Throwing Out the Garbage in Your Mind
By Judith Parker Harris | April 26, 2010
Block: Lack.
Buster: Love.
Sandy Brewer, coach and spiritual guide writes, “Lack is the four-letter word of judgment and doubt. Love is the four-letter word of creation.”
Which will you choose today?
I choose love and I choose it over and over again, because judgment and doubt have an insidious way of sneaking in and infecting my thoughts. Before I fall prey to the judgment/doubt virus, I choose love and start all over again.
Many times I compare a human being to a house. Just think of all the things we accumulate in our homes – drawers and drawers and closets full of clutter that we hardly look at, let alone use. Well, our body house is made up of an accumulation of conversations: Conversations we have about ourselves, conversations we have with other people and conversations they have about us when we leave the room. Many of those conversations are over-whelmingly negative because they are made up of the disappointments, failures, prejudices and false assumptions left behind by various teachers, preachers, pundits and peers. Many times they are conversations of lack.
So, let’s say you have a spring cleaning project to clean up your house. What do you throw away? Clothes that no longer fit; keepsakes that have lost their meaning; papers, books, pictures and remembrances of times, places and people you have left behind long ago… The litmus test is this: Does this object serve who I am today? Does it fill me with love or lack?
The same process goes for cleaning out the conversations in our heads. Do the conversations serve who you are today or do they keep you helplessly tied to an old version of yourself, a version more like someone else, not the authentic you?
Today, choose to love yourself. Take a positive action and erase an old conversation or two. Let judgment and doubt hang out with lack in the garbage bag of mind clutter that you are throwing away.
Good riddance, Lack! I choose Love!
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May 6th, 2010 at 2:53 am
Judith … loved this ..just what I needed to read this morning.
I hope you read this, reflect, smile and then spread even more sunshine where ever you go.
andy
May 6th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Hi Andy,
Here’s another great thought to wake up to: From Author, John Burroughs, “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
I did exactly what you hoped for — read your comment, smiled and now I’m out to spread sunshine by busting a block a day and allowing love to squeeze out lack as I embrace the opportunity that surrounds me every single day. That opportunity may not always be what I expect, but it can hold a lovely surprise if I’m willing to connect with consciousness.
Hope to hear from you again.