Minding
They call it mindfulness, but I would like to think of it as minding. As in, the element that enables a person to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think and to feel. Those are all words I can identify with when I am thinking about minding. Minding my manners, minding my own business and minding my emotions. When I’m feeling down; I need an up.
When I want to encourage, I want to identify with people through shared experiences or emotions. I also know that I lean toward the positive - the sunny-side up - even when the clouds are grey. Hey, don’t think I don’t shed my tears, feel frustrated or disgruntled. I am not always able to stay motivated and I don’t profess to have all the answers, but one thing I do know is that after lots of practice, maintaining a positive mindset requires work and rewiring one’s brain. The choice is simply ours.
And, I choose to think positively. I will not let negative emotions, situations or people keep me from feeling and experiencing the positives. How do I do it?
Stay with me and find out. I take one emotion at a time and for every negative, there’s a positive. I’d rather be smiling in the garden and smelling the flowers than filling my fists with thistles and weeds. What about you?
“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.” ”