Personal Meditation No. 135

“Your beliefs are your actions. What you say is just what you think.”

Embrace the Within

Well, it is working which means that I am back up and working. And that is a great thing. These past fourteen literal and figurative days were a bit rough. I don’t think looking around now that most people are doing as okay as I am now even with my bump in the path. I can see that folks are becoming accustomed to feeling less than.

Folks, young and old, are being beat down by this fear that is taking hold of the world. The fear is nothing new. The fear has been around for quite a long time. Dr. Thompson wrote about the fear back some fifty years ago BUT now the fear has a wider, weaponized effect and affect on the population with the rise of twenty-four hour media and non-stop social media. The fear peddlers never take a break from running out some new version of the fear for folks to find troubling. And it is never going to end in this system.

So, you gotta find ways outside the systems of control to find peace. I see an awful lot of folks yelling at the system and fighting the system while participating in the system. And that just doesn’t make logical sense. You can’t change a system that is working the way it is intended. You have to make new systems to replace those systems.

This is why I started working on me. It is the only thing I can truly work on that brings about any meaningful change because I am in control of every aspect of me. I get to decide that I wake up and work out physically and mentally. I get to decide what I am going to put into my body both physically and mentally. I get to decide how I am going to react both physically and mentally. I get to use my knowledge of influence to nudge those around me into making those decisions as well. I don’t force anyone to do anything BUT I do encourage folks to change their self-destructive behaviors into self-sustaining behaviors. BUT if you want to destroy yourself and the world around you, then I am not going to stop you. I am going to work on me and my systems.

That’s right. I am working on systems. I started working on a system of growing my own food. I started working on a system of sustainability. I started working on a system of physical growth. I started working on a system of mental growth. I started working on a system of emotional and spiritual wellness. And none of those systems needs to impose violence on other people or make them act in any other way. It really takes me just moving away from the already existing systems that are destroying folks physically and mentally. Systems designed to beat and abuse you and bring you into an unhealthy position. An unhealthy position where you make worse and worse choices in order to keep the system in place. But, you can make better choices too. It’s all up to you.

So, how are you going to spend your day? Your life?

Are you going to choose to be controlled or are you going to take back your body, your mind, your health, your life?

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain