Under new mangement
Woke up this morning with a feeling of restlessness. When you have pared down your lifestyle, there is more scope for restlessness and boredom to set in. Before long you will be thinking, perhaps you have made some wrong choice earlier on the road and perhaps you could be better off doing something else or being somewhere else altogether. Then you examine all the choices you’ve made in your life and begin rewriting the entire myth of you. My friends! This is the beginning of depression. I had been many times down this road so I’m familiar with it.
No matter what decision you had made earlier, or what is going to happen, without your foreseeing in the future, there is something which is preciously yours – YOU ARE HERE NOW. Whether you are happy or not, depends ENTIRELY on how your mind is managed right now. If there is zero management, you are forever in highs and lows, alternating between excitement and depression -- this is the natural state of the mind -- nothing to get upset about really. If there is some management, you are happy when you remember to manage. If there is good management, you are happy always, no matter the external circumstances.
Started out by talking about myself. Let’s get back to this. Woke up feeling restless. Aha! The mind is under bad management. Oops. Was saved by the needs of others. The mind is back to being under some form of management. Fortunately, as I began to read my emails and answer them this morning, I am submerged into people’s needs and I saw that my restlessness is only the same animal as the restlessness of all people. As I emerged from helping others, I did not feel restless anymore. This is the way the mind operates, it is restless. Then GIVE it something to rest on. Preferably, give it something that involves helping another – something that takes your mind away from dwelling on you. This is the basis of happiness of the enduring sort. This is the basis of good mental health.
Being selfless is not about being a saint. It is being sane.
No matter what decision you had made earlier, or what is going to happen, without your foreseeing in the future, there is something which is preciously yours – YOU ARE HERE NOW. Whether you are happy or not, depends ENTIRELY on how your mind is managed right now. If there is zero management, you are forever in highs and lows, alternating between excitement and depression -- this is the natural state of the mind -- nothing to get upset about really. If there is some management, you are happy when you remember to manage. If there is good management, you are happy always, no matter the external circumstances.
Started out by talking about myself. Let’s get back to this. Woke up feeling restless. Aha! The mind is under bad management. Oops. Was saved by the needs of others. The mind is back to being under some form of management. Fortunately, as I began to read my emails and answer them this morning, I am submerged into people’s needs and I saw that my restlessness is only the same animal as the restlessness of all people. As I emerged from helping others, I did not feel restless anymore. This is the way the mind operates, it is restless. Then GIVE it something to rest on. Preferably, give it something that involves helping another – something that takes your mind away from dwelling on you. This is the basis of happiness of the enduring sort. This is the basis of good mental health.
Being selfless is not about being a saint. It is being sane.
