If we are not thinking and talking about joy and peace, love and kindness, excitement and possibility, why are we surprised that we don’t experience much of it? If we are mostly thinking and talking about conflict, anger, hostility, disharmony, unkindness and the things that have gone ‘wrong’, why are we surprised that we continue to experience a lot of it?
What would your internal dialogue be if your attention was mostly on peaceful, joyous, loving and enjoyable things? How would you feel? What would you be likely to experience?
Most of our thinking and conversations about peace are about its absence, about how hard it is to achieve and about all the obstacles that we believe are in the way. In other words, most of our thinking and conversations that we believe are about peace are anything but.
But what if they actually were? What if we kept focusing on peaceful and joyous thoughts and events throughout the day no matter how fleeting or how trivial they may seem to us? What if we really picked some of those fleeting experiences and really indulged our thoughts, feelings and words in them? It may feel odd and uncomfortable at first (and isn’t that an irony – that we are so embarrassed and discomforted by doing the things that can give us what we most desire?) but it would give us what we deeply and constantly long for, wouldn’t it?
Put simply, if you want to experience more joy in your life, spend more time thinking and feeling joy. If you want to experience more peace, spend more time thinking and feeling peace. If you want to experience more love, spend more time thinking and feeling love. It’s common sense but oh, how easily it eludes us.
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