Sunday Story...Doctor, My Eyes

Sunday Story…Doctor, My Eyes

Sometimes you can’t see the forest because of the trees. In other words, your “big picture” view is obscured by all the “little picture” details you are involved with day to day. What we are thinking, doing, and being today affects our reality tomorrow and further down the road. Our modern life is so involved with the minutiae of daily life that it is a small wonder that we can even consider life 10, 20 or 50 years down the road.

I read recently that we are educating our children for a world that does not exist yet, to do jobs that won’t exist for another 5 or 10 years. The top 10 in demand jobs in the world today did not exist in 2004, a mere 5 years ago. How about you? Are you ready for a world that does not exist yet? How will you survive in those uncharted waters?

Although the rate of information is doubling faster and faster with each passing year, there are some things that will be constant. Knowledge may increase. We may “know “more things than ever before, and have more information right at our fingertips, but there are a number of things that we need not worry about changing. The moral codes we live by are not going to change or shift. The ability to hold your center and do what is right is not going to change and your moral compass may be more important than ever. And the person with moral convictions and clear limits and boundaries will be more and more necessary in a world of shifting allegiances, extenuating circumstances and morality of the moment.

Your health and your ability to manage your well being will become ever more critical in tomorrow’s world. The choices you make today around what you eat, how and when you eat it, your exercise regimen, your mental state and the intellectual challenges you set forth, your spiritual ease will all have a hand in determining your happiness and well being in the years to come. These are choices we are making today. Those choices will have a direct correlation on who you are tomorrow, next year and 10 years from now.

You can choose to put good quality, organic locally grown food into your body or you can put pre-packaged, processed, edible non-food substances in your body. One will fill your body with energy and vitality and the other will contribute toward all the disease and malaise we suffer from in modern life. There is no triscuit tree, no candy bar bush, or no fast food field to pick from. Eat identifiable food---food you can identify the origins of, food that will bring the energy of life and sunshine and rain and the cycle of the earth to your body.

There is a thing called the yoga of taking food. This speaks to the awareness we all must have when we are putting things into our bodies. By maintaining present moment awareness we will be filling our bodies with the tools it needs to heal and grow for the future. When we take in food and drink we are, in essence, taking in the energy of the things we are putting in there. So keep in mind the importance of what you are putting in your body. Do I want this energy to be carried in my cells for the next decades or so? What will the substance I am about to ingest look like on me in 10 years? Will I be a processed piece of machinery? Or will I have maintained my inspiration from the earth and all the creatures of creation?

The same question goes for your mind, your intellectual stimulation. What are you putting in your mind? Who are you allowing in there? Are you listening to uplifting messages? Or are you listening to negativity, the droning drivel that calls itself news and information. Who you hang around with will have a direct effect on your mental state as well as the state of your intellect. Are you reading literature with an uplifting message or the National Enquirer? Are you watching educational television programming or Jerry Springer? Are you reading literature, recognized as well written and put together in a way designed to enlighten and edify or are you reading dime romance/western/horror throw-aways? The people we hang around with are not limited to those in our physical presence. It includes the people we let into our living room through the television. It includes the people we let into our mind when we are reading. It includes the music we are listening to. What is the message you are sending into your brain? Who is the gate keeper of your mind? You are the gate keeper and only you. Take responsibility for what and who you are letting into your thought process. Again, present moment awareness will carry us far in this pursuit.

Spiritually, are you connected to the divine? Are you in awareness of the wonders of the world? The truly amazing place we live every day. Again, present moment awareness will help you get there with this. Meditation and prayer are 2 ways to connect with the divine source that moves through us all. At the very least expressing gratitude for the gifts we have, however meager they may appear to be, is the quickest way to happiness. An attitude of gratitude will take you places that a million dollars could never hope to reach. An attitude of gratitude will have your inner landscape always in bloom, always sunny, and ever happy. Be thankful for what you have, for who you are and for the world around you.

What are your eyes seeing? What are you setting forth to be your reality in the world that will be unknown until it is known? These are exciting times…you get to create the life you want. So what do you really want? You better start deciding because you are going to get exactly what you want to get if you know what it is and truly believe you deserve it. Take a look into the future and find your world today.

Namaste
John
“Teaching Focus, Inspiring Transformation”
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