NOW. I was so worried about the future and about everything else that I was not enjoying anything in life. I ask "Is what I am worrying about something that might not even happen and/or in the future?" What a shame to suffer for it twice, once now, before it even happens (when it might not even happen), and then again in the future if it does happen. Even if you are worrying about something that WILL happen, "will worrying add one moment to the length of your life" (as Jesus said). Does worrying solve anything? It just makes you suffer, so I have to practice pushing those worrying thoughts out of my mind and replacing them with something else.
**One more thing...I stopped fighting/denying my situation, started accepting, and trying to learn what I can do to make life better now that I have accepted the way things really are. I also decided I have to cut out all negative media/music/books, etc. that drains my energy.
**During an NDE, I learned that I am much harder on myself than even God is, and that He expects much less of me than the world and my religion does. I have to remind myself of that often, so I am learning to quit being mean to myself for not accomplishing much.
**I hope something I have learned will help someone else, even if for a few moments a day!
**Blessings, Bluebirdy
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