Simple Soul Food: Creative Thought Seeding
It can be pretty easy to let an untrained or unconditioned mind wander on autopilot, reacting to whatever may stimulate it.
Affirmations, meditation, stillness, decluttering, correcting, choosing a different thought; all great ways to discipline your mind and stay focussed within as well as on the positive.
Sometimes getting creative with it can get in the way, afterall how creative is discipline when repetition is the key to mastery of anything?
At the same time, to ignore your creativity, your intimately personal capabilities and potential contribution is, well, ignorant.
Everything must balance.
"For every little action there is a reaction" ~Bob Marley
Try this for a change of pace. I'm calling it Creative Thought Seeding. Too many years of designing computer networks is tempting me to assault the world with another acronym, but I shall resist.
This method is simple, involves your thought and can produce results in less than a day, perhaps a few, depending on your diligence and intention.
Take very simple affirmations such as "I love..." or "I am grateful..." or "I am joyous...". Choose a few, make up a few. They are beginnings of a thought, yet complete on their own - this is key.
Start affirming within, in thought only. To start, stick with only one. Repeat it as often as you are able to remind yourself, without any force or compulsion to repeat it a certain number of times, just let it roll off your mind. "I love.. I love".
As you wander through your day, repeat it however remain open minded. Allow it to linger. "I love...". Anticipate an ending without pushing for one. Permit your thought to complete itself, and it will. Give it a chance, for some it takes longer than others.
Suddenly "I love" becomes anything: "I love myself" "I love my partner" "I love the world" "I love daisies", anything.
Give yourself permission to create and it will flow. Naturally your state of self and mind will play a large role in your success with this method, stress or anger will surely snatch any benefit from your efforts.
Try it, it works. Leave me a comment with your results.
2 inspired comments:
Good stuff, Mikel.
A simple and effective way to pro-actively introduce positive thought into daily life.
I think I have learned this technique, subtly and gradually, through living and interacting with positive people - but for those who do not have enough positive people in their lives, this is a great way to become the positive person they need in their environment.
I've never heard it put quite that way, but I'll try it!
Tim
onehigherpower.com
PS - I can relate to the acronym hell... just last week at work, we came in on Monday to find out the power company moved a powerline, and in the process dropped a 440V line on the copper going to our dual ATM. The WIC on the router in our MDF room was DOA, but fortunately the LAN was OK. We manage IP Helper from this site, so DHCP was AWOL. Unfortunately, this site also hosts our E2K3, W2K3 "PDC" with DFS, NAS, WSUS, and EPO. The other 50 or so DC's around the state got confused, and DNS was saying "F U" because AD's FRS was MIA - DNS FLZ and RLZ didn't know which way to go. Fortunately, when the dual ATM was restored and the WIC replaced, we were able to use RDP to restart FRS for AD on the DC's, and after several hours and REPLMON's later, DHCP was OK and DNS was GTG. LOL! By then, it was TGIF, and time for some R 'n R!!!
I wonder why those in the networking field often seem to get the bigger picture... I wonder whether it is the cause or the effect - the way we try to sum up "concepts" with acronyms.
thanks, let me know how your addiction to AD acronyms go... it seems we share the same way of paying the rent.. for now at least:)
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