Which Way is Up
When you forgive yourself
You stop applying pressure to all of your senses
When you are judging yourself
Everything feels heavy and complicated
Life is not a struggle
The mind creates additional tasks to alter the situation
If you leave your mind unattended
It will utilize itself anyway that it can
It will create drama
It will create despair
It will create problems
Problems that it can work on fixing
But what if you don’t want to fix these problems
Then they become additions to the flavor of the day
They become a permanent fixture in your life
Permanent only because you do not rid yourself of them
Imagine the mind as a greedy piece of tape
It makes itself sticky so that it can collect anything
It is not selective
It just wants to collect junk
Why it wants to collect things
Must be remembered always
The mind wants to collect
Only to have something to fix
The mind will place these things it collects
Called memories
It uses these unusable memories
To create more work for itself
The mind is a very powerful tool
Most only utilize a small percent of its capabilities
Memories are not the present
Memories are an easy way out of living
Memories are not heavy
They don’t exist
They are abstract
They have no meaning if you assign no meaning to them
Yesterday is light
If the memory you assign to it is light
Last week has no meaning
If you pass it off as a typical day
Imagine utilizing your mind for what it is
Give your mind real tasks daily
Meditation
Guides the mind to complicated multitasking
The direction
Is every direction
The exit
Can be found in any direction
Memories are abstract
You make the rules about them
Do not distort your memories
Distortions can create endless escapes
Remember every breath
Keep your mind functioning at a higher level
The mind is relaxed
When the mind is focused on peaceful work
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